No Stupid Questions VinesNFluff • 2 weeks ago • 93%

Like, the nutrition facts table says it contains nothing other than some sodium. No sugars or fats or calories at all Yet it clearly is edible, so what is it? Some concoction made mostly from indigestible minerals?

196 VinesNFluff • 1 month ago • 100%

The gender I want to be is "Majestic Unicorn of unclear gender/sex, but decidedly statuesque in bearing" You can see how it would be difficult for me to transition in any meaningful way

Linux Gaming VinesNFluff • 2 months ago • 95%

Title. Game otherwise works great. Windows-using friends say it works for them. Networking is also normal on computer. I initially thought it could be anticheat related so I disabled mangohud and made sure Easy AntiCheat was launching etc. But no cigar, the game loads and errors out like in the pic. :  It seems to do so _immediately_, too, like it's not even trying to connect? Tried it on my Deck too, same error. Do not have a Windows PC to try it on, but it's really confusing me, because it ran perfectly until today. :P

No Stupid Questions VinesNFluff • 2 months ago • 89%

My younger friends all talk about this Jerma person like he's some kind of mythical entity. An eldritch being that cannot be explained for any attempt at explanation inevitably fails. I am confused. From what I could gather he's like... A streamer? Content creator?

No Stupid Questions VinesNFluff • 2 months ago • 98%

Way back in the day, every game had its logic tied to its framerate -- As anyone who's ever tried to run an eighties PC game on a nineties PC only to see it run at 20x speed and completely unplayable can tell you. But in the modern day this is less common. Generally the game keeps chugging along at the same pace, no matter how fast or slow the frames are being presented (unless, of course, everything is bogged down so hard that even the game logic is struggling) And yet, you'll still find a few. Any fan of Dark Souls who played on PC back when Prepare to Die edition first came to PC will remember how unlocking the framerate could cause collision bugs and send you into the void. And I recently watched a video of a gent who massively overclocked a Nintendo Switch OLED and got Tears of the Kingdom to run at 60FPS... Except everything was, indeed, running in fast-forward, rather than just being smoother. This makes me wonder -- Is there some unseen advantage to keeping game logic and framerate tied together? Perhaps something that only really shows on weaker hardware? Or is it just devs going "well the hardware we're targeting won't really go over this speed, and we don't really give a fuck about anything else" and not bothering to implement it?

196 VinesNFluff • 2 months ago • 100%

Too much jpeg? Click [here](https://thebiballerina.tumblr.com/post/692364536841388032/well-i-cant-sleep-for-some-reason-so-heres).

196 VinesNFluff • 2 months ago • 100%

Translation: _Riot Police watches as a patriot (read: fascist) gets into a brawl with Spider-Man, while a dildo flies by, and Mano Brown (famous rapper) films it all._ Just an insane event from the annals of my country's history.

No Stupid Questions VinesNFluff • 2 months ago • 97%

Youtube Channel SaveAFox, previously a channel about like, a fox sanctuary that showed cute footage of the foxes to get more donors, got hacked today. It is now full of videos claiming to be from SpaceX and Elon Musk's ugly mug. Thing is It's not the first channel I've seen being hacked, nor is it the first to get that _exact_ type of content spammed into it. Linus Tech Tips got hacked some time back (honestly I don't remember how long ago, but I was already on Lemmy, so it was within the past year and change) and it had that exact type of stuff before LMG took it back. And there was another random channel that I saw suffer the same fate some months _before_ LTT. My question is -- Why Elon Musk? Why SpaceX/Tesla? Is Musk himself paying people to build zombie farms for him? I wouldn't put it past him but at the same time he has the funds to not _need_ that kind of tactic -- He could astroturf by more "legit-looking" means. Is it just because people who like Musk are more likely to fall for scams? Idk, found myself wondering that.

DeGoogle Yourself VinesNFluff • 2 months ago • 92%

Title. I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So. I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally. The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

Pokémon VinesNFluff • 2 months ago • 100%

Title. Pokémon's too easy to be fun anymore, but Nuzlockes don't _work_ for me for a number of reasons. So I figured I'd play one of those romhacks that redesigns trainer teams -- That way I could play the game normally but also _would have to use my brain_. Any base game will do, although I'm not too fond of Gen4 because of how slow Gen4 pokémon games tend to be (gen5 is the prettiest, ofc)

196 VinesNFluff • 3 months ago • 99%

A Brazilian ***RAINBOW*** boa that had been assigned male at birth gave birth to 14 babies. In the middle of June. Happy ***ing Pride Month

Linux Questions VinesNFluff • 3 months ago • 100%

Title. Tried to search, found instructions on how to do it in [debian-adjacent](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40442/which-installed-software-packages-use-the-most-disk-space-on-debian) distros, but I'm in openSUSE, which doesn't use `dpkg`. I also checked the manpage for `zypper` and found nothing that seemed the part, though I don't exclude the possibility that I just failed to read it properly.

Fancy Aesthetics VinesNFluff • 3 months ago • 71%

cdn.bsky.app

Cross posted from: https://pawb.social/post/10873806

Linux Questions VinesNFluff • 3 months ago • 100%

Went away from my computer for a bathroom break. When I came back I noticed it took a very long time to wake up. But that was the least of my worries, as Plasma seems to now be really bugged out: Two things: Window decorations (like the ones at the top with the buttons to close and such) do not render properly. That's the simple part The other, weirder one, is harder to explain in text so I made a [video](https://youtu.be/dj0IqMkiJ-4) -- The short version is that whenever I mouse over any icon in a panel, be it a tray icon or something on the taskbar thingie -- it seems to jump to the top-right corner of that panel. Though only visually (as in, to interact with it, I still have to click the blank space the icon once occupied) I have also noticed that icons within qt6 windows do not show in the proper place  These persisted after reboots. Other info: * Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20240531 * KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5 * KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0 * Qt Version: 6.7.1 * Kernel: 6.9.3-1-default (64-bit) * Graphics platform: X11 Extra details about system (idk maybe it helps?): 1. I have an AMD Processor and GPU 2. All the things I have installed are either from the official SUSE Repos or from Flatpak. There's also some appimages and local executables in my user folder. There is 1(one) application I compiled from source and installed system-wide, and that was [Orbiton](https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton), a text editor for terminal. 3. When I update the system I get a notification about how updating glibc-32bit would break Steam. So I marked it as untouchable on YaST. Maybe this broke something else? Idk. Things I have already tried: 1. Updating the system 2. Rebooting 3. Changing theming configurations back to system defaults (hey, you never know) 4. Moving widgets around in panels 5. Disabling fancy effects 6. Disabling and re-enabling my second monitor/changing which monitor is the primary 7. Asking nicely Things I have not tried: 1. Switching to Wayland (I would do so permanently but it breaks Inkscape for me and that's part of my workflow -- Plus I'm new to SUSE, and the last time I switched from X to Wayland was on EndeavourOS, dunno if the process is any different) 2. Crying I have also posted this to the [kde bug tracker](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488072). Posting it here to in hopes of getting an answer sooner :P EDIT: I gave it some time to see if it would stick and it did. So. "Going into the Plasma Renderer settings and switching it to OpenGL" was the solution to my issue, even if I have no idea what caused it, I at least seem to have fixed it

Linux Gaming VinesNFluff • 4 months ago • 97%

Title. Turning off the fancy effects (which can be done with Alt+Shift+F12) improves performance slightly, but having to toggle them on and off every time I start a game is... Y'know. A thing. I was wondering if there was a way to automate it, like game opens -> they turn off, game process ends -> they turn back on

Fancy Aesthetics VinesNFluff • 4 months ago • 83%

Source https://ai-wa.tumblr.com/post/699022528896696320

Fancy Aesthetics VinesNFluff • 4 months ago • 94%

Source: https://x.com/akihare_/status/1585536882716200961

My Little Pony VinesNFluff • 5 months ago • 82%

*Count Regal Inkwell, the Lord Inquisitor, favoured by the Princess, leaned in for the kiss. For all the rewards which power netted him, it always came with equal if not greater amounts of stress: So much to worry about, so much to fear, so much at stake every day.* *This was meant to be his comfort from the stresses of life, to be in the embrace of Mr. Fluffy Pillow, his Majordomo, the highest-ranking servant of his household, and his beloved, his precious, sweet fluffy boy.* *And still, the noble worried. Always. He often joked that he wouldn't be himself if he didn't worry. It wasn't that he couldn't have the pegasus: Few would deny a powerful stallion such as him anything, let alone some common-born pegasus. It wasn't that he was a married stallion seeking comfort in the embrace of his servant, he was naught if not a dutiful husband, and his wife knew and did not mind the time he spent with the pegasus.* *Rather, what worried him at times like these, always, was quite the opposite: How aware he was of the gulf there was between himself and the winged servant. In power, in age, in all things. It had been years, and still every night did he wonder if one day the other horseshoe would drop, if he'd find out the pegasus was merely following orders, doing his job in spite of himself. — He very genuinely loved the servant and wanted to see him happy. He would never, ever, forgive himself if it came to light that his beloved had given himself to him out of duty, and that he had essentially been forcing himself on the pegasus.* *Still they kissed, even as the little pony in the lord-inquisitor's head reprimanded him for this great impropriety. Still they embraced in their secret little rendezvous.* *Fluffy, for his part, thought of nothing, and worried about nothing: His master was a great stallion, as lovely on the inside as he was outside. He took great joy and pride in serving a stallion such as Lord Inkwell, and considered himself the luckiest colt alive, that he was also the target of his glorious liege's affections* Very self-indulgent piece I commissioned as an early birthday gift to myself <3 It shall have a less safe sequel, in time, but it should take a while.

techsupport VinesNFluff • 5 months ago • 97%

Title. I dual-boot Windows and Linux. I always saw people making "WINDOWS DELETED MY LINUX BOOTLOADER OMGOMG" posts and it had never happened to me. Now, the opposite has happened. I switched from EndeavourOS to OpenSUSE and now my windows install is no longer selectable on boot. I keep Windows in a separate drive entirely, so instead of using grub, I use the EFI's boot-select menu thingamafuck (look I don't know jargon okay?) to choose Windows when I need it. Well today it's not there. Only the Linux entries show up. The Windows partition itself seems to be in good order, like, I can access it from within Linux no problem. But yeah it doesn't show up on my EFI selector thingie. I imagine I could get the EFI Shell going, but I have no idea how to use THAT either.

Explain Like I'm Five VinesNFluff • 6 months ago • 96%

PLEASE. I keep seeing it in memes. As I understand it the latest version of the `xz` package (present in rolling release distros like Arch and SUSE Tumbleweed) has "a backdoor", but I have no earthly clue what can be _done_ by malicious folks with access to that backdoor or if I should be afraid or how to check if my distro is compromised or how to prevent damage if it is or (...)

My Little Pony VinesNFluff • 6 months ago • 91%

(my own art/animation)

Linux Questions VinesNFluff • 6 months ago • 100%

Title. Plasma 6 just dropped on my arch-based distro, and it came with an option for a colorblindness correction filter:  Neat little tool that my Protanope ass was very excited about, and it works. The thing is. Some time ago Windows also introduced one of those, and in Windows, you can turn it on and off with a key-combination shortcut. I use *that* a lot on Windows, to keep the filter off and turn it on just when it is necessary (look, every person experiences colorblindness differently, and on my end, these filters while useful for certain kinds of work, are very ugly most other times) Now, I already know I can set a key-combination shortcut to a terminal command on plasma. Easy peasy. But for me to do that on plasma I'd need to have a way to switch the effect on and off from the terminal. I know that I can do `systemsettings kcm_kwin_effects` to launch the configs app straight into the relevant tab. But now I'm wondering if I could make that even more automatic, maybe using the `--args` thing, which apparently is literally meant for sending commands directly to the configuration module. But then I wouldn't know what the command is.

Linux Questions VinesNFluff • 7 months ago • 100%

Rebooted my computer earlier today and walked away while it did its thing. When I got back to to it some minutes later, I saw a black screen with that "_" text cursor flashing on the topleft corner. Which was, of course, odd. Hitting Ctrl+Alt+F2 sent me to the TTY. Which is to say: The system was still up, and indeed, calling for a process manager loaded showed that sddm was still running, as were a bunch of other processes. Still, attempts to get sddm to do its thing failed. I tried to `systemctl restart` the sddm service, I tried to reboot the computer. I tried to delete customizations to its config files in case they were breaking something. In all of those cases -- Title happened. The mouse cursor would show up for a second or two. And then it'd kick me back to the black screen with text cursor because something was fucked. I eventually managed to get to my desktop by entirely disabling the sddm service, rebooting so I'd just get the TTY, and then doing `dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland` to run Plasma manually once logged in (thank FUCK for smartphones and access to internet search on them for helping me figure this out). So that's a workaround, and it sorta works but I'd like to get my display manager back, please. :P Further information: * I am running EndeavourOS. * As implied, I use KDE Plasma under Wayland as my DE. * I have an AMD GPU * I am at the latest version of every relevant package -- The reboot I mentioned at the start of the thread was just after running a `sudo pacman -Syyu` * I did try to search for my specific issue but nothing relevant came up? A lot of older issues, under X11, and most involving NVidia stuff. None seemed relevant to my case. * Having found the workaround I used the computer all night and had no other issues, which to me signals it's something about sddm and ONLY sddm that is broken, whether it's some config that got fucked up or some bs with my own incompetent package management. * I am, of course, able to provide logs and stuff if you tell me _which ones_ and _where to get them_, cuz yeah.

196 VinesNFluff • 7 months ago • 100%

alt text: "the state of the animation industry" "you're pirating that show? don't you wanna support the creators?" "I AM the creator." "haha the only way I can show future employers my work is to send a link to a bunch of pirated copies of it haha what a nightmare haha"

Linux Questions VinesNFluff • 8 months ago • 93%

Title. Been meaning to upgrade my GPU, and Intel Arcs are undercutting their AMD equivalent by quite a bit? But like, I am not going to switch back to Windows. And I don't want to spend a lot of money on a new computer part just to learn it doesn't support my OS properly. Now. I *did* search for this and found a [phoronix benchmark thing](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-march23/2) -- But it's from almost a full year ago. So. Anyone have an Intel Arc GPU and can tell how they are doing as of now?