Right. 1F = 1C/1V … they could have just as easily said 1kF = 1C/1V. Many things use kg instead of g. You can tie together things other than the unscaled base units. Then they are still tied together but 1F is a more reasonable amount.

Depending on the UI/app you use for Lemmy, you may only be able to pick languages you have set on your profile (My mobile app lets me pick any language, but the default web UI (shown above) only shows languages on my profile).

I agree. The best part of the fediverse is the diversity.

However, for someone who doesn’t speak this language, having it marked as English content is not helpful. Would be very nice to have content properly tagged as the actual language it is in, so that users can opt to see content in languages they understand, would be great.

I don’t have a language filter on, so this wouldn’t affect me, but language tags and filters exist for this very purpose, so it would be nice to see them properly used.

That is his entire resume though. It’s not a “back in college” thing when you are fresh out of college.

To help you better understand, the way I see it, every time I do something that financially benefits <Company>, I assume I am giving money to the executives/owners/etc.

For example, if I spend $30 on a Harry Potter book, I assume JK Rowling gets $0.10 of that (i dont know how it works, but lets assume), and she spends a substantial portion of her income on anti-trans rights. If we assume anywhere near 10%, then me giving her 10 cents is the same as donating 1 cent to anti-trans rights. Is Harry Potter a good enough book that I am willing to donate money to hate groups to obtain it? Personally no. Other people may look at it and say “It’s only $0.01, and I really like the story!” and think it is worth it. That’s up to you where your threshold is for when the good outweighs the bad.

Contributing legitimacy to something can financially benefit it. Even if I never spend any money on Firefox (for example), user metrics allow them to make bargains with Google to get more money in exchange for default search status. So me using Firefox gets money for Mozilla. And if Mozilla was spending that money on hate groups, I wouldn’t want to be involved in that.

Yes, I am aware that basically every company out there is super shitty. And giving money or support to almost any major corporation is basically funding hate groups in some way. But when the CEO is loudly outspoken about these things, I’d very much rather just swap to a brand that at least isn’t outwardly proud of it’s stupidity. Unless the other options are just as bad and I need a thing: if my local ISP was run by murderers, I still need internet. That’s not something I’m willing to compromise on. But I do have other choices in browsers and Brave doesn’t have any features I can’t live without.

So to answer your question: it does not reflect on the product quality, but it does impact how much quality I demand from a product.

Brave might be a fine browser, but the CEO is infamously anti-LGBTQ and was anti-mask during the pandemic. And the whole crypto-coin association and injecting affiliate links into search results… Everything about Brave makes me want to avoid Brave. Is there anything magical about it that make it any different than other chromium browsers that makes it worth supporting right wing crypto bros?

If the CPU clocks are dropping to ~200-300 MHz while the temps are 40-45C (like in the screenshot) then it’s not thermal throttling. The clockspeed would go back up when the temps go down. And it would only throttle enough to keep the temps under the desired temp.

I would investigate what performance profile the CPU is using.

There is a tool called cpupower that will list out all the information about the CPU clock states.

I have a Ryzen CPU so the desired governor is going to be different than an Intel laptop, but for example, the output of cpupower frequency-info for me:

analyzing CPU 13:
  driver: amd-pstate-epp
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 13
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 13
  energy performance preference: balance_performance
  hardware limits: 600 MHz - 5.76 GHz
  available cpufreq governors: performance powersave
  current policy: frequency should be within 2.98 GHz and 5.76 GHz.
                  The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency: 4.39 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: yes
  amd-pstate limits:
    Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 5.76 GHz.
    Nominal Performance: 124. Nominal Frequency: 4.30 GHz.
    Lowest Non-linear Performance: 86. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 2.98 GHz.
    Lowest Performance: 18. Lowest Frequency: 600 MHz.
    Preferred Core Support: 1. Preferred Core Ranking: 231.

Which you can see lists the hardware clock range, the current governor’s policy frequency range, the actual current CPU frequency, and how it picks different frequency ranges.

I used to use cpupower on an old laptop to force it into the performance governor, because it would not clock up high enough without it. This obviously does negatively affect battery life, but i was plugged in most of the time anyway.

But either way, look into cpupower for determining the governor/power profile and also figuring out which governor you should actually be using.

AMD doesnt have any software for controlling RGB on windows. They don’t make graphics cards, they only make the GPU chip that goes onto the card (and the GPU chip doesn’t have any LEDs on it).

The LED controllers on the cards are per brand. If you have a Sapphire card, it’s Sapphire software that controls the RGB. XFX card -> XFX software, etc.

I have an XFX 9070xt, and it doesnt have any RGB on it. so I haven’t had to disable it.

OpenRGB is going to be your best bet for Linux RGB management. Sometimes they dont have every device supported (especially newer ones), so you might not be able to change everything immediately. But it’s mostly just a “scan devices, set color values” once it’s working.

And the iGPU you can probably disable in the UEFI config.

My current system was installed as manjaro, but i immediately started having AUR issues, so I just changed all the repos out to the official arch ones and over time everything manjaro specific has been updated or removed.

The first lines in my /var/log/pacman.log are from early 2015, and ive fully rebuilt my computer since then, including swapping hard drives (dd’ to clone old drive onto new drive). So at this point my PC is a hardware and software ship of theseus.

If those personal photos and videos are important to you, you should have them backed up anyway. If you ever spill anything on that laptop, or it gets dropped or broken or lost. All those things are gone.

But as others have said, you can sometimes resize a partition from gparted if the drive isnt mounted (ie, use the live USB).

I’m surprised their website works and uses web standards and they didn’t just NACK everything about HTML and go off and do their own thing.

The point of a terminal like this isn’t necessarily to have more features. I have the tabs turned off (I also just use tmux). The point is to render smoothly and look/feel nice.

Some people would rather spend a lot of money on a nice pen. It still is just a pen that writes. No additional features over a 25 cent Bic pen. But the smoothness of the writing, the hand feel, consistency of line thickness, etc… to some people that matters. No extra features, it just looks and feels a bit better… But if all you are doing is writing a grocery list, you may not care. And if you don’t care, you aren’t wrong. This just doesn’t apply to you. If you don’t have a reason, you don’t need to find one. It’s just not applicable.

But some people do care. They do have a reason. And they are also not wrong to care. Their reasons just may not apply to you because you have different workloads or priorities (or maybe they do, and you just haven’t realized that it’s a thing you care about)

I think this just happens to fall under the category of “some people care about milliseconds of rendering time, and some people don’t.” I don’t know if the GPU acceleration has anything to do with it, but this terminal emulator also has really good font rendering.

If you are happy with your current terminal emulator, continue using it. If you heavily use your terminal emulator for a lot of things and in some things you’ve found that it stutters a bit, and you wished it was a bit smoother, get a GPU accelerated terminal emulator.

And secret bonus option: Even if you are happy with your current terminal emulator, give it a try anyway. Ghostty has a “zero configuration” policy where their goal is for most people to never need to configure anything. Sane defaults. It’s a good out of the box experience. Give it a few test drives, and if you’re still perplexed about why you should care, then maybe it’s just not for you and you can switch back. If you go “that was pretty smooth, i dont have a reason to switch back” then maybe you’ll think about it differently.

I was using alacritty. Ghostty feels snappy like you said. I dont know if it’s “noticeably” faster in any meaningful way. but the out of the box config settings make the font rendering look much nicer than I had set up for alacritty.

I told myself “I’ll use this for a while” as well but then realized… I don’t actually have a reason to change to anything else. It gets the job done. So until some other new shiny thing comes along, this is probably where I stay for a while.

Some games can detect if they are running a VM and block that as part of their anticheat. You may not be able to get roblox or fortnite running in a windows VM.

Some games just flat out require actual Windows, so your options are “Have an actual Windows drive/partition” or “Just don’t play those games”

The cofounder of sticker mule went real hard on trump support this past year so I’ve just done without stickers.

Which version of of SDDM (and presumably KDE) are you using?

One of the comments one of those threads you linked points out that the bugs you’re sharing are for has changed.

The components have been reworked since the button was disabled so maybe that helped. It used to be a PlasmaComponents2.TextField, now it’s a PlasmaExtras.PasswordField.

PlasmaExtras.PasswordField has the button enabled! However, the implementation in the theme explicitly disables it.

If you open up /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Login.qml and scroll down to line 106. You’ll see rightActions: [] – this bit of code basically overrides the default behavior. It says "normally you have some actions here, but instead use this list, but [] is an empty list.

So if you just comment that line out by adding // to the front of it… Everything should just work, since it will then revert back to using the built in value.

However, the reason this was removed in the first place is in a comment on line 105: // Disable reveal password action because SDDM does not have the breeze icon set loaded

If the icon set fails to load for whatever reason (if youre using a custom icon theme or something, i dunno why it might not be loaded), the button will fail to load again.

You can test drive the SDDM lockscreen by running sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/ from the terminal.

And this all assumes that you’re using the default breeze theme. If you are trying to use a different theme, not sure if any of this applies.

The archinstall script has a list of “profiles” that you can select from (custom, desktop, minimal, server, tailored, xorg)… And if you select “desktop” it will prompt you which DE or WM you want to install. (awesome, bspwm, budgie, cinnamon, cosmic, cutiefish, deepin, enlightment, gnome, hyprland, i3, lxqt, mate, plasma, qtile, sway, xfce4).

By the time you’re done with the archinstall script, you basically have a fully functioning arch (ive never used the script seriously, so I have no idea what all remains not set up doing this).

The main difference between Arch and Ubuntu in this regard, is that if you want to run KDE Plasma, you download the common Arch ISO, and select Plasma at installation time. Compared to Ubuntu where you would download the “Kubuntu” spin, so you are selecting Plasma when you acquire the ISO in the first place.

There is no “default” arch DE, so when you install Arch, there is a lot of decisions to make (and you may not know how to make those decisions if its your first distro), whereas Ubuntu makes a lot of decisions for you, so you have to answer no questions to get set up (but you may be set up in a way you weren’t expecting). In this regard, Arch really does just feel like building a PC from parts, you just have to pick all the parts. Ubuntu is more like buying a pre-built.

One of my (otherwise random) WoW guild members had my grandma as his kindergarten teacher.

You’re right. There are multiple definitions of the word stable, and “unchanging” is a valid one of them.

It’s just that every where else I’ve seen it in computing, it refers to a build of something being not-crashy enough to actually ship. “Can’t be knocked over” sort of stability. And everyone I’ve ever talked to outside of Lemmy has assumed that was what “stable” meant to Debian. but it doesn’t. It just means “versions won’t change so you won’t have version compatibility issues, but you’ll also be left with several month to year old software that wasn’t even up to date when this version released, but at least you don’t have to think about the compatibility issues!”