themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 6 hours ago

I have a giant FLAC collection and I sometimes wish I could use these local players because I used Winamp/XMMS/quod libet back in the day, but I feel like I just can't give up consistent access from outside the house.

I ran Tauon for a while (and have run a few of the others over the years) but I always end up back at my Airsonic setup. Works in any browser, works in a few different Android apps (Subsonic compatible), less of a pain than mpd.

Maybe it'd be different if I was still sitting in front of my computer virtually all the time, but nowadays phone to Bluetooth speaker/car/Chromecast is like 90% of my listening.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Basically, the executing thread might get interrupted in a window of code where the interrupt flags are wrong. Not looking at the specifics, but this could lead to various things from mostly harmless (e.g. potentially holding a lock for many times longer than expected but eventually releasing it) to program crashing (e.g. if taking an interrupt while handling the fault leaves the data structures in an inconsistent state).

This is likely the first one, since it was missed for so long in a very well exercised piece of code.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are you running the native version or through Proton? When I played Civ VI the Linux native version performed worse than using Proton, ironically. Either way, maybe try switching?

Since you specified multiplayer I'm guessing it's not time to load from disk or anything.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For ancient stuff, maybe, but AMD is also active in enabling new stuff in the kernel and userspace. AMD basically invented Vulkan, and have had the best open source driver stack for years at this point.

I love what Valve has done for Linux, but it's the last mile of track at the end of huge amounts of outside work enabling the hardware to work in the first place.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

As lime mentions, look at swap. The Mint installer should have suggested it, but if not it's pretty easy to setup after the fact (just use a swap file instead of a partition). Windows does this as well and it should pretty clearly deal with OOM.

Coral Island has a platinum rating on ProtonDB so it should be absolutely no sweat to run if you have the resources.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

I'm with you for the moment. I may get deeper into the episode at some point but I put it on hoping for some Trek optimism and it instantly shat on me. I get enough miscarriages of justice and jackboots beating people up in the real world, thanks.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I have done literally nothing with my printer except print parts and benchies so they're all just PLA black. Wish I could help!

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Haha, I might have to dust off my Ender for this.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Just used this as an excuse to setup a monthly donation. I love this little instance...

It did say I would get Jamaharon included though? I assume my Horgon is in the mail?

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

He doesn't need to actually stop them, just make them appear illegitimate. Also, in places where Republicans are in power already, they will absolutely do this and suddenly we're looking at a midterm where the best outcome for Democrats is losing no power instead of gaining any.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

I have a wife stuck in the Adobe-verse and yeah, going back that far should work great. It didn't become a huge hassle until they started being insane with the licensing.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Uhh, is this not a direct reference to that song? I immediately took it that way...

 

I'm doing two simultaneous runs, a good Sorcadin run on Tactician and a dark urge, evil Berserker run in Honor Mode that follows along. The good party is basically acting as an advance team to remind me of the scary encounters, ambushes etc. but I've also never done an evil durge run so it's not exactly a 1:1 comparison.

The evil party is just shy of Act 2, but I'm playing with the only companions I have access to (because of my evil actions) and I'm roughly trying to play them on type. Astarion is a Gloomstalker Assassin, Lae'zel is an Eldritch Knight and Shadowheart is a Light Domain Cleric. We are cake walking at the moment, didn't really break a sweat through the Underdark and Monastery. I'm concerned at not having a true caster... But I'm also sort of intrigued at the viability of this party.

Counterspell is the big thing I'm worried about. The advance team is proccing it constantly. Also replacing Haste with potions would suck and I can't get the Haste bow (I assume, Dammon is dead). So far relying on cleric skills for AoE has been working okay.

Can I get away with using speed potions and maybe something clever like going full anti-magic and using Sussur blooms with some party tweaks?(edit: apparently that's not possible anymore, but still Silencing weapons etc.)

Or, should I bite the bullet and spec Minthara as something castery when I get her? If so, who do I replace?

Any suggestions welcome.

 

I have my Linux box running my TV and it works great, but I'd like the ability to treat my Chromecast as a desktop window for streaming without switching inputs, multitasking etc. I have an HDMI capture card that works great with a Switch, but the Chromecast detects it's not HDCP (DRM) compliant so it won't work. Is there a way to outsmart that detection with software or hardware?

I've heard some knock off hardware confuses it enough to work but it seems like the info is old and I'd rather not roll the dice on hardware that's otherwise garbage...

 

Hey all. I use the Jellyfin Android app to control an MPV shim running on Linux (Arch, Plasma 6) and for the most part it works great. However, sometimes the app just completely loses track of what's playing or where in the video it is. I can still pause/play blind, but I'd like to be able to tell where I am in a season/episode. Any trick to dealing with this?

For reference I have the app set to "unoptimized" battery usage so it shouldn't just be going to sleep. I do have to open Jellyfin to actually send pause/play button presses from the notification though so I don't know if I just need a better workaround (I'm on the latest Android version if that matters). I also had the same problems using a Chromecast but never bothered to mess with that since the dongle is proprietary, but with the mpv shim the whole stack is open source so I thought I'd ask...

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