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No, I don’t have something in my eyes, I swear I’m fine looks nervously at boss.
Linux server admin, MySQL/TSQL database admin, Python programmer, Linux gaming enthusiast and a forever GM.
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No, I don’t have something in my eyes, I swear I’m fine looks nervously at boss.
Highly doubt it. What he has said he needs are volunteers to help run the place
I know this probably isn’t what you want to hear, but imho without knowing in detail all the changes you tried to make and the fixes you wanted to apply, the most effective method to fix these issues might be doing a full reinstall and starting again.
That’s unfortunate. Nvidia can be problematic with Linux (obligatory video).
An important distinction to remember is that with a few rare exceptions, Linux distros are not for profit ventures, and the users helping are not being paid to do so. Some individuals trying to help may have more or less knowledge and experience, but they are trying. I’m willing to forgive rough edges from non-profit foundations more than for-profit companies, personally.
I understand that’s little consolation for somebody who has an issue right now and needs it solved right now, but as the noose of profit models tighten, I hope people have a little more patience for volunteers trying their best.
Ubuntu 23.04
Sorry to hear that. I’m on Ubuntu mainly out of inertia and laziness. I’ve heard good things about pop, so hopefully it works out for you if/when you decide to give it another shot.
Yeah, that is definitely an onboarding issue. Everyone has their preferences, and normally feel quite strongly their favourite distro is the best one.
I think most people would agree that Pop_OS and Linux mint are currently the most newb friendly distros out there.
This comment seems a bit strange to me for a few reasons. The Linux ecosystem has changed and improved drastically in the last few years, and a lot of this reads like it was written a decade ago.
AMD drivers have been rock steady for quite a few years now. The catch is that unless you’re doing some exotic thing (not general-purpose gaming) you should not be installing anything extra. People used to downloading drivers for everything tend to make the mistake of hunting down and downloading the Radeon proprietary drivers when those are not needed, and in some cases actively make things worse. I suspect this is the case because you mentioned Mesa when talking about the integrated graphics card, but not the dedicated one. If I’m right about that, uninstall Radeon and let Mesa handle it with the AMDGPU open source drivers built into your kernel.
Unfortunately, dual GPU setups are still very painful and annoying to set up and use. That is still an active pain point in the ecosystem. DRI_PRIME is still the best solution for this afaik, but it isn’t exactly an elegant one.
Steam comes with Proton built in (their own fork of WINE with a lot of improvements), WINE & Proton have made gigantic leaps forward with the backing of Valve, and pretty much everything gaming related has moved from OpenGL to Vulkan. Anything run in Proton, for example, is going to be using Vulkan, not OpenGL
Checking out Metro’s protondb page, yeah, seems like the consensus is that the devs did a shit job with their port. I’d recommend right-clicking the game in Steam, go to properties, compatibility, and enable Proton there.
Basically, the big two reasons are the admin and the server. You want an admin you trust and a server that works well.
As far as I understand it, this should be the correct answer. Obey the rules of the instance the community is on when on that community.
I’m not fully convinced either way at this point: I’ve seen very good arguments for both sides.
Just wanna say that the kind of frank, open discussion without toxicity and name-calling is why I really like this instance and have high hopes for it.
de-federation as a tool to ‘fix’ every issue
Completely agree. It should be reserved for extreme cases only: illegal content, bot instances, and calls to violence/hate speech friendly instances. That should be it.
The tactic of EEE only really works if people are willing to go for the “extend” part of it. If we don’t make concessions for the sake of interoperability, I think we’ll be fine.
The only real fix is for lemmy.world users to spread out a bit to more instances. We saw exactly this with lemmy.ml during the first wave of redditors, and it took the server crashing and staying down for multiple days for people to get the point that users shouldn’t all be under one roof in a decentralized system.
It’s hard to get a bot onto this instance, but not impossible. Once they’re on here, they can spam out nonsense as fast as the server can take it (hence the rate-limiting solution).
Very likely has to do with the fact that lemmy.world is overloaded, combined with federation issues.
According to this real-time lag-o-meter, it looks like lemmy.world is taking ~100 seconds to respond.
Yeah, that should be fixed. Currently best work-around is to edit the comment with just the word “Deleted” or similar in it.
@TheDude@sh.itjust.works was saying a while ago that storage is gonna be a problem. Why not just link your image instead of uploading it? Format is ![](https://url-of-image-here)
Edit: deleted for brevity, helped with readibility
Looks like the whole captcha change ended up being a lucky break for you guys. That was the deal-breaker as far as I understand it for 0.18.0
Works for floors!