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Hardware for Linux gaming PC in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] claymore@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

VRMs (voltage regulator modules) are what bring the power to the CPU and these can get quite hot on high power processors. If you look around the socket on a motherboard, usually above and opposite the RAM, they are the big square/rectangle shaped components. Most high-performance motherboards have heatsinks on top of them to keep them from overheating, which your MB does not have.

Sell us on your favorite exotic/niche distro in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] claymore@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

Oh I know about alpine, sadly it didn't "click" the same way void did and felt more like a distro to use in embedded systems or similar space constrained situations. Gentoo on the other hand I like, but the initial setup + waiting for stuff to compile put me off of it. Maybe I'll try it again sometime with all precompiled packages.

Sell us on your favorite exotic/niche distro in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] claymore@pawb.social 23 points 2 months ago

Void is my favourite distro, although I haven't used it for a while. Extremely fast package manager, rolling release but not bleeding edge, super simple, very fun to tinker with (more than Arch imo). I stopped using it because I wanted something more popular for easier troubleshooting. But if I ever get a secondary PC/laptop I'll probably start using it again.

4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] claymore@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

I never see toffeeshare mentioned. P2P, encrypted, no size limit. Only problem is you can't send folders, only files, but that's easily solved with tarballs or RARs.

AMD removes Taiwan branding from CPUs, says change wasn't made to appease China | The 'Made in Malaysia' markings will remain, though. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] claymore@pawb.social 9 points 8 months ago

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/26/tech/intel-israel-investment/index.html

Android app maker Simple Mobile Tools acquired by ZipoApps in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] claymore@pawb.social 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

F-Droid probably won't accept any builds with adware/tracking in them, so probably we'll just stay on an old version until a fork or alternative comes along. There's also a toggle on my preferred F-Droid manager app (droid-ify) to ignore new versions

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Ready to race! (pawb.social)

submitted 10 months ago by claymore@pawb.social to c/furry@pawb.social

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Commission I got from Corbin on Furaffinity

Fairphone 5: Everything about the "fair" smartphone in advance - price, details, pictures in c/android

[-] claymore@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago

In the article it mentions that the SoC might have been chosen because on it's extended software support of 8 years. Industrial tier electronics also usually cost more than consumer counterparts, so unlikely a cost cutting measure

Fairphone 5: Everything about the "fair" smartphone in advance - price, details, pictures in c/android

[-] claymore@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Zenfone 10 got released in july this year. I'd buy it on the spot if the software support was longer. The only phone in recent memory that has good specs and also looks decent

The Release Date and Key Features of Windows 12 Unveiled in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] claymore@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

Well, Win10 Home and Pro EOL is late 2025, so it's tecnically correct...

Mobile Desktop For x86 Linux? in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] claymore@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Modern Gnome should in theory be able to adapt to any (reasonable) display size. So anything with recent enough repos would be a good fit

[SOLVED] Question about flatpak, nvidia drivers and steam in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] claymore@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Right now I've only removed the oldest driver, and steam opened fine. No complaints in it's terminal output. For now I'm going to test a few games and once I remove a few more versions I'll edit the post.

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[SOLVED] Question about flatpak, nvidia drivers and steam (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by claymore@pawb.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Edit: So after an exciting evening of uninstalling drivers, rebooting, playing a round of CSGO and starting over, I can report that nothing is broken. I haven't tried much other than a handful of games though. In the end I removed the drivers in batches, uninstalling all versions of a major version together (all 515.*, then 520.*, then 525.* etc).

Of note is that all the drivers I removed were the 32 bit versions, since the 64 bit one updated properly. This is what's left of the drivers, I believe these are all actually needed and I'm not comfortable removing any of them (and even if they're not needed the space savings would be minimal anyway):

Name                                 Application ID                                             Version                       Branch                  Origin                                 Installation
Mesa                                 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                        23.1.1                        22.08                   flathub                                system
Mesa (Extra)                         org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                        23.1.1                        22.08-extra             flathub                                system
nvidia-535-54-03                     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-535-54-03                                             1.4                     flathub                                system
Mesa                                 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                      23.1.1                        22.08                   flathub                                system
Mesa (Extra)                         org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                      23.1.1                        22.08-extra             flathub                                system
nvidia-535-54-03                     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03                                           1.4                     flathub                                system

Original post:

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows why flatpak keeps tons of Nvidia driver versions installed. Currently on my Fedora install I have:

Name                        Application ID                                    Version              Branch        Origin                       Installation
nvidia-510-68-02            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-57               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-57                            1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-65-01            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-65-01                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-76               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-76                            1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-520-56-06            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-520-56-06                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-60-11            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-60-11                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-78-01            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-78-01                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-85-05            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-85-05                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-89-02            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-89-02                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-530-41-03            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-530-41-03                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-535-54-03            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03                         1.4           flathub                      system

A few months ago, when a new Nvidia update came out, usually what I'd do is update then run flatpak uninstall --unused, which would get rid of the older version no problem. As you can see, around driver version 510 this stopped working. If I try to remove them manually with eg. flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02, I get this:

Info: applications using the extension org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02 branch 1.4:
   com.valvesoftware.Steam
Really remove? [y/n]:

My question is, is Steam actually using these drivers? Are these safe to remove? I'd like to get rid of them since they're bloating my root partition and updating 10 driver versions takes ages.

I don't find any value in Red-Hat but I see their corporate thinking. Who really need them and why? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] claymore@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

One example would be HDR, here and here are two articles I found after a quick search. I'm no dev, but I know HDR is a complicated beast and more importantly not critical infrastructure so community developments are slow or non-existant. If you check who has been contributing to HDR it's always big corps like Red Hat, AMD and Valve.