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  • 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.


  • 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.



  • This lightning talk requires running SteamVR for the room setup bits, and it recommends a few things in the name of “user friendliness” that I would otherwise not suggest (Ubuntu bad, Gnome bad, etc). (edit: so switching to Monado wouldn’t really help since it would require SteamVR working in the first place, and if SteamVR works… OP could just use SteamVR)

    But it does show a lot of problems and solutions and things to try along the way.

    Based on https://db.vronlinux.org/ (which is like protondb for VR, kinda), monado works better for VRChat, but otherwise SteamVR should honestly work just fine.


  • Is your issue getting it to start at all, or performance issues?

    For me it wouldnt start at all in the default big picture mode and would only start in desktop mode.

    I made a few tweaks to get performance tuned up when I was on the Vega64, but I don’t remember what all I did there.

    edit: Also, I’m the KDE desktop (i wanted my HTPC/VRPC to be as steamdeck similar as possible, and also I have strong anti gnome feelings).





  • 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.




  • This comes a year and a half after they resorted to disabling Wayland support

    Yeah. A lot of progress has been made in the past year and a half. This is a clickbait headline. It’s not like last week they were like “this is super broken… oh well shipping it anyway.” It feels like pointing out their previous criticisms is almost trying to call them out as hypocritical or something.

    It was previously broken. They said it was broken. And now it’s fixed, and they re-enabled it as the default. There’s no bigger story or drama around their previous comments.