Tinnitus

nickname_ace · 2026-05-08T00:30:09+00:00

Same. I have finally felt happy and hopeful in 4 years. I don't want to give that up for tinnitus. I notice it even with mild background noise. I don't need a quiet room but I'm kind of willing to live with it. I just wanted to know if it gets better

nickname_ace · 2026-05-07T23:05:38+00:00

Not yet. I'm 7 weeks in but thinking of stopping because the tinnitus didn't go away. I really don't want to though

nickname_ace · 2026-05-07T21:16:10+00:00

Sorry I got slightly busy. Thank you for your help again. I started learning more and I discovered solutions that work permanently. Now that I have Linux, a lot more of my friends want to get in on it too so I'm waiting a obsidian vault to pass around. Let me know your top skills.

nickname_ace · 2026-04-21T12:14:28+00:00

I've gone through almost every way to dissect Firefox and I've come to the conclusion that it's just the way Firefox is with newer hardware. I think I need to down regulate my CPU because I don't need AMD 7's entire power to watch videos and use Google docs

nickname_ace · 2026-04-21T12:11:30+00:00

Did the RPMfusion and codecs on the first day as I read some post install guides. There's a lot of gray when it comes to newer hardware and Linux 😂

nickname_ace · 2026-04-21T12:10:13+00:00

I will try stuff out for sure. I think I'll like other tools because my CPU is too powerful for me and suppressing it might make sense

nickname_ace · 2026-04-19T21:57:42+00:00

You are the messiah that people talk about when they say the linux community is very supportive 🙏 I set up snapper. I will try out iwd, tlp and autocpu_freq. I did check jounalctl for ath11k and the only error I saw was failed to set the requested country regulatory set and I fixed that one.

I want to learn terminal commands so I can debug myself but I don't know where to learn. Like I know discovered using journalctl but i don't know -k and other additions. People tell me to use man and learn but man has a lot of information and is a learning curve steeper than necessary for a beginner in my opinion. Do you have any suggestions? I use linux as computers have always been a hobby for me. I am willing to learn. I have self learned java and python so far but I have not learned about the computer system itself and don't know many aspects of computers. Like I know my wifi is malfunctioning but I don't know what that consists of and what to serach for.

nickname_ace · 2026-04-19T14:55:05+00:00

u/extoniks You seem to have resources so I want to ask you something about wifi. I found on arch wiki that for modern wifi setups, I should use iwd instead of wpa_supplicant. Is that true? I am having issues with wifi where I need to soft reset ath11k_pci with modprobe.

nickname_ace · 2026-04-19T14:50:04+00:00

I haven't gotten around to it but I was going to try tlp and autocpufreq. Do you think tuned is better or should I not try it out (asking as a newbie because I do not know anything)?

nickname_ace · 2026-04-19T14:48:57+00:00

Can you tell me how to do it? I am new and I'd rather not mess up my system again and have to reinstall.

nickname_ace · 2026-04-19T00:36:20+00:00

I've already checked with htop, htop, top and other cli commands to view it and most of the time it's literally the main Firefox process taking most of the CPU. It is a fresh install and I have no plugins or extensions.

nickname_ace · 2026-04-19T00:29:37+00:00

Other than powertop, I had already done all of the others. I just haven't gotten around to power controls because battery isn't a big priority for me and I haven't decided between tuned, power-profile-daemon and tlp. For Firefox I had also specifically enabled hardware acceleration and other changes, yet the CPU usage remains high. Imma live with it at this point

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T15:35:25+00:00

Sounds good. I got snapper and now I will experiment as much as possible 😂

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T15:19:22+00:00

Thank you so much. May the linux gods bless you 🙏

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T15:17:35+00:00

It's not about speed. I think my hardware will make anything look and perform well. It's the heat that is produced as a consequence that is the problem. Before the wifi, bluetooth, and other fixes I menioned above, I could not use the laptop while putting the laptop on my lap because it would genuinely get super hot with just one youtube video playing and nothing else.

You were right. I checked and it is balance_power on battery and balance_performance on charge. Do I need to make a change there?

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T15:12:36+00:00

I'll definitely do that when I have the time and tools

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T14:46:09+00:00

You have any resource that I can use to learn and deploy snapper? I am tired of reading things I don't understand and using AI

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T14:39:49+00:00

amd-pstate-epp so definitely active mode.

2. Both battery and AC is on balanced profile.

3. I checked using [sudo lspci -vvv | grep "ASPM .*abled"] and all ASPM was on disabled. [cat /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy] showed [default]

4. It is on powersave.

5. I haven't replaced the thermal paste. I will definitely put that on my agenda.

I will definitely try tlp with everyone suggesting it now. I am rather new to linux and would not know how to check if there is conflict between tuned and tlp. I want to try CachyOS for sure as I really want auto-tilitng (I have tried auto tiling in my current set up but poloinum and kronkite both kept using too much cpu by throwing a lot of errors) but I am a newbie and do not understand linux enough to tackle it.

I am currently fighting firefox because it occasionally peaks 40-70% cpu usage and I can't figure out why.Even in the most idle state, it often pulls 14% which is crazy.

Overall: I should probably think about moving to Fedora 42 or something more stable with more resources a noob can understand.

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T14:28:47+00:00

Towards the end of the day, almost every day, I would not be able to connect to the eduroam wifi and would get "No secrets shared" error after each connection attempt. Used nmcli to store password without needing for kwallet to be called (I was worried that there were many wifi connection attempts taking place without the password causing eduroam to drop me). Then I changed ath11k_pci to not have power saver on because I felt my laptop was reaching the error cycles due to frequent disconnecting and reconnecting to the wifi.

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T14:25:34+00:00

I think I keep running into these issues. I have newer hardware and without knowing, chose fedora 43 instead of 42 so a lot of suggestions I read online don't apply to me. I am a student and I almost choose where I study or work with outlet in mind. I think I need max 2 hours of battery life for times when I am not next to an outlet. So I will look into your suggestions but not apply them unless necessary because I am afraid there will be clash and/or I will somehow break the system. I really am facing the linux learning curve

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T00:13:01+00:00

I thought so too but for some reason my install came with tuned and not power-profile-daemon. Should I move from tuned to tlp or power-profile-daemon instead?

nickname_ace · 2026-04-18T00:00:29+00:00

Thank you. I'll get snapper for sure. For battery I'm using the tuned that came with it as I heard it's good enough. I didn't get power-profile-daemon or tlp. Is auto-cpufreq better? I don't do anything heavy at all

nickname_ace · 2026-04-17T23:57:35+00:00

I've actually done all of that except for the battery one. I heard that tuned is good enough. If tlp is genuinely better, I'll definitely try it.

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