This is currently me with modded Kerbal Space Program and Cities: Skylines lol
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Hi! You can call me Tadpole. I enjoy maps/geography, sci-fi and speculative fiction, classic and sports cars and motorsports, and retro and retrofuturistic technology from the 70s-90s. Also a racing, role-playing, indie and retro video game connossieur.
I am a certified lurker.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol DevelopmentEnglish
5·1 year agoI don’t know how or why, but I get absolutely atrocious stuttering while playing games on X11 that simply doesn’t occur with Wayland, so X is just not an option for me.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?English
8·1 year agoI’m not technically inclined at all, so the most duct tapey thing I can remember was hacking Gnome to use Nemo as my file browser instead of Gnome’s default file browser once.
I’m Latin American, I’ve seen some people use Latinx here, but I personally prefer Latine because it rolls off the tongue much easier. Ideally though, I’d personally rather be called Latin American to avoid the pronoun altogether. Again, though, that’s a personal preference of mine - in languages with gendered pronouns, I personally prefer avoiding using pronouns toward myself altogether as much as possible.
At least in my experience, it’s not really uniformly decided and also became a Culture War thing in here as well.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•/media or /mnt or anywhere ? Discussion.English
14·1 year agoUse any you want. I’ve been mounting my internal secondary hard drive on /mnt for well over a year now and haven’t had any problems. Previously, I mounted it on
~/Storageand it also worked fine (though only because I’m the only user in my computer; dual-user systems would result in the other user being unable to access the hard drive).
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%English
21·1 year agoI get what you mean. I see a decent chunk of often more tech-proficient Linux users putting down Linux Mint, and it saddens me because even though I don’t use Mint anymore, it was still the first distro I properly daily-drove and I still consider it an amazing system for people who are new to Linux.
I’m very glad you’ve been having a good experience with Mint!
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Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC NewsEnglish
6·1 year agoIt makes me really sad that the space station is going to be destroyed since I always really liked it, but the sheer amount of fuel needed to move it to a stable position makes me (begrudgingly) understand why they’re going to do it…
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Flathub has passed 2 billion downloadsEnglish
8·1 year agoHonestly, you don’t have to worry about what others say, you should use what works best for you. Personally I find them to be nice and comfortable to use, myself 😅
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World News@lemmy.ml•Delhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national recordEnglish
22·2 years agoAnd this will be the coldest summer for the rest of our lives. 😓
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are your must-have programs?English
3·2 years agoYeah, I get you :c
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are your must-have programs?English
17·2 years agoI use CoreCtrl to fix my GPU’s atrocious fan curve, which is a necessity since normally it overheats to high hell. With CoreCtrl, I have a nice fan curve that makes my GPU rarely, if ever, run hotter than 70°C.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•My /var/tmp folder is endlessly stacking up on "container_images_storage_xxxxxxxxxx" folders?English
1·2 years agoDoes all this also apply to distrobox? I don’t use podman, but I do use distrobox, which I think is a front-end for it, but I don’t know if the commands listed here would be the same.
I have had a LOT of issues, but they’re mostly of the papercut variety - and most of them have to do with Plasma 6 rather than Fedora 40 itself (at least I think so).
I think my CPU is running hotter on 40 than it was on 39, though.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?
1·2 years agoCan confirm (but mine is the regular trim rather than the X version).
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?
4·2 years agoYes, for over a year now (since early December 2022, don’t remember the exact date).
My experiences with it seem to constantly be different than that of most users, because Wayland was a direct upgrade for me - I couldn’t play games properly on X11 at all because they would stutter and freeze really badly even when Vsync was disabled and the game reported to be running at 60 FPS, but Wayland fixed the issue altogether for me.
…Granted, I’m on an AMD card. If I was on Nvidia it’d probably be another story entirely. :x
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Linux@lemmy.ml•am I reading this right, that my cpu just died?
39·2 years agoFor what it’s worth, I’ve had Linux spew similar CLI errors when booting up complaining about a critical CPU problem, when the problem actually was that it was reading data off of a dying hard-drive. (Removing said drive, as well as replacing it with a new, healthier drive, made the issue go away.)
Not saying your problem is actually a dying storage device, but that it’s possible the issue might not actually be your CPU itself.
Crud, I had no idea. I thought they’d still work on 6 :c
I haven’t, Fedora will only get Plasma 6 on April. :c
What happened to the clock widget?? I really like it and don’t want to lose it…
I’m basic…

Fedora Kinoite, Plasma desktop, Arc shell theme, and Catppuccin window/app theme.
I included more information about my setup on my Codeberg page.



You say that as if 100% of Americans want this, I have friends there who never wanted any of this and I fear for them