Asklemmy flashgnash • 3w ago • 98%

People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

Have been keeping half an eye on framework laptops as a potential next daily driver as and when I'm ready for one. Just wondering what people's experience of using them on linux has been, particularly nixos I'm assuming all the drivers are in the kernel given the way the company is Have been using a 2016 thinkpad for the past year or so and have had a decent experience with it, with the way lenovo have gone with their newer thinkpads it seems like framework is now the best for maintainability/upgradability (not planning to upgrade in the immediate future as this machine is doing fine, but frameworks are a strong contender in my mind right now and I'm curious as to people's experience)

Asklemmy flashgnash • 1mo ago • 98%

People who have those extra fold out laptop monitors, are they any good?

I kinda like the look of them and often feel myself wanting a second monitor if I'm working on my laptop. (I've come to the conclusion if people think I'm working I won't look like as much of a massive dork) Always had the feeling they'd be a bit crap though, like the hinges break or the monitor isn't too good or it's big and bulky and you can't really carry it Ideally I'd like to find a single fold out side monitor that attaches to my laptop (big chunky ThinkPad) somehow and doesn't need its own power supply but that may be asking too much

Linux flashgnash • 2mo ago • 96%

What do people think of the supernote nomad?

Saw an advert for [this](https://supernote.com/pages/supernote-nomad) thing, in theory it looks pretty good (repairable e-ink tablet) but I'm a little confused by their statement that it will at some point in the future run a linux based operatint system "A Linux-based system will be open in the future for community modifications and customizations. *Not built-in with the device" I guess this probably means it's not actually as open as they claim if you can't just put mainline Linux/android on it but thought I'd ask here cause in theory it seems like a neat tablet

Nix / NixOS flashgnash • 6mo ago • 100%

Cosmic on nix?

I've heard cosmic is in the process of being packaged for nix, but on the tracking issue the only things not complete are the video player and the app store, neither of which I care about Is there any halfway sensible way to get the bits that do work running on nixos? Would quite like to try this desktop out

Linux flashgnash • 6mo ago • 95%

Any simple CLI method for playing a sound over mic in voice chats?

I've got this idea in my head that I want a tofi based sound board that I can summon on a button press (and maybe fuzzy find through) Should be fairly simple to do with the way tofi works to make the interface, but as far as I can find there's not a quick and easy way to mix sounds in with mic input using pactl Is there any single line solution for playing a sound over mic (like a soundboard would) anyone can think of or do I need to mess around with virtual audio devices to achieve this

Asklemmy flashgnash • 7mo ago • 92%

Could real neurons be used for LLMs?

There's a video on YouTube where someone has managed to train a network of rat neurons to play doom, the way they did it seems reminiscent of how we train ML models I am under the impression from the video that real neurons are a lot better at learning than simulated ones (and much less power demanding) Could any ML problems, such as natural language generation be solved using neurons instead and would that be in any way practical? Ethically at this point is this neuron array considered conscious in any way?

Asklemmy flashgnash • 7mo ago • 94%

Speedrun timers on self checkouts

Am I the only one who gets to the self checkout and is compelled to finish as soon as humanly possible? Imagine if there was a speedrun timer on them and a leaderboard Would make boring everyday life a little more interesting

Technology flashgnash • 7mo ago • 85%

Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window

Often find myself getting frustrated editing yaml, and it seems to be used everywhere for some reason I cannot fathom I have an idea to write an editor plugin that will, when opening a yaml file, convert it to json (or some other less painful configuration language), then convert back on save. I don't know enough about yaml syntax to know if that's possible or if there's some quirk that makes them not completely cross compatible Or alternatively if it exists a better CLI tool for editing yaml than just a normal text editor because I'm getting sick of pasting in a block of yaml and then having to fix the 8 indentation errors that somehow spawn from that

Gaming flashgnash • 7mo ago • 92%

Flashy, simple souls like?

Not sure if what I'm looking for exists, but thought I'd ask. I like the boss fights of games like sekiro and and dark souls but I always end up getting bored of them before getting particularly far for one reason or another I'm not a huge fan of the grungey art style most souls likes seem to adopt, and I often find myself wandering around not really knowing where I'm going, what I'm doing, or why I'm doing it Really loved the Nier series. The combat in that makes you feel like a badass, whereas souls likes tend to make your character look like a regular guy with a sword (which I get is the point but not what I tend to look for) Also like the visual style of black desert, the combat feels pretty good and looks very cool though I'm not a fan of all the micro transactions and pay to win (more or less the same goes for Warframe, at least when I played it years ago) Does anyone know of any games that might scratch that itch, don't necessarily have to be souls likes as long as they look good and have challenging boss fights

Asklemmy flashgnash • 7mo ago • 95%

Has anyone seen gitlab is working on activitypub yet?

Just googled to see if there was an activitypub git host yet and came across [this](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/activitypub/) claiming gitlab are working on it at the moment and that it's available as an experimental feature Seems odd to me that people aren't talking about this more here, has anyone tried it and if so is it any good?

Asklemmy flashgnash • 7mo ago • 83%

What do people think will be the fate of ryujinx?

Seeing as Yuzu has been nintendo'd recently, what do people think will happen to ryujinx? Can Nintendo get them on the same grounds as Yuzu or would they need to come up with a new case against them?

Ask Lemmy flashgnash • 8mo ago • 93%

What smartphones are people using nowadays?

My phone's just bitten the dust and now I need to look for a new one again. Thought I'd test the waters and see what kinds of phones people on here are using nowadays and what for, what features set them apart if any etc Bonus points if anyone's managed to get mainline linux running on them either via KVM or bare metal Edit: Thanks for everyone who talked about their choices of phone, I am now writing this on a fairphone 4 and am quite happy with it so far.

Minecraft flashgnash • 8mo ago • 92%

Visual client side chunk generation

Does anyone know of a mod that, given the seed for example, could locally generate chunks so that they can be displayed before the server generates them? IE if multiple people are exploring and the server's struggling to keep up, it would be awesome if the client could generate them locally and fill in the gaps locally until the server gets around to generating them proper (Kinda like how I imagine distant horizons does it)

Asklemmy flashgnash • 9mo ago • 88%

Would changing useragent to chrome cause me problems?

I'm hearing a lot about websites like netflix and YouTube crippling their performance in some way if you're using firefox instead of chrome/a smart TV Is it likely to cause me problems if I just globally change my useragent to chrome instead of firefox? Alternatively, is there an extension that automatically bypasses all of these things that people are aware of (pretends to be a smart TV for netflix, chrome for YouTube, etc automatically) If there's not an extension, what would be involved in making one? Obviously user agent changes dependant on URL but I'm not sure what other metrics these websites might be able to use to figure out what you're using

Linux flashgnash • 9mo ago • 96%

X11 tiling WMs

I am potentially going to be able to put Linux on my work PC soon, have been using it on my personal PC and laptop quite happily with hyprland ontop of NixOS Thinking of using NixOS for my work machine as well, however I don't want to use hyprland or even Wayland as I need this machine to be stable and reliable (Nvidia GPU) Is I3 still the best option for this or are there better alternatives? (leaning towards I3 ontop of KDE) I'm also somewhat tempted to just go GNOME with the forge extension as it seems the most reliable, though the tiling on that extension is far from perfect

Dungeons and Dragons flashgnash • 10mo ago • 96%

Do people run lower roleplay focused D&D?

Whenever I hear about D&D more often than not it seems like people go to great lengths to stay in character and roleplay This is great and makes for some very interesting stories but I tend to find myself more interested in just going on an adventure with a group of friends, solve a few puzzles win a few fights, complete a few quests etc I'm also a big fan of character optimisation and mechanics but get the feeling that can be frowned upon by much of the community Difficult to describe what I mean here but as an example in baldur's gate I barely roleplay at all, my character has no personality except for the fact they make the decisions I would make, but I find that more fun, not having to worry about what my character would do and just making the decision I want to make I realise not having a fleshed out character in D&D detracts from the immersiveness of the story because the DM can't weave your character into the story but at least at the moment that doesn't sound too bad to me. Just wondering if there are people out there who run lighter roleplay campaigns

Gaming flashgnash • 10mo ago • 100%

Long rest prevented areas in BG3

What's everyone's thoughts on how baldur's gate handles areas you're not allowed to short rest? I get that it adds to the challenge to have to conserve resources but up until moonrise towers the game has let us long rest when and where we please My friend and I have been burning through spell slots like nobody's business because when we start to run low on health and short rests we just throw everything we have at finishing a fight thinking we're going to long rest afterwards, only to be realise we can't and now have to fight through the remaining areas with no spell slots Would be nice if the game warned you when you were entering an area you wouldn't be able to long rest so we'd know to be a bit more conservative with resource usage and I feel like this is going to be a pattern going forward Tl;Dr don't mind not being able to long rest in certain areas but would be nice to have a heads up

Asklemmy flashgnash • 10mo ago • 80%

Trying to find a specific book's name, can anyone help?

I've read a book a few years ago where there are these two countries, one is really cold and one is really hot The countries are at war, and the people from the hot country have magic while the cold country have good technology The main character grows up in the hot country and ends up in the cold one, I think because she was conscripted and sent as a spy Because her body is acclimated to the really hot country she can't stand the cold and has to use magic to keep herself warm (seem to remember her using her long hair to channel it underneath a wetsuit at some point ::: spoiler Potential Spoilers The main character ends up falling in love with a soldier from the cold country, and as far as I recall they end up getting shunned by both ::: I'm fairly certain someone I know would love this book but I can't find it for the life of me, does it ring any bells for anyone?

Linux Gaming flashgnash • 10mo ago • 89%

How would something like FreeBSD show up on the steam end of year statistics?

Obviously nobody in their right mind is using BSD for gaming but I do wonder how it would show up I heard there was a bsd port of steam at some point and some people got the Linux build working on it. I have to assume the Linux build would probably report as Linux unless it has some mechanism to determine operating system besides it being hard coded Having 1% of my playtime be on BSD seems like a pretty good meme to me

Asklemmy flashgnash • 10mo ago • 100%

Sync specific contacts with signal?

Work have started trying out signal for messaging, but I'd rather not have all my personal contacts and conversations on a machine I don't own Is there any way I could white/black list certain contacts from one device, or is the only way to manage two separate accounts? (If so, is there an easy/built in way to do that on windows/nixos)