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How much of a pain is it to install Nvidia GPU drivers, really?
  • It's usually just one command to run.

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    ich☕👮iel
  • Was ist ein Dras-Tisch?

  • 2006-02-07
  • I read that it originally just said "bone" instead of rib. And it's speculated that they meant the penis bone that is present in many mammals except for humans.

    Kinda makes sense. It's a reproductive organ after all.

  • Ace Ventura 1+2
  • Liebe die Filme. Aber das Ende von Teil 1 ist mir inzwischen zu transphob. Hab nie verstanden warum die alle Kotzen müssen.

  • [Help] Missing games from GoG using Heroic
  • Sounds like some kind of censorship. Do you have a VPN that places you in Germany? Germany is weird with the Wolfenstein games.

  • [Epic] CHUCHEL
  • Awesome little game! Grab it for your kids.

  • I have used Windows all my life, and I have some questions.
  • Oh, also the biggest difference between Linux and Windows is that you don't go to different websites to install new software. In general you use your distribution's package manager. Think of it like a software center.

    Going to a website to download software is a last ditch effort if your distribution doesn't have what you are looking for.

  • I have used Windows all my life, and I have some questions.
  • Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?

    Many games with draconian anti cheat don't work. You can check that on https://areweanticheatyet.com/ and https://www.protondb.com/.

    Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?

    Do you mean creating or applying mods? Some of the tools might not run out of the box. But for most mods you actually just have to place the files in the correct folder.

    If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?

    Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?

    Wine is the program used to run Windows software. It is used by Steam together with some other tools under the name Proton or Steam Play. It is best to use Wine with a helper frontend like Bottles. That creates an encapsulated Windows environment for every program and helps you in keeping potentially conflicting workarounds separate from each other.

    But you can also run Wine standalone. Then every program will be installed to the same fake-Windows environment.

    Missing libraries like .Net or the Visual C++ Runtime are actually the most common pitfall when trying to run Windows software on Linux. Bottles, Steam and other helpers will aid in their installation.

    How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a "Linux Update" program like what Windows has?

    Every distribution has an application repository that also contains the system files. In general you update everything at once through one interface.

    How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?

    Open source makes it more safe. You have more eyes on the software. And something that is only safe because nobody knows how it works isn't really safe.

    Antivirus software's is not necessary. Neither is it necessary on Windows. It makes a system less secure because it opens up more possibilities of something going wrong. There have been enough cases of anti virus software with security issues on Windows. Or even anti virus software attacking important system files directly.

    That said, if you still want to install a virus scanner there is ClamAV.

    Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux

    AMD and Intel greatly, because they are open source. They are integrated and don't need any configuration or installation.

    Nvidia is worse. You have to install them yourself and sometimes they are unstable. But it's not worse than on Windows.

    Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?

    Only if you really try and even then it's probably impossible. Hardware nowadays has many safeguards.

    And also, what distro might be best for me?

    If you have friends or family already using Linux you should install what they use.

    I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

  • Stay rule
  • Huh, you're right. I guess at a position you can use it to define a point. A point where you don't move in any other direction.

  • Disk write error due to read-only filesystem
  • Valve recommend against using NTFS for the Steam library on Linux. I don't know the specifics as to what could go wrong..

  • Thursday Triumphs

    What went well for you? Today or this week. No matter how small, let's celebrate the good things in our lives!

    I'll try to post this regularly.

    I'm feeling a little bit better. Hope the trend continues.

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    Stay rule
  • Apparently it is just the slightest bit warmer on one side. It's called the dipole of the cmb. I don't fully understand it, but as far as I know astrophysicists don't understand it either. ;-)

  • I'm liking all the political memes today, but some things are too important to ignore
  • Wait, does Disnep want to do the New Jedi Order? Or do you think OG fans think it's bad?

    I actually loved it. Was something new and not the same old Imperial Warlord with a Superweapon shtick. Guess why I didn't like The Force Awakens.

  • What would this guy's name most likely be
  • Looks like Gordon Freeman to me.

  • I got a girlfriend
  • Are you a girl as well? And this your cup?

  • Stay rule
  • Well, it's the only thing we know of that can be used in the whole universe.

  • Evil rule that kills you
  • That's the one auto installed by Google, right?

  • What are the hearts?
  • Upvotes minus downvotes

  • Minecraft confuses me
  • Hmm, did they patch that out? I haven't played much but I distinctly remember being surprised by this.

  • [KEIN] Datenschutz: Ebay nutzt jetzt Kundendaten für KI-Training - Opt-Out hier: https://accountsettings.ebay.de/ai-preferences
  • Und dann muss Ebay alle trainierten Modelle und befüllten Datenbanken löschen, richtig?

  • Minecraft confuses me
  • More or less. When you kill cows you get meat and sometimes milk.

  • Kreatin update

    For all the two people interested in a Kreatin update. https://swg-empire.de/post/2801694

    I think it actually helped me get a little bit better. I'm still bed ridden but I felt like I'm on a good trajectory. Friends and family also say that I seem to be a little bit more awake.

    But it always made me pretty depressed about 1-2 hours after taking it. But much worse I started getting muscle cramps despite drinking lots of water. It got so bad that last night I feared that I wouldn't be able to sleep.

    I'm going to stop taking it, look how I feel and then probably continue with a lower dose of 3 g per day.

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    DnD Memes @sh.itjust.works Björn Tantau @swg-empire.de
    SMBC

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/18562922

    > 2006-01-19 > > https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-01-19 > > No alt text > > ::: spoiler Bonus panel > !Bonus panel > :::

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    ich🪿iel

    Man beachte den freundlichen Hintergrund, der gekonnt von meinem pict-rs Bediener vernichtet worden ist.

    Es war mein Betrachter. Sehet und staunet!

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    Pacing 101

    cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5623716

    > ##### This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot. > The original was posted on /r/cfs by /u/Johannes_Keppler on 2025-04-11 08:11:54+00:00.

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    Thursday Triumphs

    What went well for you? Today or this week. No matter how small, let's celebrate the good things in our lives!

    I'll try to post this regularly.

    My illness is chronic but my tits are iconic.

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    me_irl

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60012482

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    Anyone tried Kreatin?

    I started a few days ago on 8 grams a day and since today with 3 grams of glucose on top. I feel strange. Jittery. With heat flashes. Mentally bad. All in all it feels like stopping to take antidepressants so I hope it's not somehow interfering with the Venlafaxin my doctor prescribed.

    But it's the first time in a long while that I'm feeling anything from anything I tried so I will keep taking it a while longer.

    Here's a study on the subject. https://www.deutschesgesundheitsportal.de/2024/06/03/long-covid-symptomlinderung-mit-kreatin-plus-glukose/

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    196 gets us

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35700769

    > when you come to the conclusion you're rule, sleep doesn't come easily

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    These are the people researching my condition

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40980009

    > Aptly ruled

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    [Solved] How can I free space in BTRFS?

    Edit 2: Through all of my shenanigans I ended up on a read-only snapshot for root. The error I got just seemed similar to previous out-of-space errors. I went to a later snapshot as default and everything is working great!

    My OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is wonky since I last did a dist-upgrade with about 4000 packages. Midway through it errord out with an error that indicated that the filesystem was full althou df showed plenty of free space.

    BTRFS seemed to be the culprit. Removing snapshots let me continue the upgrade until it errored out again. Rinse and repeat until it was done.

    Edit: My root subvolume is read only. So there must be some error in that. The other subvolumes work correctly. So I guess it isn't about free space after all.

    But now the BTRFS seems to be almost full and I cannot update anymore.

    ... Checking for file conflicts: .....................[done]error: can't create transaction lock on /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/.rpm.lock (Read-only file system) ( 1/40) Removing: ovpn-dco-kmp-default-0.2.202412[error]Removal of (76899)ovpn-dco-kmp-default-0.2.20241216~git0.a08b2fd_k6.13.7_1-2.2.x86_64(@System) failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1. Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): Problem occurred during or after installation or removal of packages: Installation has been aborted as directed. Please see the above error message for a hint.

    I've tried a full balance but that didn't even seem to help. So I suspect that the space is caught up in snapshots, but I can't delete them.

    ```

    snapper list

    │ Type │ Pre # │ Date │ User │ Used Space │ Cleanup │ Description │ Userdata ─────┼────────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────── 0 │ single │ │ │ root │ │ │ current │ 1 │ single │ │ Thu 18 Apr 2024 05:58:31 PM CEST │ root │ 12.51 GiB │ number │ first root filesystem │365* │ pre │ │ Wed 26 Mar 2025 04:28:33 PM CET │ root │ 16.00 KiB │ number │ zypp(zypper) │ important=no 366 │ pre │ │ Wed 26 Mar 2025 07:28:09 PM CET │ root │ 16.00 KiB │ number │ zypp(zypper) │ important=no 367 │ pre │ │ Wed 26 Mar 2025 07:36:53 PM CET │ root │ 16.00 KiB │ number │ zypp(zypper) │ important=no

    ```

    ```

    snapper rm 1

    Deleting snapshot failed. ```

    ```

    snapper rm 365

    Cannot delete snapshot 365 since it is the currently mounted snapshot. ```

    ```

    btrfs filesystem usage /

    Overall: Device size: 476.44GiB Device allocated: 389.06GiB Device unallocated: 87.37GiB Device missing: 0.00B Device slack: 3.50KiB Used: 382.53GiB Free (estimated): 90.80GiB (min: 47.12GiB) Free (statfs, df): 90.80GiB Data ratio: 1.00 Metadata ratio: 2.00 Global reserve: 512.00MiB (used: 0.00B) Multiple profiles: no Data,single: Size:381.00GiB, Used:377.57GiB (99.10%) /dev/mapper/cr_root 381.00GiB Metadata,DUP: Size:4.00GiB, Used:2.48GiB (61.97%) /dev/mapper/cr_root 8.00GiB System,DUP: Size:32.00MiB, Used:80.00KiB (0.24%) /dev/mapper/cr_root 64.00MiB Unallocated: /dev/mapper/cr_root 87.37GiB ```

    ```

    btrfs qgroup show /

    Qgroupid Referenced Exclusive Path -------- ---------- --------- ---- 0/5 16.00KiB 16.00KiB <toplevel> 0/256 16.00KiB 16.00KiB @ 0/257 14.25GiB 14.25GiB @/var 0/258 16.00KiB 16.00KiB @/usr/local 0/259 16.00KiB 16.00KiB @/srv 0/260 54.32MiB 54.32MiB @/root 0/261 24.09GiB 24.09GiB @/opt 0/262 289.02GiB 288.95GiB @/home 0/263 16.00KiB 16.00KiB @/boot/grub2/x86_64-efi 0/264 16.00KiB 16.00KiB @/boot/grub2/i386-pc 0/265 16.00KiB 16.00KiB @/.snapshots 0/266 24.00GiB 12.51GiB @/.snapshots/1/snapshot 0/473 16.00GiB 16.00GiB @/.snapshots/1/snapshot/swap 0/657 23.68GiB 16.00KiB @/.snapshots/365/snapshot 0/661 23.68GiB 16.00KiB @/.snapshots/366/snapshot 0/662 23.68GiB 16.00KiB @/.snapshots/367/snapshot 1/0 36.19GiB 36.12GiB <0 member qgroups> ```

    Any tips?

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    Thursday Triumphs

    What went well for you? Today or this week. No matter how small, let's celebrate the good things in our lives!

    I'll try to post this regularly.

    I started a website to collect all my late grandmother's art. She made great paintings and collected other great art. I hope my relatives will help me in getting photos and descriptions. So far they all like the idea but nobody except for my sister in law sent in any photos. Hopefully that will change in the next few days.

    For anyone curious it's at https://brigitte-tantau.de/.

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    bjoern_tantau Björn Tantau @swg-empire.de

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