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(^LLM blocker)

I’m interested in #Linux, #FOSS, data storage/management systems (#btrfs, #gitAnnex), unfucking our society and a bit of gaming.

I help maintain #Nixpkgs/#NixOS.

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  • Note that even with this it’ll be quite likely that games don’t work. WineD3D is much less compatible than DXVK.

    You need a device that can do Vulkan properly. The best for that are AMDGPUs and Nvidia ones but I wouldn’t recommend the latter. Newer Xe Intel GPUs should also work but they’re quite a bit behind anything AMD has to offer in terms of performance.

    The newer of your GPUs meanwhile is a design from ~2015. Vulkan released in 2016. Just to get you an idea.

    The issue here is not Linux, it’s that neither of your GPUs was made for modern gaming. On windows that might sometimes work, especially with games targetting older graphics APIs that your GPUs were made with in mind but on Linux everything is Vulkan (a very modern graphics API), even games that only use older APIs.
    A modern Vulkan-capable card is a requirement for painless gaming on Linux.






  • I wouldn’t go ARM unless you really like tinkering with stuff.

    I bought a used Celeron J4105-based system years ago for <100€ and it’s doing just fine. The N100 is its successor that should be better in every way.

    Don’t be afraid to buy cheap used hardware. Especially things like RAM or cases that don’t really ever break in normal usage.

    Two 4TB HDDs for 120€ each is a rip-off. That’s twice what you pay per GB in high capacity drives. Even in the lower capacity segment you can do much better such as 6TB for 100€.

    If you have proper (tested!) backups and don’t have any specific uptime requirements, you don’t need RAID. I’d recommend getting one 16TB-20TB drive then. That would only cost you as much as those two overpriced 4TB drives.








  • Atemu@lemmy.mltoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldIt just works
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    This is also one of those weird things: Why do people use dd for this?

    It doesn’t do anything special, it just does a plain old read()/write() loop on regular-ass UNIX files. Its actual purpose is to do character set conversions while doing so.

    You can just cp image.iso /dev/sda or even cat image.iso > /dev/sda. (The latter only works in a privileged shell because it’s the shell which open()s the device file.)


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    Read closely and you’ll notice they used a thumb drive.

    People usually refer to the act of copying the data directly onto the device as something other than “copying” to differentiate from copying the ISO as a file to a filesystem on the drive.






  • Spotify -> MOTU M2 -> HiFiMan Ananda non-stealth

    “High resolution” audio is completely useless for listening (16 bit 44.1 kHz is the best it gets) and there is little value in lossless encodes for listening purposes too, so I don’t get the point of all those “Hifi” streaming services.
    If you own lossless encodes, I guess it doesn’t hurt to use them even for listening as storage is cheap these days.

    Speaking of which, I’d like to switch to purchasing my music though because Spotify will certainly continue on its path towards full enshittification. I want to be in a position where I own all my favourite music before Spotify will be infected with ads on premium plans. Oh and artists are somewhat more likely to be paid a little for their work that way (I hope…)
    I plan to use the free YT music for discovery at that point.