I just saw this week’s Ragna Crimson (EP7), holy shit it’s incredible.

Btrfs doesn’t have built in encryption, if you want to encrypt Btrfs you still need another layer (e.g. LUKS).

I am a fan of noto fonts.

• syncthing - Sync files across internet, works very well
• netdata - Very comprehensive monitoring software for servers
• Firefox
• wine - Without it (including proton) I couldn’t make the switch, it’s kind of a necessary evil but it’s not wine that’s the evil.
• KDE Desktop - My personal preference, I used Ubuntu and Pop OS, gnome doesn’t suit me.

I see 1823 as in the past when it’s currently 2023, didn’t know about that wasn’t a English word then .

You mean didn’t ?

Syncthing has built-in file history function, it’s not enabled by default but it’s easy to configure.

On my system there is no traditional log files like kern.log or message (Not sure about Ubuntu 22.04), I would say it’s worth a try.

Try journalctl --boot -1 -xe or journalctl --boot -1 -xep3

Lubuntu

When I started playing Horizon zero dawn, for first dozen hours I was in the state that fears the machines and sneaks everywhere.

Aloy’s voice still terrifies me, I wish there was an option to turn off her random monologues.

The problem has been solved, it’s caused by mesa’s video decoding package, I will answer anyway.

Yes, VCN (Video Core Next) column stays at constant value while playing video (3% for VA-API with mesa, 5% for VDPAU with mesa, 0% for libplacebo), GFX fluctuates between 0% and 1%.

Just playing a 1080P video (not even a high bit rate one) is enough to make GPU fan go spinning, disappointing.

Turns out in my case it’s mesa driver causing my problem, after removing mesa’s VA-API and VDPAU drivers VLC can still play things just fine, CPU is at 2~3%.

Through some more testing, I found out mesa related hardware acceleration package can cause these power surge, on Archlinux it includes mesa-vdpau and libva-mesa-driver.

If I don’t have these package installed, VLC reverts to libplacebo which doesn’t seem to cause more power usage.

do you also have a dedicated graphics card?

Yes, rx 7800 xt

My worry s that playing a 1080P video need 30 watts (assuming amdgpu_top is not wrong), I would like to move that workload to integrated GPU, which I enabled in BIOS.

Thank you for your answer, I can confirm by switching to VA-API it lowers my power usage by a lot (from 45 to 20~21 watts reported).

Yes, rx 7800 xt. I can confirm DRI_PRIME does switch to integrated GPU on demand

DRI_PRIME=0 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon Graphics (gfx1101, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.5.5-arch1-1)
DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon Graphics (raphael_mendocino, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.5.5-arch1-1)

Isn’t that the same as yay?

distributed forum.

Some boards in one server, some boards in another server, glued by miracle someone’s hardwork.

On Desktop computer, you can use the code below to remove federated instances list. (Use the code in Developer Console)

document.querySelector(".home-instances .row").remove();

(Tested with instances that uses version 0.18.4)