The funniest part about all this is that so many people apparently joined the Fediverse thinking it was some rock-solid fortress of privacy when it’s the exact opposite by design. I’ve seen multiple posts over the last week where people seem absolutely freaked out that Meta is going to be getting their data, meanwhile anyone with a basic knowledge of Docker and networking can spin up an instance, federate with everything, and get a steady stream of that data 24/7 to use however they want.

If you need privacy, use E2E encrypted chat.

How many times is this going to get posted? We’re on the fourth or fifth repost since it was written. The last post was just 12 hours ago on this community and there’s still active discussion.

Been running it for a bit. Rock solid and everything is snappy.

Right? I laughed when I found out it worked, then had a moment of like, “hh, shit” when I realized the log wouldn’t actually help me solve the problem at all.

Good ideas. I’m curious about the game running too fast since other people mentioned it. Warframe has an in-engine FPS cap that can be set (which I have set to my display’s frame rate,) but perhaps I should try vsync or some other method in case it’s something screwy on that end.

Disk is fine (it’s an SSD so any start/stops would be instantaneous AFAIK.)

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Nvtop is really solid. I like that it can show hardware encode/decode percentages too.

Horribly offensive term. Webster’s Dictionary defines ricing as a tiling window manger with 64px gaps, minimalist Naruto/anime background, useless bouncing bar EQ meter, entire window dedicated to song lyrics, obnoxious monospace fonts, nonsensical colors, task bar showing time/date/IP+MAC address/GPS coords/moon phase/crop yield/barometric pressure, and a Vim buffer with Rust’s “hello world” tutorial.

It’s good! I don’t think I felt any jump in performance from X/i3 -> Sway, though, but have definitely seen people reporting that.

It’s taken a while to get everything set up how I like but multiple games behave well here and not on X

In my experience most games still run under XWayland. It’s possible some aspect of your X11/herbstluftwm config was causing your issues in that regard.

Why on Earth would we want to make (Lemmy) more popular? I want more people to leave. Things have noticeably gotten better over the last few weeks, but there’s still a ways to go. The people who are leaving are presumably mostly people who are frustrated by the relative complexity of decentralized forums and people who can’t find enough “content” to scroll through here, and good riddance to the lot of them.

You, two months ago. The quote perfectly encapsulates why niche communities aren’t taking off and why the demographic here will always be nerdy and tech-focused.

Every single one of the Reddit communities I followed that tried to move to Lemmy inevitably went back. There’s a ton of reasons why, like instances going down, poor moderation, unreliable servers, and general confusion as to how a Lemmy account works to name a few. The apps not being up to par at the time were a huge factor also. It’s highly unlikely that Reddit will ever see an organized effort to seek out communities off-site ever again, so the chance to just transplant a community in its entirety over to Lemmy is gone. Now we’re pretending it’s going to be possible to take a niche site (Lemmy, compared to the wider internet) and somehow develop niche communities from an active pool of users a fraction of a fraction of Reddit’s. It’s not happening.

It’s a tough pill to swallow, but if you have a problem with Reddit you’re in the minority. I’m fine with maintaining a Reddit account to communicate with people who are still on Reddit. I go where the users are. I’m not going to sit in an empty community for months talking to myself while conversations are happening elsewhere. It is what it is.

If linking to a Wiki entry counts as toxic then I don’t know what to tell you. Users need to hear that their problems aren’t unique and aren’t worth anyone taking time out of their day to handcraft a response to. This isn’t Ubuntu - you are expected to be able to DIY, and if you constantly need someone to hold your hand through the process then you need to uninstall and start over elsewhere until you understand why Arch exists. It’s like declaring you’re going to build a shed to keep your mower in, but you call your contractor buddy every five minutes asking where to drive the nails and place the studs. Your time is best spent driving to the hardware store and buying the shed outright.

If someone is contemplating installing Arch, they need to be asked why. If they can’t explain it or give a poor answer (“I saw a video” etc,) direct them somewhere else.

Still can’t watch the Bunny Girl Senpai movie that came out 6 or so months ago. The next one will be out before I can legally watch it lmao

I remember threads like this from back when Valve was pushing Steam Machines. Won’t name names, but there were very successful developers throwing tantrums once the bug reports started to flood in. Many weren’t prepared to actually provide support and spent years regretting it (according to postmortems.) I managed to get a refund on one game after the developer’s Twitter rant went completely off the rails re: Linux being unfit for desktop. Weird that they were 100% fine with Linux when it meant getting my $15, $20, or $30. Makes you think!

Tried Kakoune? It’s not bad.

What if I don’t want the content I post to Reddit mirrored on Lemmy? How can individual users opt out?

Same GPU, same problem. What fixed it for me was to use the monitor’s settings to lower the DisplayPort version, but this was on a Dell monitor, so not sure if it’s possible for you on the affected monitor. It might also be worth swapping cables and seeing if the Dell has the same problem.

Firefish definitely seems like it’s overly concerned with aesthetics over anything else. Nearly every instance I checked out had a ton of custom CSS which frankly reminded me more of something like Tumblr than what it really is (Mastodon with a coat of paint.) I don’t mean this as a slight since it’s obviously attracting a community, but it’s completely inscrutable to users not familiar with the platform its based on and seems to be very taxing to maintain (my experience mirrors yours somewhat.)

If they can get more people on board to keep it together then I’d definitely be willing to spin up another instance.

Re-Volt. Modern rewrite of the classic RC car racing game. Two decades of community-created tracks and cars to choose from. Still has an active multiplayer community, too!

As I understand it, Wayland offloads a ton of stuff that was core to X11 (like input device handling) directly to the compositor. The end result is every compositor handling things differently. Compare something like i3 to Sway. Sway has to handle input, displays, keyboard layouts, etc directly in its config. If I switch to Hyprland I then have to learn Hyprland’s configuration options for doing the same. Meanwhile, switching from i3 to dwm requires only setting up the WM to behave how I want - no setting up keyboards, mice, etc. It just feels clunky to work with Wayland compositors, frankly.

Also when something breaks in Wayland the fix is almost always hard to find or incredibly obscure because the fix isn’t for Wayland- it’s for the compositor. If your compositor isn’t popular then good luck!

Both of them have issues depending on the setup. X11 has worked flawlessly in my experience. Wayland has worked the same for most.

Personally, Wayland still has some growing pains, especially in regards to Input handling (mouse, keyboard, etc). In X11 it was “trivial” to edit one file and have the settings stick across different WMs (switching from DWM to i3, etc.) There’s no standard for this with Wayland since it’s up to the compositor to handle these things, meaning you’re relearning how to do something as basic as setting pointer speed each time you try a new compositor. This is my only real fair gripe about it currently, as the rest of my complaints are just due to how young a lot of the Wayland-specific tools are - this will improve with time.