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Wine 9.18 Released
  • The first improvement (Media Foundation by FFMPEG) could be significant. Currently, VALVe generates large shaders to re-render those Media Foundation videos into other free codecs. These shaders can be several gigabytes in size for some games with lengthy videos. With FFMPEG, those videos could be played without being re-encoded as shaders.

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    Wine 9.18 Released
  • TLDR:

    • New Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg.
    • Initial support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
    • New Desktop Control Panel applet.
    • Various bug fixes.
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    Ladybird browser update (August 2024) (Makan: What does everyone think of this browser?)
  • https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

    It takes a time to compile the whole project, but a way less than Firefox and Chrome. There is an AUR package for ArchLinux.

    IMHO, it is not yet daily-drive usable. Really slow for JS. The window manager is extreme limited (I can not drag tabs outside the window). It can not render steampowered neither youtube (I didn't test any more websites, just these two). The current setting page is just a window popup with a checkbox for one option. But competition is always good for the users. A web browser is a big project for today standards. Good luck to these developers 💪👍

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    Anyone made a DIY immutable distro?
  • Hi!

    I made my own inmutable distro using buildroot (https://buildroot.org): https://simplek8s.org

    This distro is just an AIO kernel image that will bootstrap everything in RAM. You can mount additional devices for data persistence (for example you can mount your storage in /var).

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    Question: What is Linux misinformation?
  • For example, when someone ask for a command to list files, and another one reply with a command that removes everything.

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    Getting PSVR2 working on PC isn't as easy as it should be
  • TLDR; the reviewer is upset because the PSVR2-PC adapter doesn't come with a Display Port cable, and his Bluetooth adapter is not compatible. So he can't review the unit on time until he receive both items. 🤷

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    Firefox enables user tracking
  • It's illegal in Europe to have an opt-out checked by default, must be an opt-in unchecked by default. This is one of the reason that Microsoft has always troubles in Europe about privacy and opt-out services.

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    This sddm bug is driving me insane
  • Hahaha. Common problem with multiscreen with different resolutions. Your laptop screen is below and left of your main display, and X11 renders this black "virtual screen".

    There are multiple solutions:

    a) Set your screen resolution and position through KDE Plasma SystemSettings and push the button "apply to SDDM configuration" (I think Plasma 6.0 removed this option, try to find it in the SystemSettings KCM SDDM section).

    b) The another solution is the old one. Create a file into /etc/X11/xorg.conf/display.conf with the proper values of position and resolution. Search in a wiki about examples (archlinux wiki?).

    c) There is a third one that I used few years ago. SDDM allows you run any command after the screen initialization. So you can exec your xrand command here. Search about /etc/sddm.conf

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    How to figure out why BTRFS drive reports it is out of space
  • When you create a filesystem, there is a parameter named as "block percent free". This parameter should be "5%", so a 5% of your partition size can only be written by the "root" user.

    You can decrease this value or just free some space. You can try to create files or folders as root as well.

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    [Question] Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?
  • I think that the reason is the same for "why is XMPP mentioned more than IRC?". IRC has more clients, it's less resources hungry and simpler than XMPP.

    I think that the reason is because it is old-fashione, and it's clients feel outdated and (native) "lacking features" compared to more popular clients like Discord, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram or Signal. 🤷‍♂️

    I can imagine my cousins using any of the clients I mentioned before, but not IRC, XMPP, or any protocol from my era. Life and traditions, isn't it?

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    Feel like a weak year for games?
  • The last year 2023 was incredible (providing a lot of good games).

    Fils Aime: ‘Thank you, but I want more.’ ‘Thank you, but give me more.’ I mean, it is insatiable. 2012 https://kotaku.com/the-trouble-with-the-never-satisfied-gamer-5920572

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    General Advice for shell scripts
  • #!/usr/bin/env bash
    

    A folder dotfiles as git repository and a dotfiles/install that soft links all configurations into their places.

    Two files, ~/.zshrc (without secrets, could be shared) and another for secrets (sourced by .zshrc if exist secrets).

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    Tekton Cloud Native CI/CD
  • I used Tekton for the last two years, and I didn't like it. One of the reasons is the community split around Tekton Hub between versions 3 and 4. Another reason is that it's not very Kubernetes native. While you write YAML, there are a subset of instructions that limit you regarding mundane things you can do on Kubernetes but Tekton doesn't support, such as mounting different PersistentVolumeClaims or setting tasks by platforms or nodes (amd64, arm64, etc).

    I was so frustrated that I created my own Kubernetes-native CI/CD solution. Currently in development phases (when it is done, I will publish it here). This one uses real native Kubernetes components (jobs). You create Webhooks that launch Workflows, and Workflows can launch other Workflows or Jobs. You can do anything in a Job with no limitations other than Kubernetes itself. Take a look if you want: https://github.com/jlsalvador/simple-cicd

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  • Hello!

    Do you hate the watermark preview banner?

    Add the text HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true just after [General] in the file ~/.config/kdeglobals. You will have something as the following:

    [General] HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true

    Better for OLEDs displays, stylish, auto-suspend all-blacks displays, etc.

    Src: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/b15d9f41f7f41210b1dd5a78dc1b1894bd40c3dd#16f843a94440a858a2387e36472454ab5685e179_193_196

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    Hello!

    Do you hate the watermark preview banner?

    Add the text HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true just after [General] in the file ~/.config/kdeglobals. You will have something as the following:

    [General] HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true

    Better for OLEDs displays, stylish, auto-suspend all-blacks displays, etc.

    Src: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/b15d9f41f7f41210b1dd5a78dc1b1894bd40c3dd#16f843a94440a858a2387e36472454ab5685e179_193_196

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