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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I had similar worries about the AMD driver stability before I switched from NV about 5 years ago. But my experience has been great even back then and things have only improved since.

One data point to consider is that Valve is shipping the Steam Deck with an AMD AMU and stability and compatibility is paramount for that use case.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've been waiting forever for this to get a real price cut but instead it just got 50% more expensive. I guess I will just have to be patient for another decade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Any naming convention is fine as long as it's meaningful to you. But it's a good idea to keep your own repos separate from the random ones you clone from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (9 children)

What I see is an inexperienced developer who instead of systematically debugging the issue keeps trying random stuff hoping that it will somehow work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Don't forget spite. The guy was always an asshole but when people finally started calling him out he got triggered and became a raging asshole. Now he thinks that he found his people but doesn't realize that they hate him too, they just find him useful for the moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Thanks. I tried to make sense of it and experimented a bit with making the same ioctl's mentioned but couldn't get it to work. I either didn't get it right or it's something else.

Maybe I will take another look later but for now my workaround is to just fire up Baba Is You which idles at a low cpu use and then run evfwd with the grab option so that Baba no longer gets the input.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes, that works too with one fairly big caveat: for some reason the Steam Deck's controller is not producing evdev events until a game is actually running on the deck. So evfwd is not receiving events while the Steam UI is active. I haven't been able to figure out yet why this is the case.

If you want to try it you can start a random game on the deck and then fire up evfwd on the controller device and using the -g (grab) flag to avoid passing events to the running game.

Edit: while we are talking about the Steam Deck: when ssh-ing to the deck it can be helpful to turn off wifi power management to avoid lag: iw wlan0 set power_save off

 

evfwd is a new tool for forwarding evdev input events from one Linux host to another, typically through an ssh connection.

The reason I am posting this here is that my initial motivation for creating the tool was gaming related: I wanted to be able to use my laptop's keyboard and gamepad on my Steam Deck.

The tool works by serializing /dev/input/... events on one hosts and then injecting them via /dev/uinput on another. You have to arrange the pipe between the two ends, typically using ssh:

evfwd /dev/input/somedevice | ssh somehost evfwd -s

See the readme for more details.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's been mostly Isaac as usual but I picked up Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate yesterday and I like it a lot. It's a fast-playing roguelite with a neat idea that's implemented well. The game mechanics remind me of Hoplite on mobile.

The game is currently on sale and has a free demo. It has good controller input and low resource use, a great fit for the Deck.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump and his handlers just before the debate:

Handler: Mr President... (he insists on being called that by his people) - before you go out there I want you to promise again that you won't bring up the thing about people eating cats and dogs...
Trump: yeah, fine
Handler: Remember how we talked about this? And how you promised that you won't bring it up no matter what happens?
Trump: Yeah, fine, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have little sympathy for people like the author who knowing all this continue to give content to that site. And I don't care about their excuses.
If you don't like that the new owner has turned your favorite pub into a nazi bar then maybe you should stop spending your money there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I've been using NetGuard for many years to block net access for apps that shouldn't need it. I haven't noticed any impact on battery life and haven't run into issues other than what one might expect (for example when it turns out that the blocked app refuses to run without network access)

Didn't know about RethinkDNS, looks neat, will give it a try sometime.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

newpipe can play offline files I’m pretty sure

Don't think that this is true (unless we are talking about a fork that I am not familiar with). The FAQ has an entry on this and mentions that you need to use an external player. I use mpv and VLC.

 

Artist: Zombie Nation
Song: Kernkraft 400
Release date: 20 October 1999
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