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vox , vor 21 Tagen

my mom travels between Ukraine and Poland by train regularly, but i guess that doesn't really count as Europe

vox , vor 22 Tagen

hdr support is coming tho

• steamos already has it iirc (well, specifically gamescope)

• kde 6 has experimental hdr support with wayland session

• cosmic de devs promised hdr support in the first public stable release

what i really miss is passkeys (specifically, using tpm2 to store them like windows hello does)

vox , vor 22 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 22 Tagen)

i was asking about the passkeys specifically tho, not the biometric auth part of it
linux only supports hardware security keys like yubikey, not on-device passkeys atm

vox , vor einem Monat

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/8c4fe044-569f-4a3a-aede-c3da64e61cf1.webp

vox , vor einem Monat

that's why I've been doing most of my gamedev stuff on an old craptop from 2016.
performance issues become apparent immediately

vox , vor einem Monat

until it violently shits itself

vox , vor einem Monat

or fiddle with the vm/swappiness value

vox , vor einem Monat

or...

Upgrade to Enterprise
(upgrading to enterprise will also remove ads in settings)

in gpo editor:

• Set updates to Manual
• set the telemetry level to "Security" in group policy (iirc can also be called "Compliance"). This only works on Enterprise.
• opt out of Microsoft accounts. This will force account creation to skip right to local accounts as if MS accounts were never a thing. This only works on Enterprise/Pro.
• disable copilot and integrated bing search

do a full reboot

vox , vor einem Monat

idk if it's optional why bother typing it

vox , vor einem Monat

I'm still using 8 for gaming and stuff
(i built my pc in 2021 and don't see a huge reason to upgrade it yet except modded Minecraft)

vox , vor einem Monat

never had issues with gnome on my laptop with 4 gbs of ddr3, actually it's pretty smooth even while running from an 8 year old 5200rpm hdd, even with all the animations and stuff enabled.
freezes a bit while loading icons in the app menu for the first time after boot but it's really usable once everything gets cached to ram.

vox , vor einem Monat

yeah you need to mess around with snappiness to avoid that
(so either increase it to make it unload stuff to hdd earlier, leaving more ram for critical stuff, or decrease it to like 5 in order to make it only use swap when absolutely needed)
basically just mess around with it and see what value works best. i my case 10-15 works more or less okay-ish under full ram load

vox , vor einem Monat

8 is enough if you're not multitasking too much
wanna play a game? close absolutely everything except maybe discord (if you need it), but keep it in the tray
wanna look sth up while playing? don't forget to close the browser afterwards

vox , vor 2 Monaten

passkeys?
no need to use the 4 digit pin every single time.

vox , vor 2 Monaten

administrator in windows != root, it's more like user account in sudoers file (but without password auth)
processes don't start out with admin rights under administrator accounts on windows, they still need to request the user to elevate (unless uac is off)

vox , vor 2 Monaten

holy hell

vox , vor 2 Monaten

android's at least open source

vox , vor 2 Monaten

AOSP is licensed under Apache 2.0

(if you want to contribute back you must sign a CLA though)

vox , vor 2 Monaten

i haven't checked for updates on one of my machines for like 7 months now. some packages are partial upgrades (hilariously, xz is currently on the backdoored version and I don't care to fix it)
the thing survived multiple 500+ package upgrades from partial upgrade state and has been running for like 2.5 years now

vox , vor 3 Monaten

your fault for using a DE/distro which can't even handle fractional scaling

vox , vor 3 Monaten

also why the fuck are there 16581375 addresses that just loopback to your own computer???
reserving just 127.0.0.0/24 or even just 127.0.0.1 would've been more than enough, but nooo we're gonna give you waste a whole /8 block