Brave might be a fine browser, but the CEO is infamously anti-LGBTQ and was anti-mask during the pandemic. And the whole crypto-coin association and injecting affiliate links into search results… Everything about Brave makes me want to avoid Brave. Is there anything magical about it that make it any different than other chromium browsers that makes it worth supporting right wing crypto bros?
I didnt notice at first but a friend pointed it out: it’s the same game loop as cookie clicker. This is just an idle/clicker game. You start manual dealing/clicking. And then you automate it. and it turns into a game of managing your automations rather than actually clicking yourself.
“I was expecting it to be a joke 20 minutes then throw away game, but holy crap, this is actually pretty deep and well thought out.” - Also my friend.
AMD doesnt have any software for controlling RGB on windows. They don’t make graphics cards, they only make the GPU chip that goes onto the card (and the GPU chip doesn’t have any LEDs on it).
The LED controllers on the cards are per brand. If you have a Sapphire card, it’s Sapphire software that controls the RGB. XFX card -> XFX software, etc.
I have an XFX 9070xt, and it doesnt have any RGB on it. so I haven’t had to disable it.
OpenRGB is going to be your best bet for Linux RGB management. Sometimes they dont have every device supported (especially newer ones), so you might not be able to change everything immediately. But it’s mostly just a “scan devices, set color values” once it’s working.
And the iGPU you can probably disable in the UEFI config.
My take is that Windows experience sucks so bad that even HP won’t touch it. But “HP sucks” is a very valid point.
This can go one of two ways:
The second way shouldn’t even be possible, but never underestimate HP’s ability to make something worse than you thought possible.
My current system was installed as manjaro, but i immediately started having AUR issues, so I just changed all the repos out to the official arch ones and over time everything manjaro specific has been updated or removed.
The first lines in my /var/log/pacman.log are from early 2015, and ive fully rebuilt my computer since then, including swapping hard drives (dd’ to clone old drive onto new drive). So at this point my PC is a hardware and software ship of theseus.
Back in october I travelled for a lan party. I didnt bring my linux desktop with me, and just brought my steam deck and dock, and when I got there, borrowed a keyboard/mouse/monitor.
Then i swapped it to desktop mode, and the people I was with all commented on “Oh wow! it’s just like a regular computer”
One of them has explicited said they were fed up with microsoft’s BS and would swap their gaming PC over to steamOS once it’s formally released for desktop (they were uninterested in Bazzite and wanted an official Valve release for their gaming PC).
It’s immutable (you can’t break the core OS, there is no deleting system32). You can’t install packages (like you would from AUR), but have access to flatpaks.
Firefox is preinstalled, but anything from flathub is also available.
So yes, it has all the things most people need from a desktop OS, and is harder to break, and is supported commercially.
It has a desktop mode, I’ve never looked into whether you can boot to desktop by default. But I would imagine if they released a desktop friendly version, that would be an option.
SteamOS has a web browser.
It boots by default into Steam Big Picture mode, which is the SteamOS/HTPC style “intended to be used with a controller” layout.
In the power menu, it has a “switch to desktop” button that drops you to KDE. Firefox is pre-installed, and immediately available for use.
But also, it’s just an immutable OS with plenty of things installable via flatpak in KDE Discover. Which means Slack, Discord, Zoom, Chrome… all of the “desktop” things most people need are available.
If those personal photos and videos are important to you, you should have them backed up anyway. If you ever spill anything on that laptop, or it gets dropped or broken or lost. All those things are gone.
But as others have said, you can sometimes resize a partition from gparted if the drive isnt mounted (ie, use the live USB).
In theory, “in theory” and “in practice” have the same results, but in practice, they often differ.
I recently switched my VR PC from Windows to Bazzite. No compiling necessary.
This comes a year and a half after they resorted to disabling Wayland support
Yeah. A lot of progress has been made in the past year and a half. This is a clickbait headline. It’s not like last week they were like “this is super broken… oh well shipping it anyway.” It feels like pointing out their previous criticisms is almost trying to call them out as hypocritical or something.
It was previously broken. They said it was broken. And now it’s fixed, and they re-enabled it as the default. There’s no bigger story or drama around their previous comments.
I’m surprised their website works and uses web standards and they didn’t just NACK everything about HTML and go off and do their own thing.
The point of a terminal like this isn’t necessarily to have more features. I have the tabs turned off (I also just use tmux). The point is to render smoothly and look/feel nice.
Some people would rather spend a lot of money on a nice pen. It still is just a pen that writes. No additional features over a 25 cent Bic pen. But the smoothness of the writing, the hand feel, consistency of line thickness, etc… to some people that matters. No extra features, it just looks and feels a bit better… But if all you are doing is writing a grocery list, you may not care. And if you don’t care, you aren’t wrong. This just doesn’t apply to you. If you don’t have a reason, you don’t need to find one. It’s just not applicable.
But some people do care. They do have a reason. And they are also not wrong to care. Their reasons just may not apply to you because you have different workloads or priorities (or maybe they do, and you just haven’t realized that it’s a thing you care about)
I think this just happens to fall under the category of “some people care about milliseconds of rendering time, and some people don’t.” I don’t know if the GPU acceleration has anything to do with it, but this terminal emulator also has really good font rendering.
If you are happy with your current terminal emulator, continue using it. If you heavily use your terminal emulator for a lot of things and in some things you’ve found that it stutters a bit, and you wished it was a bit smoother, get a GPU accelerated terminal emulator.
And secret bonus option: Even if you are happy with your current terminal emulator, give it a try anyway. Ghostty has a “zero configuration” policy where their goal is for most people to never need to configure anything. Sane defaults. It’s a good out of the box experience. Give it a few test drives, and if you’re still perplexed about why you should care, then maybe it’s just not for you and you can switch back. If you go “that was pretty smooth, i dont have a reason to switch back” then maybe you’ll think about it differently.
https://support.mozilla.org/eu/questions/1022724
This suggests you can go to about:config and set devtools.toolbox.host to bottom for the toolbox.
However, it also suggests that the Parent process toolbox you are looking at can’t be docked.
It’s possible the one you saw before was the Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+k) which is docked by default. On that one, there are a couple of icons on the right side to re-dock either on the bottom or side of the tab content. I don’t know whether it is possible to dock the Browser Console.
Try using Ctrl+Shift+K to open the console for a specific window/tab (this one should be dockable) instead of Ctrl+Shift+J, which opens a console for every window/tab combined (so can’t be docked to a specific window/tab)
(Also who downvoted me for being the only one to even attempt to offer a solution, geez. Makes people not even want to try to help.)
The menu in the top right has an option to pick where the toolbox is docked.
I believe the number is now closer to $110k and even then you are one major hospital visit from being back on the problems train.
The trick is to make more money, but don’t live like you do. Just save the money. And then be able to retire young with millions in the bank
Its always so disappointing when Manjaro is the recommended distro for things.
I’m so impressed by what the jellyfin roku team has come up with over the years.