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  1. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games

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    So part of the storage overhaul is to change the filter types so that multiple items can go into one chest. An example would be a chest for all oak wood variants, such as logs, stripped logs,...

    So part of the storage overhaul is to change the filter types so that multiple items can go into one chest. An example would be a chest for all oak wood variants, such as logs, stripped logs, planks, stairs, half slabs, fences, and fence gates. There will be also a bulk storage system, where one chest would just be dedicated to shulkers of stone blocks but half slabs, stairs, and such would be in another area.

    One build I want to get around to at one point is a redstone lab in town, which part of it would be autocrafters for every component, and the other area of it would just be a workspace where people can test redstone without having to switch to a creative world

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  2. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games

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    How far it goes also depends on if we end up integrating shulker boxes into farms and storage systems. I do plan on at some point doing a community storage overhaul, and I am considering putting...

    How far it goes also depends on if we end up integrating shulker boxes into farms and storage systems. I do plan on at some point doing a community storage overhaul, and I am considering putting deepslate, cobbled deepslate, stone, cobblestone, and dirt into shulker boxes automatically. Although, not fully sure when I will do the community storage system overhaul, as I have been playing other games for the past few weeks

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  3. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    Yeah, I honestly just have not spent enough time to Solaar to fully get the fine details ironed out yet

    Yeah, I honestly just have not spent enough time to Solaar to fully get the fine details ironed out yet

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  4. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    I haven't heard of Distrobox before. It seems really interesting, and I may play around with it in a VM to figure out if I want to install it.

    I haven't heard of Distrobox before. It seems really interesting, and I may play around with it in a VM to figure out if I want to install it.

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  5. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    on Fedora KDE Ctrl+Alt+T does bring up the terminal, so interesting that it doesn't on GNOME.

    on Fedora KDE Ctrl+Alt+T does bring up the terminal, so interesting that it doesn't on GNOME.

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  6. Comment on Follow up on the username thread: What Tildes users do you recognize when browsing and, without being rude or inflammatory, what is your impression of them? in ~tildes

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    The server has definitely fostered a sense of community, that has extended onto Tildes. It is also cool when I post something on Tildes and then a casual conversation happens when I join the...

    The server has definitely fostered a sense of community, that has extended onto Tildes. It is also cool when I post something on Tildes and then a casual conversation happens when I join the server (most recently with my Linux experience). I also enjoy the server conversations on cultural differences

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  7. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    No major issues. So I was able to easily switch the RGB colors and I believe the DPI via Solaar. I haven't played around with it much, but at first glance the side thumb button cannot be...

    No major issues. So I was able to easily switch the RGB colors and I believe the DPI via Solaar. I haven't played around with it much, but at first glance the side thumb button cannot be programmed. I did not look too much into it though. The thumb back and forward buttons do work though. It is also an extremely popular mouse so you should be able to find support on it. Also, it appears that it has onboard profiles, so it may be able to be configured on Windows and then saved to the mouse, but I have not looked into that yet.

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  8. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    Depending on your audio hardware, it may either not be supported hardware, require configuration in audio settings, or require a driver to be installed. I have a bit of a complex audio setup....

    Depending on your audio hardware, it may either not be supported hardware, require configuration in audio settings, or require a driver to be installed. I have a bit of a complex audio setup. Normal use I run a Schiit Modi DAC and that runs via USB and worked right out of the box. It is worth noting that for the Schiit Modi, it did not require a driver on Windows either, and is a plug and play device, so on both Windows and Linux all it required was switching it to the selected device in audio settings. For when I need to use a mic, I switch over to running my audio through a Soundcraft Notepad 12FX. On Windows this required a driver to setup, but did not have an offical one for Linux. Luckily, there is a third party driver that I could install, and then it worked as expected.

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  9. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    I feel like I undersold my experience with Linux, so I will go back and edit that section. It isn't that I am unfamiliar with Linux, more so that I have not daily driven it on my main device. I...

    I feel like I undersold my experience with Linux, so I will go back and edit that section. It isn't that I am unfamiliar with Linux, more so that I have not daily driven it on my main device. I have had a laptop that was struggling with Windows so I swapped it over to Linux a few years ago. It is more that in switching my desktop over to Linux, I had higher expectations on what it had to achieve whereas on my old laptop I really only needed it for basic web browsing occasionally.

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  10. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    The drivers should be up to date, but it is worth a double check. As for why you do not get visual glitches, I think some of it may be due to ATI over nvidia, but also as you mentioned you don't...

    The drivers should be up to date, but it is worth a double check.

    As for why you do not get visual glitches, I think some of it may be due to ATI over nvidia, but also as you mentioned you don't put your computer to sleep (which tends to be when my glitches occur). I am not a fan of the idea of always leaving my desktop on. It feels a bit wasteful to me to do even if it is a small amount of electricity.

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  11. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    I am more surprised at how willing I am to go into the terminal than I was expecting I would. I know how to use the terminal, but was thinking before switching that I would never want to open it,...

    I am more surprised at how willing I am to go into the terminal than I was expecting I would. I know how to use the terminal, but was thinking before switching that I would never want to open it, but I am just finding it convenient to use for some things (some tasks I do default to using a GUI though). I will agree that terminal usage does prevent mass adoption, but I feel like it not being on a device by default is a bigger hurdle (very few people change things from defaults unless they are experienced with other options or have a pain point that is bigger than the pain of switching).

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  12. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    I bought Far Cry 5 while planning this transition (it was on sale and I have been wanting to play it for a while), so I did check ProtonDB before buying it. On the specialized software, I have...

    I bought Far Cry 5 while planning this transition (it was on sale and I have been wanting to play it for a while), so I did check ProtonDB before buying it.

    On the specialized software, I have noticed that slightly. I have three devices that require drivers that are not released on Linux (a USB audio mixer, Logitech G502, and Logitech MX Master 3). For the audio mixer luckily someone created the driver on their own, which came in clutch and for the Logitech devices I am just runniing Solaar for now.

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  13. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    That makes sense, I did know about Window's battery issue in sleep, and just never connected the dots on how complex sleep is and how that is impacting my experience on Linux. If I end up figuring...

    That makes sense, I did know about Window's battery issue in sleep, and just never connected the dots on how complex sleep is and how that is impacting my experience on Linux. If I end up figuring out a series of commands that helps things reload properly, I will probably write a simple BASH script to reload things. However, I am still in early troubleshooting stages so haven't found the right combination yet.

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  14. Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week

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    I thought I would share my thoughts and experiences daily driving Linux (Fedora KDE Plasma) for the past week. Why did I switch from Windows to Linux? My plan was to switch to Linux once Windows...

    I thought I would share my thoughts and experiences daily driving Linux (Fedora KDE Plasma) for the past week.

    Why did I switch from Windows to Linux?

    My plan was to switch to Linux once Windows 10 hit EoL in Fall 2025. This was due to my computer not supporting Windows 11. This past September, my computer broke (probably MoBo), and so I swapped out my CPU and MoBo, which probably can support Windows 11. However, this hardware swap unactivated my Windows, Microsoft support was not helpful, and I am not a fan of the direction Windows is heading in (removing local accounts, Recall, and a general vibe I get from Microsoft of removing control from end users). So, I decided to make the jump to Linux a year sooner than expected.

    My Previous Experience with Linux

    So I would say I am moderately experienced with Linux before this. Personally, I have setup a Proxmox server, in which I setup an openmediavault NAS, and played around with various desktop distros for personal curiosity. I also switched my old laptop over to Linux a few years back, but had very low requirements of the tasks that laptop had to perform. I also took a post secondary class on Linux, primarily covering system administration tasks like BASH/PERL scripting, Apache server admin, LDAP, and file sharing all using Ubuntu. So going into this I had a moderate amount of experience, all within Debian based distros. The bigger change with switching my desktop is that it is my primary computer, so the expectations of what it needed to run was higher.

    Why I chose Fedora KDE Plasma

    I did a post about a month ago asking for recommendations to look into: https://tildes.net/~tech/1ji6/switching_to_linux_looking_for_distro_recommendations
    I settled on Fedora KDE Plasma for a few reasons:

    • I appreciate the philosophy of not being rolling release like Arch, but also a quicker release cycle than Ubuntu and its forks. I felt this was a good middle ground where I get newer advances without dealing with stuff breaking frequently when there was a new update.
    • It can handle most tasks graphically, without having to dig into the console often (more on this later).
    • I appreciate the Windows-esque styling of KDE Plasma. I got used to Windows so didn't want a radical shake up. However, it feels to me like a better version of Windows (or maybe just not touch screen oriented and ad bloated).

    Headaches/glitches

    Some of these are ongoing, while others were issues that I have worked through

    • FIXED: Installing nvidia drivers via RPM Fusion. Before installing drivers, the computer was unstable and frequently froze. I ended up just loading a command line only interface and manually typing in the commands to install RPM Fusion and the nvidia drivers. I was planning on installing it via command line anyway, so the main headache here was typing it out instead of copy and pasting the commands in. I also had an issue where I initially installed the wrong drivers.
    • ONGOING/INFREQUENT: Occasionally when I wake the computer from sleep, at the lock screen, my mouse is responsive, but my keyboard is not. Also, selecting the virtual keyboard does not work, as the virtual keyboard does not load. I tried waiting for the computer to go back to sleep, and then wake it from sleep to see if it reloads things properly. The computer does not go to sleep normally, so the solution right now is to just shut down the computer and then it is solved.
    • FIXED: Steam launched games not closing properly. Specifically Far Cry 5, which runs properly, when I exit the game, the process does not fully close down. From my perspective, it seems like it has, but Steam indicates that it is still running. The solution is to go into System Monitor and close down the Steam application with high resource usage, as that is actually the game still running in the background.
    • ONGOING/INFREQUENT/PARTIALLY FIXED: When I wake the computer from sleep, and login, there is a large amount of visual glitches and artifacts on my desktop environment. It is both in applications and especially on the Panel. The current solution is to run the command systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell which drastically improves the situation, but the glitches are still partially there. This has just started last night, so probably a computer restart may solve the problem, but I am trying to avoid having to constantly restart the computer.
    • FIXED: As Far Cry 5 was a brand new game, when launching it from Steam for the first time, Ubisoft's software wanted me to enter a CD Key, but Steam was not giving me one. Thinking this was a Linux related issue, I switched to my Windows install, and had the same issue. Turns out it is a Ubisoft bug in their software that also impacted Windows. I found a solution online on how to solve it for Windows, did that and authenticated the game. Then I switched over to Linux and the game ran well.
    • FIXED: KDE Wallet Service was doing an excessive amount of prompts. I uninstalled the software, but the prompts continued. Turns out it needs to be disabled before being uninstalled, or the prompts continue. So I had to reinstall it, disable it, then uninstall it. Annoying but minor and it is fixed now.
    • ONGOING/INFREQUENT/PARTIALLY SOLVED: When waking from sleep, sometimes my background image on my primary display does not fully cover the desktop. This is most likely due to my primary display being 1920x1080, and my secondary display being 1600x900, so the image is not being scaled independently for both displays. The solution right now is to open the settings to change background, and load any image, but not save changes, as this causes my original image to be reloaded properly

    Installing/Running Applications

    I have been primarily using Flatpaks to install applications. Overall it has been a smooth process. One pain point I have is it seems that the Minecraft Official Launcher for non-Debian systems is kind of clunky requiring me to login to my Microsoft account every time I open the game. This will probably be solved by switching to a third party launcher in the near future. The one software that I haven't gotten around to installing yet is DaVinci Resolve.

    What Surprised Me so Far?

    There are a few things that have been a pleasant surprise:

    • I use the console more than I expected going into it. For flatpaks, I tend to just copy and paste the commands into console. RPM Fusion also had a GUI based install option but I preferred the console option instead. I also have VIM installed, and use that as my digital notepad, just doing simple console commands of vi fileName in my home directory. I was not expecting to use the console as much as I have been, and I think that is partially due to now being more experienced with it, I gravitate towards using the console which I know how to use instead of learning how to do some tasks via a GUI..
    • Most things are running better than expected. I haven't touched many games yet, but I haven't had an issue with it yet. It is worth noting that I do not play competitive shooters, so anti-cheat is not something I will have to fight with.
    • Libre Office can open my .docx files. I was concerned I may have to convert my existing files to .odt before I can use them, but that does not appear to be the case. I will probably use .odt for new files going forward. It is also worth noting that I haven't worked extensively with my .docx files yet, so there may be some incompatibilities I have yet to encounter.

    Overall Thoughts:

    Overall I have quite enjoyed running Linux. It does require some tinkering as glitches appear, which currently I am fine with. If I had less free time to tinker and solve the issues, I would probably find Linux to be less viable and more frustrating. Also, most of my glitches can be solved by restarting the computer, although I am trying to find solutions that do not require that. I find it allows me to use the computer and change it to how I want it to be, which I have felt like Windows has gotten increasingly hostile towards the user. A good comparison on this is how the default applications that KDE has included are easy to remove, whereas Windows used to (not sure if it still does) reinstall Microsoft Teams when you uninstalled it.

    Edits:

    • Added the glitch with background image
    • Added more information on my background with Linux, including using it on my laptop
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  15. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games

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    A few months ago I would have voted in favour of disabling fire spread. However, I do not feel like it has caused that much issue, and therefore would probably prefer it left enabled. I did have...

    A few months ago I would have voted in favour of disabling fire spread. However, I do not feel like it has caused that much issue, and therefore would probably prefer it left enabled. I did have my place recently struck by lightning, but the damage was minimal (and kind of my fault for refusing to place any lightning rods). However, I do know it also limits some building opportunities to have it enabled

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  16. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games

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    As a proud (and maybe only) member of using horses instead of elytras, I feel like that is a skill issue, and therefore does not need to be desecrated with warning lights

    As a proud (and maybe only) member of using horses instead of elytras, I feel like that is a skill issue, and therefore does not need to be desecrated with warning lights

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  18. Comment on Is ADHD really that debilitating? in ~health.mental

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    As a male with ADHD, I have to wonder why a man is making this point/contributing to this discussion? To answer your question about ADHD as a whole, it is a spectrum. Some have it worse than...

    Someone ( a man ) replied back to tell me that ADHD women have enough to deal with these days and proceeded to list all the ways something like that could fail.

    As a male with ADHD, I have to wonder why a man is making this point/contributing to this discussion?

    To answer your question about ADHD as a whole, it is a spectrum. Some have it worse than others, and everyone has days that are worse than other days. I have days that are dysfunctional where I get next to nothing done, even though I want to. Other times, if the thing is engaging I find that I have to tell myself to stop working on the productive thing I am working on because I need to go to bed. An email reminder may just cause me guilt and shame as I see the notification but do not have the energy to do it. Or, it may be the thing to actually remind me to do the task.

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  19. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games

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    One farm that could be useful that I thought of is redoing or repairing our shulker farm. The output is quite low, so either fixing the design or doing a new design would be beneficial. I believe...

    One farm that could be useful that I thought of is redoing or repairing our shulker farm. The output is quite low, so either fixing the design or doing a new design would be beneficial. I believe that working with shulkers in setting up the farm can be quite finnicky, so if it seems above your comfort level don't feel like you have to do it.

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  20. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games

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    For a contribution in town, something that is always appreciated is for people who have settled out of town to build a vacation home/embassy/travel agency in town. I appreciate seeing town being...

    For a contribution in town, something that is always appreciated is for people who have settled out of town to build a vacation home/embassy/travel agency in town. I appreciate seeing town being filled with other players houses.

    If you want a communal project, the best option is to create something you need. An example is how you wanted a better source of leather, so when that happens ask the community if there is a farm for that, and if there is not a good farm, build one.

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