takeheart

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[–] takeheart 41 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Wir sollten Russland anbieten, die Waffenlieferungen sofort zu stoppen, wenn Russland einem Waffenstillstand an der jetzigen Frontlinie und dem Beginn von Friedensverhandlungen zustimmt", sagte sie. "Die endlosen Waffenlieferungen haben die Position der Ukraine nicht verbessert, sie war im Frühjahr 2022 stärker als heute."

Ja ne, ist klar, Sahra. Man könnte ja auch auf die Idee kommen, dass es dank der Waffenhilfen die Ukraine als Land überhaupt noch gibt. Und bei noch mehr Hilfe aus dem Westen würde sie heute eben noch besser da stehen. Aber dann gäbe es natürlich auch keine Empfehlung vom russischen Außenminister für die BSW. Den Spitznamen Zarenknecht hat sie sich redlich verdient.

[–] takeheart 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hmm always thought it's cause big cities need big fresh water, that's why there's a good chance that historically they formed near streams/lakes. Typically near the coast rivers slow down and branch out, giving good access to natural resources and also trade. Trade increases prosperity and exposure to other cultures.

[–] takeheart 14 points 6 days ago

Yeah,

1 + (1*5000%) = 51

Honestly I prefer just writing "51 times more frequent".

[–] takeheart 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Waddaya mean we can't just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It's not fair! 😡

[–] takeheart 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's not like you couldn't say the same thing about Donald Trump. Yet here we are.

[–] takeheart 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He made a post using command line lingo too, but anyone with even basic knowledge of those commands can tell you that both the syntax and the way he alludes to them are wrong.

It's the equivalent of slinging a guitar in a picture to look cool but pressing the side with the strings against your belly.

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[–] takeheart 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, what a joke. Especially when Musk is right there in the headline 😞.

[–] takeheart 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ah yes, if you've ever had the problem of a game's graphics not working properly but you can't adjust the graphics because it requires you to launch the actual game and navigate the settings menu you will appreciate that. Most games store and read their settings in an external file and a launcher can provide a meaningful way to edit those. That being said there's many launchers who actually don't offer this feature and are just used to shove ads your way or track your behavior.

[–] takeheart 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imo they should at the very least standardize some color coding and labeling. All charging-only cables are yellow, data cables are blue. Something like that.

[–] takeheart 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah and the fact that they allow plugins in the first place is great. It's a great way to gauge what's in demand and how it could be implemented. Reminds me of games that allow modding/addons and often key features are later added officially.

[–] takeheart 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Ah yes, there isn't even an option to permanently disable this popup, only remind me later. When the operating system is the nag ware. `

 

So after I last updated my deck I got a generic error message. No biggie. But then suddenly on the next reboot: stuck at the boot logo. Tried lots of things, no way of getting back in. Not with the current kernel, not with the previous one. Really annoying as I use my deck as a general purpose computer too.

So I created a recovery USB. Reinstalling the OS (which attempts to preserve user data and games) failed silently. So I reluctantly copied my entire home folder to an external drive and went with the nuclear option of completely reimaging the internal drive. After steam os finished installation I restored my entire home folder from the backup and restarted the machine.

I was expecting to having to manually reinstall and reconfigure so many apps and settings. And was verily not looking forward to it. But lo and behold: pretty much everything worked just the way it did before the fumbled system update. My desktop layout and window arrangements remained the same, settings and preferences were preserved, it didn't even log me out of email account. No manual imports of settings required. I had to reinstall most apps via the Discover store first, that much is true. But that took just a couple of minutes.

So yeah, really happy with how that went. Last time I had to reinstall everything on a Windows system it was a major pain as settings are all over the place (on the system drive, in the registry, inside appdata, inside the my documents folder, etc). I guess it has to do with the Linux philosophy of "everything is a file".

In the future I'll actually move my /home/ folder to my SSD card so that if this ever happens again the process is even less painful.

PSA: when you backup your home folder make sure to include all the hidden folders and files (anything starting with a dot like the .config folder).

 
 
 

This was created at a time when European societies found a new appreciation for the language of mathematics. Thus [the Christian] god is depicted as constructing the world itself using the tools and precision of mathematics.

 
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Don't know how (or if) I can upload video clips directly to Lemmy, so I used Imgur instead.

 

I'm also using the deck as a work machine and for that I connect an external monitor, keyboard, mouse. Getting the monitor to display correctly is quite the hassle though.

Suspends, reboots, turning off the dock's power overnight or switching tween gaming and desktop mode all can cause issues with the external display being detected properly. Sometimes the deck uses it's internal display instead. Or worse both screens stay black and I have to restart the deck by holding the power button. Other times the desktop environment uses the wrong resolution and I have to manually adjust it. Or the resolution is correct but the image is off center (leaving a black bar on one edge of the monitor and missing rows of pixels on the opposite side).

¿Are others experiencing these issues as well? I never have trouble with the other peripherals (keyboard, mouse, network cable).

I purchased Steam's official dock cause I wanted the additional charger. ¿Can owners of docks from alternate manufacturers report how well external displays connect? Might be worth a switch to save me all the hassle.


edit: I just learned that you won't receive updates to the dock unless you follow this procedure:

  1. power everything off (shut down deck completely, don't just sleep it)
  2. remove all peripherals connected to the dock (except network cable if you use that for your connection)
  3. start the deck
  4. if there are any updates for the the dock, they should show in the options of gaming mode

🤨 why tho, valve? why not show dock updates always? how am I supposed to know about them otherwise... 😮‍💨

 
 

Yes, inspired by Alfons Mucha!

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