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Strange graphical issue after a power failure

System is Fedora KDE, graphics card is an Asrock Radeon 5900GRE, display is a Gigabyte M34WQ (1440p ultrawide 144Hz refresh rate) attached via DisplayPort.

Despite being on a UPS (which...we're also going to have to talk about) my system was apparently shut down by a thunderstorm. I booted it up, and the display was acting glitchy. I would get two mouse cursors, and below the mouse cursor the screen would go a solid color, as if it was glitching on a pixel and then displaying that from there down.

Switching to a lower refresh rate made the problem go away, I've switched back up and it seems to be alright. A second 1080p60 monitor attached via HDMI didn't show any problem.

Some googling didn't turn up exactly what I was experiencing. Can anyone help troubleshoot this? It seems okay for the moment but I'm hoping I don't have a wounded GPU.

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lemmy - Link to source

just_another_person

Probably surge damage, honestly. Was your monitor plugged into the UPS or another surge protector, or just into a wall? Do you have any other cables connecting to your machine that aren't on the UPS or a surge protector? Also, a power strip is not equal to a surge protector.

As far as the cause, if you're seeing artifacts on screen past a certain position on the screen, that's the screen or cable, not the GPU. Your display adapter sends fully rendered frames to the display and wouldn't have a specific part of the frame that is corrupted if damaged. Anecdotally speaking, if a GPU has damage, it just won't work.

Also, you may want to check the capacitors on your card and motherboard to make sure they're all still flat and not bulging. If bulging, you took took surge damage and need to redo your cabling to make sure everything is protected.

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lemmy - Link to source

Captain Aggravated

Everything is attached to the UPS, both the computer and the main monitor are on the battery side. Why the computer was shut off on this UPS, I don't know. I might be switching brands of UPS.

If I switch it down to 60 or 100 Hz, the problem goes away entirely, so I don't think it's a hardware damage issue at this point. Like, I did a software update, I wonder if it's booted up with a slightly newer version of mesa or wayland or something that isn't playing nice.

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lemmy - Link to source

Captain Aggravated

Switched the socket on the GPU the DP cable is plugged into, I think I see the same problem. It's only been a few seconds, I haven't seen the "lower portion of the screen from about the mouse down goes one color" thing yet but I have been seeing a double mouse cursor. This goes away completely when setting the frame rate down to 100 (says 99.98 in the KDE settings menu).

Not sure what I'm looking for in package manager logs or dmesg.

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lemmy - Link to source

just_another_person

When you increase your resolution, your monitor switches power modes. At a higher refresh rate, a dirty power signal can cause artifacts on the screen. Usually this means that you'd see bit crawl on the edges of the screen, but it could show display artifacts like you describe depending on the panel controller.

If your UPS took a hit during a thunderstorm, you could easily have a damaged rectifier in the UPS. That rectifier is responsible for smoothing the power signal coming out the ports on your UPS. A dirty signal can do the above as I mentioned.

You wouldn't notice a problem on your machine because it's own PSU smooths those signals out, but a monitor doesn't have that.

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lemmy - Link to source

just_another_person

It's not bulletproof, but I've seen it live, so it happens. Proof:

forums.tomshardware.com/thread…

Question - Monitor shows artifacts for a couple minutes then works...

I have an AOC AG272FG4 which has started to show artifacts like this and this, the image also becomes choppy and unresponsive but only what it's displayed not the pc itself. It started happening...
Tom's Hardware Forum
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lemmy - Link to source

Captain Aggravated

Okay, it's not the power supply. Found this on the Fedora forums: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…

Apparently the power failure just happened to coincide with a kernel update that causes a bug with AMD firmware; people are reporting the issue with higher end Radeon 7000 series cards using high refresh monitors attached via DP with kernel 6.15.

My uname -r output: 6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64

So I can either learn how to revert to kernel 6.14 on Fedora, I've never messed with it before, or live with 100Hz like a bronze age slum rat until they push a fix.

The further mystery is why a momentary power loss took down a PC plugged into a UPS. It has one job, that it apparently didn't do.


Weird cursor issues on Fedora KDE

I had this same issue, as others have stated it seems to be related to higher refresh rates, as the highest I can go without this issue is 99.95Hz. Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.
Fedora Discussion
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lemmy - Link to source

𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

Native apps are being replaced with web apps.


Are they?

A few years ago it seemed for a while that Electron was cropping up everywhere, but it's been tapering off over the past couple of years. I don't think I've come across a new Electron app in the past several months, and every project that did start out as Electron now has several native alternatives. Riot/Element is a good example.

The trend I see is away from web apps. It's still a popular platform and for anything that is fundamentally networked I'd agree that few native apps are being developed. I haven't seen a native version of the Home Assistant client interface, for instance. But for web apps to replace native apps, there'd have to be a trend to either move native apps to the cloud, or for platforms like Electron to surge and displace native toolkits. I observe that the reverse of the latter is happening; and for the former, while there are a lot of cloud-ifying projects, I don't see that they're replacing native apps.

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Audio Localization Gear Built On The Cheap

Most humans with two ears have a pretty good sense of directional hearing. However, you can build equipment to localize audio sources, too. That’s precisely what [Sam], [Ezra], and [Ari] did for their final project for the ECE4760 class at Cornell this past Spring. It’s an audio localizer!

The project is a real-time audio localizer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico. The Pico is hooked up to three MEMS microphones which are continuously sampled at a rate of 50 kHz thanks to the Pico’s nifty DMA features. Data from each microphone is streamed into a rolling buffer, with peaks triggering the software on the Pico to run correlations between channels to determine the time differences between the signal hitting each microphone. Based on this, it’s possible to estimate the location of the sound source relative to the three microphones.

The team goes into great deal on the project’s development, and does a grand job of explaining the mathematics and digital signal processing involved in this feat. Particularly nice is the heatmap output from the device which gives a clear visual indication of how the sound is being localized with the three microphones.

We’ve seen similar work before, too, like this project built to track down fireworks launches. Video after the break.

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lemmy - Link to source

who

I'm using an RDNA3 GPU, too, and don't have that problem.

Did the problem start after you began undervolting/underclocking?

A quick web search for rdna3 "green screen" turns up results. In at least one person's case, the problem turned out to be their power supply.

If you want help, you might want to share your:

  • linux distro
  • kernel version
  • AMD firmware version (e.g. firmware-amd-graphics package on Debian)
  • Mesa version
  • whether Steam or Flatpak are involved (because both can affect Mesa)
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papalonian

Oh, that just pissed me off.

Couple weeks ago I was at a bachelor's party, to which a number of people had brought Magic decks. I knew nothing about the game (never even watched a video), made this clear, and said that I just wanted to watch everyone else play.

Someone handed me a deck and said, "no buddy, you're playing!" I protested, but it was fruitless. I'd been roped in; and I was excited! A group of people excited to show a new player their hobby.

The guy that handed me the deck then proceeded to explain nothing and get increasingly frustrated when I had no idea what he meant when he'd say "uh, no you have to UNTAP your cards first.. ok now tap them.. yeah I know you just untapped them but tap them 😠🙄" (I still do not know what the point of turning my cards sideways for two seconds was but I guess it's super important?)

The other two players were fairly intoxicated and probably didn't pick up on the toxicity, but the whole table was frustrated with how God awfully slow the game was taking since the new guy just wasn't getting it. I just wanted to watch.

Up until now I thought homeboy had just oversimplified a few rules in his head and forgot a thing or two, but seeing that the actual instruction manual is 500+ pages, I'm furious that he had the audacity to forcibly rope a drunk person with zero interest in playing into the game, just to treat them like a moron for not instantly getting it.

\rant

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Any help with a permissions issue re: containers?

So I've been using rootless podman-compose to run my arr stack forever, and I've never had this issue. What seems to be happening is that sometimes, but not always, when a new folder is created or an existing folder's contents are modified, it seems to be setting the files and their folder's owner to "52587" which does not exist. This causes it to then not be able to access those files. I can manually change them back, of course, but the container just overwrites it again. If I specify the user in the compose.yml, it seems to ignore it. It is happening with a few different containers (all in the same compose.yml), as I've seen it now with Radarr and NZBget. The files are on a 12TB drive, and the container mounts and compose.yml are on the same drive, but the OS (Bazzite) is on a separate drive.

My thoughts so far for possibilities:
1. The podman install is fucked somehow
2. The drive itself is fucked
3. Bazzite's weirdness is causing an issue

For #1, podman comes with Bazzite by default so I'm not entirely sure if I can rpm-ostree remove and reinstall, though that might be the next step I try. I'm not terribly good with podman to begin with so I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting it much otherwise.

For #2, this is entirely a possibility, the drive is pretty old, but I'm not seeing any errors or anything in the SMART stuff and outside of this specific issue I have seen no other problems there.

For #3, this issue did start to happen maybe a month after switching from Arch to Bazzite, mostly because I also wanted to use this machine for Sunshine streaming and my arch install was a mess anyway. I know Arch, though, and this immutable stuff has tripped me up before, so maybe I go back. Feels like admitting defeat though, lol.

Any ideas to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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lemmy - Link to source

who

So I’ve been using rootless podman-compose

when a new folder is created or an existing folder’s contents are modified, it seems to be setting the files and their folder’s owner to “52587”


Rootless Docker and Podman run their applications within a user namespace. This means most of the user IDs within the container are mapped to a different uid range on the host, often called a subuid. It's part of how "rootless" mode can allow an unprivileged user to run software that expects to have privileged IDs.

github.com/containers/podman/b…

which does not exist.


Are you sure it doesn't exist? Have you looked at the ranges defined in /etc/subuid on the host?

My first thought is that the uid numbers you see might be some of your host user's subuids. If so, they will appear as different uids (perhaps with usernames) within the container. Try launching a shell within the container and examining the same files, to see what their owners appear as there.

If this is what's happening, it's normal. As long as the software trying to access the files and the software creating the files are both in the same container, it should be fine. If it doesn't work, there's probably another problem in play.

By the way, Podman almost certainly has a way to map certain container uids to host uids of your choice, which can be convenient when you want to share files between containers or between a container and the host.


podman/docs/tutorials/rootless_tutorial.md at main · containers/podman

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. - containers/podman
GitHub

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I'm trying, probably foolishly, to be a gaming YouTuber. I'd really appreciate it if you checked out my latest video.
I'm not really good at self promotion, and I'm aware that it's probably a wasted endeavour. I do enjoy making videos though, and I like the idea of entertaining people. While I'm aware this post will probably be down vored or ignored, I do want to say thank you if you do take time out of your day to watch, and I hope you enjoy.

"A Green 4 And An Anomaly." Checking Out Office After Hours Part 2

Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks!Ahoy-hoy! Welco...
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Justices Let Parents Opt Children Out of Classes With L.G.B.T.Q. Storybooks

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Public schools in Maryland must allow parents with religious objections to withdraw their children from classes in which storybooks with L.G.B.T.Q. themes are discussed, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s liberal members in dissent.

The case extended a winning streak for claims of religious freedom at the court, gains that have often come at the expense of other values, notably gay rights.

The case concerned a new curriculum adopted in 2022 for prekindergarten through the fifth grade by the Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school system.

The storybooks included “Pride Puppy,” an alphabet primer about a family whose puppy gets lost at a Pride parade; “Love, Violet,” about a girl who develops a crush on her female classmate; “Born Ready,” about a transgender boy; and “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” about a same-sex union.

At first, the school system gave parents notice when the storybooks were to be discussed, along with the opportunity to have their children excused. But school administrators soon eliminated the advance notice and opt-out policy, saying it was hard to administer, led to absenteeism and risked “exposing students who believe the storybooks represent them and their families to social stigma and isolation.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-lgbtq-books.html

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lemmy - Link to source

looking for a RDP client

Original question by @Inucune@lemmy.world

I made the jump off windows to EndeavourOS. I work from home most days of the week, and as such RDP to my workstation(laptop on a dock nearby).

I need an RDP client that can authenticate to win11 RDP, and support audio/mic to the session. Being able to span dual-screen is a plus.

I can't install any software on the work PC as I do not want to fall foul of the security team.

RDesktop doesn't support mic input.
Remmina doesn't appear to authenticate to win11 properly.
FreeRDP not updated in 8 years?

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lemmy - Link to source

Brickfrog

Remmina and Xrdp are probably the better RDP clients at the moment. I've had no problems using either to connect to Windows 10 desktops but have not tested Windows 11.

FreeRDP is used by most (all?) Linux RDP clients, it does have its own active development.

Could also try the Linux RDP client that Thincast has, still uses FreeRDP in the backend like the others but it does seem work well at least with Windows 10 (thincast.com/en/products/clien…).

Also for what it's worth I've seen mention of a FreeRDP bug when the client fails to connect to Windows 11 with multi monitor enabled (since most Linux RDP clients use FreeRDP the bug affects them all too). Think the workaround for now is to disable multi-monitor in the RDP client settings before attempting to connect. Think it is getting fixed in the next FreeRDP release. No idea if that's your issue but worth a look (e.g. gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/i…)

| Thincast

Thincast Client allows you to access all your virtual desktops running on Thincast Workstation.
Thincast
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The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive
Opinion | Microsoft, tactically admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all, is – sort of, kind of – extending Windows 10 support for another year.

For most users, that means they'll need to subscribe to Microsoft 365. This, in turn, means their data and meta-information will be kept in a US-based datacenter. That isn't sitting so well with many European Union (EU) organizations and companies. It doesn't sit that well with me or a lot of other people either.


The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive

Opinion: True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
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lemmy - Link to source

𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

There isn't one. It's just increasingly unnecessary.

I, personally, have an issue with people taking millions of LOC of software written by other people and given away for free, slapping a logo on it, and selling it to people who don't know better, but thre licenses generally don't prevent carpet-bagging.

IMHO, selling an OS your organization built most of is fine. Selling support, or hosting, is also ethical. Selling Libre software is not.

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lemmy - Link to source

PolarKraken

Yeesh. For the privilege of yourself and your users working with a horrible buggy mess of half replaced, half duplicated (triplicated? worse?) apps and features.

And a near guarantee that in a 5 year timeframe, you see 1+ others who paid for that "data in my own jurisdiction" service somehow get fucked in ways they shouldn't, be it leak or strongarm or whatever.

I'm not suggesting Windows is doomed or anything extreme, but they have cratered their credibility with anyone paying attention. Whole thing feels closer to poorly strung together malware than a serious OS to me.

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French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for FOSS
The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL.

The République’s third-largest city and second-largest economic hub on Tuesday cited a desire to reduce dependence on American software, extend the lifespan of its hardware and therefore reduce its environmental impact, and strengthen the technological sovereignty of its public service.

Achieving those goals will see Lyon’s government, which serves over a million people, replace Office with OnlyOffice, a package developed by Latvia-based Ascensio Systems and made available under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License.


French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

: Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice
Simon Sharwood (The Register)

lemmy - Link to source

Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops - Phoronix

Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops

Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, Canonical has begun publishing new 'concept' images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops
www.phoronix.com

lemmy - Link to source

looking for a RDP client

I made the jump off windows to EndeavourOS. I work from home most days of the week, and as such RDP to my workstation(laptop on a dock nearby).

I need an RDP client that can authenticate to win11 RDP, and support audio/mic to the session. Being able to span dual-screen is a plus.

I can't install any software on the work PC as I do not want to fall foul of the security team.

RDesktop doesn't support mic input.
Remmina doesn't appear to authenticate to win11 properly.
FreeRDP not updated in 8 years?

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lemmy - Link to source

SufferingSteve

It's interesting how both of these guys who seems to both be firmly in the "don't break shit for the users" camp, and both are very adamant about quality of code in the kernel can't get along, saddens me a bit.

I'm excited about bcachefs, I'm even planning a migration from btrfs, but I need to battle test my offsite backup a bit more before having the guts to walk into bcachefs land.

Might wait for 6.18,6.19 or something and follow any future drama

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lemmy - Link to source

MentalEdge

From what I've read, Kent expects others to just take his word for it, when he says his code wont break anything.

The kernel has long had practices around merging and releasing, specifically so that it no longer has to rely on contributors simply promising that their contributions have been tested and confirmed safe.

But Kent has repeatedly skirted or straight up ignored those practices.

This isn't about not agreeing on code needing to be reliable. It's about one person refusing to work with an established way of achieving that when contributing to an upstream effort.

He's been told how to contribute again, and again, and again. And every time he takes it like it's a personall affront to his credibility.

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lemmy - Link to source

grue

Same reason they picked Harris: they're drinking their own kool-aid on identity politics. Just like how because Harris is a black woman they tried to sell her as a progressive feminist and not the bootlicking prosecutor she actually is, they assumed that because Walz was an old white guy he was only pretending to use progressive rhetoric and shat their pants when they realized he was genuine about it.

lemmy - Link to source

Online Piracy's Great Comeback - YouTube

Journal publication referenced in video:


Sarah J. Frick, Deborah Fletcher, Austin C. Smith,
Pirate and chill: The effect of netflix on illegal streaming,
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,
Volume 209,
2023,
Pages 334-347,
ISSN 0167-2681,
doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03…
(sciencedirect.com/science/arti…)
Abstract: Over 188 million people in the United States use a subscription video streaming service, yet digital piracy remains prevalent and costs the U.S. economy an estimated $29.2 billion annually. This paper investigates the relationship between a movie's availability on Netflix, the largest video subscription service, and intent to illegally stream the movie. We leverage a contract dispute that caused Epix (a cable network company) to move all its movies from Netflix to Hulu, representing a substantial decrease in the legal streaming availability of these movies. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that reducing legal streaming access via the removal of Epix movies from Netflix results in a 20% increase in piracy intent relative to movies that remained on Netflix, as measured by Google search volume. This study contributes to the understanding of the substitution between legal streaming services and movie piracy and has implications for content owners deciding what platform to offer their movie on.
Keywords: Piracy; Online streaming; Digital goods; Netflix; Google searches

Online Piracy's Great Comeback

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lemmy - Link to source

nfreak

Same. I've never been much of a tv/movie person in general, but netflix in its prime was fantastic. But nowadays there are like 30 different streaming services, every single one is egregiously priced, and everything has their own exclusive libraries. Hell I'm surprised they're not streaming genAI slop "movies" yet at the rate they're all going (or maybe they already are, who knows). Fuck all of that noise.

Spotify did the same thing for me years ago. Went from a hand-maintained local library to Spotify, held on to that for like 10 years, ditched them at the start of this year when they were overwhelmingly supporting fascists with political donations. Switched to Tidal for a bit since it has higher quality and better artist payouts, but today I'm right back to hosting a local library (which is better than ever these days), buying what I can directly from artists to support them rather than subscription fees.

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When did Minds.com join the fediverse?

Hello people of fedi,

I've just saw someone in my timeline coming from www.minds.com.

I've known minds.com, which was at the start since it was annouced a few years back and even joined, but soon realised it was not for me and too few people... So I left.

It was just a social media with a weird crypto associated to it. But I remember liking their UI and design a lot back in the days.

But now it seems they activated ActivityPub support, doed anyone knows anything about this? Is this recent and we missed something or am I out of touch with Fediverse news? 👀

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Orange Pi Neo upcoming Linux gaming handheld prices have been announced and probably will be SteamOS ready

forum.manjaro.org/t/developmen…

Gardiner Bryant had conversation with Manjaros lead, Phillip Muller and was told that Valve has the Orange Pi Neo in-hand and they’re testing it, probably to bring SteamOS support for the handheld

gardinerbryant.com/manjaro-ann…

Development | Q&A | OrangePi Neo-01

Launch prices of the OrangePi Neo-01 will be: Base Model 7840u 16GB/512GB will be 450 $ or 3699 CNY Base Model 8840u 32GB/512GB will be 550 $ or 4499 CNY
Manjaro Linux Forum

lemmy - Link to source

TIL about Jervis Bay Territory

From WikiPedia:

The Jervis Bay Territory (/ˈdʒɜːrvɪs, ˈdʒɑːr-/; "JBT") is an internal territory of Australia. It was established in 1915 by the transfer of jurisdiction from the state of New South Wales to the federal Commonwealth of Australia, in order to give the federal government control of a port in the vicinity of the landlocked Australian Capital Territory (ACT).


I am 45 and did not know this until today when for some reason Jervis Bay Territory was printed in a select option along with the other Australian states and territories.

internal territory of Australia

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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lemmy - Link to source

What direction do you think tech in general will go in 5 years (ignoring AI)

I think ar might be a dead dream in its current state, I always thought wed have proper ar glasses by now because I fell for Magic Leaps Marketting, not sure if it'll come anytime soon.

What I do believe is coming is the resurgence of computers through mobile phones. Everyone has a powerful computer in their pockets but isn't able to use them to their full potential. I wouldn't be suprised if android pushed out a proper android desktop experience letting android users get the full linux desktop experience when plugged into a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

Phone performance is stronger than the average laptops/netbooks from 10 years age and they run linux fine for everyday use. Feels like a missed opportunity if someone doesn't drop a phone or os that lets you take advantage of modern hardwares capability. They could advertise it to families, mo more buying a pc for school, just get them hardware for their existing device, it can already do everything. Schools could use lapdocks, or tabletdocks, that could force school parental controls on devices while at school and still let them use it for their education while in class.

(obviously not everyone has a phone but that frees up resources for the kids that dont, if the kids that do can use cheaper docks with their exisitnt hardware)

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IngeniousRocks (They/She)

In 2004 grandpa gave me an old laptop from 1995 to play around with. I wanted it to be faster so I tried using g.ho.st. That was a terrible experience, too slow of internet, cloud computing was never gonna work. After that I tried suse. They had this fancy iso builder at the time that let me pick all the packages I want from the repo and have them present on my ISO.

That's started my journey, outside of school I've had Linux exclusively since.

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state_electrician

I've been using Linux since 1995, but had an on-again-off-again relationship with it for a while, because I wanted to play games. So it was usually dual boot. But in 2007 I bought a PS3 and have been gaming on PlayStation exclusively since then, which allowed me to go fulltime Linux. I also worked a lot with OpenBSD and still miss pf, which is such a lovely firewall. iptables is horrible shit compared to it (I am aware of nftables, but it's too new to replace the long years of iptables).

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Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year - Phoronix

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year

A decade ago Canonical did around $81 million in revenue (2014) with a head count of around 337 at the company behind Ubuntu Linux while their Linux desktop efforts were still gaining a footing with OEMs/ODMs pre-loads, within enterprise desktop envi…
www.phoronix.com

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VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 2 Preps Linux 6.16 Support, More Windows On ARM Enhancements - Phoronix

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 2 Preps Linux 6.16 Support, More Windows On ARM Enhancements

In addition to releasing Oracle Linux 10 today, Oracle also released the second beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 cross-platform virtualization software.
www.phoronix.com
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Nanook

@bees There have been some recent studies that have solidified the relationship between autism and the MMR vaccine in particular. Gates live Polio vaccine has killed around 500,000 Africans, who knows how many it's maimed, and not to say Polio isn't worth vaccinating against, I have friends who were partially parallelized by it, but if you're killing 500,000 people something is wrong, and one of my children got heart issues after covid vax, further, he at 40 had two vaccines, damage done on the second, had three incidents of covid and the third involved a 102.9 fever, I by contrast got no covid vax, got covid twice, both times it was your average head cold, and the highest fever I had was 99.1, never went down into my lungs, same for my wife and my other son who did not get vaccinated. Vaccines are immensely profitable to the pharmaceutical industry, and just like profit in the military complex keeps wars going even if it means killing and maiming people, so to the pharma profits force unnecessary and dangerous medical interventions.

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What problems can I expect using Linux (Fedora) with an NVIDIA GPU?

I'm planning on getting a laptop within the next month which will be my daily driver for university, and it has a RTX 5060. I know people have lots of issues with NVIDIA on Linux, but I don't know of any specific issues. What issues can I expect running Fedora 42 (KDE) on this device?

I am not responding to most comments here, but I am silently taking them into account.

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marcie (she/her)

A lot of the info here reads as outdated to me, I have a 40 series card and on bazzite with open drivers it works with zero issues on major titles like Cyberpunk, Horizon, etc. The open drivers have come a long way. It took maybe 5 months post 40 series release for it to work 100% with no glaring issues for me, but 40 series was also the first cards to be launched with the open drivers so it makes sense there'd be hiccups

The only issues I've had on Wayland are color related.

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Jalapeno bacon potatoes au gratin

I pickled/canned about four pounds each of jalapenos and carrots. But I had some peppers left over. Also I had shredded cheese leftover from yesterday's burritos, and half a pound of bacon from yesterday's dinner.

Well that sounds like the start of a wonderful dinner. Poppers would have been too much work. I have a bag of potatoes... Oh. Let's do this. Jalapeno bacon potatoes au gratin.

Cost for pickled peppers: $1.30 per pint
Cost per person for dinner: $3.40 (realistically I ate two full servings so this should really be $1.70 each for four people.)

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I did my first oil change on my new motorcycle today!

I’ve done dozens of oil changes on cars as part of an auto shop class I took decades ago in high school so I was familiar with the process, but I hadn’t ever done it on a motorcycle, much less my own.

The oil filter wrench attachment got stuck on the oil filter and I started to freak out but my wife (who has no emotional investment into this motorcycle) quickly googled it and suggested I tap around it with a hammer.

Came off immediately much to my relief! The rest of the oil change went by without incident. Drained all the oil, saw all the tiny metal bits that accumulate in a new engine, made a small oil stain in my garage, tightened everything up (I couldn’t get a torque wrench to fit on the new oil filter so I did my best to estimate tightness).

I was planning on going for a celebratory ride afterwards but it was a big emotional ordeal over whether or not I’d break something so to be safe, I’ll keep the bike cozy in the garage for now. I’ll take it out for a nice long ride tomorrow.

Thankful for my wife who was calm and level headed and didn’t freak out at the first sign of trouble like me. One day I’ll get the confidence to not expect things to blow up if I touch them. I’m just happy I’m good for another few thousand km.

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Open source vs proprietary software: myths, risks, and what organizations need to know

Open source vs proprietary software: myths, risks, and what organizations need to know - Nextcloud

Are you an organization looking to regain control over your data? Discover what you need to know about open source vs proprietary solutions.
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Phen

The code is open anyone to inspect, test, and improve. Vulnerabilities don’t stay hidden as they are found, reported, and fixed in the open.


That's also a myth, specially for a project of the size of nextcloud. Bugs can and do go unnoticed for years while in plain sight - with no way to know if it's been detected by any black hat.

Even worse: as soon as you merge a security fix in an open repository, people will instantly be trying to abuse it in any environment they can find that is currently running the unpatched version.

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Cris

Proprietary software has its own version of that problem where companies are informed of a vulnerability by researchers and then just don't bother to fix it until the researchers are forced to publish it 😅

I'd guess the number of competent eyes on large foss projects used by companies is probably higher than more consumer focused stuff like Nextcloud (does Nextcloud position itself as a corporate tool? Maybe it does and I'm just not aware of it...) but I'm not the most knowledgable on this subject so I could certainly be mistaken

Edit: I'm dumb and still mostly asleep, just saw its literally a nextcloud article lol

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Those pesky enclosed mobility scooters: are they legal on roads?

I've seen several of these around, on roads. And to be honest, if I had to replace my car, it might be for one of these!

But what the hell? They are ONLY allowed on sidewalks, which IMO, they really shouldn't be. And are NOT allowed on roads because they are classified as "pedestrians"?

We need new laws to accomodate and encourage the adoption of "mini cars" as car alternatives within urban and sububan travel..


Those pesky enclosed mobility scooters: are they legal on roads?

What may look like miniature electric cars zipping through city streets are actually enclosed mobility scooters — and they’re not allowed to be there. The North Bay Police Service is now cracking down with fines.
BayToday Staff (BayToday.ca)

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A C.D.C. Committee Just Voted Against Flu Shots With This Preservative. Is It Safe? Here’s what the science shows about the preservative, thimerosal.
The amount in some flu vaccines is roughly equivalent to the amount of mercury found in a three-ounce can of tuna fish.

...

overall, autism rates did not decline after thimerosal was removed from the vaccines, as many anti-vaccine groups suggested it would. Instead, the rates increased.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/well/thimerosal-vaccines-risks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R08.O4xg.zBOK80GtgtyH

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Tarquinn2049

It is likely akin to sunk-cost. They have already spent so much of their life having a thing to point at, that they don't want it to have been wrong the whole time. Even though it was known to be wrong pretty much right away, that was already too late for some.

Some mindsets require assigning blame to an external locus in order to move on. There has to be no chance it was "their fault" even though it's hard to really describe genetics as such...

There hasn't really been anything else to suggest a fixed external potential source. So if this one is proven wrong, they are out of options. Ignoring, of course, that it has already been proven wrong. But, that is the reason why they feel it hasn't. Because it's so very important to them that it is right.

And of course barring all that, even the most profoundly affected individuals with Autism rarely blame their condition for the lowered quality of life, if any, they blame their surroundings or surrounders incapability of adjusting to their needs. With proper surroundings and surrounders, even at it's worst, the downsides are manageable and the upsides can be really nice/useful.

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Ukrainian UAVs struck a petroleum products filling station in Bryansk.

Mirror

🔥 In the Fokinsky district, a petroleum products filling station of JSC "Pivdennyi Zakhid Transnaftoprodukt" was attacked, the tank is on fire

Coordinates: 53.22604933140181, 34.45546343416757

53°13'33.8"N 34°27'19.7"E

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
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Accidentally wrote an ISO to an encrypted 5TB drive… Help?

So, I did a thing - accidentally selected my 5TB external NTFS hard drive (encrypted with VeraCrypt) as the target for writing an ISO. The moment I noticed that "Impression" had switched the drive letter, I immediately killed the process. But yeah… damage done.

Now, the situation:
- Currently shows up as:
- 6 MB FAT
- 4.3 GB
- 2 TB unallocated
- 2.6TB unallocated
- The VeraCrypt volume obviously no longer mounts.
- Drive was somewhat crucial - lots of structured data I’d really prefer to recover with the original file system intact.

I know chances are slim, especially with encrypted volumes, but has anyone had luck recovering from something like this? I’m open to commercial recovery tools or command-line wizardry. Would love to hear from anyone who’s been down this road.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

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Majestic

Veracrypt has back-up headers located elsewhere in the volume that are unlikely to have been overwritten.

First thing's first I would strongly recommend copying the drive as it currently exists bit for bit to another drive of equal or larger size. Don't work on the original if you can help it.

Now with this copy, you should try to check the option to use the backup header when mounting and try again. If the partition is gone and veracrypt doesn't see it you'll need to try using something that recovers partitions and doesn't mind encrypted partitions or partitions or file system types it doesn't understand and use that to ON THE COPY recover and recreate the partition (this will write data and can cause the possibility of further loss or worsen your ability to recover which is why it is important to perform it on a copy). Testdesk may work for this but there are other options that probably are better.

See this list: old.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/… and choose something from there if this data is truly important. Again only work on a copy on another drive. Some of these software examples actually work against the original drive and make a copy elsewhere and should be safe to use on the original drive so long as they have you select a target drive to push the recovered data to but read the documentation. Testdisk absolutely must be used on a copy.

You will incur data loss and likely should run one of the file recovery software mentioned on the drive once successfully mounted in veracrypt to attempt to recover as much as possible.

software - datarecovery

A place to discuss the ins and outs of data recovery, both logical and physical. DO NOT RESPOND TO UNSOLICITED DMs FROM UNKNOWN PERSONS MAKING...
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Majestic

The only thing I would note is -IF- your volumes are not partition or disk based BUT -files- based there is the possibility that corruption of the host file system of the disk the files containing the volumes are on could result in pieces of those files being marked unreadable by the disk and it’s POSSIBLE one way to solve this would be a file system check utility.

HOWEVER such activities carry a -large- risk of data loss so I would advise a bit for bit copy of the disk and doing the repair on that so if it goes wrong you’re not worse off. -IF- you cannot make a copy then I would advise at least trying to mount using backup headers before doing that and copying off anything you can salvage as file system checks can really mess up data recovery and should only be used in certain circumstances.

You’re much better off trying the recovery software I linked in fact than doing a file system check as it will tend to have better results.

You can also use the option to mount as read only in VC to prevent writes to a suspected failing disk.

Let me know if you need further advice.

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ExLisper

GTFO. They are saying that regular donations are so much better that they prefer them even if they will receive less money. Isn't that obvious? If you have $4k in the bank account today you can in theory hire a permanent dev but you don't know if you will be able to pay him next month. If you have $3k per month in regular donations you know that you will be able to pay someone as long as people don't cancel those. Which will take some time. Which gives you the stability needed to hire people.

Phrasing this as "gnome as too much money" is malicious.

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A MicroNation Community

I'm just asking if there's a Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed community (or any federated community/forum) that's dedicated to MicroNations here ?

(The Youtube link is just for knowledge purposes

I was also adviced that this was the appropriate community to post this)

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Considering switching from Windows 11 and I have some questions

Considering switching to Linux, but I have many questions.

  1. Gaming - I enjoy gaming and want a Distro that will let me play most games. I have read that keeping nVidia drivers up to date can be (was?) a problem. I currently use steam for 99% of my gaming, I’m aware steam is porting a lot for SteamOS, but what are the limitations of this? Will I have to wait for a port before I can play a new game? Are there stability issues?
  2. I’ve developed a lot of pretty basic macros for excel in Visual Basic, I’m not a programmer by any means, but I can write some algorithms to do QoL coding. Is making the switch to open office seamless? Will my .xlsx docs incur formatting issues? Will my macros translate to whatever editor is used in open office? Does open office use the same codes for cell functions? Are there statistic package add-ons like with excel? Essentially, I’m asking how much work is ahead of me if I make this switch?
  3. I do enjoy the old version of outlook and work with many people who use outlook calendars for scheduling. Is there a similar program that will work with the same functionality on their end? (E.g. a mail client that will allow me to accept calendar invites from others and confirm it on both ends?).
  4. I am familiar with Visual Studio and use it as my IDE for very basic programming (I like to tinker with automating certain tasks in games, again by no means a programmer). Is there an equivalent FOSS version that would have a low learning curve coming from Microsoft’s IDE?
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Ephera

OpenOffice has seen essentially no development since 2011, when the trademark got transferred to Oracle after they bought Sun Microsystems.

The project got forked into LibreOffice to dodge the trademark issue, but it's the same devs, practically the same project, but now under a non-profit organization. Well, and with 14 more years of development.

So, use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. It will most likely come pre-installed on whichever Linux distro you go with. But you can also try it out on Windows beforehand, if you have concerns.

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majster

To me it looks you are pretty deep in MS ecosystem. The easiest to switch to Linux are developers because development on Windows sucks and casual users because they depend only on their web browser. Since you are both a gamer and deep in MS office suite it will be very hard because its completley different ecosystem.

My proposal: recreate your environment in VM and switch on linux host with that same setup. And then try get step by step over a year outside of that VM.

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What were some computer programs and games you grew up with?

Post a pic if at all possible

Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island


Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is

Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time

Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc

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RFK Jr will be ‘personally responsible’ for children’s deaths by halting vaccine alliance funding, experts say
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32060710

RFK Jr will be ‘personally responsible’ for children’s deaths by halting vaccine alliance funding, experts say

US health secretary says US will decline to renew funding for Gavi, a partnership that works to provide vaccines for poorest countries
Kat Lay (The Guardian)

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RFK Jr will be ‘personally responsible’ for children’s deaths by halting vaccine alliance funding, experts say
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32060710

RFK Jr will be ‘personally responsible’ for children’s deaths by halting vaccine alliance funding, experts say

US health secretary says US will decline to renew funding for Gavi, a partnership that works to provide vaccines for poorest countries
Kat Lay (The Guardian)

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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a …
www.phoronix.com

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What Books did inspire you for your gardening?
My garden has 3 core functions. Recreation and play, Growing vegetables and fruits, and givin nature more room. The so called Controlled Wildernes. I Love to see all the different species the are coming by. But i always want to make it better, especially the combination of space for family and nature. Ive got inspired by the book The Garden Jungle from Dave Goulson. It just gave me more ideas and motivation to protect the smal animals, and make the garden usefull for more. But what about you? What books, articles, documentary etc, did inspire or would give me some ideas to let nature have more space in af garden?
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just_another_person

I wouldn't say any book, but the news. Our planet is failing quickly, with no concerted effort to stop it. My zone has had massive collapses in insect and wildlife year over year, and I aim to help combat that as much as possible by planting native plants, providing extra fruit and vegetables for the wildlife (I keep a decoy garden for them), and doing it all as resource conscious as possible. Nothing but good things can come from having even a few native flowering plants around for bees and hummingbirds, and going a bit of an extra mile to compost to keep the good insects that contribute to that process happy and expanding their colonies.

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ImageToolbox Release 3.3.0-rc01
From their release notes:
    Change MozJPEG title by #1963
    Updated Bilaterial Blur filter
    Fix colors of icon containers by #1941
    Split open source libraries info to separate screens
    Added liquid glass like switch type
    Added ability to save image as static GIF by #1960
    Improve UI and Animations
    Update Turkish by @mikropsoft

Release 3.3.0-rc01 · T8RIN/ImageToolbox

What's Changed Change MozJPEG title by #1963 Updated Bilaterial Blur filter Fix colors of icon containers by #1941 Split open source libraries info to separate screens Added liquid glass like swit...
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BotsRuinedEverything

I'm trying not to to be an asshole about it. She knows my stance and I'm not budging. That said, I don't throw it in her face. In fact, I only told her once that I won't do the vow renewal until she quits. We have an otherwise perfect marriage.

We haven't had the vape conversation, but I'm not in favor of that either. You don't quit drinking by switching from beer to vodka. I honestly don't know how I would feel about her switching to vape. I hate the smell of her addiction but that's not my biggest issue. I hate the effect on her health but that's not the complete picture either. I hate the concept of a smoking addiction. It's not my identity, and I don't want it to be the identity of us as a couple. We are blue collar AF, but I still feel like her smoking diminishes us.

I used to be proud of her for quitting and staying quit. Now I'm not anymore.

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rumschlumpel

That identity thing seems counterproductive. The way addictions works, you generally kind of stay addicted indefinitely even if you manage to quit and stay off the substance forever. And in contrast to beer vs. vodka, vapes are healthier than cigarettes - even if that doesn't actually change anything for you, it's definitely better for her.
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Microsoft Tried To Steal A Project And Almost Got Away With It....

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32033583

Direct link to a text article about the situation


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2025-06-26 17:27:21

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Microsoft Tried To Steal A Project And Almost Got Away With It....


Direct link to a text article about the situation



Microsoft Tried To Steal A Project And Almost Got Away With It....

This video I'll talk about how Microsoft tried to steal a developers project by promising to help him, but then forking his work and changing his projects li...
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atomicbocks

As with a lot of 90s software, it’s a bit more complicated than which source code did they download (or, rather, mail order on floppy… because it was the 90s). Not the least of which is due to the fact that many of the projects don’t exist anymore and there weren’t that many copies to begin with.

However, they both embrace and extend LDAP and Kerberos among other open and not open projects of the time. Both choices were related to the results of the Protocol Wars and Microsoft’s attempts, in the 90s, to do to the Internet what Google is doing today.

Computer science debate

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Microsoft Tried To Steal A Project And Almost Got Away With It....
Direct link to a text article about the situation

Microsoft Tried To Steal A Project And Almost Got Away With It....

This video I'll talk about how Microsoft tried to steal a developers project by promising to help him, but then forking his work and changing his projects li...
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Successful_Try543

I'm not a programmer, but I'd say if you copy large sections of a code, the original author belongs into the list of authors, not into the acknowledgement part, where you e.g. thank your significant other for their support, your collegues for their fruitful discussions or some society for their funding.
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HelloRoot

The license says (paraphrased) that you need to keep the original license file, which has the authors name. Even if you re-license it, you leave the old license there without touching it and put your new license next to it.

They did not follow that clause and deleted the original license and the original attribution.

A thanks does not necessarily imply credit.

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How much music theory do folks here know?

Original question by @Electric_Druid@lemmy.world

Just out of idle curiosity. I went to music school and teach at a local music shop, so I'm very familiar with music theory but I'm aware that my experience is most likely not the norm.

If you are familiar with any theory (even just scales and keys), where did you pick it up? Lots of the resources I've seen both in and outside of formal education can be both confusing, and it's often hard to see the application of what you learn in the short term.

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Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland

Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland

The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator.
www.phoronix.com

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Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17 - Phoronix

Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17

Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of 'drm-misc-next' changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time.
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AMD CPUID Faulting Support Looks To Be Coming For Linux 6.17 - Phoronix

AMD CPUID Faulting Support Looks To Be Coming For Linux 6.17

As a follow-up to the article a few weeks ago about AMD enabling User CPUID Faulting support for Linux, that code looks like it's ready to go for being introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel.
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Music Production and Software Synthesizers/VST's under Linux

Hey everyone,

When I was previously on windows I had a lot of fun doing music production. My workflow took place in FL studio and used a lot of software synthesizers (VST files mainly).

After my switch to Linux, I am 95% better off. Everything is great except I have to rediscover a music workflow.

It's quite painful because I had licenses to some very expensive software synth libraries (The Arturia V collection for example). I have done some reading and have found that while it is possible to get FL studio working in Linux, it still doesn't have the greatest of results.

As far as that goes, I am not terribly concerned - Reaper, Bitwig, and other Linux DAW's exist and I am fine using those instead even if it means purchasing a license for the paid ones.

But the real problem is the software centers/Licenses/installations for my software synths. It would be such a shame and a waste of money if I couldn't get these working, but I don't know much about dealing with this on Linux, so I am appealing to your collective knowledge.

I wanted to ask if anyone has successfully installed the Arturia V collection on Linux for use in a DAW, and if so, what you think I should know about it. I thought I read somewhere about some software these could be emulated/installed through (not wine), but I'm just really open to hearing about recommended options for something like this if anyone knows.

Otherwise, I wanted to ask my musical Linux friends here what they have for VST's and what their workflow is on Linux, because it's always fun to develop new work flows.

Thanks

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speed_skirmish

As others mentioned in this thread, yabridge running in a native Linux DAW is a great setup. I personally use Reaper with yabridge, Serum, and a few other vsts here and there.

For others who are more knowledgeable than me: is there any reason (engineering-wise) why these plugins are made for Windows? Are there not cross platform and open source frameworks that let you compile audio plugins for Windows + Mac + Linux with minimal effort?

I genuinely don't know anything about audio programming, I'm just curious.

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Noo

Welcome and congrats on your migration under GNU/Linux.

VST is a proprietary format therefore it is made to not work on linux.
On linux synth or virtual instruments are LV2 plugins (like Helm, Surge or Vitalium) or SF2/SFZ soundbank (played with Sfizz or Fluid Synth).

Now Ardour, Bitwig and Reaper can load VST plugins, but :
- Some won't just work,
- Some will work pretty much the same (Kontakt seems to be working for some person, but it depends on the version I think),
BUT if the VSTs needs to be installed before hand (like Kontakt, Spitfire, SINE and I think Arturia V falls into that), you will have to install them first using Wine (or with a wine front-end, like Bottles, Heroic, Lutris). Then load them in your DAW, if they don't work there after being properly download and installed, I don't think there is anything much to do...
... Apart from try using a bridge (like Lin-VST or Yabridge), but here against results are still very unpredictable. I got some pretty good results with both on the past, but on my new setup none would work for my plugins (Spitfires mostly).

These companies won't make their plugins available under Linux cause 'there isn't enough people using it on linux' (words of someone at Spitfire who I was asking the question).

My workflow for production in a few words :
- One PC (recording, mixing, mastering) with a midi keyboard,
- One PC virtual instruments only, I use it when project requires lot of instrument tracks.

Edit : Yeah Carla can be used as well, it can load VST plugins and act like a plugin library (pretty much like Kontakt).

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Fedora

Hello fellow linuxers

I am kinda confused as to why certain Linux distros are mentioned in in every others post while others seems to get litten attention or are being bashed at worst.
People advertise for Mint because it's so easy to use, while I personally miss it's benefits over Ubuntu.

Personally I used KDE Neo for some time and switched to Fedora 42 a few weeks ago. It has all the same tools as basically every other distros. What is missed is not necessary or available. I can also seamlessly manage my proxmox server through ssh and fish and take up minor programming tasks on python or arduino.

Am I missing something important, or just seeing a loud minority with very specific requir?

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Colleges spend Millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is Turnitin faulty and expensive tech that require students to let the company keep their papers forever, worth it?

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup

Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.
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