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paines··on Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
I really meant non-plus-ultra which we use in germany.I thought it's universal among language families.
paines··on Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2203/gnome-run-with-p...
paines··on Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
The thing I talked about already worked perfectly fine since 19.10 and with hacks even in 18.04. 20.04 is now on 440.82.
paines··on Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
Dirty hack, like bumblebee? Well since driver 440.44 this kind of thing is incooperated into the nvidia driver itself. You can use it on demand. It idles at around 1w and is used for some physics and other decoding capabilities if i recall correctly. If you want to run a game or an app using nvidia you prepend it with an environment variable, otherwise intel gfx is used. It's not dirty, and works quite well imho... To make it more convenient:there are even extensions for gnome to say use nvidia with this and that app... Sure, to have the nvidia card kick in triggered by the OS somehow when really needed would be the non-plus ultra, but come on, this is science fiction :D
paines··on 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
Yes it can do full hd, ever since at least rPi3. Problem here is chromium. Use omxplayer and the rPi4 will do 4k in full glory. I think you can even use omxplayer with youtube somehow. Chromium doesn't even do hardware decoding on x86 desktops, you just don't notice it, because the cpu's are fast enough to do it nowadays.
paines··on Debian 10.4
I used to love the shit out of Debian., but nowadays, that I am really startled and shocked what it had become. Try to get nvidia graphics running on an optimus based laptop, and you will find yourself in a midst of an multiple hour long try and error prone session of head-shaking and cursing. Graphics installer -> no touchpad?!?!? Blueutooth A2DP -> fix it by hand..... This list goes on and on and on...
paines··on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
Set your system up to have like 90% of the available disk space for /home. Rest is root. You can replace your whole system within half an hour.
paines··on Show HN: An interactive map of countries by tap water quality
I call bullshit omn that map. The water in the us tastes like cholrine and is better rated than the one in germany and bosnia, which both don't have that. Also the water is not adviced to be drank from tap in portugal where i was recently, and it is rated with 80?!?!?
paines··on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Highly appreciated. Thanks!
paines··on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
>The snap daemon on one of my laptops always blocks the shutdown by 30 seconds.

I used Spotify, VS Code and some PS2 emulator from Snap and haven't seen this behaviour. Which snap package does that for you ?

paines··on AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS
You sure ? I have the XPS 15 7590 with OLED 4k. You can snap your fingers and watch the battery drain... Sure it looks crisp and all, but it comes for a heavy price.
paines··on Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
And, at least for the early version for Proton, out-of-the-box controller support. You simply do not want to mess around with this manually on wine.
paines··on Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
You can shutdown/disable cores on the fly. There is a nice gnome-shell extension for that. Shouldn't that do the trick ?
paines··on Dumping MiniDisc Media
I just downloaded a whole album, 1h:09m long via Youtube-Notube->m4a. Uploaded the m4a via https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/. Works perfectly... Thanks again
paines··on Dumping MiniDisc Media
LOVE IT! Thanks a bunch mate. Works like a charm. Used: https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/ Cannot compile it, cause npm is fucked and and my nodejs fu is meh....
paines··on Cronopete – A Linux clone of Time Machine
In the past, duplicity would not save dot files or dot directories, e.g. .config/, .emacs, .local/, so many settings would be lost or not saved. No idea if they addressed it meanwhile, but back then it was a show stopper for me. Lost some of my steam savegames :-p
paines··on How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video]
The PC version is available via abandonware. You can play it in dosbox.
paines··on New Ubuntu Theme in Development for 20.04
I felt the same in the beginning after the switch from Unity to Gnome. Nowadays when using Unity or Plasma, I can stand the missing of the rich extensions Gnome-Shell offers.
paines··on AMD Lists Threadripper 3000 CPU with 32 Cores, Possible New Socket
You mean slower
paines··on Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
FINALLY, a recipe site, which is not drowning in ads! How refreshing.
paines··on Racket: Lisp for Learning
Cool! Thank you!
paines··on Racket: Lisp for Learning
Could you share some more information about your Love2d development environement, please?
paines··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
super cool! Sorry for my ignorance, but how does it close again? Do you issue fire alarm and it closes ?
paines··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
How cool are you! Great idea.
paines··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
> This is in Montréal Official language is french. So Bus 55 is coming in 5 mins!
paines··on Climate protesters storm Garzweiler coal mine in Germany
So, you haven't heard about Chernobyl nor Fukushima?!? Maybe stop reading hackernews and go to CNN and Wikipedia pal!
paines··on Green threads explained in 200 lines of Rust
>Linux used to do its actual context switch in C with inline asm, and it changed to being in straight asm a while back.

Could you be a bit more specific, maybe a link to the diff e.g. THANKS!

paines··on GNU Guile v2.9.2 – an embeddable REPL for scripting your GUI
I took this dependency list from Arch for guile 2.2: gc, gmp, libffi,libltdl (libtool),libunistring,ncurses,texinfo Maybe the number has increased meanwhile. Lua just has readline as dependency. Not sure about guiles must have, but I guess this list could be narrowwed down by diabling features.
paines··on Lisp Game Jam 2019: Results
>Must be written in any dialect of Lisp. This includes, but is not limited to Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, and Clojure.

from https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2018

From the last 2-3 Jams, IMHO, you can see a tendency towards exo-lisps as many entries were done with Fennel or some in Urn.

paines··on Sony's Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team
This!
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