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2y ago

VirtualBox 7.0.16 Released with Initial Support for Linux 6.8 and 6.9 Kernels
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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago
AFAIK it's being worked on but time is a major issue for the person handling the MR.
I'd love to donate specifically to get Virtio/VirGL on a Windows guest. Given that VirtualBox and VMware could be on very shaky ground thanks to their owners, I think libvirt will be the long-term solution.

2y ago

VirtualBox 7.0.16 Released with Initial Support for Linux 6.8 and 6.9 Kernels

Not applicable to AMD, and device passthrough can be clunky and not worth it if the user isn't doing anything that GPU-intensive.

2y ago

VirtualBox 7.0.16 Released with Initial Support for Linux 6.8 and 6.9 Kernels

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

I use KDE.

2y ago

What do you use Waydroid for?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

Yeah I got a headphone dongle for my phone. Cider 2 is still nice though, 256kbps AAC (whether CBR or VBR) is fine for most people, and it seems to stay in that bitrate.

2y ago

LXQt 2.0 Gears Up for Wayland: What’s Ready and Next?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

I'd think so, otherwise it would've been dropped by a lot of the major distros by now. They don't have a specific community like the XFCE forums, though they do have a dedicated wiki.

2y ago

What are songs about the music industry that you like?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

Teya & Salena represented Austria in Eurovision last year with "Who the Hell is Edgar?", it was written from the perspective of wanting to be taken seriously in the industry, veiled through a fun song about being possessed by the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, though the bridge gets quite blatant and singles out Spotify for not paying its artists properly. It was one of the favourites in the Eurovision community last year and I think it would've done better had the Finland vs. Sweden rivalry not happened.

2y ago

What do you use Waydroid for?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

I was able to get lossless back then. It's a matter of enabling fake_wifi for the app in Waydroid. You have to play a track for it to activate, but that's also a bug I've experienced on my actual phone.

2y ago

Stay on Fedora or Switch to Void?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

I'd say try Void in a virtual machine if you have that itch. It should run fine on libvirt setups or VMware.

2y ago

What do you use Waydroid for?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

I would say use a cross-platform password manager that supports it in that case. Bitwarden, 1Password and Enpass all have Linux versions and support TOTP, and in the case of Enpass, it has local wifi sync so none of it goes to them. I get that moving 2FA codes to that can be time-consuming, though.

2y ago

What do you use Waydroid for?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

Used to use it for Apple Music but Cider 2 does what I want now, especially since Apple started locking down AM on rooted devices (of which Waydroid basically is) for no good reason.

2y ago

Trying to ditch windows

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

Has Virtiofs matured lately into something that can be used day-to-day? I ask because I think the virtio stuff will be better for Windows virtualisation in the long-term, especially when VMware's future is not certain, but I heard folder-sharing on Windows guests was pretty bad from Lemmy recently, and a few years ago I tried it and yeah, I have to agree.

2y ago

Apple to Allow Used Parts for Repairs, Starting With iPhone 15 Lineup

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

Some companies are alright with this but yeah there's always a catch with Apple.

2y ago

LXQt 2.0 Gears Up for Wayland: What’s Ready and Next?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

I think they're working on something as well. But just in case, MATE are experimenting with Wayland using Wayfire as the compositor, which is funny given that Compiz was very popular with GNOME 2/MATE back in the day and Wayfire is very much inspired by that.

2y ago

Anyone else have their eclipse viewing ruined by clouds?

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

From the UK, the dark sky lasted longer than I thought.

2y ago

Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

For what it's worth, other Start menu replacements like Start11 and Open Shell's menu aren't on the list. This might genuinely be a compatibility-related blocker given that iCloud, EaseUS and certain drivers are also on the list.

2y ago

what does everyone think about piped bot and other bots

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

I use a redirector extension for YouTube so PipedBot is useless and annoying for me. I'd rather someone just give me a YouTube URL and let the redirector extension do its work.

TL;DRbot is okay, I guess.

2y ago

5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

Getting 404 on that link. 😩

2y ago

5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

Quod Libet was one I tried. Doesn't quite scratch the itch MusicBee gives me, but still solid nonetheless. Tauon Music Box is a gorgeous looking player that's similar.

2y ago

Linux is officially at 99% for me.

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

I tried LM Studio since AMD advertised it for their GPUs. Once ROCm was installed my GPU was detected and I could use LLMs on that rather than on the CPU. I struggled to get it to work on Windows even when LM Studio was trying to do everything to get it to work.

2y ago

5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity

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Flaky @iusearchlinux.fyi 2y ago

When I've used it, gapless playback being non-existent due to it basically being a frontend to the web client/MusicKit for web. I listen to a lot of albums in full nowadays, so that can really hurt the experience. It's a shame because everything else about it is great. I am aware that the Cider devs are trying to find ways of handling that without reliance on the web client/API, which might enable gapless but also stuff like lossless if you got AM for that.

Edit: I should mention that Cider has a new client that's paid but still supports Linux (specifically with AppImage, .deb and .rpm packages), and my experience was with Cider Classic.

Edit 2: I bought Cider 2 and so far it's working well. You sacrifice lossless and maybe some gapless playback still, but it's a mild loss vs. so far a huge gain in usability.