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Can you suggest some energetic, dream-like alternative songs? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] claymore@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Parannoul - Beautiful World. If you like it, check out his albums, especially To See the Next Part of the Dream and After the Magic

TIL that Ferrari & Lamborghini no longer make cars with a manual transmission in c/til@lemmy.world

[–] claymore@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on the car, some of them are smarter about it. I remember my dad's old pickup would downshift if it picked up speed while not touching the throttle, like when going downhill

Android 15 could bring the tablet taskbar to phones: Here's your first look at the 'tiny' taskbar in c/android@lemdro.id

[–] claymore@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here is a list of most banking apps and whether they work or not. I've been using GrapheneOS for a while and haven't encountered major problems. Only thing I wish I knew beforehand is that multi-user profiles are more cumbersome than what most people say.

Sell us on your favorite exotic/niche distro in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] claymore@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

Oh I know about alpine, sadly it didn't "click" the same way void did and felt more like a distro to use in embedded systems or similar space constrained situations. Gentoo on the other hand I like, but the initial setup + waiting for stuff to compile put me off of it. Maybe I'll try it again sometime with all precompiled packages.

Sell us on your favorite exotic/niche distro in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] claymore@pawb.social 23 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Void is my favourite distro, although I haven't used it for a while. Extremely fast package manager, rolling release but not bleeding edge, super simple, very fun to tinker with (more than Arch imo). I stopped using it because I wanted something more popular for easier troubleshooting. But if I ever get a secondary PC/laptop I'll probably start using it again.

Windows XP loading screen / bootsplash? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] claymore@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

Plymouth would be what you're looking for. You'd have to find an XP theme or create one yourself.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] claymore@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What case is that? I was thinking of getting the Pixel 8 and was looking for a case like you describe but didn't find any

4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] claymore@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

I never see toffeeshare mentioned. P2P, encrypted, no size limit. Only problem is you can't send folders, only files, but that's easily solved with tarballs or RARs.

Moto Edge 50 Ultra unveiled with SD 8s Gen 3, 64MP 3x periscope and real wood back in c/android@lemdro.id

[–] claymore@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

We get OEM Samsung batteries. Not for Oneplus last time I checked. The more popular the brand the higher the likelihood for original parts.

Moto Edge 50 Ultra unveiled with SD 8s Gen 3, 64MP 3x periscope and real wood back in c/android@lemdro.id

[–] claymore@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I work at a phone repair shop (not Samsung certified), our suppliers sell us new genuine batteries. So maybe ask around at one near you. Or get one from ifixit, I replaced my Oneplus 6's battery with their aftermarket one and it works great.

How to choose your first distro - A guide for beginners (flowchart + text post) in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] claymore@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago

Not unintuitive, but thinking about it from a beginner standpoint, calamares-based systems are way easier to 'get'. These distros don't ask for domain names, proxies, usage surveys etc. This stuff isn't that complicated, but they add an extra level of things you need to worry about if you've never used Linux before, which is the kind of person who this flow chart is made for.

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[SOLVED] Question about flatpak, nvidia drivers and steam (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by claymore@pawb.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Edit: So after an exciting evening of uninstalling drivers, rebooting, playing a round of CSGO and starting over, I can report that nothing is broken. I haven't tried much other than a handful of games though. In the end I removed the drivers in batches, uninstalling all versions of a major version together (all 515.*, then 520.*, then 525.* etc).

Of note is that all the drivers I removed were the 32 bit versions, since the 64 bit one updated properly. This is what's left of the drivers, I believe these are all actually needed and I'm not comfortable removing any of them (and even if they're not needed the space savings would be minimal anyway):

Name                                 Application ID                                             Version                       Branch                  Origin                                 Installation
Mesa                                 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                        23.1.1                        22.08                   flathub                                system
Mesa (Extra)                         org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                        23.1.1                        22.08-extra             flathub                                system
nvidia-535-54-03                     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-535-54-03                                             1.4                     flathub                                system
Mesa                                 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                      23.1.1                        22.08                   flathub                                system
Mesa (Extra)                         org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                      23.1.1                        22.08-extra             flathub                                system
nvidia-535-54-03                     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03                                           1.4                     flathub                                system

Original post:

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows why flatpak keeps tons of Nvidia driver versions installed. Currently on my Fedora install I have:

Name                        Application ID                                    Version              Branch        Origin                       Installation
nvidia-510-68-02            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-57               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-57                            1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-65-01            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-65-01                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-76               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-76                            1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-520-56-06            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-520-56-06                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-60-11            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-60-11                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-78-01            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-78-01                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-85-05            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-85-05                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-89-02            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-89-02                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-530-41-03            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-530-41-03                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-535-54-03            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03                         1.4           flathub                      system

A few months ago, when a new Nvidia update came out, usually what I'd do is update then run flatpak uninstall --unused, which would get rid of the older version no problem. As you can see, around driver version 510 this stopped working. If I try to remove them manually with eg. flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02, I get this:

Info: applications using the extension org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02 branch 1.4:
   com.valvesoftware.Steam
Really remove? [y/n]:

My question is, is Steam actually using these drivers? Are these safe to remove? I'd like to get rid of them since they're bloating my root partition and updating 10 driver versions takes ages.