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  • Synapse@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlAMD vs Nvidia
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    6 days ago

    FOSS driver only, the choices are AMD and Intel. Nvidia is out of the picture.

    Of coursenouveau drivers are still around and under active development, but as far as I know the performance if still very far from reasonable expectations.


  • There are some plug’n’play solutions out there, all off-the-shelf NAS you can find nowadays will have an “app store” type of things that will let you install Jellyfin and others Webservice in one click.

    The DIY way is cheaper, more flexible, more powerful, but it’s a journey and it can be very frustrating. I too, regularly spend hours if not days on problems that end up basically as “I’m an idiot and had a typo in the config file the whole time”. It’s a hobby for me, I don’t feel like it’s wasted time, I enjoy it, I’m learning stuff.



  • If you want to bring more people to Linux, preaching is really not a good way to do that. We are not a religion, we are not a cult. We are an enthousiastic bunch or nerds :)

    Avoid behind judgemental of people that use Windows, Mac or other proprietary software. Do not talk about Linux in length when it was not solicited.

    Instead, you can show how enthusiastic you are about all the cool things you are doing with your computer that happens to be running Linux!

    When people around you, do make the choice to switch, of their own will, then offer your help with all the patience and understanding you have.

    All the best 🐧🐧🐧




  • I use 2 VPN with my setup:

    1. The private one, hosted on a VPS (OVHcloud). I set it up my self. It’s a bit of work, as you need to take care of properly setting up firewall and reasonably security this server as it is directly facing the Internet. OVH provids some good guides on their website and you can find other resources. You can rent the lowest tire VPS and deploy Debian and Wireguard and you’re all set ! This VPN is for connecting to my NAS at home from outside, and also for secure Internet browsing from public WiFi. This is my own VPN for me and myself (plus my family to a lesser extent).
    2. The one for Torrenting exclusively Linux ISO of course. This one is a Nord on subscription, and the benefits is not really privacy IMO but rather to be drown into the traffic of thousands of other users.




  • Synapse@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlTime to admit defeat
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    3 months ago

    You can make banane flambée !

    • Split the bananas length-wise as good as possible, they should split in 3.
    • lay them done in a pan
    • heat it until hot, no need to cook them too much
    • sprinkle with powdered sugar
    • prepare a shitshot glass of brown rhum and some matches (or lighter)
    • pour the shot on the bananas and light it on fire !!! 🔥
    • turn of the heat, let it extinguish buy itself

    Et voilà ! You have delicious caramelized banana desert!



  • Synapse@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlArdour 8.10 released
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    4 months ago

    Ardour is definitely professional grade, but I must say that it’s far from simple to setup. First, you may not have the latest version available in you SW repository and you would have to compile it yourself! Then, despite all the progress brought by pipewire, audio config in Linux is complicated and unreliable, especially for this time of work, requiring different audio devices, MIDI control interfaces and VSTs.

    I am not an audio professional, I’m an amateur, and found myself demotivated by the amount of work required until I am ready to create music, and finally gave up :(


  • I use Duplicity to backup my home directory, excluding Steam and Downloads folders. It is setup to backup weekly to my NAS mounted as NFS. The NAS has a weekly cron task to upload the backups to pCloud using rclone. I backup this way, several computers (2 desktop, 2 laptop, the NAS as well). The files included in this strategy are essentially my photos, documents and configs. My software installations, games, media library are not backed up.