Sunshine should be able to do hardware encoding for that GPU, it has support for VA-API

Pretty much lol. If I remember correctly his reason for leaving was them adding moderation tools

he left Bluesky around 2 years ago

I think it comes from the fact that a lot of communities and projects use Discord basically like they would with IRC, with voice chats often not even existing in some servers. I have to assume the people who recommend Matrix are only ever in that kind of server.

I’m in 2 or 3 servers with different friend groups and of course each one is full of friends of friends of friends. Even the smallest is over 30 people, but I only regularly join VC with 3-4. If I had to call all of them to be in a voice call I would literally never do it.

Same goes for chats, in Matrix the closest things to channels and servers is rooms and spaces. The difference is that you don’t join a space, you just view rooms in the space and join them. Most of my servers have a ton of different channels for different things, I want to be able to see what happens in all of them without having to join each one, announcing to them that I’ve joined.

I like Matrix for FOSS project discussions, but I don’t think it’ll ever be the right pick for just hanging out with friends.

This is just a link to the branding repo. There isnt much to maintain in there.

Drop-in voice channels are a requirement for a discord alternative, Matrix does not have them. AFAIK you still need to call an entire channel to start a voice chat.

This is true that some blurs could be undone, but the ones used in the files are definitely destructive and cannot be undone. Grok and any other image generation tool is also definitely not capable of doing it. It requires knowledge of how it was blurred so you can use the same algorithm to undo it, models simply guess what it should look like.

This is very good, winetricks has been a great tool for Linux gaming but its a very slow 20000 line shell script, it definitely needs a replacement imo.

Hopefully this works well enough that Valve and Umu consider switching to it for applying Protonfixes.

I’m not super familiar with sysext, but from my understanding, you’d need to create an additional sysext to include, or find an existing one for DMS (I couldn’t find one).

Your other options would be using rpmtree or a custom image. Theres already a few images out there that are based on Bluefin with Niri + DMS added.

Tbh I’m recalling struggling to find good documentation for sysext. Asking in the ublue discord will probably get you better answers.

Dash’s more significant feature is its speed. It’s not meant to be used in place of bash at all, its meant to be symlinked in place of sh to give you a faster and smaller shell with a simpler and more auditable codebase.

Dash is not a a Bash alternative, it is an sh alternative. You definitely should not replace Bash with it. If your goal is to learn career relevant skills, stick with bash.

Agreed, using a planning phase makes a huge difference. It will break the implementation into steps, making reviewing or manually refactoring parts of the code far more easily.

Ngl I did not think about that at all. There are loads of sites with social in the name, like the flagship mastodon instance.

It seems kinda silly to stop using social as in the name for social websites because of them.

weird, I wonder why it worked for me. i havent used it in a while, so maybe I’m misremembering something or something just changed

Is there something wrong with Heroics cloud saves? I havent tried using my saves on a windows system using Galaxy, but they’ve worked across devices running Heroic.

Nah just officially support Heroic, its already great.

They could, but Heroic already does pretty much everything an official client would do, I don’t think it makes sense to create a new client.

I don’t think it really makes sense to create Proton forks for specific games outside very specific cases (like hacky fixes that break other games). Might as well just upstream whatever changes you make.

I’d honestly rather them not release their own Linux launcher. Heroic is fantastic, I’d much rather them contribute to that, either via development time or by sponsoring them. Some sort of official partnership with them would be cool.

“read the changes before installing a major update”

Obviously I dont think people need to read every change log for every piece of software. I do think its a good idea to read the release notes for a major update of your DE thought, since its the piece of software that is going to effect you the most.

And once it is no longer on and has become a setting, they can just remove the setting and force people to drop gsettings and then remove it completely.

What reason do they possibly have to do this? The setting already exists and is feature complete. It doesnt require maintenance. They also noted in the merge request that many RHEL users use it, so RedHat has a financial incentive not to remove it.

They could also instead ask people on first launch. Some people enable telemetry, so they will find out how many people prefer to keep it, which I bet will be most.

They could also just make it a setting. I really dont think it makes a big difference. They can also still use telemetry to see how many users enable it. Based on this thread, I really doubt it will be most.

The first time startup wizard should be kept relatively short and minimal. This just seems like a very unnecessary thing to include.

This is AI generated garbage with no sources.