Weimar Republic vibes. Will conservatives think they can control fascists and that they “won’t be that bad”? Hopefully they come to their senses, but I’m not holding my breath.

I’ll add I installed it on my OLED deck, and no obvious issues stand out. Chucked nix on it with the Determinate Nix Installer and deployed my Pipewire EQ and vkBasalt configs without issue (and without some of the audio output issues that SteamOS introduced with the 3.5 update). Oh and vkBasalt comes installed OOTB, which solves some maintenance annoyances with keeping it working on SteamOS.

Steam game mode UI feels slightly snappier, perhaps down to using the BORE CPU scheduler (but it could be placebo of course).

I heard it messes with mozilla firefox

It’s a Nvidia driver bug, so if you’re not on Nvidia you should be good.

Im getting slight fps drops that dont seem to relate to the steam fps counter.

You could try enabling mangohud with the full config. From steam launch options:

 MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full MANGOHUD=1 %command%

This will give you more detail than just FPS, although if you don’t still have your old setup it would be challenging to compare.

Project 2025 may be the unofficial platform, although officially adopting it may be a step too far for even the Republican party. If only because of the optics of it, not because they don’t agree with all of it.

Certainly Trump has suggested cleaning house of “liberal” members of the public service so he can install his own cronies that will let him do whatever he wants, which is in line with Project 2025.

Pipewire has built in EQ support (no GUI, but useful once you’ve chosen your settings), and you can use EasyEffects for a GUI to experiment with.

Pipewire also supports complex multichannel impulse responses (including the same files that Hesuvi supports if you supply them). Both of these are a bit challenging to configure it should be said, but it’s nice they they are just effectively outputs you can connect to once they are setup, and don’t require a bunch of programs running at once.

Here’s the official example for virtual sound with “hesuvi”: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/blob/master/src/daemon/filter-chain/sink-virtual-surround-7.1-hesuvi.conf

I’ve had issues with relative paths in the past for the filenames, so try setting a full path if it doesn’t work.

And here’s an example for EQ (you can add more channels if you need them): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/blob/master/src/daemon/filter-chain/sink-eq6.conf

You can also add a preamp if your EQ needs that which is just essentially a 0.0 freq, 0 Q filter and then you set the gain that you need. I didn’t need it as I’m not using external amps for any of my pipewire EQs.

One more thing I’ll add is that if you want the effect to also connect to a specific output (maybe your headphone EQ goes to one output, and your speaker EQ goes to a different one) you can set target.object=<your hardware output> in playback.props section. There’s an even better solution in wireplumber 0.5.X but I haven’t tried it yet and it might not be available on your system. Read this Collabora article if you’re interested.

Could be useful for PiKVM or equivalent.

The last time I tried a rebase from Kinoite to Bazzite it left me with a weird set of flatpaks and removed Firefox somehow

There’s a warning against this in the Bazzite FAQ, so that’s not too surprising. It’s referring to DEs, but different “distributions” also applies I presume. I hope that becomes solved in the long run, as it is one of the current downsides with Silverblue etc

Note: Not actual Linux ports to be clear but I believe the original versions already ran fine, including their limitations.

Yeah, I understand. It was more of a shout into the void type comment, then a criticism.

Yes, and consider using zstd (if it’s not the default on your distribution) and be pretty aggressive with the disk size since it has a high compression ratio. I normally set it to 100% (so zram disk size = physical RAM size), but you can experiment with different values.

Monado is the only semi-viable thing at the moment, but it’s still really in the tinkerer phase. Annoyingly, much of the discussion about it is on discord.

EDIT: And Linux VR Adventures is the place to go for relatively simple instructions about how to set things up, and what is currently supported.

Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

Adding replaygain tags to your content could help here, but it’s a manual process, particularly since it’s not normally included in released videos. And I’m not sure if jellyfin supports replaygain tags from video (presumably it does for audio only files).

mpv definitely does support it at least, with “–replaygain=track”.

Of course, none of this helps with OPs situation, because enabling replaygain will actually lower the volume on most files, so it can account for high dynamic range content.

The situation is a lot better with music, but it’s not perfect. There’s still issues with region locking content, and content only existing on one service and not another.

Should work out of the box with Plasma 5/6 (6 if you want HDR) and Sway.

VRR didn’t work with older firmware versions but there have been updates since so the manufacturer information may be out of date. If it doesn’t work, there are links in the gitlab thread for newer firmware (you’ll probably need Windows to update although I saw some vague references that it might be possible on Linux). The adapter is mostly useless on Windows for the record, although you can just swap to a direct HDMI connection in that case.

Oh and I’ll add there are some instances where you may need to power cycle your TV/monitor and/or switch console VTs, if you get a black screen or if HDR fails to toggle on/off.

And lastly, gamescope session didn’t work reliably last time I checked, but it’s been a while.

Most people are talking about fossil fuels in terms of electricity and transport, which can and should be transitioned to renewable energy and electric vehicles as fast as possible (ideally with some people moving away from cars altogether).

And the poll itself is specifically talking about renewable energy, so it’s not like the article is confused on that point.

Yes, manufacturing is a harder problem, especially when it’s not just used as an energy source. But the easier problems need to be attacked as quickly as possible to reduce the risk of runaway climate change.

I think there are more people that are #1 and #2 the same time

Probably where some of the attitude comes from. People are assuming that it’s paid IT people bringing their work home with them, which is a different case then a casual user trying out self-hosting without the broader background.

Although I haven’t seen this attitude myself so I suspect it’s not that common, and probably just a handful of users jumping to conclusions.

I haven’t tried it, but Tube Archivist may fit the bill.

The downside with ULA is that ipv4 is given preference, which is annoying on dual stack networks. I believe there is a draft RFC to change this but it will take a while for it to be approved and longer still for OSes to change their behaviour. I workaround it by using one of the unused (but not ULA) prefixes.

Pretty cool especially since it’s RISC-V. I’d have some concerns about the software and driver side of things, though (and the performance).

Ah Nvidia. Bazzite uses Wayland I believe since it uses the same gamescope session as SteamOS (unless something has changed recently). While it may be possible to get it working, I’d expect a much better time with an AMD card.

A traditional distribution may be a better bet with Nvidia for now.