kjetil

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[–] kjetil 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Sounds like you've been very unlucky. Even the open-source Nvidia driver should work out of the box and look OK. Performance is ass, but it's good enough for a usable desktop experience (usable enough to install the proprietary nVidia driver, which at least on Ubuntu's are just a few clicks in the GUI)

Instead of going Fedora, try PopOS. PopOS has a special ISO for nVidia graphics. Trying to "install" the Nvidia driver yourself on a live USB boot is not the way to go. I doubt it's even possible.

I've been on (K)Ubuntu, and XBox controllers have literally just been plug and play. I could even use the KDE game controller settings page to compensate for the drift in my left joystick.

Another option is Bazzite, which is a version of Fedora Immutable ("Silverblue") that comes with all the bells and whistles for gaming, including Nvidia drivers. However the immutable part may or may not be to your taste.

[–] kjetil 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Breaktimer is free, open source and cross-platform.

Default is a reminder every 30minutues for a break, with a Snooze and Skip button. Snooze is very handy if you just wanna complete something you were in the middle of doing

[–] kjetil 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, not necessarily. Wine programs usually have access to your home directory as a Windows drive (X: or Z: or similar). So do be careful

[–] kjetil 6 points 1 year ago

Can't recommend TreeStyleTabs enough!

Not only does it trade off precious vertical space for plentiful horizontal space, but also the tabs get organized hierarchical, so when searching and opening multiple tabs , the tabs get grouped naturally

[–] kjetil 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assuming you've tried Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, Blender, Darktable, what your deal-breakers for these open source tool? Any particular missing features?

[–] kjetil 1 points 1 year ago

Renewable energy is literally freedom energy. Geopolitical win for sure

[–] kjetil 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long have you had the composite deck? How has it stood up to UV? Like is it faded or getting brittle?

[–] kjetil 1 points 1 year ago

Well that's progress. And yet they removed vertical task manager from Windows 11 😢

My windows laptop is sticking with windows 10 as long as I can, hopefully vertical taskbar is back by the time I'm forced to upgrade. Maybe by then it's windows 12, continuing the tick-tock release cycle of good and bad Windowses 😂

Also, shoutout to Firefox addon TreeStyleTabs for having vertical tab management

[–] kjetil 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah fingers crossed, I also have one one order, but worried about the PSU

It sucks you had those issues, but it's good to hear the support team does actually provide support

[–] kjetil 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Flashback to ~2008-2009 when all laptops went from 16:10 to 16:9 and we couldn't understand why. 16:9 was for TVs and watching movies. 16:10 was for computers to do work.

While it's true finding 16:9 desktop backgrounds is easier, and watching movies and TVs without black bars is nice, 16:10 is much nice when actually using a computer to do work. Taskbars, toolbars, tabbars, headersbars etc take up a lot of precious vertical space, leaving less space for application content.

[–] kjetil 2 points 1 year ago

Økokrim skal se på saken

I en fungerende rettsstat bør jo det bety straffeforfølgelse neste..

[–] kjetil 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think of downvotes as crowdsourced moderation:

Posts made in bad faith, with a toxic attitude or wildly offtopic get a downvote

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