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I have sad news for you. Not even the sperm is stored in the balls, it's just produced there. It's stored in a separate sack inside your body.

Linux SBC for 4k HDR play-back

1d 3h ago in linux@lemmy.ml

Can you install different OSes. Or are you limited to the vendor provided build of osmc?

Don't use a raspberry pi.

RPI5 only has h265 decoding, everithing else is handled by the cpu. Which is fine for 1080 as long as that's all the sbc is doing, but if you are also running some server, or you want anything h264 above 1080 you are out of luck.

RPI4 should be a little better, it has h264 and h265, don't know the supported resolutions/framerates, but the cpu is considerably less powerful. Also, the cpu lacks encryption acceleration, so if your are getting your movies over https that's gonna take a toll.

Older Pis are goint to be unsupported by kodi and jellyfin, so don't get those.

None of these is a dead no-go, listen to other peoples experiences. But I personally would advise against any Raspberry Pi. Maybe and Orange Pi is better? I don't know. My suggestion is to avoid the SBC, and get a cheap second hand Intel pc instead (possibly a very low power one). Intel's quicksynk video accelerator is gonna run laps around any sbc at any resolution, and it's gonna support more decoders, and even some encoders if you want to run transcoding in a jellyfin server.

Edit: If intel sold a quicksink pcie card, I would put one in my rpi5. But it don't.

Edit 2: I should add that some streaming services block 4k on Linux

X11 vs Wayland

2d 18h ago in linux@lemmy.ml

Test better.

  • Discord works
  • Teams works
  • OBS works
  • Sunshine works like a charm
  • Built-in VNC/RDP servers work
  • I think zoom also works

Of course you can expect things with names like "Xultra-Xold-Xscreen-Xsharing-Xtool-11" to not work. Trying any of those and complaining it doesn't work is just disingenuous and facetious.

Edit: I forgot you had a real question after the misinformation. Here's some things Wayland does better

  • It supports HDR
  • It doesn't tear
  • It's by design more efficient
  • It's more secure
  • It actually support track pads with kinetic scrolling (if you think kinetic scrolling works on X11 it means you don't know how it works)
  • To crash the screensaver you need to crash the whole desktop, which means you don't get unauthorized access to it
  • It actually supports multiple monitor (with different resolutions, different scales and different refresh rates)
  • They just merged actual support for multiple GPUs (xorg doesn't have that)
  • It supports explicit sync (xorg supports just enough to run inside Wayland)
  • It's supported by Nvidia GPUs (for X11 you need to use Nvidia's closed source bespoke implementation of xorg)

But it's just to name a few, you know...

Uinput and libinput are the proper tools and they both work.

Also, the keyboard configuration is done with xkb

I'd like to chime in on the "average hardware" claim.

The idea that Wayland is more demanding to run than X11 is a misconception.

Mutter (Gnome's compositor) and kwin (KDE's compositor) are more demanding than xorg plus a simple window manager. Usually that's what people used to compare when they said that Wayland is demanding, and now they just keep repeating it.

In actuality, the Wayland protocol is more efficient by nature. So a light Wayland compositor (e.g. labwc) will run better on limited hardware, than a light X11 window manager.

Tho, Wayland requires proper EGL support, which you might not have on some old exotic hardware (e.g. a Tegra 2/3/4 tablet).

The example I usually make is:

  • Dig up an old intel atom netbook (it's old and
  • Try using regular lxqt on x11
  • Now try lxqt on labwc
  • See which one you'd rather use

meat rule

2d 21h ago in onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone from leminal.space

Force of habit

I can't decide what to waste my money on this weekend.

3d 17h ago in lemmyshitpost from lemmy.today

I think most household items are antislip when they have 140kg on them

Dave thought they were raging against the dishwasher

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Another successful commenter instantly becomes a thinking expert

How to play games outside steam?

9d 23h ago in linux_gaming

When you add a new game to heroic there's a "run installer" button that you can use. Then you look for the executable in the prefix to put it on heroic.

What's the deal with Crust King Khann?

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Unfortunately, Hornet was there

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I'm at Tormented Trobbio now

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That's just mean

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She's just weaker

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Here we go again

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Why is she so fast?

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Bellbearers are the worst

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