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Christmas is coming, and I'm thinking a family PC is on the cards from santa.

It would need to run minecraft and Lego city undercover and that sort of thing.

I already have a spare TUF 750W bronze rated power supply (that I bought one time I was troubleshooting).

I will also probably upgrade my RX5700XT graphics card so put that in this build (suggestions welcome for a good bang for buck replacement that's good for a server running Mint and ollama (needs high VRAM) as well as used for gaming).

Everything else would be new. Suggestions for monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers too please!

Let's aim for a ballpark of $1000USD (I'll be purchasing in New Zealand).

Thanks in advance!

I had a previous post about how the game and computer would freeze when using my controller. This is now resolved, the controller no longer freezes the computer, but I'm still getting weird visual artifacts in games, and one game (Assassin's Creed Rogue) is freezing, which seems to be triggered when I enable the eagle vision. I've already played 20 hours without a single crash or issue until this recent system update.

I've got an up to date Nobara installation, using the Gnome version. Nobara is based on Fedora with some gaming related things pre-installed. It's running on an OG Framework laptop, so it's Intel integrated graphics but it has been working great until now.

I'm running Assassin's Creed Rogue through Steam. I have tried running the game using the experimental proton but that didn't help.

Anyone got ideas for further troubleshooting? The best I've got is that it might be shader related, as in Hades the lighting is weird and in Assassin's Creed Rogue it's enabling eagle vision that triggers it to freeze. I have tried disabling the pre-cached shaders and it doesn't help, I've enabled it to trigger re-generation of them but it didn't help.

Any ideas?

Edit: I sort of solved this. It seems to be related to GNOME, when running the KDE Plasma desktop environment it doesn't crash. So I guess I'm using KDE until that gets resolved.

I've been using an Xbox One controller with a dongle on my OG Framework laptop running Nobara (GNOME edition) for a number of years with no issues. After a recent system update, now connecting the controller causes freezes.

If I'm in a game (the game I'm playing is Assassin's Creed Rogue), then it freezes the game but I do seem to be able to get out of it so it doesn't seem to be a kernel panic.

If it's still connected when restarting, it will freeze at the login screen and I have to restart.

The system is up to date, and as part of trying to fix this I've updated the driver to this one, as the previous one doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.

Any tips on trouble shooting this further?

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Possibly related:

I also don't understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

Hi all, I have recently installed Bazzite, after previously being on Nobara.

I have been playing Dave the Diver and DOOM (2016), both through Steam, and I get pretty serious input lag. A second or more delay at times, generally when FPS is struggling.

I'm running on a laptop with integrated graphics, so the struggling integrated GPU is not a surprise, but I didn't have this input lag issue with the same games on Nobara.

Any tips on a setting or something to help this?

I have lowered graphics settings to help with FPS, but ultimately I am not going to be able to avoid occasional FPS dips. The mouse input is instant, it's just an issue with the keyboard.

Any help appreciated!

Edit with solution: it seems the problem is IBus, see this comment: https://lemmy.nz/post/23401044/15684126

Basically the solution is to add IBUS_ENABLE_SYNC_MODE=2 to /etc/environment and restart.

This morning my kid asked the voice assistant to "Turn off the computers in this house".

I heard it, thought well that's a strange request but seems harmless because how is home assistant gonna turn off computers.

Me a little while later, "why is shit broken? What's happening!"

Turns out dumb me had adguard exposed to the voice assistant, it switched off all the adguard settings including the DNS rewriting that is the cornerstone of many of my self-hosted services.

I've since revoked that access.

I'm not really sure where the right place to ask is, but I figure this is a good place for docker related questions.

I have recently installed Bazzite as my daily driver, previously I was on Nobara. The main difference here is that Bazzite is immutable, so you can't (or shouldn't) install stuff in the normal way as it may get overwritten by updates.

I have a bunch of docker compose YAML files. I want to run these locally. But I also don't want to tweak anything in the files to get them running because they should be able to be copied to a prod environment as is or the local test environment isn't a good test. Prod would be either my Linux Mint server or an Ubuntu Server one.

Bazzite has a ujust script available for installing docker, but this doesn't include docker compose, and I'm not sure how to add that in.

Searching online shows everyone saying just use podman, it comes pre-installed and is a drop in replacement. The problem is that it doesn't work.

Maybe that's my question, why isn't my compose.yaml working with podman?

For example, the container gives me a bunch of messages about missing environment variables, but they are set in the compose.yaml.

I also get a bunch of permissions errors. E.g. here is the mariadb trying to access a directory and then trying to change the ownership:

[db]         | find: ‘/var/lib/mysql/’: Permission denied
[db]         | chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/mysql/': Permission denied

Volumes are all bind mounts. After the container created the local directories, I set all the permissions to 777 as a test and took the containers down then up and it still complains about permissions.

I feel like there is something specific to podman or Bazzite I'm not understanding. Any help?

I'm also happy to take suggestions on other ways to use docker compose in Bazzite.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I have solved this by adding a Z flag to my bind mounts (./localdir:/containerdir:Z) as per this answer.

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I have backups on a backup hard drive and also synced to B2, but I am thinking about backing up to some format to put in the cupboard.

The issue I see is that if I don't have a catastrophic failure and instead just accidentally delete some files one day while organising and don't realise, at some point the oldest backup state is removed and the files are gone.

The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever.

So I'm thinking of a plain old unencrypted copy of photos etc that anyone could find and use. Bonus points if I can just do a new CD or whatever each year with additions.

I have about 700GB of photos and videos which is the main content I'm concerned about. Do people use DVDs for this or is there something bigger? I am adding 60GB or more each year, would be nice to do one annual addition or something like that.

I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.

I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.

You may have seen my post trying to troubleshoot my server. It seems either the motherboard or CPU is dead, so hey, why not do an upgrade?

I use this server for a lot. It's used for a Jellyfin server, sometimes multiple streams at once. I think I'd like hardware transcoding, I want it to be really good at streaming Jellyfin, and preferably multiple streams at once without issue.

It's also going to be used for hosting Zusam, a kind of private forum for friends/family - a key thing is that this will also be transcoding videos and photos to downscale them (uses FFmpeg).

I also host Photoprism, which will be generating thumbnails and indexing photos.

In addition to this, I also host a bunch of other stuff, I think the key ones are Nextcloud AIO and PaperlessNGX (which does OCR) as these would be more demanding. Then another 10 or so services that aren't too demanding and have low usage so are unlikely to be an issue outside of making sure I have enough RAM.

I use it as a backup server as well. It receives borg backups from other devices and backs up itself to a backup HDD, and does cloud backups, but has a fast LAN connection and decent internet speed (300Mbps) and this is scheduled overnight so probably doesn't affect anything.

I also use it for playing games with the kids! Normally Stardew Valley but sometimes more demanding games.

Many of the hosted services have family members also using them. I want to make sure I can do things like the Photoprism indexing and Zusam video downscaling while not affecting the experience using Jellyfin or other services. It's all good if this happens by limiting cores for transcoding. It would be nice to be able to use it for more demanding gaming as well, but I understand if it's a bit hard to keep everything going nicely with a demanding game running that doesn't limit its multithreading.

Possibly related for compatibility purposes:

• all my hard drives are 3.5" HDD or 2.5" SSD SATA connections. I have 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs.
• I also have a Radeon rx5700xt graphics card. Would be nice to be able to keep using this.
• I'm currently running a full desktop environment (Linux Mint - Cinnamon) on it, for the purposes of playing the games. So needs to work well with Linux and also play nicely with wireless Xbone controllers.
• Case is Mid sized. Specifically this one.

And the current CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, in case you want to tell me what I have is fine and I don't need an upgrade 🥲

What are some good options for an upgrade?

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions. Lots of people showing me how I wasn't taking full advantage of the hardware I had, so I ended up going back to trouble shooting and in the end it was the motherboard that was the issue. I replaced that and it's now up and running again! Now to go back to all the info about hardware transcoding in Jellyfin that people have linked for me. Thanks for everything!