Essem :skeeter:<p>Skeeter</p>
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Essem :skeeter:<p>what the hell do i even do now</p><p>am i just cursed to patch KIO for the rest of eternity? where to i need to go to convince someone this is even an issue</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>oh screw me this is intentional behavior</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>for programs using switcheroo-control to handle this, i wonder if ignoring the default gpu when it's detected to be discrete/the "run using dedicated graphics card" option is checked and then trying to find the next discrete gpu would break anything</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>found out why it's like this; it simply checks for the presence of <code>/sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch</code></p><p>i do not have that on my system</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>switcheroo-control is a joke</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>i have two discrete gpus with varying amounts of processing power. i would like to use the less powerful one for display and the more powerful one for rendering/compute. somehow this is impossible on Our Year Of The Linux Desktop 2026 without manually setting env vars on every application</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>how do i get kde to launch an application with my second gpu when the "run using dedicated graphics card" option is checked in its desktop entry. this is all i am asking for</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>sure man whatever, i guess my system that has two entire gpus inside isn't considered a dual-gpu system</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>is there any way i can somehow either force kde or whatever to use a specific gpu when that setting is enabled, or make it interpret my arc as an "integrated" gpu? <code>DRI_PRIME</code> still works, but i'd rather not have to type that out every time</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>prism launcher's "use discrete gpu" setting is effectively useless (it defaults to my arc no matter how it's set because both of my gpus are technically "discrete"), and kde's handling of the <code>PrefersNonDefaultGPU</code> .desktop setting behaves the same way</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>resolved this seemingly with a uefi update</p><p>now i am seeing the horrors of how applications and desktops handle dual discrete gpus when your less powerful one is the "default"</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>(i did not make any hardware or uefi changes)</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>i did this</p><p>however, my amd card is no longer visible to either linux or windows</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>it also seems to be treated as the default gpu by my system's uefi, so i wonder if i could get rid of some jank there by swapping over</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>it's definitely a lot less powerful in terms of graphics performance, but afaict it might be a bit more power efficient? i'd still be using both cards though, my amd card would be used mainly for games and general-purpose compute</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>i feel like it could potentially be useful with sunshine, which i primarily use for remote desktop stuff</p><p>the intel card simply handles video codecs better than my amd card</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>trying to decide if i should swap to using my intel arc card as the primary display output on my pc</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>janiel will become real in 10 seconds</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>obligatory "go watch the 120 star TAS" post <a href="https://youtu.be/mVwQD1jTERA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/mVwQD1jTERA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>every time i have to deal with a microsoft product i get more and more convinced that their only positive impact on computing was Altair BASIC (and even then that's stretching it)</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>quake is such a timeless game 💖</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>step 1 is "own a device that can run it". installation process/technical skills aside, unlike pcs, this immediately means that most people won't be able to run it unless they spend a few hundred</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>"switching from android to linux" like linux phones aren't even more of a meme than desktop linux was a couple of decades ago</p>
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ACARS Drama<p>Air to Ground Message: </p><p>BRUH THATS GOING 2 EAT INTO MY MCDONALDS TIME NOW I WONT GET ALL MY VITAMINS AND MINERALS </p><p>Area: Portland, OR, USA <br>Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)<br>A: <a href="https://live.acarsdrama.com/tags/a39b4706418" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a39b4706418</span></a> <br>F: <a href="https://live.acarsdrama.com/tags/f5ab4f6235b" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>f5ab4f6235b</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://live.acarsdrama.com/tags/acars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acars</span></a> <a href="https://live.acarsdrama.com/tags/vdlm2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vdlm2</span></a></p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>idea: multiplayer furnace tracker</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>i hate The GIF File Format</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>i'm still surprised at how many atari xl/xe demos originally made for pal systems just Work on ntsc</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>people don't even know what a software bug or server issue is anymore they just call everything "vibecoding"</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>was there ever a leak regarding the nintendo 3ds from 2009 or so? i could've sworn i heard something about it from someone around then before the official announcement, then looking it up on youtube and not finding many relevant results</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>oppo was started under BBK and owned by them until the company split in 2023; BBK was founded by a former CEO of subor, a prominent famiclone/"educational computer" manufacturer, and plenty of BBK's initial products were famiclones</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>did you know that you can link oppo and oneplus (the smartphone brands) back to "educational computer" famiclones</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>is discord "social media"</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>shoutouts to whoever drew this bunny on one of the classic macs at this computer museum</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>i hate The GIF File Format</p>
Christine Lemmer-Webber<p>What happened to the fight for the internet? <a href="https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dustycloud.org/blog/what-happe</span><span class="invisible">ned-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/</span></a></p><p>A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.</p><p>And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.</p><p>But we can't leave it there.</p><p>We HAVE to act.</p><p>For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>sony did a thing i guess</p><p>...is it bad that i can't really get myself to care enough about this</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>dancerush stardom is neat</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>signed, someone who has found <em>three</em> entirely separate distros with their own packaging systems doing this</p>
Essem :skeeter:<p>dear distro package maintainers: when packaging libvips, <em>please</em> ensure that you are marking <em>cgif</em> as a dependency and not <em>giflib</em></p><p>libvips doesn't use giflib! it uses cgif and a vendored libnsgif for handling the format!! you are shipping a package with broken gif encoding support!!!!</p>