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  • Edit: I forgot to even mention, this explaination is for running windows apps on linux with steam (which is a native linux app available in essentially all repositories).

    You can run most games (regardless of how you acquired them) directly in steam via proton.

    If the app you want to run is a windows executable (.exe or .msi or whatever), you can add it as a “Non-Steam game” (even if it isn’t a game).

    If you have trouble getting it started, try changing the compatibility layer in library -> game -> properties -> compatibility -> enable steam play compatibility tool -> choose some version of proton (like proton experimental)

    Fair warning: Valve is currently chill about adding games to steam without proof of purchase, but they could change their minds someday.

    Also, pro tip, if you really wanna get in the weeds with proton, I recommend proton-tricks. There are very few windows apps you can’t get running with proton and proton-tricks.




  • I’ve had matrix and element set up on my personal domain for a while, but I’ve only used them for evaluation so far. The system and network resources used are HUGE…

    I’ve been setting up movim and a seperate xmpp server for a little while, and I have some initial opinions:

    • xmpp (prosody) appears to be much better optimised than matrix (synapse)
    • matrix and element are much easier to set up
    • movim is a huge PITA to deploy yourself (especially in a container… you’re basically on your own at the moment)
    • xmpp requires tcp ports and ssl certs that should be easy to set up… unless you’re on a cgnat network. Matrix can be set up through a cloudflare tunnel with https no problem, but xmpp requires some networking elbow grease.
    • the mandatory certificates probably make the xmpp network safer?
    • Even with the mautrix discord bridge copying the exact layout of discord channels into element, movim seems more familiar to me. I haven’t really had enough time to evaluate movim, but it seems like it’s trying to appeal to discord users, and element is clearly not. Element feels like a well funded enterprise tool that is doing its own thing.
    • commet (with 2 m’s) chat is a very faithful discord clone for matrix, but it’s very barebones.

    Either way, I am gonna deploy both and let my friends/discord channel users decide what works best.

    I’m rooting for xmpp at the moment, but I will be happy with anything that is self hosted, encrypted and federated.

    Hopefully I don’t end up having to maintain both protocols with a bridge!







  • I figured I aught to return to this to let you know… I ran a bunch of tests and trialed some new browsers for my use case, and ungoogled chromium is working great for me.

    Nearly identical performance to Brave (after tweaking some settings and flags), and Mv2 uBlock working perfectly.

    Thanks for pushing me to give other browsers a try again!


  • rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldwhotd uses brave
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    I use vanadium (and graphine) on my phone but I use Brave on my desktop.

    Until last year I had been using Firefox since around 2007, but I started having awful performance issues.

    I ran a ton of tests on a large variety of browsers (including some niche early development browsers) and Brave (with every BS feature disabled) outperformed all of the others by a wide margin.

    If there was a foss browser with functioning adblock, no BS features or political ideologies, and reasonable performance, I would switch right away… But all 3 is a tall order.

    Also, I wanna note, before I switched I tried every Firefox config and all of the performance focused forks. I tried messing with memory usage and hardware acceleration, and even running it in sandboxes/flatpak… Either way it would consume tons of resources at idle, and would sometimes crash my machine when I kept it running while starting up my hypervisor or blender or my IDE or a resource hungry game.

    Brave just works, and has functional adblock.



  • A 1w laser will permanently blind you instantly. You can buy/build them very cheaply and easily, but a class 4 laser isn’t a toy.

    For perspective, the regular red laser pointers from your local store are like 5mW at most.

    A 44w laser is probably an IR fiber laser used for tattoo removal or some industrial application. You can get them cheap, but they are not handheld. Also lasers that powerful tend to be pulsed.

    Nichia makes 5w+ 445nm diodes that are small enough to fit in a flashlight