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So, I was originally just going with Mint 22.1, but I’m getting a 9070xt and see mint is only on kernel 6.8 which doesn’t particularly support it?
Is using it still okay? Should I go with Bazzite instead? Or something else. I’m fine with a little amount of work to get shit working nice and all, I am fine with figuring out how to use the terminal if needed and all, just want something stable to play games and other shit on. Mint sounded good, but not if it won’t support my GPU.
I always go arch for stuff that needs the new shit, and debian for stuff that should run stable. Those nix bazzite tubleweed thingies are nice, but too niche, if you have a problem the small communities are less probable to have it as well and good luck finding solutions
@Eggymatrix @TowardsTheFuture The problem with Arch is that there is no support by kernel.org for an arch package, so if you want to customize your kernel it's more of a pain in the ass, where for either debian or redhat derivatives you can simply make -j($tasks) debbin-pkg or rpmbin-pkg. For most other things I would agree.
Arch may be a little more than I would prefer because… just going to look at the site would take learning just what the fuck is going on. I don’t need constant crazy new stuff, I just want the GPU to work.
@TowardsTheFuture @Eggymatrix Arch is pretty build your own, but that said you can customize it to the n-th degree and incorporating source from various repos is easiest when you have modern libs and don't have to build a dozen libs with each project (which is the case with Ubuntu). I just wish the kernel.org folks would create rules to create a kernel package to make mainstream kernels easier. Of all my machines, it is the second last to get upgraded (an ancient centos6 box last).
Is there a particular reason you need an nvidia gpu? Like plans to do local LLMs or other projects that really require a nvidia gpu?
Because I am just so pleased with AMD for gpus in Linux. So simple.
Not knocking your choice, just trying to understand it. Everyone has valid reasons for why they choose their setups.
Edit: nevermind I am so confused by the new naming schemes I thought this was an nvidia, others have informed me its an AMD. Nevermind me I am a dingus.
9070xt is an AMD… it’s just new… and I’ve seen a lot of posts saying you want kernel 6.13 or higher for it, and mint 22 is using 6.8. (And that you want mesa 25 but I don’t think getting that’s an issue?)
(I realize AMD changing their naming yet again makes that confusing.)
Yeah I mean, no experience with it and it says it’ll all probably work but I was not sure about it. I had seen mint 22 was made to not be stuck on 5.15 so it might be possible but it seems like they focus on LTS which would go to 6.12 now and not 6.13+. Is it worth doing all that to still use mint or would I be better off just going with like fedora 42 or bazzite or something else.
I've put later kernels on Mint a half dozen times withno dramas, but whether you should depends on what your use case, preferences and skill are.
I personally wouldn't do the arse-ache that is an immutable system, but plenty here love their Bazzite it seems. Different strokes for different folks. Nothing wrong with that.
If you love Mint except for the kernel version then it's an easy fix. If you don't have deep feelings then either try & be ready to ditch, or pick an alternative.
Just for the record there is no "doing all that" about it. It's a simple couple of clicks. It couldnt be easier. I'm not sure where you got the idea it was difficult.
I guess the “doing all that” mostly means taking something supposedly very stable like mint and then changing it seems to kinda defeat the purpose of mint lol. Idk, there so much “mint and Debian are stable” but like… what’s the even mean? Is fedora 42 or bazzite going to be crashing regularly? Cuz… I doubt it? lol like idk, there’s just a lot of options. Seems easier to just go with fedora 42 or bazzite or whatever, but now idk what bazzite being immutable even means for what I can’t change and why that’s a big deal so idk.
I get the impression you've been enticed/subjected to some confusing technical jargon without noticing. Please allow me to shed some light.
Idk, there so much “mint and Debian are stable” but like… what’s the even mean?
Stable can mean a bunch of different stuff that may or may not be closely related. In the case of Debian, it's the name of its default release; the one in which packages are frozen for two years except for security patches. (Note that this naming scheme is not unique to Debian.) As such, a Debian installation will be unchanging for these two years, earning its stable designation (which, to be clear, just meaning unchanging in this context). Finally, this unchanging environment should provide a ton of stability (i.e. stuff just works), which is also referred to as stable. These three distinct meanings of stable are probably the ones you'll come across the most.
Is fedora 42 or bazzite going to be crashing regularly? Cuz… I doubt it?
The bold part is a clear demonstration that you understood stable to mean strictly robust; i.e. the third meaning discussed above. And to be clear, Fedora does a decent job at providing a reliable experience. (Bazzite even more so.) But not all three meanings of stable apply to it: - For Fedora (and thus Bazzite by extension), the only stable repository is the one used to create its ISOs (i.e. the images used for installation). Beyond this, some packages are frozen within a release/version; e.g. you'll never get a major release update for GNOME unless you do a major release update for Fedora. But..., that's basically it; (almost) all other packages receive regular updates. As such, Fedora is often referred to as a semi-rolling release distro instead (as opposed to Debian being referred to as a stable release distro). So, to be clear, Fedora and Bazzite are NOT stable in this context. - As (most of) its packages receive regular updates, it isn't unchanging either. And thus, NOT stable in this context as well. - However, in terms of offering a robust/reliable experience, Fedora is pretty good. Bazzite is even better due to its atomicity^[That is, updates either happen successfully or not at all. So a random power outage (or otherwise) is not able to break the system's integrity.] and the superior distro-management allowed by the bootc model.
So, to answer your question, Fedora and Bazzite will not crash regularly. And, while Fedora might fall a little short of providing as robust of an experience as you might find on Debian and Linux Mint (assuming you won't FrankenDebian your installs), Bazzite may actually rival (and perhaps even eclipse/surpass) Debian and Linux Mint in this respect.
Seems easier to just go with fedora 42 or bazzite or whatever
For your purposes, I agree that going for the Bazzite-route seems to be the easiest.
but now idk what bazzite being immutable even means for what I can’t change and why that’s a big deal so idk.
This is a nuanced discussion that probably deserves more attention, but I'll keep it short for the sake of brevity. In Bazzite's case, strictly-speaking, immutability refers to how most of /usr's content isn't supposed to be changed deliberately by you. This is enforced by the system (in part) by making those files read-only.
In practice, though, there's very little you actually can't do with the system: - AFAIK, you're forced to use GRUB; which AFAIK is the most used bootloader anyways. Here's a thread discussing support for systemd-boot. - No support for UKI at the moment. But progress on this has been accelerated (relatively) recently; . - The situation around dkms/akmods still ain't great and leaves a lot to be desired; you're basically limited to the ones found here. Thankfully, this is something else that's actively being worked on. - While installing from Fedora's repository through bootc/rpm-ostree is possible, it's actually discouraged in Bazzite's case. Thankfully, there's a plethora of different means to the same end. Furthermore, sysext have come a long way and might become our go-to eventually.
From what I can tell, this is basically present (since the loader syntax is identical), except systemd-boot needs the loaders and kernels to be on the ESP (/boot/efi), not where OSTree places them ...
Pretty good so far, few things took a while to figure out (keeping specific apps loading on start in the right spot/size, not having it force me to enter a password any time I open my browser, getting protontricks to work, etc.) and sadly still one thing I probably won’t ever be able to fix is getting a program (combat mode for GW2) to actually work as it’s… like 13 years old and just lets me press a button to make my mouse left/right click into keys while the game is up. They have integrated the other functionality of it at least so it’s not THAT bad. Might be able to get my mouse to manually do that if I check out the drivers for it I think someone made.
Glad to hear that it has been a pleasant experience overall!
few things took a while to figure out ...
The "force me to enter a password any time I open my browser"-thing seems like unintended behavior. Pretty strange. Glad to hear that it has been resolved, though.
sadly still one thing I probably won’t ever be able to fix is getting a program (combat mode for GW2) to actually work as it’s… like 13 years old and just lets me press a button to make my mouse left/right click into keys while the game is up. They have integrated the other functionality of it at least so it’s not THAT bad. Might be able to get my mouse to manually do that if I check out the drivers for it I think someone made.
Perhaps you've already undertaken what I'm about to say, so please feel free to ignore this if that's the case: Have you reached out to their Discord server in hopes of resolving the issue? While their documentation is pretty great, it's possible that it ain't sufficient. Whenever that happens, the Discord community can (and probably will (at least in my experience)) step up and provide excellent guidance when prompted.
Idk about the browser thing it was because the kde wallet or something? It stores passwords and the browser has a login so it would force me to do that every time. Same with email and such, very annoying. I think I have it all working fine now.
As far as what I could not get working, I was able to just set up mouse profiles to do mostly the same. Good enough of a workaround. It’s an old program separate from the game that seems to look at the active window to contain “Guild Wars 2” and if it is, hitting a button will change mouse clicks to whatever buttons. (And hitting certain buttons or not being in GW2 will disable that) so like… idk how Linux works but I feel that ain’t gonna happen without changing it, and the dev has fucked off 13 years ago (and I might be the literal only person still using it.)
Idk about the browser thing it was because the kde wallet or something? It stores passwords and the browser has a login so it would force me to do that every time. Same with email and such, very annoying. I think I have it all working fine now.
Ah okay, thanks for the clarification! I have heard of that interaction elsewhere. Unsure if it's KDE Plasma misbehaving or otherwise. Regardless, I'm glad to hear that you were able to resolve the issue. I did find this discussion (which you may have found yourself as well). In their case, they (somehow) didn't properly create an account, which opens multiple can of worms you'd much rather not deal with. Thankfully, the fact that you were able to deal with the problem suggests that you should be fine 😉.
I tried to disable it, but the password I enter in doesn’t work (I know it is my admin password). A SSH pop up happens as well, enter password, goes away, then reappears. KDE Wallet pops up, click next, no key.
You want a semi or rolling release distro. Fedora is semi-rolling, would be the most user-friendly I think. Anything Arch-based but more user-friendly, like CachyOS, would be good as well. Tim leweed is rarely recommended unless you need like bleeding edge, which it doesn't sound like you really want.
While (I think) you can install HWE (hardware enablement) kernels on Mint, you would also have to upgrade Mesa, which is not as easy on Mint.
Personally in this case, for a truly stable distro, I’d install Debian Stable and install a backports kernel and backports Mesa, which are both currently versions that should support RDNA4 GPUs like OPs just fine. This involves two simple steps after installing: 1. Enable the Debian Backports Repo (see backports.debian.org/Instructi…). It’s like, one file. 2. Install the packages with something like sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 mesa-va-drivers and reboot.
Before you take these steps, you probably won’t have hardware acceleration, but will still get video output so you can perform the steps and reboot.
This is definitely a weird suggestion, and other people’s suggestions might be less work out of the box. I just like Debian, and stability+backports+testing is part of what makes it possible for it to be my everything distro.
I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I'm using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can't get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don't load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn't helped. Can't even go above 60Hz refresh rate.
I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it's basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.
I don't have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.
The ocean really is one. If it's not part of the one ocean, it's just a lake. The Sea of Galilee is a lake. The Caspian Sea is a lake. Yeah some big lakes are salty like the ocean, but so is the Great Salt Lake.
It did strike me as a tad weird that in places like Panama, the sea level is different at the two ends of the canal. I have a suspicion that this guy Coriolis and his pet force have something to do with it.
While former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stated last night he was fully supportive of Donald Trump’s threats against Brazil (see separate slug), President Lula da Silva told an interviewer from Jornal Nacional reported by Correio Braziliense t…
Microsoft Outlook in the "cloud", the "greatest thing ever invented" according to some went down for over 21 hours on Wednesday and Thursday according to to CNBC.
I don't think I've had 21 hours of downtime total during the entire 25 years I've been managing mail. Why people are obsessed with the cloud I'll never understand. Handing over your most important data to a dishonest and self-serving corporation has never made any sense to me. Then to top it all off people get upset when Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, or someone else wipes out there stuff.
"Microsoft's Outlook email service malfunctioned for over 21 hours Wednesday and Thursday," reports CNBC, "prompting some people to post on social media about the inability to reach their virtual mailboxes."
The issue began at 6:20 p.m.
Email seems to be the hardest thing to self-host. Also, both Google and Microsoft are notorious for blocking self-hosters (including IP-range blocks), claiming it's due to spam concerns, so many people have no choice but to rely on someone else.
Yea, I have been working on a proper easy to deploy fix for this problem. Think mail in a box, but a more complete solution that automates setup of every hoop in such a way the user isn't given the opportunity to screw things up. For probably $150 you'll get everything including hardware you can actually fully control along with options for an IP that isn't on the protest or blacklists.
@Mr Penguin The Cloud is just a name for someone else's computer. In this case that someone already has a piss poor record for invading your privacy and not keeping your data secure. I would not even trust Microshaft on MY computer, let alone THEIR computer.
LOL, I agree with the sentiment, but won't go so far as using violence to dictate what others do. Although I guess that isn't what you said and I'm just reading into your statement a bit. In other words I was thinking you were implying you'd stop Microsoft from using its OS on its computers.
The World Bank, together with the analytical corporation S&P Global Market Intelligence, named Tanger Med the third in the list of the most efficient container ports in the world, he noted.
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is sowing fear and chaos in communities across the United States, as heavily armed and masked agents descend on workplaces, schools and public spaces.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has said she will be introducing an amendment to remove $500 million in military aid for "nuclear-armed Israel" from the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), marking a rare acknowledgement of Israel's nuc…
Follow-up article showing detailed performance analysis and differences between Wayland with power efficiency, Wayland with color accuracy and X11 desktop sessions in Plasma 6.
This is pretty biased considering kde is used which is bloated as shit. I actually ran benchmarks on my wlroots compositor and its way faster with way less latency cuz freesync actually works.
The Zionist Prisoners and the Families of Our Prisoners in the Enemy’s Jails Khaled Barakat The following article, by Khaled Barakat, Palestinian writer and member of the Executive Committee…
What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 “Intelligence” Agents, “THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,” and more? They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called “friends” are playing right into their hands. Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it? They haven’t even given up on the John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. Files. No matter how much success we have had, securing the Border, deporting Criminals, fixing the Economy, Energy Dominance, a Safer World where Iran will not have Nuclear Weapons, it’s never enough for some people. We are about to achieve more in 6 months than any other Administration has achieved in over 100 years, and we have so much more to do. We are saving our Country and, MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, which will continue to be our complete PRIORITY. The Left is imploding! Kash Patel, and the FBI, must be focused on investigating Voter Fraud, Political Corruption, ActBlue, The Rigged and Stolen Election of 2020, and arresting Thugs and Criminals, instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein. LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT! The 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen, and they tried to do the same thing in 2024 — That’s what she is looking into as AG, and much more. One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Have my 20 year class reunion tonight. All my friends from high school bitched out, a couple even last minute as in two days ago. What a crock of sheeeeeeeit.
Oh noes! Mine is a three hour drive away, but I never stayed close with any of them. I think we had like 62 in our class. Small Town central MN. I hated most of them! 😂
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior commander in the Nahshon unit, the Israeli prison service's elite operations and riot control force, has been accused of repeated sexual abuse against a female subordinate, in a case that has sparked internal investigations…
Florine of Burgundy was a princess who at age 14 joined her husband to fight in the first crusade. She fought alongside him until they were ambushed and killed on the battlefield by the Turks in Cappadocia, Anatolia in 1097.
Any time a woman of nobility was ambushed I believe rape was involved which is why women would commonly kill themselves throughout history during sieges. Nuns would cut their noses off so they'd be goulish and they'd be not attractive to look at, to dissuade rape.
Did you know that a term for rape in shitty olden times was "outraged". I saw a historical account of knights who "outraged" a mothers children in front of her. The wording struck me as odd and it took some digging but I learned that "outrage" used to mean a particularly brutal and violent rape, brutal enough to cause death. I imagine they'd do things like run them through during or after or as part of the rape. Some kings and their knights deserve to die.
violent and brutal rape had been all the rage even in times of classical antiquity. The atrocities that happened during the middle ages is not unique to kings and knights, and while the etymology is interesting I do not find it meaningful to paint any one side as have been more deserving of death except maybe to just dispel the romanticism of the era.
"Today, we’re announcing the seizure and dismantlement of several illicit video game marketplaces. From February to May of this year, there were approximately 3.2 million illicit downloads, and these downloads caused an estimated loss of $170 million: fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offic…"
Unravel the mysteries of your past and shape your destiny in Enigma Heart, a side-scrolling action RPG that blends classic gameplay with modern sensibilities. Explore a war-torn kingdom, master ma
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In this video, I visit Totally Rad Vintage Fest, a traveling Y2K and 90s (some 80s thrown in there too) nostalgia market, and ask why so much of our retro me...
@Stefan "Retro" for me is the '60's not the '90's but this isn't the way I remember either, only memory that vaguely resembles this is the Barbie movie, a waste of celluloid if ever there was except these days it's not celluloid anymore but blue-rays or actual hard drives with the movie preloaded.
@Stefan There is an old saying, there is no accounting for taste, and I believe this absolutely to be true and I know my tastes are not mainstream. If a movie gets a good score on Rotten Tomatoes I know it's worth skipping and if it gets a bad one, worth at least investigating.
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Not that I don’t have fond memories of all those systems but I feel like Commodore and Amiga fans have been particularly targeted by nostalgia snipers.
(I’m reminded of the “official Amiga keyboard” from a few years ago, which was just a cheap generic PC keyboard with an Amiga logo officially licensed by whoever currently owns the corpse of the Amiga trademarks.)
@rk In fairness to Fractic, the machine they're selling is legit, if it's as specified. Ultimate 64, mechanical keyboard, case, it's all there and cheaper than doing it piecewise.
READ: Mahmoud Khalil is suing Trump for false imprisonment after being detained for 104 days for speaking out on Palestine. He missed the birth of his child. Now he’s demanding $20M — not for himself, but to help others targeted by Trump’s crackdown. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/mahmoud…
Mahmoud Khalil is seeking $20 million in damages from the Trump administration, alleging that he was falsely imprisoned. Khalil says he would use the funds to assist others targeted by Trump’s crackdown.
👏👏👏🙏 Imagino o valor da indenização para cada Palestino roubado, torturado, sequestrado, violentado, amputado, estuprado e morto (de sede, de fome, queimado vivo ou perfurado por tiros de covardes utilizando drones). A indenização ao povo palestino deve ser de trilhões de dólares, deveriam bloquear todo o dinheiro de israHellenses e quem apoia o Holocausto Palestino!
If China is the threat that Phillip Inman argues (and few will differ from the board shape of his assessment) then what can our (or other Govt's) do given the already extensive penetration of our political economy by Chinese institutions and money?
While withdrawal from the clutches of the Chinese state may well be possible, the costs of distancing will be higher (by design) that politicians may be willing (able) to countenance... if so, what next?
all that's going to happen is that the west will continue to isolate itself from the global majority due to sinophobia and inability to treat other nations as equals
No I agree, I had inferred a recognition of a similar critique of the US, but as @Colman has pointed out that was likely more me than the writer... but yes, for me there are three very dangerous 'superpowers' - US, China & Russia - all dangerous in different ways but dangerous nonetheless
@Colman what specifically makes China a dangerous power in your mind?
Is it the fact that they haven't been at war since the 70s, or that China has had the fastest rise in the standard of living the humanity has ever seen, the fact that China is actively helping Global South develop, or perhaps that China is the only major nation actually transitioning off fossil fuels in a meaningful way?
Its an interesting point; people in Taiwan might differ on your notion of war avoidance (although as yet not happened, obviously); helping the Global South is really (like the US' prior work) hardly disinterested, but that, of course is politics, and while the green transition is notable they're still high up on the lost of emitters (by virtue of the economy's size).... but I agree, there is little specific about the danger of China that one might not also say about the USA!
@Colman Taiwan is a province of China last I checked as recognized by the UN, and even the US officially.
You're simply creating a false equivalence between China and the US. China has been consistently a force for positive change in the world, while the US has a been a force of destruction. These are indisputable facts of the situation.
well they're hardly 'indisputable facts' or we wouldn't be having this discussion - I think there are a lot of people both in China & in its neighbouring states who would disagree is been 'constantly a force for positive change'... in the same way, many might point to some (and I emphasis comes) actions of the US in the past that have also been positive - i think rather you are establishing a false absolute dichotomy...
@Colman let's just look at a few facts then to make this discussion more concrete.
Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. worldbank.org/en/news/press-re…
Over the past 40 years, China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty, accounting for more than 75 percent of global poverty reduction in the same period, according to a new report released on Thursday.
@Colman 90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2…
@Colman Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5d…
@Colman By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/a…
As a result, even as mainstream western media openly admits, Chinese government enjoys broad public trust and support.
Latana political research consultant Frederick Deveaux told Newsweek such studies "determine who is winning the battle of democracy in the eyes of the public."
@Colman not only that, but vast majority of people in China see their country as both being democratic, and working in the interest of the people. Something that's not observed in any western nation.
China is making progress in cleaning up its act on cutting down the use of coal in its power generation mix, as the share of the dirty fuel falls below renewables for the first time.
@Colman The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined theguardian.com/world/article/…
China added as much new clean energy generation in the first half of this year as the UK produced from all sources in the same period last year theguardian.com/environment/ar…
In fact, practically all the countries with negative views of China are either in the global north or those under western influence, such as Japan, South Korea, and Philippines.
This charts shows answers to the questions: "If ASEAN countries were forced to align themselves with one strategic rival, which should they chose?" among respondents from the respective countries.
So not all nice & rosy.... but you are right the raising on living standards & the green transition are key (global significant) achievements, but that doesn't mean the Chinese state is universally benign as you suggest.... but, if you think their military operations in the South China Sea area all just defensive, then all well & good, I suppose
@Colman I don't know why you're making this about me when I just listed basic facts of the situation we're discussing.
The whole freedom of expression thing isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is either. What matters are tangible freedom, such as freedom from poverty and the fear of illness or a lack of financial security in old age.
Having jester's privilege to scream into the void is not that impressive to me.
@Colman also curious what you think China plans to do in the South China sea given the history that China hasn't actually been at war. Amazing that you suggest there's some nefarious purpose to China building up their military when the US has literally surrounded them with their bases and openly discusses war against China with increasingly shrill rhetoric.
@Colman meanwhile, the UK is literally arresting people protesting a literal genocide that the UK regime is actively participating in. Seems to me that somebody living under a genocidal regime doesn't get to judge China's human rights.
I'm only make it about you in that it is you assembling your argument(s), but also perhaps you're misunderstanding me... and if you read my other posts you'll see I am also critical of the US & the UK.... all I'm saying is that China is not an absolute force for good (which seems to be how you're presenting it) rather like the USA while one might point to some 'good works' there's also plenty of grim stuff going on too...
@Colman no human society has ever been an absolute force for good. China, like any society, has its own problems as well.
What I'm challenging is your claim that China is somehow a danger to the world. There is simply no evidence for that claim. Chin has developed peacefully, and has consistently pursued mutually beneficial relations with other countries.
Well, I think the answer will be clearer in the next decade, so one of us will be proved nearer correct.... until then we're seeing different things, which may be about where we sit, our own political commitments and of course which international organisations we give are weight too... such is the character of political disagreements. But I certainly appreciated the discussion, which was interesting
@Colman I think you're absolutely right, at the end of the day what matters is China does going forward. I agree it's easy for us to end up in our own bubbles and end up with very different understanding of the world based on the information we consume.
Whatever happens, the next decade will be very interesting to watch because we'll be seeing profound geopolitical realignments.
@mrsrld @Colman it's hard for me to think of what could possibly be more important than dispelling jingoist myths about China when the west is trying to drum up WW3
@lord_nougat I am not taking crumbs from Hololive. This woman used to be incredibly erotic and Cover keeps nerfing her. Her flowing hair is gone and we get a cleavage window too small for my enormous and ponderous wang to fit through. The nerf is still too enormous to ignore.
Stop The Arms Fair (STAF) coalition is a network of organisations & individuals committed to nonviolently resisting arms fairs. www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk
Sun 20 July ExCel walking tour of the building used to host the arms fair and the surrounding area. Get to know the space and how the event unfolds. instagram.com/p/DL4Lir9onDg/
Mon 21st July London for a Free Palestine - open meeting about resisting the global arms trade, appearing alongside Workers for a Free Palestine instagram.com/p/DL7gdYEIttT/
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As the infamous mushroom trial comes to a close at the same time as the coroner’s findings in the inquest into the killing of Kumanjayi Walker found that former constable Rolfe, who killed the Indigenous teen, is racist and so is police force’s systems; the media outlets who set up teams to cover the trial will now obviously shift those recourses to covering the police’s structural racism.
“We’ve shown that when we want to, we can have entire teams dedicated to covering people being killed,” said one newsroom editor, “it would be a failure of our duty as news outlets if we don’t give the same attention to the people being killed in police custody.”
“Plus, the there is way more to cover here considering the amount of police brutality we are seeing not just in the Northern Territory, but nationwide. So many more deaths, and while sure none of them involve beef wellington, it would be ridiculous if that mattered in our coverage.”
(no, I don't smoke. I make things and having a Bic lighter at hand is super duper handy for heat-shrink, melting things, removing stringing from prints, etc.)
This has been a very intense week. Monday brought a meeting with some fairly impactful news. Nothing I can't handle, but it will certainly influence the next 12 months. Tuesday was a demanding day, and on Wednesday, I tried to take it easier, but there was no way. Thursday involved delivering some items to a client, and the nice satisfaction of coming home with their baked goods. Yesterday was another tough day, getting home at midnight. All of this, of course, was on top of my normal work. Additionally, there were two situations that disappointed me: one I expected, the other absolutely not. All of this meant that the nice plans I had in mind for today evaporated because my energy was extremely low. But, as often happens, I managed to put two ideas together. One was already in motion, but I'm adapting it for new uses. The other is a consequence of the events that happened these past few days, plus something else that's been in the pipeline for a while. Stay tuned 😉
sure. Everything's always relative. Maybe I didn't express my feelings in the proper way - I was complaining about the week while being grateful for the outcome - me doing stuff I like, to relax, after a long and full week.
@Stefano Marinelli I'm dealing with a toe wound that won't heal, two of three broken cars, when my eldest son first moved out of our house, he got a dog but then ended up moving where they weren't allowed, so we took care of here for a decade, then he bought a house while he could have her, now she's dying of cancer. We're going up to visit before she gets so bad she needs to be euthanized. But we're still here, and save for his dog (which was for all intents and purposes our dog for a decade), life goes on.
@Stefano Marinelli My mood is ok, it's all context, as I said, save for the dog life goes on. And it's a gorgeous sunny day here (which is rare in the Seattle area).
great! It's been rainy here today, but it's ok. We've had some hot weeks and new hot days will come later this week. So enjoy the sun and have a great day!
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We are back! #C64commodore.net/ The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299
I'm gonna sound like a weeb again, but I had sake for the first time and I think it's the only good alcohol. Sweet enough to not be throat burning, but not too sweet to glue down your throat. It's like a mellow wine with a hint of nuts.
Congratulations! It is one of my favorites too. Beer is bitter, wine is too sour or sharp, liquors are too strong. Ever hear the saying that sake tastes sweet when you're happy, but bitter when you're sad?
you do have a point, i was trying to do some trash talk however sweet alcohol tends to make you drink more without knowing, and you may wake up at break of dawn on your chair with a sore neck.
@Jens_Rasmussen I'm not a drinker so my view is definitely limited, but from what I've tried, some ciders are ok, but a pure apple cider tends to be very sour, sweet rums are both way too sweet and throat burning, flavored beer that's popular now is worse than regular beer, mulled wine is pretty good. I haven't tried mead yet though.
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in reply to TowardsTheFuture • • •Is there a particular reason you need an nvidia gpu? Like plans to do local LLMs or other projects that really require a nvidia gpu?
Because I am just so pleased with AMD for gpus in Linux. So simple.
Not knocking your choice, just trying to understand it. Everyone has valid reasons for why they choose their setups.
Edit: nevermind I am so confused by the new naming schemes I thought this was an nvidia, others have informed me its an AMD. Nevermind me I am a dingus.
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in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •9070xt is an AMD… it’s just new… and I’ve seen a lot of posts saying you want kernel 6.13 or higher for it, and mint 22 is using 6.8. (And that you want mesa 25 but I don’t think getting that’s an issue?)
(I realize AMD changing their naming yet again makes that confusing.)
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in reply to thanksforallthefish • • •Lol at the downvotes, it's like 3 clicks. Not rocket science.
fosslinux.com/138008/how-to-in…
Mint deliberately uses an LTS kernel because it's primary value proposition is stability & simplicity but changing kernels is pretty safe.
How to install and try different Linux kernels in Linux Mint
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in reply to TowardsTheFuture • • •I've put later kernels on Mint a half dozen times withno dramas, but whether you should depends on what your use case, preferences and skill are.
I personally wouldn't do the arse-ache that is an immutable system, but plenty here love their Bazzite it seems. Different strokes for different folks. Nothing wrong with that.
If you love Mint except for the kernel version then it's an easy fix. If you don't have deep feelings then either try & be ready to ditch, or pick an alternative.
Just for the record there is no "doing all that" about it. It's a simple couple of clicks. It couldnt be easier. I'm not sure where you got the idea it was difficult.
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in reply to TowardsTheFuture • • •I get the impression you've been enticed/subjected to some confusing technical jargon without noticing. Please allow me to shed some light.
Stable can mean a bunch of different stuff that may or may not be closely related. In the case of Debian, it's the name of its default release; the one in which packages are frozen for two years except for security patches. (Note that this naming scheme is not unique to Debian.) As such, a Debian installation will be unchanging for these two years, earning its stable designation (which, to be clear, just meaning unchanging in this context). Finally, this unchanging environment should provide a ton of stability (i.e. stuff just works), which is also referred to as stable. These three distinct meanings of stable are probably the ones you'll come across the most.
The bold part is a clear demonstration that you understood stable to mean strictly robust; i.e. the third meaning discussed above. And to be clear, Fedora does a decent job at providing a reliable experience. (Bazzite even more so.) But not all three meanings of stable apply to it:
- For Fedora (and thus Bazzite by extension), the only stable repository is the one used to create its ISOs (i.e. the images used for installation). Beyond this, some packages are frozen within a release/version; e.g. you'll never get a major release update for GNOME unless you do a major release update for Fedora. But..., that's basically it; (almost) all other packages receive regular updates. As such, Fedora is often referred to as a semi-rolling release distro instead (as opposed to Debian being referred to as a stable release distro). So, to be clear, Fedora and Bazzite are NOT stable in this context.
- As (most of) its packages receive regular updates, it isn't unchanging either. And thus, NOT stable in this context as well.
- However, in terms of offering a robust/reliable experience, Fedora is pretty good. Bazzite is even better due to its atomicity^[That is, updates either happen successfully or not at all. So a random power outage (or otherwise) is not able to break the system's integrity.] and the superior distro-management allowed by the
bootcmodel.So, to answer your question, Fedora and Bazzite will not crash regularly. And, while Fedora might fall a little short of providing as robust of an experience as you might find on Debian and Linux Mint (assuming you won't FrankenDebian your installs), Bazzite may actually rival (and perhaps even eclipse/surpass) Debian and Linux Mint in this respect.
For your purposes, I agree that going for the Bazzite-route seems to be the easiest.
This is a nuanced discussion that probably deserves more attention, but I'll keep it short for the sake of brevity. In Bazzite's case, strictly-speaking, immutability refers to how most of
/usr's content isn't supposed to be changed deliberately by you. This is enforced by the system (in part) by making those files read-only.In practice, though, there's very little you actually can't do with the system:
- AFAIK, you're forced to use GRUB; which AFAIK is the most used bootloader anyways. Here's a thread discussing support for systemd-boot.
- No support for UKI at the moment. But progress on this has been accelerated (relatively) recently; .
- The situation around dkms/akmods still ain't great and leaves a lot to be desired; you're basically limited to the ones found here. Thankfully, this is something else that's actively being worked on.
- While installing from Fedora's repository through
bootc/rpm-ostreeis possible, it's actually discouraged in Bazzite's case. Thankfully, there's a plethora of different means to the same end. Furthermore, sysext have come a long way and might become our go-to eventually.systemd-boot support
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in reply to TowardsTheFuture • • •Thanks for reporting back!
Glad to hear that it has been a pleasant experience overall!
The "force me to enter a password any time I open my browser"-thing seems like unintended behavior. Pretty strange. Glad to hear that it has been resolved, though.
Perhaps you've already undertaken what I'm about to say, so please feel free to ignore this if that's the case: Have you reached out to their Discord server in hopes of resolving the issue? While their documentation is pretty great, it's possible that it ain't sufficient. Whenever that happens, the Discord community can (and probably will (at least in my experience)) step up and provide excellent guidance when prompted.
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in reply to pyssla • • •Idk about the browser thing it was because the kde wallet or something? It stores passwords and the browser has a login so it would force me to do that every time. Same with email and such, very annoying. I think I have it all working fine now.
As far as what I could not get working, I was able to just set up mouse profiles to do mostly the same. Good enough of a workaround. It’s an old program separate from the game that seems to look at the active window to contain “Guild Wars 2” and if it is, hitting a button will change mouse clicks to whatever buttons. (And hitting certain buttons or not being in GW2 will disable that) so like… idk how Linux works but I feel that ain’t gonna happen without changing it, and the dev has fucked off 13 years ago (and I might be the literal only person still using it.)
pyssla
in reply to TowardsTheFuture • • •Ah okay, thanks for the clarification! I have heard of that interaction elsewhere. Unsure if it's KDE Plasma misbehaving or otherwise. Regardless, I'm glad to hear that you were able to resolve the issue. I did find this discussion (which you may have found yourself as well). In their case, they (somehow) didn't properly create an account, which opens multiple can of worms you'd much rather not deal with. Thankfully, the fact that you were able to deal with the problem suggests that you should be fine 😉.
Bazzite - KDE Wallet constantly popping up
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in reply to TowardsTheFuture • • •While (I think) you can install HWE (hardware enablement) kernels on Mint, you would also have to upgrade Mesa, which is not as easy on Mint.
Personally in this case, for a truly stable distro, I’d install Debian Stable and install a backports kernel and backports Mesa, which are both currently versions that should support RDNA4 GPUs like OPs just fine. This involves two simple steps after installing:
1. Enable the Debian Backports Repo (see backports.debian.org/Instructi…). It’s like, one file.
2. Install the packages with something like
sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 mesa-va-driversand reboot.Before you take these steps, you probably won’t have hardware acceleration, but will still get video output so you can perform the steps and reboot.
This is definitely a weird suggestion, and other people’s suggestions might be less work out of the box. I just like Debian, and stability+backports+testing is part of what makes it possible for it to be my everything distro.
Instructions
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in reply to TowardsTheFuture • • •I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I'm using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can't get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don't load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn't helped. Can't even go above 60Hz refresh rate.
I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it's basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.
I don't have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.
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in reply to TowardsTheFuture • • •I run mint 22.1 and have a 9070xt.
I used mainline to install kernel 6.14, works flawlessly.
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