SaveMotherEarthEDF

joined 2 months ago

Some solid recommendations in there but Evil Dead in there, and before Mouth of Madness? Blasphemy!

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sorry what issues? I'm using syncthing to sync between a macos laptop, a macos vm, and my main linux desktop. I sync my projects folder with a lot of git repos. Maybe I've been lucky so far but no issues with syncthing and git so far

It's really like magic sometimes

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And ping all that data to CCP instead of our corporate overlords? No thanks

I reckon it could be related to the permissions required to write to the usb. Perhaps udev rules could help here?

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

So last when I was following the issue on github, it would need to be supported by electron first. It’s in the works but for now, and take it with a grain of salt, I think the recommendation in the issue was to add the options in the desktop file or executable of the app yourself.

If you are distributing the app with the flags then just a remainder to set the compatibility of the flags such that it also works with X.

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah the problem you are describing in wayland actually usually happens only with electron apps. Most of the electron apps require forcing them to run on wayland. They are usually running on X (x-wayland) which cause all sorts of glitches. You can use xeyes to check if the app is using xwayland or not. If eyes move when you move the cursor inside the app then it's on xwayland.

To resolve the issues for the electron apps I pass these parameters: --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

Getting these args to flatpacks could be a bit tricky. You can usually find Appimages that can allow you to run these apps easily on wayland.

I am also on ver 550.120 so doubt that driver is the issue here.

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Finally, thanks for the clear cut answer. I don't have any experience with training on AMD but the errors from nvidia are usually very obscure.

As for using gpus other than nvidia, there's a slew of problems. Mostly that on cloud where most of the projects are deployed, our options seem either limited to nvidia gpus, or cloud tpus.

Each AI experiment can cost usually in thousands of dollars and use a cluster of GPUs. We have built and modified our system for fully utilizing such an environment. I can’t even imagine shifting to Amd gpus at this point. The amount of work involved and the red tape shudder

Oh sorry, guess I missed the random drives part. You're absolutely right in that regard. Also, I use fstab to setup automount, so can't help op with this.

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

WTF? I'm automounting my home directory from an external ssd usb for ages now. What is the disaster that could happen you're referring to?

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Do you mean in terms of gaming? I admit that I don't do much gaming on linux. Usually just development and browsing.

I also use proprietary nvidia drivers if that makes a difference.

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Sorry but could you please elaborate. I've been using nvidia forever in linux machines both at work and at home. I work in AI so using nvidia gpus is a must. Maybe there's something that I missed but my experience has been pretty solid so far.

At home I am using openSUSE tumbleweed KDE wayland and at work ubuntu headless.

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't see why it won't play nice with linux but as to if you should buy this laptop... it doesn't look in a good shape. I am a bit biased as I had poor experience with laptops with gpus. Old laptops can have bent heatsinks so you can't control the temps no matter what. If yiu are hell bent on buying it then I'd recommend to stress test both gpu and cpu and look for heavy thermal throttling

 

Need to scratch the same itch with my friends, in oder of priority:

  1. Available on pc and has full coop campaign.
  2. Military shooter that has cod like difficulty.
  3. Decent graphics. Not a hard requirement but this is one of the reason that WAW isn't working for us. It's showing it's age.
  4. Old guns.

Bonus points if the game environments are destructable.

Please no zombie game like L4D2 etc. Soldier on soldier combat is our jam.

Only if battlefield 1 had coop that'd been perfect.

Thanks!

 

Hour after I come to this, I'm loving it. She modified it so it retains original kde look but has enough tiny details to keep it interesting. She says she'll resume the work tomorrow 🫡

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