Ah, that’s completely understandable. Most people don’t realize that in a lot of companies, even if you are involved, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that it’s a bad idea.

Also it’s a big fucking company haha

Beat me to it!

Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that they’re Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company won’t shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?

Real talk, “Linux is the only way you can be sure your porn viewing habits aren’t getting logged by some corpo in San Francisco” may be a good way to convert some people

Huh, this was definitely a fix I used on an older version that I just moved over to a new install with the new drivers so the drm modset line may not be necessary anymore yeah. I’ll check next time I connect to my monitor.

And yeah, it’s def gonna get better. I’ve already seen both wayland and nvidia improve significantly over the last 2-3 years so at this rate, things should “just work” pretty soon (insert meme about year of the Linux desktop).

I vividly remember struggling to get proprietary drivers working on Fedora 37 (or 38, it’s been a minute) only to have them break on the next version on my previous laptop. It was definitely much MUCH easier to install on Fedora 42 on my current one and updates haven’t broken anything for me since 40.

What gamepad are you using? If it’s Xbox One/S/X try out xpadneo

This is graat info. Didn’t know about Ventoy before, it sounds really cool.

Just wanted to add that if you’re running multiple monitors on an nvidia card, you may find that the second monitor has low fps/stutters on wayland (common on dual graphics laptops). The fix is as follows:

Add these 3 lines to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf:

options nvidia-drm modeset=1
options nvidia NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1 NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations=0 NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

Add this line to /etc/environment:

KWIN_DRM_DEVICES="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000\:01\:00.0-card:/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:02.0-card"

You may have to modify the part that says pci-xxxx\:xx\:xx.x-card with the appropriate values for your graphics card.

Run lspci | egrep VGA to list installed PCI graphics cards and try to map the values from there

Disclaimer: I don’t know why this works but it does and it isn’t malicious as far as I can tell. If anyone knows what exactly it’s doing, I’d like to know please.

Sounds nice, where do i sign? :)

“I refuse to work in defense. I’d rather my work wasn’t used to blow anyone up” is a line I’ve used in multiple job interviews. I like to think the hell I end up going to at least has chilly weather and/or really good AC.

The “here’s how you keep doing this poorly but more efficiently” energy on display here is a refreshing change of pace from the usual “here’s how you do this correctly” crap peddled by normies (including me). You have my respect.

I thought you were being serious as well. I’ve dealt with enough people who would genuinely make that argument so I assume nothing.

Effort or no, if an attacker can reasonably bypass it, it’s not secure. That’s why software gets security patches all the time, why encryption/hashing algorithms can fall out of favor, and why quantum computing can be pretty fucking scary.

That sounds strampunk af, I’d get it even if I didn’t need one if it did that!

Okay that makes way more sense then yeah. I don’t know of a single chromium browser that supports extensions on mobile so unsurprising

I love how it’s the people who know the most about how modern tech works that want nothing to do with 90% of it.

I’m trying. I’m trying so hard. But it keeps pissing me off because I have to dig through settings to undo changes they made to browser features that are standard across both Firefox and Chrome. It’s free and I’m not tryig to sound entitled but almost every single change they made to Chromium aside from the privacy stuff has me going WHYYYYYY?

The way they handle open in new tab, tlds like.internal, and ctrl+click to complete urls were the worst offenders off the top of my head.

Plus their ad blocker doesn’t even come close to uBlock Lite.

I just want v8 in a hardened vanilla Firefox wrapper that doesn’t go to the extremes that LibreWolf goes) :(

Not sure how Vivaldi uses extensions since you cannot add new ones from the chrome store…

Extensions in Vivaldi come from the Chrome Web Store, not sure what you mean by this

Beautiful

Wdym, they made CoD Black Ops 6 /s