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bjoern_tantau OP ,
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When I look at what she does before even hitting the AI button I think her artistic interests are not in trouble. But she always liked drawing and painting anyways.

bjoern_tantau OP ,
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Nah, that's running on a laptop with the actual AI stuff being rendered on my gaming PC. I think that's basically what all the AI tools on phones do as well. It's just some company's gaming PC.

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Yeah. Took me several days to set it up with the AMD card on my gaming rig. I also tried to run it on a Steam Deck but I gave that up. As it says, using the CPU is possible but painfully slow.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Couldn't you configure the existing panel to do what you want? Add and remove widgets and resize it and you should have what you need.

What file format do you store your media in?

Hello! I recently listened to a podcast that talked about how storing media files in .av1 format is very efficient and storage-friendly. I've been storing my files in .mkv format, but now I'm considering using Handbrake or a similar service to convert all my video files to .av1 if it's more compressed than .mkv. So;...

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If I get my files already compressed they stay that way. If I rip something like a DVD I will just encode it in whatever is good at the moment. Re-encoding usually only makes sense if you can drastically reduce filesize. If you go from one lossy format to another you will always lose quality. So if that just means slightly smaller files I wouldn't do it.

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Did you mean with touch support? They can all work without touch if you just don't use it.

Gnome works quite well with touch. I had to jump through some hoops to get KDE Plasma to work well enough on my Steam Deck. I have to use three different on screen keyboards (Maliit, Onboard and Steam's) depending on what I'm doing.

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When I had my Pinephone I was really tempted to use Gnome as my DE. There were just some really small annoyances and it would have been perfect. Made me wish that Purism had thrown their weight directly at Gnome instead of making Phosh.

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Valve is difficult. On the one hand they have their own Wayland compositor with gamescope. Which works by launching an explicitly configured XWayland session for the game.

And on the other hand there's Steam, which is still an X application.

And on top of that are stupid Steam Input bugs that only happen when you try to launch a game with gamescope.

On the Steam Deck in gaming mode Gamescope is the main compositor which launches two XWayland sessions. I guess one for Steam and one for the game.

It's bizarre.

bjoern_tantau ,
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In my experience, at least with krunner, it would autosort after a while of selecting Firefox.

18+ How can I browse adult content through Torrent websites when adult content is blocked in my country

How and how can I browse with high rate or good content quality not with stupid fantasy , or with very high billionaires who have nothing to do except for F**** and how can I browse the quality content which is very rare in last 16 years??

bjoern_tantau ,
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I very much doubt that they managed to block all porn.

  1. try lemmynsfw.com
  2. find the sources
  3. see which one isn't blocked
  4. wank away
bjoern_tantau ,
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I just wish they'd support older cards as well with the new open source stuff.

bjoern_tantau ,
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It took a long long time until Android emulators on Linux worked even close to what has been available on Windows.

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

bjoern_tantau ,
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Did you install Windows 10 yourself from scratch? If you managed to do that you should be able to handle most Linux installs as well. I would go so far to say that generally Linux is easier to install than Windows nowadays. Go with Mint or OpenSUSE or Ubuntu and you should be all right.

If you have nvidia graphics that might give you trouble in the form of one extra package to install. If you have Intel or AMD graphics you shouldn't expect any trouble at all.

The biggest difference between Windows and Linux is that you generally don't download apps and drivers from websites but use your package manager to install stuff. Similar to app stores on smartphones. And unless it's nvidia all drivers are already built in.

You can download live Linux images that boot directly from USB to try them out without installing. Often the live image is the same one you can then use to install Linux, if you want to.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Why don't you just get rid of NM? Like you said it's more intended for easy default cases.

bjoern_tantau ,
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NTFS can't handle Linux file permissions. It is not suited as a system drive.

And supposedly it can give you problems if you use it to store your Steam games. I never cared to test that, though.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Just go with whatever is the default of your distribution.

That said I've come to love the automatic snapshots OpenSUSE gives me with BTRFS. I think they use snapper to automate that. It does a snapshot before and after every packet install, update or removal. And it has some system to delete snapshots that aren't needed anymore but it always keeps enough to give you peace of mind, especially when you're experimenting.

I should look into keeping some snapshots of my ~ as well. And I should implement that especially for my family.

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The popular opinion is that it was easier for them to get up-to-date packages that way.

My opinion: It's just what the people working on the Deck were using at the time themselves.

Other reason might be that they had SteamOS 2 based on Debian and probably had some problems with it that they could solve on Arch more easily.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Wasn't Volvo the company where some exec got run over when they wanted to demonstrate the automatic emergency stop feature? And all this after they gifted seatbelts to the world.

bjoern_tantau ,
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You could append the chmod command with && but that's probably not what you wanted.

bjoern_tantau ,
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You actually can connect a Steam Deck to another PC. Look for the DeckMTP plugin on Decky Loader.

MTP is the thing Android uses when you connect your phone to a PC. It should be possible to install on any PC. Don't know about Windows but there's probably a solution for that as well.

Don't know what happens when both devices have it. I'd suspect that they would both be able to access each other's drive.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Yeah, that's why I don't have it installed. Sftp is more than enough. But that's not what OP was asking.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Restarting Firefox usually fixes everything for me.

bjoern_tantau ,
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The standards are supposed to be the stable thing. If some part of GNOME advertises itself as following a specific standard then it should remain stable in following that standard.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Git is already decentralised. Every github-like is interoperable with every other github-like. But just because something works together with many others doesn't makes it invulnerable to legal takedowns. Nintendo is a gaming company. They have no problems playing whack-a-mole, as demonstrated here.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Trouble is that people want to continue working on it.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Has it ever been better?

What happened was that they made a fuckton of money that way.

Ports of older PC games are also often quite good.

bjoern_tantau ,
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No. Nothing against KDE I just want to minimise all information leaving my computer. If something is bothering me I try to change it myself or make a bug report or feature request.

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My kids, 9 and 11, use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Mainly because that's what I use. They were with me when I set it up to choose a name for the computer, a username and a password (for their user and for the disc encryption).

I showed them how to configure wobbly windows (most important part) and how to use Discover to install games.

I installed Minecraft. I installed Steam (which has its own parental controls). I configured emails, Nextcloud and a password manager. I configured automatic updates.

I think that's about it.

They're responsible. They ask me for help if they need some. We educate them about people they meet online in Minecraft and other games. Works well so far.

bjoern_tantau ,
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To counter that:

We found that too many features distracted from the game. Too often we would try to find out how to do something the Foundry way instead of just saying what we're doing. We had more fun with something simple like owlbear rodeo while everyone just managed their character sheets and stuff themselves.

bjoern_tantau ,
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I guess we now have a timeframe in which to expect the release of Windows.

bjoern_tantau ,
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I wonder if this is of any use to them or if they're already too far ahead.

bjoern_tantau ,
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They changed it to MIT. You can basically do what you want with it.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Still no good virtual keyboard. If onboard worked on wayland that would be perfect.

Not perfect integration but with a workaround Onboard is somewhat usable.

On my Steam Deck I'm mostly using Steam's keyboard with Maliit for logins and the lock screen and Onboard in case I need special keys.

bjoern_tantau ,
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The most important thing I take away from this is that I have to install that cat.

bjoern_tantau ,
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By now it is widely used in my family as backup for our smartphone photos and important documents on PCs. In addition we use it for our calendars, contacts, notes and passwords.

I'm also investigating whether it's useful to track recipes for the food we normally eat to help manage our usual "what should we eat today" and "what groceries should we buy this week" questions.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Gives a whole new meaning to Kernel Panic.

bjoern_tantau OP ,
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Was easier than I thought. Just select Maliit as a virtual keyboard and start Onboard manually. If you tap with your finger in a text field Maliit will come up. When you click in a text field Onboard will open. But Maliit also works on the lock screen.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Sounds like Chemical X, the key ingredient to a Powerpuff Girl (besides sugar and spice and everything nice).

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