jlow (he/him)

Is it easy to get NVIDA drivers, Vulkan, Cuda etc in Debian? I somehow thought that was kind finicky, not sure why …

Can confirm that the Razer BIOS is absolutely bar bones. Never really minded that and as I said aside of the non-working speakers (apparently a known problem with Razer) it was all good.

I’ve used a Razer Blade 16 last year and could never get the speakers to work no matter what I tried. Tested quite a few distros (Mint, Manjaro, Debian) and ultimately settled on Fedora. Didn’t mind the speakers not working much since I used Bluetooth speakers/headphones mostly anyway. Other then that Fedora worked prefectly.

Not much new for me, already on Plasma 6.2 with Kinoite, but there seems to be an alternative to rpm-ostree coming up (not sure if/why it’s needed/better but if I don’t have to remember when it is “rpm-ostree” and when it’s “ostree” in cli I’m all for it 😸):

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-41/

Ah, ok. Very nice!

Intro-skipping is build-in now? Did I get this right? I thought they decided against it?

Also Blender = Nvidia (judging by Blenderbenchmarks, never had an Amd card so can’t compare in praxis …)

I can’t believe that there’s actually finally some good news in all this horror that has been the last years. Can this be true?

Check the manual (online if you don’t have one). Usually you longpress a (touch)button on the earbuds to get them into pairing-mode, then add them as a new Bluetooth device on your OS.

Netdata is far simpler to set up than Grafana from what I remember but it does phone home by default (you can disable it in via options in docker or something). On one of my servers it doesn’t show container names which is kinda a bummer but I didn’t care enough to troubleshoot that, since I mostly ssh in and use btop anyway …

Yeah, I havent tested on Gnome but ot runs on Windoge and even has some functionality on MacOS. I still get regurlaly hyped when I noticed that Connect paused my musoc on my PC when I get a call on my mobile. It’s just so fricking awesome!

(Now we only need a technology that makes it easy to quickly look at a friend’s holiday photos on my giant screen and not all have to huddle around his tiny phone like some Neanderthals to view them 👌)

I have an AMD Cpu and a 4070 running Kinoite, installed the usual Fedora drivers via rpm-ostree and aside of some weirdness sometimes with sleep mode (I think it can’t go to sleep when Vorta does a backup amd then hamgs the whole system …) and a few crashes in Jellyfin playing HEVC videos it’s super smooth

Take a look at

https://opendata.blender.org

From what I can tell NVIDIA still is much better for Blender at least points-wise. No idea if you’d notice it on normal usage …

Not sure what you mean by Linking to Phone but KDE Connect is amazing!

How would you use Syncthing for backup? Usually syncing is not considered a backup since if you delete something at source it will also be deleted at target. Or would you do one-way-sync?

Yeah, pretty happy with it so far, not having to worry about an update making the computer unusable until you reinstalled everything is very nice!

Mh, taking another looks at Blender benchmarks ( https://opendata.blender.org ), highest Nvidia median score is 12k (4090), the one I have atm (4070) has a score of 7.2k, had a laptop with a mobile 4080 before (5.7k). I haven’t really noticed any difference between them, tbh, so take this next bit with a giant bit of salt: Highest Amd score is 3.9k for a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (I know nothing about Amd GPUs, most reviews are from 2022/23), not really sure what to make of this but it doesn’t look too good for Amd?

Ah, ok. Thanks for the answer, though 😸

That’s interesting!

For some reason my drawing tablet (Huion Kamvas 13) isn’t recognised by Ublue/Bazzite but works ootb on Kinoite. Some very helpful people on Ublue-Discord did some investigation and there’s a Github issue but it’s unresolved, there was speculation that it might be something to do with Surface tablet settings missing or overriding something, can’t quite remember.