But saints are not gods, they are more like emissaries. You pray for them to bring your word to God.
But in the end, religious beliefs don't make sense anyway, so why bother analyzing contradictions. Faith is based on believing without needing proof, so any logic reasoning against religion fails against that statement.
I don't do it regularly, just when I start looking like a monkey, but here's what I do. If I just want to do it quickly I use the trimmer, maybe with a longer setting, because it pinches. Otherwise I use a regular razor, like the Gillette ones and a bit of patience, it's surprisingly easy not to cut yourself. Sometimes I use depilatory cream, but be careful, if you put too much or leave it on too long it will burn for a few days.
AI has a lot of great uses, and a lot of stupid smoke and mirrors uses. For example, text to speech and live captioning or transcription are useful.
"Hypothetical AI desktop" "Siri" "copilot+" and other assistants are smoke and mirrors. Mainly because they don't work. But if they did, they would be unreliable (because ai is unreliable) and would have to be limited to not cause issues. And so they would not be useful.
Plus, on Linux they would be especially unusefull, because there's a million ways to do different things, and a million different setups. What if you asked the ai "change the screen resolution" and it started editing some gnome files while you are on KDE, or if it started mangling your xorg.conf because it's heavily customized.
Plus, every openai stuff you are seeing this days doesn't really work because it's clever, it works because it's huge. Chatgpt needs to be trained for days of week on specialized hardware, who's gonna pay for all that in the open source community?
Distributing software is not instantaneous. Assuming that Mozilla has already sent the update to flathub, it will take some time before it's validated and available for download.
If instead of flatpak you had used native packages, you would be in the same situation, as fedora's update system keeps updates in testing until enough people say it's fine.
If you wanted to get the update as soon as possible, you would have to download the prebuilt binary from Mozilla, but then you would have to update manually and everything.
Just be patient for a few days.
Unless it's fucking corona, which smells like armpits. Every time someone opens one I check if it's coming from me
To be even more pedantic, the guy is Italian and that is relevant to the character. In Italy we say "if my grandmother had wheels she would be a wheelbarrow". He pauses a moment before saying the joke, probably because he didn't remember the word wheelbarrow and went for bike instead.
IMHO I would avoid the ublue distros and just go for official fedora spins. The guys have good intentions, but they don't have the means to maintain that many distros "properly". I often end up enabling copr packages for bazzite in my fedora install, just to find out the program doesn't work.
That being said, as the other comments told you, you can still install native apps on immutable distros, it's just a bit more work. I don't expect distrobox or toolbox to be much faster than flatpak, as they are all just containers with a nice cli, except flatpak is easier to update. But trying costs nothing
Look at what mathematicians have been asking your respect for.
"Hello, I would like i potatoes"
How can we trust science when they say things like that?
But I have come across other old spellings, like "j" used in diphthongs in place of "i", like in "jeri" (old spelling for "ieri", "yesterday") or in "naja" (old word for compulsory military service time). So it must be even older/rarer than that, and I would still say "j" it's not an Italian letter because nobody uses it exept to write "Jesolo" but that's a name, not a regular word.
Fun fact: because of the old usage of "j" some text to speech are "broken". The one on railway speakers always reads "RailJet" as "Railiet" which sounds funny.
I'm Italian and I've never in my life seen "î", I wouldn't even know how to read it
In KDE (well, in dolphin) you can edit files in system folders from GUI if you type admin://path/to/folder. You might need to install one kio-admin before tho, and you need dbus and polkit
Well, I'm biased because KaTeX is load bearing to my use case. But I would argue that it:
- Is more powerful
- Is an introduction to LaTeX (which is an industry standard)
- It's ubiquitous
You could consider using mathjax instead of KaTeX which should render both latex math and asciimath, (and should be better in general). If you had unlimited resources (which I guess you don't) it would be cool if you made the math language into a setting.
For git, other than the add and commit buttons, it would be useful to have a "git gutter" which shows changes from the last commit. Which is the only git integration feature that you can't get away with external tools.
For spell checking, even just pulling in some dictionary, like the ones in vscode's cspell extension and having a basic dictionary check is much better than nothing.
Does it support KaTeX math, git integration, and spell checking? I'm using vscode for note taking but it's slow and power hungry
Systemd was actually a "clone" of apple's launchd. Similarities with windows arise from the fact that it makes sense to manage services in certain ways on modern OSs. Also services on windows are completely different from Linux and MacOS, they are even a different executable file format, not a normal exe.
[question] shadow of the tomb raider, native or proton-experimental
SOTTR can now run in proton-experimental (it used to crash due to a missing vulkan feature), but how does it compare to the native version?
Normally I would just use the native version, but got the game from epic, which doesn't provide the native build. So if I wanted to run native I would have to acquire the game from other sources (keep in mind that I own the game on epic), which is less than ideal. But I wouldn't do it if there's no advantage.
[question] Shadow of the tomb raider, native or proton-experimental
SOTTR can now run in proton-experimental (it used to crash due to a missing vulkan feature), but how does it compare to the native version?
Normally I would just use the native version, but got the game from epic, which doesn't provide the native build. So if I wanted to run native I would have to acquire the game from other sources (keep in mind that I own the game on epic), which is less than ideal. But I wouldn't do it if there's no advantage.
Looking for testing of a driver for GPUs with Asus aura lights
Do you have an AMD aura GPU? Do you also use Linux? There's this this driver that needs to be tested.
It allows you to control the lighting of the GPU using programs like openRGB.
I wrote that PR that should make it work for more GPUs, but I only have an RX 480 so I can only test that one. It would be useful to try it on a Vega gpu.
If you have an rDNA 1/2/3 GPU, it most likely won't work, but without the card there's nothing I can do.
On a side note, if you are interested in maintaining the driver it would be great.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Basically Kwin and other programs (simple xdg-desktop-portal or even gimp) crash and they bork the entire screen with no recovery other than rebooting. When the program that crash is Kwin it's particularly bad because it happens at login.
I can now control external display brightness from KDE and I don't know why. Thank you, nameless Linux contributor
This is a short appreciation/user experience story. Tl;Dr I'm enjoying my time on linux
I have been using Linux for a while (gnome for a year with an Intel UHD gpu, and KDE for a couple of months on a recent AMD gpu), and till now there was no brightness slider. Moreover, I have used the same display with windows for several years and there was no slider as well.
As far as I know (I looked up online some years ago, but this info is sometimes hard to find) my display supports DDC/CI but doesn't expose brightness (haven't actually tried).
For some reason, about a week ago a brightness slider appeared on KDE but it didn't do anything. Yesterday while updating some unrelated stuff I noticed the slider again and moved it for shit and giggles, and the brightness actually changed...
I have several questions... and I don't even know which piece of software is responsible for this... but thanks
I have been using Linux on and off for several years, often alongside windows, but I have entirely switched to it (almost, I still have a windows PC that I use once in a while) about 16 months ago. I have to say that Linux does take a lot more effort in getting some things to work, but when everything goes smoothly it's sooo good, and improves every month.
In the span of a year my desktop experience has only got better. But the shock was when I booted up an Ubuntu 16.04 cd I had lying around to fix grub on a dual boot machine and it was barely usable. Now instead it's almost "plug and play". Plus Nvidia cards are getting more and more usable with every update, explicit sync is almost merged, and prime works fine already.
There won't be a year of the Linux desktop anytime soon (there's still too much that needs improvement), but the next years will definitely be exciting.
P.s.: does any of you know why display brightness works now?
PhysX on Batman Arkham Asylum
I have a Nvidia gpu with the latest proprietary drivers, and I'm trying to play BAA from egs (using heroic) but physX doesn't work.
I have run the automatic winetricks (I don't know which ones because heroic doesn't tell) and I have tryed this also the environment variable PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1, but it still doesn't run on the gpu, even if the message "no hardware physx detected" stopped showing.
And if hardware acceleration doesn't work, I get the same behaviour on arkham city, but the game runs at double the framerate, even if using the cpu. Would it be possible to get asylum to run like city? I have tried swapping some dlls but nothing.
PhysX on Batman Arkham Asylum
I have a Nvidia gpu with the latest proprietary drivers, and I'm trying to play BAA from egs (using heroic) but physX doesn't work.
I have run the automatic winetricks (I don't know which ones because heroic doesn't tell) and I have tryed this also the environment variable PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1, but it still doesn't run on the gpu, even if the message "no hardware physx detected" stopped showing.
And if hardware acceleration doesn't work, I get the same behaviour on arkham city, but the game runs at double the framerate, even if using the cpu. Would it be possible to get asylum to run like city? I have tried swapping some dlls but nothing.
Nvidia prime on Wayland
Can I get a better Nvidia+Wayland experience by using prime and connecting the display to an AMD iGPU? I saw that in the last year Nvidia Prime had some improvements, do they make it feasible?
I can't just try it because I have yet to buy said AMD iGPU. And I'd like to know it before buying
Storing SSH keys on gnome-keyring, kwallet, ibsecret or similar
I don't like my ssh keys being stored in plain sight, I also don't like having to type a passphrase to use them.
On windows, once you run ssh-add, the key is stored in a secure way and managed by some kind of session manager (source), at that point you can delete the key file and go about your life knowing that the key is safe and you won't need to type a password again.
I would like something similar on linux, like storing the key via libsecret as you do with git, so that you can access your servers without having a key in plain text.
I think it's possible to generate a key with a passphrase and have gnome-keyring or kwallet remember the passphrase, but it would be nicer to just securely store the key itself.
Can that be done?
[question] Switching rgb range at monitor plugin
I have a projector that needs limited rgb range, but for some reason (maybe a faulty hdmi-vga dongle) the intel driver selects full range. I want to force the limited rgb range when I plug the projector, but I need it set to auto normally, because my usual monitor needs full range.
I read this guide that explains how to use proptest to switch mode when in wayland. The problem is that running the command when the gnome session is open doesn't work and returns an error 243 (I can't find it in errno.h, but google says its EACCESS).
The guide deals with this by launching the command with systemd before gdm starts, but as I said, I only want to force the limited range when using the projector.
I noticed that I can switch to a tty, set the range, and switch back to gnome while everything is still running and it works, which is my current "workaround", and I'd like to automate it. So I thought that there's a moment when gnome "takes control" of a screen where this can be set. I tried to use a udev rule to switch as soon as a monitor is plugged, but it exits with 243 as usual. I suspect gdm has a way to automate such things that might possibly work, but I can't find it, I only read about some xorg scripts.
Also, there's this issue that's being worked on. One of the commenters uses an udev rule as a work arount but it doesn't work for me.
[Question] Splitting headphones and internal speakers on a thinkpad with fedora
When the jack is inserted the internal speakers stop making sound and the only analog out is the jack, as it's common on laptops. But I want to address the two analog output individually so that I can:
- Still select the speakers when headphones are plugged
- Have different sounds come from headphones and speaker
- Mix them with carla or other audio software
My alsa/pipewire settings are all default, I'm on a thinkpad t480s with fedora 38. My sound card is an intel hd audio card, with a realtek ALC257 analog chip.
I tried disabling auto_mute and rising the volume from alsamixer but nothing happens. Then I switching pipewire to "pro audio" but it doesn't separate the analog outputs. I also tried setting the indep_hp hint from hdarackretask but it doesn't change anything.
The hint enables a new "independent hp" option in alsamixer, but it can only be enabled by the cli and it doesn't work either.
I can provide configuration files or other info if needed but since they are all pretty long I didn't include them in the post. Also because I didn't edit them so they are just fedora's default.
Thanks
Can I apply a shader to the whole screen?
Is there a way to apply a apply an opengl shader to the entire screen in either gnome or kde using Wayland? I know hyprland has something like that, but I don't use tiling WMs.
I have an ald projector that I mainly use for game streaming or jellyfin, that has misaligned RGB panels. This model in particular cannot be adjusted, you can only replace the prism assembly all together (which I have no intention of buying). But I have tested that shader that simply samples about one pixel to the left/right is enough to fix the problem almost entirely.
Also, it would be perfect if I could also pass to the shader a uniform sampler of an image file, that I need to perform some extra color corrections. The green color is weaker on some areas, and I have a picture to use as a mask of those areas.