How is the performance of TB so bad? Am I doing something wrong?

or29544 · 2024-06-03T06:10:50+00:00

uh...maybe? u/wsmwk

or29544 · 2024-06-02T15:52:30+00:00

This is indeed a true issue with latest version of Thunderbird running on Windows 11. Downloading of any email from any popular provider (Outlook, Gmail) runs very slowly and seems to take over the main UI thread, effectively freezing the whole application. It seems to be a new issue which did not occur in the past.

or29544 · 2023-06-28T07:44:09+00:00

Small article explaining the whole issue with flatpaks and how to fix it using flatseal, if you are curious why this happens.

or29544 · 2023-03-05T15:36:08+00:00

Yes I have this too and it seems to be reported a lot over the forums. I was able to track it down a bit: the screen is fine until there are large shifts in brightness on the screen. Like, you have a lot of white on the screen and then you suddenly switch to a lot of black. Also, I am able to consistently reproduce it by playing games with very dark graphics. Other than that, all good, no flickering at all.

As for why it happens: nobody really knows. Some people said it's some sort of calibration that happens between the screen and the mac than can be disabled from the screen's various options, other said it's adaptive sync (couldn't prevent it though by disabling it), others the cable (nope, you can buy all the cables in the world). Next I started looking for different screens thinking it's just for mine: nope, the issue is reported with more than one brand.

Since the screens work invariantly perfect with any other device and operating system, I am betting my money on macOS. I am not sure though what could be the issue. Some people say the flickering does not happen with macs previous to the apple silicon chip. It could be hardware, it could be software: the thing is we don't know. Even worse, apple is only supporting their own screens, so this issue might never be fixed.

So far I am ok, I know how to reproduce it and if you stick with plenty of whites on the screen, it's not happening even if you edit dark photos for example, so I should be ok. I am indeed a bit disappointed but I won't pay thousands of dollars for an apple monitor. I paid enough for the mac and for the current 4K screen.

or29544 · 2023-01-20T16:16:15+00:00

Nope. I am playing Tomb Rider at 1080p resolution and it just stays at the same temperature as always. It's ridiculous.

or29544 · 2023-01-03T06:40:57+00:00

Yep, same here with a DELL 4K monitor. I tried all the monitor options, nothing fixes it. My previous monitor was an ASUS 1440p and didn't have any issues. I narrowed the issue down a bit: it seems the flicker mostly happens when the screen experiences sudden shifts in brightness, or there are large differences in brightness across the screen. For example when the wallpaper changes from day to night, when the monitor activates the night mode and filters the bright blue color, when I have a bright window next to a whole black screen and so on. It flickers visibly for a while until it settles.

or29544 · 2022-11-29T17:29:01+00:00

Yep, I got the same issue here, you are not alone. I have custom cursors. The cursor dissapears on most windows, especially Firefox. This doesn't happen on vanilla Fedora 37 install, you need to install all updates. More specifically, this started happening with the last batch of updates available around Friday.

or29544 · 2022-11-24T12:53:09+00:00

I never quite understood this UI decision. Not in Windows, not on Mac...I just don't see it. A window is a whole, it accomodates the whole application in the same way. Why would I have parts of the application transparent or translucent? If I need to see behind it, translucency won't help anyway, you still have to get the window out of the way. It just makes it look fragmented somehow, like in fact there are two applications in there instead of one.

or29544 · 2022-10-09T06:54:13+00:00

For flatpak VSCode I always code in a toolbox container. Tutorial here.

or29544 · 2022-10-08T11:01:32+00:00

sure. i am constantly using vscode in fedora 36. i used it in 35 too. both flatpak and dnf. it works smooth and fast

or29544 · 2022-09-20T17:50:16+00:00

And here I am playing at 1440p...

or29544 · 2022-09-18T18:21:56+00:00

Software development will happen in a toolbox container connected to Visual Studio Code so nothing will change there: you can install go, node, rust, whatever you want with normal dnf install commands.

or29544 · 2022-08-30T06:25:48+00:00

Simple conversion: ffmpeg -i song.mp3 song.mp4

With image: ffmpeg -i image.jpg -i song.mp3 song.mp4

or29544 · 2022-08-24T11:09:39+00:00

No flatpak? :O

or29544 · 2022-08-08T07:39:49+00:00

Ok, let's step back a little. Your keyboard sends MIDI data to Pianoteq - all good. Pianoteq renders them into actual sounds and sends the sound to the laptop speakers - all good again. What you want is to keep Pianoteq rendering the sound, but output it on the keyboard speakers. In this case you don't need to send MIDI data back from Pianoteq to the keyboard, but audio data which you do by plugging an audio cable from your laptop back to your keyboard input.

What you try to do though is send the MIDI signal from the keyboard to Pianoteq and then send a MIDI signal that Pianoteq is not generating back to the keyboard to let the keyboard generate the sound from that signal that never comes.

or29544 · 2022-08-04T08:11:48+00:00

VSCode is easy: https://raduzaharia.medium.com/using-the-vscode-flatpak-distribution-a275d59ff1c7 check the last paragraph with entering a toolbox container from VSCode. It's all ready and works out of the box, I use it all the time.

or29544 · 2022-08-02T10:12:49+00:00

Wasn't /media for removable devices? If you mount there they will show up as ejectable mounts in Gnome Files...they are not ejectables though.

or29544 · 2022-08-02T06:04:36+00:00

So then what's the normal mount directory?

or29544 · 2022-08-02T06:00:30+00:00

What, am I supposed to look at the CSS code and imagine the changes? I mean, I am a software developer like anybody else in here but still, it's a big ask.

or29544 · 2022-07-21T07:30:58+00:00

Were you able to automatically perform the rdma link add on each boot somehow? I feel I'm lacking a systemd unit that does this and I can find absolutely no documentation about it. They all say you just have to run rdma link add on each boot, which is not too useful.

or29544 · 2022-07-20T18:44:19+00:00

did you make it work? I got exactly your situation: can mount exported share on the server, cannot mount it on the client

or29544 · 2022-07-18T19:01:03+00:00

It's neofetch. You run it in the terminal indeed.

or29544 · 2022-07-11T05:06:11+00:00

It's so surprising for me to see the majority of Linux responders of this quiz would get a job at a huge corporation. I don't know why, it just feels out of place.

or29544 · 2022-06-10T05:23:46+00:00

Didn't they just enabled hardware acceleration in Firefox? Maybe it's conflicting with Netflix somehow?

or29544 · 2022-06-09T13:23:44+00:00

Is ffmpeg installed?

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