Clicked it in 2023 when I visited Europe (Germany) for the first time.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44235097

I’ve been a long time Linux user on laptops, but this will be my first time putting hardware together and running a dedicated gaming rig on Arch. I’m aiming for a high end 1440p ultra wide gaming experience and some light Davinci Resolve work. Want to make sure I haven't made any "first timer" mistakes with compatibility or bottlenecks.

I divided the purchase in 3 phases (Let me know if this approach is correct). 1- Get the parts that I can immediately use with my current laptop (Webcam and Monitor). 2- Get a working system w/o the dGPU (As it is the most expensive part.) 3- Get the GPU. So Phase 1 is done and now will save money for phase 2 by May (although I have already secured the SSD and the RAM for the cheapest I could find — It is arriving today so I will check the RAM on my SIL's prebuilt AM5 build and the SSD via usb-c adapter with my laptop).

Below is the table of the parts. . These prices are somewhat close to INR (Indian Rupee).

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor	$303.00 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Deepcool AK620 68.99 CFM CPU Cooler	$52.00
Motherboard	MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard	$169.99 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory	Purchased For $387.75
Storage	Western Digital WD_BLACK SN7100 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	Purchased For $294.50
Video Card	ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card	$729.99 @ Amazon
Case	NZXT H5 Flow RGB (2024) ATX Mid Tower Case	$94.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$118.50 @ Amazon
Monitor	Dell Alienware AW3423DWF 34.2" 3440 x 1440 165 Hz Curved Monitor	Purchased For $784.00
Webcam	NexiGo N60 Webcam	Purchased For $46.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total	$2980.72

PC PartPicker just gives these warnings which are pretty self-explanatory.

Warning: The MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard supports the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor with BIOS version 7E26v1C. If the motherboard is using an older BIOS version, updating the BIOS will be necessary to support the CPU.

Disclaimer: Some physical constraints are not checked, such as RAM clearance with CPU Coolers.

The CPU Cooler has a height of 160mm so it leaves a 10mm gap between it and the case. I was wondering if I should go with a Liquid Cooler like the Arctic Liquid Freezer III because the summers are HOT AF over here like 40-45 degrees C during day and 30 at night and also for the RAM Clearance whose height is 33mm. But then I don't know how reliable the idea of water running in your system is.

I’ve been a long time Linux user on laptops, but this will be my first time putting hardware together and running a dedicated gaming rig on Arch. I’m aiming for a high end 1440p ultra wide gaming experience and some light Davinci Resolve work. Want to make sure I haven't made any "first timer" mistakes with compatibility or bottlenecks.

I divided the purchase in 3 phases (Let me know if this approach is correct). 1- Get the parts that I can immediately use with my current laptop (Webcam and Monitor). 2- Get a working system w/o the dGPU (As it is the most expensive part.) 3- Get the GPU. So Phase 1 is done and now will save money for phase 2 by May (although I have already secured the SSD and the RAM for the cheapest I could find — It is arriving today so I will check the RAM on my SIL's prebuilt AM5 build and the SSD via usb-c adapter with my laptop).

Below is the table of the parts. . These prices are somewhat close to INR (Indian Rupee).

PC PartPicker just gives these warnings which are pretty self-explanatory.

Warning: The MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard supports the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor with BIOS version 7E26v1C. If the motherboard is using an older BIOS version, updating the BIOS will be necessary to support the CPU.

Disclaimer: Some physical constraints are not checked, such as RAM clearance with CPU Coolers.

The CPU Cooler has a height of 160mm so it leaves a 10mm gap between it and the case. I was wondering if I should go with a Liquid Cooler like the Arctic Liquid Freezer III because the summers are HOT AF over here like 40-45 degrees C during day and 30 at night and also for the RAM Clearance whose height is 33mm. But then I don't know how reliable the idea of water running in your system is.

I just ordered an OLED Monitor and really excited for it. To truly get the most out of it, I want to change my KDE Plasma (using Kvantum) to use pitch black. But I also like the GruvBox Colors. I tried to change the colors section in .kvconfig but it turned out to be a hot garbage maybe because it messes with the GruvBox Plasma Style which is not tied to Kvantum. Does anyone have or know a OLED Gruv Box Style that I can use?

Hey everyone,

So I did my usual weekly system update with paru -Syu this morning. The update went through normally. nothing major, no core packages, Nvidia, or Plasma updates from what I could tell when I glanced at the packages. I also checked the Arch news beforehand to see if anything required manual intervention and there was nothing.

I went ahead and rebooted and tried logging into a Wayland session from SDDM, and it froze on the desktop immediately. Couldn't even get into a TTY from there.

This issue is somewhat familiar and has happened to me before. Usually, it’s fixable by rebooting or unplugging and plugging back in an external monitor. So I did a forced reboot (holding power) and tried again same freeze. Tried once more, still the same.

Then I booted into X11, logged in, and initially it seemed fine. I resized the scaling to 125% (it was at 100%), logged out and tried logging back into x11 and it froze again.

I had no idea what broke. I ended up going into TTY from GRUB and restoring a Timeshift snapshot from a day ago. After that, I could log in normally again.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

PS: I wanted to check the journal and debug it, but I had to catch a bus for vacation, so my laptop is at home. Will try to investigate more later.

Update: In Adguard turn the blocking method to NXDOMAIN so it won’t give this error. It still gives a warning that “you’re using a VPN”. Edit: I am on iOS 26.

Broader Context: All Indian Banking apps have been instructed to not allow the use of VPN slot while using a banking app. The Central Bank has also ordered to disallow usage if Developers Options are turned on. Apart from that globally all banking apps require Google Play Services and Boot-loader to be locked. I also found on some reddit post that they are not allowing the use of a 5 year old + phones for banking.

I am running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma (wayland).

Today I discovered Steam Link. I enabled it and worked flawlessly with Steam games. But it showed a black screen for non-steam games (lutris shortcuts specifically) although the input did work. I thought it was a wayland issue and I was right as I immediately installed & switched to X11 session and I was able to see the game. I don't know if it is an x11 issue but my Laptop's (host) fans were running pretty fast and sometimes games were just crashing or refused to launch (which rarely happens on wayland). I doubt that just the addional overhead of steamlink is causing these issues (although I won't reject that possibility) given I have pretty decent hardware — ryzen 9 8945h, rtx 4070 8gb laptop gpu, 32 gigs of ram.

Also on x11 a lot of display settings seem to be missing. I don't want to keep x11 just for playing non steam games via steam link. So is there a way to play non-steam games via steam link on wayland session?

Wtf is going on in this world? Why does every fucking fascist government wants to control all the computers and the internet?

The Department of Telecommunications has told these apps that within the next 90 days, they must make sure their services work only when the correct SIM card is in the phone. If you remove that SIM, the app should stop working. This is known as SIM binding.

• Continuous SIM presence: Apps must check regularly whether the original SIM card is still inserted in your phone. If not, the app must automatically stop working until you insert the correct SIM again.

• Web access restrictions: If you use WhatsApp Web or similar web versions, the government wants you to get logged out automatically every six hours. To log in again, you will have to scan a QR code with the app. This is to ensure the device and user are genuine.

People who use these apps on secondary devices without a SIM, or those who keep their SIM in one phone but use the app on another, may face interruptions

I don't even see the point of this:

• Surveillance?
• Some Incoming telecom plan change which will require you to have a special plan for using Messengers because no one uses SMS and don't bother to have an SMS plan? so telecom networks can make some more money?

The Department of Telecommunications has told these apps that within the next 90 days, they must make sure their services work only when the correct SIM card is in the phone. If you remove that SIM, the app should stop working. This is known as SIM binding.

• Continuous SIM presence: Apps must check regularly whether the original SIM card is still inserted in your phone. If not, the app must automatically stop working until you insert the correct SIM again.

• Web access restrictions: If you use WhatsApp Web or similar web versions, the government wants you to get logged out automatically every six hours. To log in again, you will have to scan a QR code with the app. This is to ensure the device and user are genuine.

People who use these apps on secondary devices without a SIM, or those who keep their SIM in one phone but use the app on another, may face interruptions

I don't even see the point of this:

• Surveillance?
• Some Incoming telecom plan change which will require you to have a special plan for using Messengers because no one uses SMS and don't bother to have an SMS plan? so telecom networks can make some more money?

This is Dystopian AF!

For those who don't Aadhar is a govt ID card for its citizens that doesn't do shit, is unsecured like shit, and doesn't even prove anything about you in legal terms.

I’ve got a small backlog of games on my laptop (running Arch Linux with KDE) through Lutris. I usually play with a keyboard and a mouse, but since I sit pretty close to my screen (ik bad habit), it starts getting uncomfortable after a while. So I’ve been thinking about picking up a gamepad for some more relaxed, couch style gaming.

I’ve never actually owned a gamepad or a console before, so this would be my first time. From what I’ve seen on Reddit, a lot of people seem to have good experiences using Xbox controllers on Linux. I just wanted to get some more insight before buying one to make sure I’m making the right choice.

I’m also planning to grab a second controller so my girlfriend and I can play some local multiplayer games together.

Update: I went with 8BitDo Ultimate C wired as it was cheaper and a lot of folks below suggested it over the original Xbox Controller. It worked out of the box. I have only tested it with Marvel’s Spiderman 2 from Fitgirl repacks installed and running via Lutris. Worked w/o any issues.

This morning literally the below news:

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/jammu-and-kashmir-police-recover-300-kg-of-rdx-an-ak-47-rifle-and-ammunition-from-faridabad-near-delhi-9606244

Jihadists are back at it!

Watched the movie in the theatre when I was a toddler and somehow I still remember how much I loved it lol.

One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.

Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don't know.

A call for perverts to goon. Not even going to show the content.

Edit: Even kids younger than 15 y/o who have a smartphone use Whatsapp.

Tomorrow it will be even worse — usually 250+ AQI. Still, this region has good airflow compared to the northern parts of India which literally go past the maximum reading on the scales — not great, not terrible — which is a result of after harvest stubble burning, firecrackers, cold weather and the entire northern region’s airflow blocked by the Himalayas.

The so called Hindus will literally call you out for being “weak” instead of deciding to not waste their money on the crackers and killing people. Delhi’s chief minister (who can’t even sign a piece of document) said that Diwali is incomplete without firecrackers before lifting the prevention measures from the previous government— which was also a failure.

Firecrackers were never even part of Diwali. The festival was about getting together, share gifts and sweets. But these radical Hindus don’t give a shit.

Update: Our Prime Minister with Delhi's Chief Minister with air purifier while they encourage people to burst more crackers.

Before anyone suggests using alternativeto.net, I checked over there but all it is showing are the usual document scanners. While both are similar, Photoscan deals with reflections better because it takes 4 different photos from different angles to the centre of the image and then merge it to give a clean scan of the image. And I couldn’t find any FOSS alternative which does the same.

Edit: This is the stage where LineageOS logo appears.

I have an 8 years old OnePlus 5 running Lineage OS 22.2 as a secondary phone alongside my iPhone. Yesterday the phone froze, turned off and refused to go past the Lineage loading screen — where it froze and some weird colourful squares in a single line appeared before turning off. I tried factory resetting it as well from recovery but no success. Today morning I turned it on again and it booted w/o any issues. I think the UFS might have started to show its age — which was used heavily with heavy games, RAW photos, Lightroom processing, continuously running KDEConnect, Syncthing, multiple factory resets and multiple custom ROM installs.

So I was thinking to dedicate it to do something else like an Immich slideshow display, a clock, a controller or something like that. Is there any lighter than LineageOS custom ROM which can allow me to do something like that?