Fuck that platform, if it dies right now the world will be a better place overnight. That being said, I’m against it being banned - imo if we’re petitioning for anything, it should be to get governments off of it and onto better alternatives.

For anyone else who was using the /etc/environment hack to reenable nvidia or intel HDR, it’s okay to remove it now

I remember being able to figure out a solution with the kwin docs and dfeet for introspection, but it was a while ago and my memory is less than stellar lol. I ended up running all my window-related logic in the kwin script (js) and just using python+dbus to see if the script had been injected and do it if not. If you go the same route (though the python is unnecessary this way if you aren’t using it for something else, like running one of the windows you wanna manipulate) the workspace global variable stores all windows in stackingOrder, so looping through that list (for (window of workspace.stackingOrder) {…}) is an easy way to check each window. I definitely remember docs on the workspace/windows part, but tbh I think I just introspected with the jsconsole.log and the log kwin prints it to (journalctl maybe?). Sorry I don’t remember more about the process, I got into the kwin scripting for all of an hour cuz of the Wayland regression of not being able to control your own window’s size/position in qt so it was a bit of a hack fix I haven’t had to think about since.

I’ve had good luck interfacing with KDE windows using dbus in python, although if I remember right the more granular control also required javascript (still passed thru dbus with python). The only python library I needed was Qt (for their dbus implementation because I was already using their event loop, but any other lightweight dbus package should work fine).

In Canada we have Kijiji, which is… not perfect for privacy, but at least it’s not facebook

You can also just hold power + volume up while it’s locked, once you feel the buzz it won’t accept biometrics until you put in the password.

Never entered a giveaway before cuz I prefer to lurk w/o an account, but since I’m trying to be more active on here anyway… 😂

I hadn’t, and it was definitely worth reading so thanks for the link. I’m still not sure exactly where I stand on the big AI companies relentlessly scraping everything for training data, but that was very convincing that copyright laws aren’t the solution (and I already believed better labour laws were needed for artists, though the details of exactly how music artists are getting shafted were new to me). Thanks for the link!

Whether or not you agree with AI image generation, the authors of this study have pulled off something impressive. This particular study isn’t going to be the single most important thing to humanity this year, sure, but they made a pretty clever stride in pushing a developing field forward and you don’t need to be excited about the field itself to appreciate that.
I’m assuming your dislike for AI image generation is based on the plagiarism issue, which is absolutely valid, but model architecture is separate from training data and the concepts here are perfectly usable with a more moral training set. The companies scraping all the data - OpenAI, google, and to a much lesser extent stability AI - are the ones to blame for that problem, not researchers working on model architecture.

I did a search for nvidia on my system and got these, which OP might wanna check for too:

egl-wayland
lib32-nvidia-utils
libvdpau
libxnvctrl
nvidia-open
nvidia-settings
nvidia-utils
opencl-nvidia 

I’ve installed extra packages for proton and machine learning, so some of these may not be there, but hopefully that helps.

Wow apparently I missed that whole launch, thank you for the correction

I don’t know how far down the line that upgrade might be, but I’ve recently used both a 1080 and the latest-gen (see reply below) an AMD igpu (7600x) and I gotta say the 1080 is still significantly more powerful. Maybe if the upgrade is soon hold off on selling the 1080 until you see if you’re satisfied with the igpu performance?

Well your /efi entry looks right to me - maybe try mount -a (maybe capital A, going off memory here but whichever option is all) and watch for error messages or check dmesg?

sdb looks like the bootable USB to me - /dev/sda1 should be the system’s EFI, no? OP, could you try mounting that one (shouldn’t be encrypted afaik) and/or post the output of cat /etc/fstab? Edit: just realized you were unable to mount the encrypted drive in the first place so /etc is inaccessible, sorry

I ran it (bg3.exe) through the latest vanilla proton (9.0.1 I think?) earlier today and it had no issues. I used the experimental version for character creation and it had some fucked up textures (color banding mostly), but after switching it ran perfectly in the stable version. I’m running thru steam on a nvidia gpu, so hopefully on amd you’ll be fine if you try that.

I don’t normally comment on anything but I literally have to know: did you use ChatGPT to write the first two paragraphs of your post? I skimmed your last couple posts and I don’t think you’re a bot, but this one and what looks like a battle rap(?) from the perspective of trump just give me major ChatGPT vibes. No judgement either way, I’m just curious if ChatGPT’s out here passing the Turing test lol.