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[Advice Needed] Wayland on GTR7 Pro 7940HS/Radeon 780M? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oops! I did wonder if it could be non-Nvidia. Oh well

Fuzzel: A great dmenu and rofi alternative for Wayland in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome, will give this a try on a new Arch install with hypr

[Advice Needed] Wayland on GTR7 Pro 7940HS/Radeon 780M? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I actually have an old laptop with a GTX 780M and a Core i3 3rd Gen running Arch.

When I tried GNOME on it with Fedora, it defaulted to X11 on login when it detected the Nvidia card. However, mine was also an Optimus laptop, and I could mostly always get Wayland working with the iGPU on the Intel. This is how I mostly ran for a year or two without ever using the dGPU.

I need to chuck in a new SSD on that, but I could check it out let you know if anything's changed in recent years. I don't think wayland support for older nvidia cards have even been worked on in the last couple of years. There's work for wayland on newer nvidia cards, but it's mostly still spotty.

The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yep I second this. I've been using GNOME, hyprland and sway interchangeably since 2021 Oct on my system as my main DEs. I recently wanted to give Plasma Wayland a try. Was met with multiple crashes, and freezes that required me to long press the power button to reboot to get it working again.

While the new rootless wayland on SDDM worked fine for me, there are several things in Plasma that still don't yet have support for Wayland. I could never get screen sharing to be reliable on Plasma Wayland, despite having the right portals installed.

GNOME, Sway, and Hyprland are miles ahead in having a stable system on Wayland.

Any recommended products for Network Attached Storage? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are you connecting the two drives to the Pi? Do they have external power supplies?

Easy to use apps for having a watch party? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is usually a function that full blown media servers offer.

Jellyfin is the one that jumps to mind with this functionality, however I haven't really this functionality out as of yet.

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Google pulls the AI Test Kitchen app from the Play Store (www.androidpolice.com)
 

Another one bites the dust less than a year after introduction

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Google alert failed to warn people of Turkey earthquake (www.bbc.com)
 

Google's earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February's deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found.

Google says its alert system can give users up to a minute's notice on their phones before an earthquake hits.

It says its alert was sent to millions before the first, biggest quake.

However, the BBC visited three cities in the earthquake zone, speaking to hundreds of people, and didn't find anyone who had received a warning.

The system works on Android phones, essentially any phone that isn't an iPhone. Android phones, which are often more affordable, make up about 80% of the phones in Turkey.

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While Android as a whole continues to shrink in the US, Google Pixel keeps growing (9to5google.com)
 

Android is struggling to keep its market share in the United States, as Apple continues to take over in the market. But, despite Android as a whole losing ground, Google Pixel phones are becoming a bigger slice of the US market.

Counterpoint Research reports that, in Q2 2023, US smartphone shipments dropped by 24% year-over-year. That includes both iPhones and Android phones, and virtually every brand saw a drop in shipments. Samsung saw US shipments drop by 37% while Motorola saw a 17% drop. TCL saw the biggest decline at just shy of 70% year-over-year, and even Apple saw a 6% drop.

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Google Pixel Tablet gets support for LineageOS (9to5google.com)
 

If you were hoping for some additional software flexibility on Google’s new Pixel Tablet, you’re in luck as LineageOS support has just been added.

Available now through the official LineageOS website, you can now download and install the custom ROM on the Google Pixel Tablet. The “tangorpro” builds are based on LineageOS 20 and bring support for added customization and extra features, such as a PIN unlock that changes the order of the numbers on each unlock.

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Exclusive: iPhone 15 Pro design reveals new buttons, giant camera bump, colors, and more (9to5mac.com)
 

Last month, 9to5Mac exclusively shared the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro design with basic CAD images. Since then, we’ve been working to gather more exclusive details from MFi accessory makers, new detailed CAD obtained by 9to5Mac’s Max Weinbach, and other sources.

All of this information has been corroborated by multiple sources, and we are confident that this is your best look yet at iPhone 15 Pro.

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10 years ago, Google launched the 2nd-gen Nexus 7, and no tablet has captured its magic since (www.androidpolice.com)
 

Ten years ago today, Google released the 2nd-generation Nexus 7, just days after a surprise announcement. Back then, Android tablets still felt fresh and exciting. It seemed like anything was possible, and things could only improve from there. Well, we know what happened next. But the depressing state of the tablet market to come was in no way the fault of the Nexus 7. In fact, this is still one of the best Android tablets ever made, and it's worth looking back and showing it the honor and respect it deserves.