It does lead to some interesting sentences when combined with other kernel terms:

Generally killing the parent also kills the child.

Once you’ve leveled up and had Arch Linux installed for 1 years (in Unix time) you’ll be sent a jar of Ovaltine and the secret decoder ring which reveals the secrets.

Disabling Secure Boot fixed it? That is very interesting.

Glad you got it solved! :)

it seems to happen primarily when I try to move the mouse regardless of the situation (if I’m in dialogue or exploring, but it’s the worst when fighting), and during cutscenes where they always play slowly and voices go out of sync

There was an issue with the Steam overlay that happened when they added the screen recording feature. After about 25 minutes any input will cause a delay in rendering the current frame.

You can disable the overlay or add LD_PRELOAD=“” to your launch options, if this is the problem

Spectacle

Flameshot is pretty good too

About [Secure Boot], here’s the related settings I found in the BIOS settings, but I forgot one more option and it’s like a boot list with two entries about openSUSE, one has “secureboot” on the name and the other doesn’t, if it helps I’ll add a picture of it to that album.

Try booting with the non-secure boot option then

cat /sys/firmware/ipl/secure

1 means secure boot is enabled, 0 means disabled.

If it’s 0 then you could use any distro, regardless of secure boot support.

There’s a config file somewhere to make it permanent, if you can’t find it just let me know and I’ll dig through my notes (if you find out, post it here for future googlers)

It’s annoying, but it isn’t feeding my data into the AIs.

default.clock.quantum

That probably didn’t do anything. I think it sets the quantum if it isn’t otherwise set.

Check pw-top while you’re playing from a source where you experience crackling. You can see the quantum value, if it’s low (usually 1) then that source is using the minimum quantum.

You can change it, temporarily (until reboot/pipewire service restart) with

pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.min-quantum <value>

Try 256 to start with increase if you still get crackling.

Here’s the documentation on pipewire buffering: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#pipewire-buffering-explained

I’ll leave finding the config file to make this permanent as an exercise for the reader.

None of the problems that they’re describing are caused by using an Nvidia card.

The default proton is bad, using GE-Proton will often improve things.

CS2 getting 40fps and no sound. A quick trip over to https://www.protondb.com/app/730 will show that this is a problem with CS2 as it happens on every graphics card. Setting SDL_AUDIO_DRIVER=pipewire resolves the issue for a lot of people.

Helldivers 2 low FPS: Protondb has people with both graphics cards reporting the low fps issues. Setting a framerate cap will reduce FPS variance, using GE-Proton10 fixes HDR issues. In my experience disabling vsync improved performance significantly, this is true of a lot of games if you’re using adaptive sync.

I see this all the time in the Linux communities. If someone is having an issue with a game and they use an Nvidia card then community responses are often to do the blame Nvidia meme rather than troubleshoot the issue.

If it’s the same bug as what I’m seeing, I just wrote a script that changes the display settings and sets them back then bound it to a hotkey.

Any monitor that stays blank after waking up is fixed if you adjust the display settings (tricky to do with blank monitors, hence the script).

So fake.

That version of Luxo lamp wasn’t invented until 1937

smh my head

Have you tried turning the rape island off and on again?

A major reason these kinds of things are happening is the EU move toward digital sovereignty.

Since there isn’t exactly a non-US commercial OS available and Linux is good enough for most everything, we’re starting to see a lot of interest in the open source world and moving towards open and standards-based software.

Commercial companies recognize that the EU governments represent a huge potential source of income. Some categories of software have essentially no Linux support… this leaves a huge vacuum to be filled by a company who can create professional image editing/CAD software which also works on Linux.

If Affinity is the only large, commercially supported professional publishing software available then they become the defacto winner of all of these new EU Digital Sovereignty contracts.

You would think they’d at least experimint with a few lines before they cast admonishmint at we poor souls who are so pArched for a good line.

That’s because these are GUI users, the real TOS is written in an arcane format only viewable by a cat or a bat.

I tried it but TF2 wouldn’t launch so I switched to Ubuntu.

Gentoo users would too, but their social skills are still compiling

But the equivalent would be to take tutorials, examples and small open source projects and tinkering with them, rather than asking a machine to do it for you, no? I

I’ve found that using LLMs to research/summarize eases the friction of entering a new hobby and having to learn the tools, techniques, vocabulary, etc. You can just use Google (As an aside, nobody worries about how dependent we are on search) but the answer may not be in a answered in a way that is understandable to you or that fits into the context that you’re working with.

I’m going to RTFM eventually, but right now I need to figure out what the hell ‘Hello World’ means, who is World? Where do I type this text? What does compile mean?

Of course, none of this changes anything about the fact that it requires actual mental effort and problem solving in order to learn. LLM agents provide a new tool for people to use to avoid making that effort which can injure their own education, I can agree there. However, if deployed intelligently, they’re a useful tool/tutor if you can’t afford a, fairly incompetent, human expert in every field to be on call 24/7.

Using LLMs as a semi-incompetent tutor is a good use. They know the basics well enough to explain it to you and have an idea of how to do the more complex stuff… but if you actually needed the thing done, you’d hire a professional.

open source developers are an inexhaustible source of unending miracles that work for free and are fueled by incoherent, conflicting, entitled demands from 14 year olds.

Ah, I see you’re a Bazzite user

e: (No offense to the Bazzite user, I’m sure you’re a special little guy and not at all a problem.)