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AFAIK it's being worked on but time is a major issue for the person handling the MR.
I'd love to donate specifically to get Virtio/VirGL on a Windows guest. Given that VirtualBox and VMware could be on very shaky ground thanks to their owners, I think libvirt will be the long-term solution.
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Not applicable to AMD, and device passthrough can be clunky and not worth it if the user isn't doing anything that GPU-intensive.
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I use KDE.
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Yeah I got a headphone dongle for my phone. Cider 2 is still nice though, 256kbps AAC (whether CBR or VBR) is fine for most people, and it seems to stay in that bitrate.
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I'd think so, otherwise it would've been dropped by a lot of the major distros by now. They don't have a specific community like the XFCE forums, though they do have a dedicated wiki.
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Teya & Salena represented Austria in Eurovision last year with "Who the Hell is Edgar?", it was written from the perspective of wanting to be taken seriously in the industry, veiled through a fun song about being possessed by the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, though the bridge gets quite blatant and singles out Spotify for not paying its artists properly. It was one of the favourites in the Eurovision community last year and I think it would've done better had the Finland vs. Sweden rivalry not happened.
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I was able to get lossless back then. It's a matter of enabling fake_wifi for the app in Waydroid. You have to play a track for it to activate, but that's also a bug I've experienced on my actual phone.
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I'd say try Void in a virtual machine if you have that itch. It should run fine on libvirt setups or VMware.
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I would say use a cross-platform password manager that supports it in that case. Bitwarden, 1Password and Enpass all have Linux versions and support TOTP, and in the case of Enpass, it has local wifi sync so none of the data goes to them. I get that moving 2FA codes to that can be time-consuming, though.
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Used to use it for Apple Music but Cider 2 does what I want now, especially since Apple started locking down AM on rooted devices (of which Waydroid basically is) for no good reason.
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Has Virtiofs matured lately into something that can be used day-to-day? I ask because I think the virtio stuff will be better for Windows virtualisation in the long-term, especially when VMware's future is not certain, but I heard folder-sharing on Windows guests was pretty bad from Lemmy recently, and a few years ago I tried it and yeah, I have to agree.
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Some companies are alright with this but yeah there's always a catch with Apple.
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I think they're working on something as well. But just in case, MATE are experimenting with Wayland using Wayfire as the compositor, which is funny given that Compiz was very popular with GNOME 2/MATE back in the day and Wayfire is very much inspired by that.
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Anyone else have their eclipse viewing ruined by clouds?
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From the UK, the dark sky lasted longer than I thought.
Technology
Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps
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For what it's worth, other Start menu replacements like Start11 and Open Shell's menu aren't on the list. This might genuinely be a compatibility-related blocker given that iCloud, EaseUS and certain drivers are also on the list.
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I use a redirector extension for YouTube so PipedBot is useless and annoying for me. I'd rather someone just give me a YouTube URL and let the redirector extension do its work.
TL;DRbot is okay, I guess.
Linux Gaming
5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
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Getting 404 on that link. 😩
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5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
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Quod Libet was one I tried. Doesn't quite scratch the itch MusicBee gives me, but still solid nonetheless. Tauon Music Box is a gorgeous looking player that's similar.
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Linux is officially at 99% for me.
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I tried LM Studio since AMD advertised it for their GPUs. Once ROCm was installed my GPU was detected and I could use LLMs on that rather than on the CPU. I struggled to get it to work on Windows even when LM Studio was trying to do everything to get it to work.
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5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
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When I've used it, gapless playback being non-existent due to it basically being a frontend to the web client/MusicKit for web. I listen to a lot of albums in full nowadays, so that can really hurt the experience. It's a shame because everything else about it is great. I am aware that the Cider devs are trying to find ways of handling that without reliance on the web client/API, which might enable gapless but also stuff like lossless if you got AM for that.
Edit: I should mention that Cider has a new client that's paid but still supports Linux (specifically with AppImage, .deb and .rpm packages), and my experience was with Cider Classic.
Edit 2: I bought Cider 2 and so far it's working well. You sacrifice lossless and maybe some gapless playback still, but it's a mild loss vs. so far a huge gain in usability.
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Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools
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I think a lot of people have a few killer apps that just don't work on Linux even with WINE. Hell, I've heard that VR is not worth it on Linux. There are edge cases like that, that need to be sorted some way. Hopefully whatever Valve is doing wrt their supposed standalone VR headset helps there.
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Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, Website Links in EU Music Apps
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Tempted to throw Sam & Max on my iPad now...
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5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
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MusicBee. Tried it on WINE. Not great. Linux players also don't do a lot of what MusicBee does OOTB, and if they do it's not as seamless as MusicBee. (tag hierarchies are the main thing, but the playlist functionality is also good.)
Thankfully it runs fine in a virtual machine.
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5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
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Not to mention, Apple Music is so much better than Spotify for my needs and Cider isn't cutting it for me right now. Once they're not as reliant on MusicKit, I might give it a go again.
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5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
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There's still some stuff I'm tied to Windows for, namely music players (MusicBee and Apple Music but they can be used in a VM) and VR. But it's nice to see Linux growing.
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That just feels like Mozilla wants to hide the option tbh.
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Thoughts on Bitwarden?
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tbh I've yet to see a KeePass-based password manager that's not clunky-feeling. Strongbox is probably the best one for that but that's for the Apple ecosystem.
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Thoughts on Bitwarden?
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I immediately deleted my account after realising the free tier doesn't allow bundling the TOTP with the password. Instead I use KeePassXC on my computer and KeePass2Android + Enpass on my phone.
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Depends on your use case. TST doesn't just do vertical tabs, it shows a tree view of child tabs which might be useful if you need that.
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Those screenshots look really nice, ngl, hoping this goes through. Edge and Vivaldi have had their own vertical tab implementations for a while now, and there are Firefox forks that show it can be done. No reason for base Firefox not to have it at this point.
While I'm here, Mozilla bring back compact spacing, plz k thx.
Edit: Just tried it, it's got that nightly jank but it's promising. I hope Mozilla continues with this. It looks and feels great.
PlayStation
PSVR 2 Firmware Update Includes New Support for NVIDIA GPUs, Pointing to Wired PC VR Connection
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Judging from this, it seems that they have a path forward and Sony is likely going the direct connection route. If not, there’s always iVRy, whose job has probably gotten much easier now that Sony’s basically removed some of the barriers.
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PSVR 2 Firmware Update Includes New Support for NVIDIA GPUs, Pointing to Wired PC VR Connection
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Surprising if they're going the wired route. VirtualLink has been said to be a dead standard (Oculus pipes video to the headset even if it's plugged in) and NVIDIA stopped supporting it. AMD might, I recall a tweet from iVRy stating that if you plug the PSVR2 into your AMD GPU and it boots into cinema mode, it should work normally through any future means. Prior to this an adapter was needed to emulate the special DisplayPort modes to enable VR mode, but now that adapter is no longer required on AMD GPUs (still required for NVIDIA).
In any case, I'm not complaining. Means I don't have to shell out hundreds for a Quest anymore.
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You aren't arch user if you dislike read documentation
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Honestly I love the Steam Deck for getting Linux into people's hands in a way that's easy and Just Works :tm:. They've not replaced the OS on their Steam Deck at all, which is a win not just for Valve but the Linux ecosystem as a whole.
Though, the only issue my friends has had is transferring files to and from the Steam Deck if their main PC runs Windows or Mac. There are a multitude of varyingly convenient options but all of my friends have literally just plugged an external hard drive through the sole USB-C port lol. Linux has to cater to people who won't even install third-party drivers.
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You aren't arch user if you dislike read documentation
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I was thinking on moving to Fedora, since it has more robust support for GUI-based installation through PackageKit and it's got a more stable release cycle. But Arch and its wiki is just my bread and butter at this point that moving to another distro feels foreign and annoying in comparison, even though it's not the distro's fault.
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What brand, if I can ask? Over in the UK I've only seen Dr. Pepper USA do cherry vanilla, which is different to Coca-Cola's Dr. Pepper that uses aspartame and sugar. (US Dr. Pepper uses HFCS) UK Dr. Pepper was way too strong with the sugar but with the aspartame it just tastes watery and dead.
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Zevia is quite tricky to get in the UK (not seeing any Vanilla Cola imported here) but if I see an opportunity to get it imported, I'll go for it.
Tangentially related, Amazon has a lot of Green Cola, don't know if that's a brand people know or not but they claim to use stevia as well. Edit: Green Cola does contain sucralose so if you're trying to skip that one too, keep that in mind.
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Cherry vanilla? I thought that was American! Haven't had it in a while since the importers don't have 'em in stock.
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Switched to Windows from Linux for a bit because I was having a few problems with Linux, but the main one is that seemingly, spotty 5Ghz connections cause iwlwifi to panic, which means no wifi. Windows does not have this problem. (relevant chip is the Intel AX210)
It's annoying because the UX on KDE is objectively better than Windows and I don't want to have to deal with slower connections because the wifi driver has a dumb bug, and reporting the bug to the LKML is something I do not have the knowledge to do.
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Full-sugar Coca-Cola Vanilla. Was a bit of a hit in the UK in 2000s, was revived in 2013, then discontinued in favour of their aspartame-filled mess. I tried the "zero sugar" variant and it just tasted like cheap cola with a hint of vanilla. I've since gone for Tim Hortons' French Vanilla since they started expanding here.
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Thought this'd be interesting for those here, a tutorial for installing/running a Windows XP virtual machine with GPU passthrough. The tutorial needs a little rewrite, and I might consider doing that rewrite myself, but I was able to get things to run fine. Only warning I'd give is that some GPUs might not work OOTB with the virtual audio chipset. This happened to me when I was trying to use a virtual AC97 chipset - I had to move my GPU to a different virtual slot in the virtual machine to get it to work.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/5639428 ::: spoiler Context / Spoilers for Who Framed Roger Rabbit ___ In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the villain douses the sentient shoes in acid that kills cartoon characters. Fair to say that scene probably traumatised a lot of children when it came out. Hell it hit me seeing that scene _now_ and I'm in my mid-20s. The mod from the plush community on Blahaj.zone made the plush to [show their child that they're only just acting](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/4510340) and I think that's really sweet. Thought I'd share it here on Pawb's community. :::
Might as well shoot the question here. Thought I'd ask since I ordered it, and I am a little worried with UK customs. The order form said there was nothing in import tax, so I presume customs will keep it until then? (FWIW, I've ordered internationally before but tax has been handled just fine there. This is the first time I've come across this.) Edit 2024-02-23: The plush arrived quite a while ago (early Feb) with no issues regarding customs. Honestly a really good quality plush for the price.
Honestly I just wanted to show you lot the Xbox lol 
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Amazing cover of Jenny Silver's Melodifestivalen entry. I like the "modern ABBA" sound they went for rather than going full electro house synths like the original, it makes it sound timeless in a way. ~~could I get away with posting this on the Eurovision communities~~
This isn't so much an Arch issue (For what it's worth, this also happened on Nobara) but rather a Pipewire issue but I wonder if anyone's had this issue as well as me... Running Arch on linux-zen (to fulfill Waydroid's binder requirement), on a Ryzen 7950X, motherboard has a Realtek ALC4080, connected via USB (yes it's still an internal sound chip). Basically, after any prolonged use, I would get a lot of stuttering. It got particularly bad when I was running MusicBrainz Picard while listening to something in VLC, but it will happen often, and constantly. I've tried setting my default output to the headphones, no dice. Also tried some workarounds from the Arch Wiki, specifically disabling suspend. Still happens. Adding headroom errored out Wireplumber. Anyone had this and if so, have they been able to fix it? **Edit:** I'll probably have to check if it's a kernel thing. I've just done some intensive tasks (i.e. installing Gentoo in a virtual machine) and the cutoffs come back. I remember Arch having something on the Wiki about that.
For context, I've been getting some old Windows versions working with GPU passthrough thanks to [MattKC who has been writing tutorials about it on his forums](https://forum.mattkc.com/viewtopic.php?t=206). I was able to get a Windows XP guest to work on this rig by passing through the 750 Ti, with the RX 480 doing host duties. It's not as simple as that, the NVIDIA drivers at the time still detected VMs so you need to work around that, and I had to move the virtual PCI-e ports around otherwise there's a conflict between the GPU and the virtual AC97 sound card, and you need to install the F6/floppy drivers for ICH6 so XP can use the virtual SATA ports. But once it's set-up, you've basically got a pretty powerful XP virtual machine. Wanna get Vista and 7 working with this in the future too. Fun fact, you can run the original GeForce Titan on Windows XP. [NVIDIA's last XP-compatible drivers were in 2016](https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/drivers/results/105040/).
I've noticed that federation here can be unstable lately - sometimes my comments will federate, and sometimes it won't. An example of a comment I recently made that has not federated: - https://iusearchlinux.fyi/comment/2017031 (my comment) - https://lemmy.world/comment/3163328 (parent comment) An example of a comment I recently made that _has_ federated: - https://iusearchlinux.fyi/comment/2104278 (my comment from this domain) - https://pawb.social/comment/2343226 (my comment from the remote domain) Might want to check the logs in case something's up. I don't think it's to do with the backend or whichever version it's using.
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I've been trying out Bluesky for nearly two weeks now thanks to a friend of mine who gave me an invite code. For context, it's basically an alternative social network platform that was initially part of Twitter but broke off after management changed from Jack Dorsey. There's a lot about it I could talk about, including its long-term plans for federation like we have on the fediverse and how barebones the official client is, but the Taylor Swift community is probably not the best place for that. :p  Anyhow, [Kamu decided to show the growth of the furry community on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/kamu.bsky.social/post/3k3mzcr72qf2x), but one thing that was of note is the Brazilian supercluster. It's basically larger and more tightly-knit than most of the other non-English language clusters, and according to Kamu, one of the reasons for its growth? Taylor Swift. [One of the earliest Bluesky communities were the Brazilian Swifties](https://bsky.app/profile/kamu.bsky.social/post/3k3nyop3haw2c), and they were very effective at organising. Let me know if I should move this elsewhere, but I think it'd fit here and you lot here might enjoy this. I don't know about Bluesky's reputation amongst the ActivityPub fediverse, but I think this is a neat little tidbit to post here either way.
In the MusicBrainz community, there's a [thread](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/share-your-links-to-legal-free-music-downloads/611998) for posting music that is available legally as a free download, or in the case of Bandcamp, _name your price_. I've used these sort of releases to help find new and interesting music to get into, and I thought that'd make an interesting community here for that reason. I am aware that some communities for free (as in libre) music exist, in this community here there's no strict requirement that it has to be libre, though you can still post them. I've posted some of my contributions from the thread to start things off. https://iusearchlinux.fyi/c/free_nyp_music !free_nyp_music@iusearchlinux.fyi
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I don't know I found out about this but a while ago I found out Depeche Mode had a remix of ETS by Mike Shinoda, during the days of Meteora it sounds like, judging by the wispy Numb-like synths. Both Depeche Mode and Linkin Park are two acts I really like, and I think this is an amazing remix. Definitely does the original justice.
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All around a great drum'n'bass album.
I'm not sure if I have to set spoilers for Into The Spider-Verse, but I will just in case. I do so on the servers I'm in, in case there are people there who haven't. I can't do anything about the title though. Ah well. Least I can do is spoiler the body. ::: spoiler Spoilers for Into The Spider-Verse ___ I've watched Into The Spider-Verse last month and it was a great film. One of the best examples of "style _is_ substance" I've seen, was overall a fun film to watch. That said, the movie's version of Sp//dr was my favourite character, design-wise. The spider anatomy, screen-face and the simplistic but expressive emotions on said face all made the character one of my favourite designs, especially for robot characters. It sounds dumb and sappy, but I was pretty sad when it got destroyed near the end of the film (yes, even when Peni was able to rebuild it). I wanted to see if there was any more interest, and before the Reddit exodus I checked the Spider-Man subreddit to see if there was similar appreciation, but it seems like most of the subreddit liked the comic designs better. Seems to be because of it being a more conventional mecha design than ITSV's Sp//dr. I don't mind the comic design but I dunno, ITSV's is _way_ more interesting IMO. Wondering what people on the fediverse think. :::
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As someone whose part of my love for music started from listening to this sort of music through keygens and later through watching demoscene productions when I was younger, I think this is a great video on tracker music and its history.
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Thought I'd share this here, haven't seen it posted. Storytime YouTuber (and Netflix showrunner) TheOdd1sOut was pestered by his own animators to watch Bluey. I won't spoil it for you but it's a fun video and I think the community here will like it.
!free_nyp_music@iusearchlinux.fyi For context, [the MusicBrainz community has a thread for music downloads that are legally free](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/share-your-links-to-legal-free-music-downloads/611998), including name-your-price that's common on Bandcamp. I thought it'd be an interesting community that'd work here and across Lemmy. This sorta thing helped me discover new music I wouldn't have heard otherwise. I'm posting some free/NYP releases I know of right now, but if you know of any music that fits the bill, do post it there! I'm going to give it time before I post it to New Communities on lemmy.world.
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Interesting video from a lawyer, explaining the whole drama between Nintendo, Dolphin and Valve. It explains a lot of the current legal precedent really well, as well as how Nintendo and their lawyers crafted the cease and desist letter to Valve.
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Been using Apple Music lately since the experience is better than Spotify in some places. Searched the community browsers, couldn't find anything, so I decided to start one here. Is it odd that an Apple Music community is being hosted on a Linux-centric instance? Maybe. But hey, Android counts as Linux, right? :^) !applemusic@iusearchlinux.fyi
Found a Spotify community but haven't found a community for Apple Music. I use both right now, so I decided to launch one on the instance I'm a part of. https://iusearchlinux.fyi/c/applemusic !applemusic@iusearchlinux.fyi
For context, I had a gaming rig built, with a Ryzen 7950X and an RX 7900 XT. I was dualbooting Windows with Arch, then EndeavourOS, and now back to Arch after coming here and getting the itch again. Had to manually install it since Archinstall was having bugs. Seeing how this goes. Just going through the packages I need to install now.