Deckweiss

joined 1 year ago
[–] Deckweiss 5 points 1 week ago

I usually recommend Zorin OS to noobs, but personally I prefer arch based

[–] Deckweiss 5 points 1 week ago

What the fuck is an "(objective) opinion" ?

[–] Deckweiss 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

For many games, the loading times are not thaaaat different when comparing HDD vs SSD vs NVME. (Depends on how impatient you are tbh.) And it barely affects FPS.

The biggest appeal of NVME/SSD for me is having a snappy OS.

So I would put your rarely played games on a cheap, big HDD and keep your OS and a couple of the most frequent games on the NVME. (In the Steam interface you can easily move the games to a new drive)

I find it to be a much simpler solution than setting up a multi tiered storage system.


Some sources:

https://www.legitreviews.com/game-load-time-benchmarking-shootout-six-ssds-one-hdd_204468

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-gaming-disk/3

https://www.pcgamer.com/anthem-load-times-tested-hdd-vs-ssd-vs-nvme/

[–] Deckweiss 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They don't exist as a company anymore and the device itself was basically just a pi with a display, camera and mic and without a capable software. (afaik)

https://community.openconversational.ai/t/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/13268

[–] Deckweiss 4 points 2 weeks ago

The hero we need! I was too lazy to get the URLs

[–] Deckweiss 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
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[–] Deckweiss 16 points 2 weeks ago

Most Pluton devices on the market have it off my default and I am not aware of any device where you can't disable it (on x86).

[–] Deckweiss 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thats what I mean by fingeracrobatics.

In some software I have to do CTRL+LeftALT+F10 followed by entering a number. Shifting between the layers for that or moving one of the typing hands to the numpad would really slow me down.

[–] Deckweiss 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

It's very pretty, but I shudder just thinking about the finger acrobatics for shortcuts that my work software requires to be efficient. I either have to have a macropad the size of your whole keyboard right next to it or at least all the numbers and F-keys.

Love the color scheme though!

Bonus points for thinkpad.

[–] Deckweiss 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have no personal experience, but I've heard rumors that hybrid architecture (performance cores + efficiency cores) doesn't work well with linux.

That might be completely outdated or only relevant for Intel. But maybe it will help if you look into that in more detail.

[–] Deckweiss 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Perfect Forward Secrecy has been around since version 5.0 (as an opt in beta feature) and enabled by default since 5.1.

https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/security-proof-ibex


Here is the original statement you're referring to:

https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/news-alleged-weaknesses-statement

I don't see any insults and the vulnerabilities were patched.

I agree that they downplayed it a bit, but back then they were still a for profit company. Now they are non-profit and it is in their interest to handle such cases in a way that is more aligned with their customers instead of their profits.

 

Repost from: https://libreddit.nl/r/linux_gaming/comments/1d8qi81/phoronix_birthday_20_years_of_great_linux_content/

He really seemed downbeat in his announcements regarding the birthday. He really puts a lot of work into the site but having a niche audience of tech literate users is probably the worst place to be with ad sales tanking as they do. If anybody is using adblockers, it's us and people are cheap.

I really hope the guy has a nice birthday and gets lots of love and donations. The phoronix content is always great and I've been a long time reader. (I've donated the same amount as OP - see my screenshot)

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submitted 7 months ago by Deckweiss to c/hackintosh
 

I am trying to set up a way to use my Linux normally and then on demand fire up an OSX VM with GPU passthrough.

Arch Linux
Gigabyte RX6600xt
macos 13 Ventura VM

I've been fucking around with it for two days, getting a bit further each time, but now I am stuck.

I can boot up the vm just fine with OpenCore-Boot.sh

Here is my script:

https://pastebin.com/McyHyMk4

What I see, the screen goes black, then I see the TianoCore boot logo, then some errors and nothing more happens. https://imgur.com/JdTkXG2

I ran info pci via telnet and it showed the GPU.

I have agdpmod=pikera in the config.plist and rebuilt the OpenCore.qcow2 according to the official instructions.

When I add a vnc option and vnc into it from another computer, I can see the proper boot menu and select an entry and boot into macos. It even seems to recognize an AMD gpu, but not fully.

Please tell me any debugging / info providing steps, as I am quite new to this.

Thank you very much for your time and effort.

 

I am trying to set up a way to use my Linux normally and then on demand fire up an OSX VM with GPU passthrough.

Arch Linux
Gigabyte RX6600xt
macos 13 Ventura VM

I've been fucking around with it for two days, getting a bit further each time, but now I am stuck.

I can boot up the vm just fine with OpenCore-Boot.sh

Here is my script:

https://pastebin.com/McyHyMk4

What I see, the screen goes black, then I see the TianoCore boot logo, then some errors and nothing more happens. https://imgur.com/JdTkXG2

I ran info pci via telnet and it showed the GPU.

I have agdpmod=pikera in the config.plist and rebuilt the OpenCore.qcow2 according to the official instructions.

When I add a vnc option and vnc into it from another computer, I can see the proper boot menu and select an entry and boot into macos. It even seems to recognize an AMD gpu, but not fully.

Please tell me any debugging / info providing steps, as I am quite new to this.

Thank you very much for your time and effort.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Deckweiss to c/[email protected]
 

I was reading the reddit thread on Claude AI crawlers effectively DDOSing Linux Mint forums https://libreddit.lunar.icu/r/linux/comments/1ceco4f/claude_ai_name_and_shame/

and I wanted to block all ai crawlers from my selfhosted stuff.

I don't trust crawlers to respect the Robots.txt but you can get one here: https://darkvisitors.com/

Since I use Caddy as a Server, I generated a directive that blocks them based on their useragent. The content of the regex basically comes from darkvisitors.

Sidenote - there is a module for blocking crawlers as well, but it seemed overkill for me https://github.com/Xumeiquer/nobots

For anybody who is interested, here is the block_ai_crawlers.conf I wrote.

(blockAiCrawlers) {
  @blockAiCrawlers {
    header_regexp User-Agent "(?i)(Bytespider|CCBot|Diffbot|FacebookBot|Google-Extended|GPTBot|omgili|anthropic-ai|Claude-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere-ai)"
  }
  handle @blockAiCrawlers {
    abort
  }
}

# Usage:
# 1. Place this file next to your Caddyfile
# 2. Edit your Caddyfile as in the example below
#
# ```
# import block_ai_crawlers.conf
#
# www.mywebsite.com {
#   import blockAiCrawlers
#   reverse_proxy * localhost:3000
# }
# ```
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How to datahoard Lemmy (self.datahoarder)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Deckweiss to c/[email protected]
 

Sorry for not doing much research beforehand and asking a newbee question. I am looking for some entrypoint info to the question:

How would one go about datahoarding lemmy?

It seems to be a grade above what I've been doing so far (downloading video/audio from streaming platforms and backing up web articles and blogposts as pdfs) due to the distributed nature and the activitypub protocol.


Relevant stuff that I've found so far but havent studied extensively:

  1. This does not seem to store most of the data https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer
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