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▲ 5 r/pop_os

COSMIC DE + high refresh rate monitor (260Hz) - hard crash after some use

Running Gentoo with COSMIC as my DE, paired with a 260Hz monitor. The refresh rate applies fine, but it sometimes causes a hard crash out of nowhere after some use. Other times it runs fine with no issue at all, so it seems intermittent rather than consistently reproducible.
I recently upgraded to the latest kernel and that helped with general stability, but this crash still happens.
I suspect this might line up with a known upstream cosmic-comp issue around non-default refresh rates, but I haven’t been able to confirm it since the crash doesn’t leave anything usable in the logs.
Anyone else running COSMIC on a high refresh rate panel hit this? Curious whether it’s a known issue right now or something specific to my setup.

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u/glimp_glob — 2 days ago
▲ 93 r/LinuxCirclejerk

I wasted an entire evening trying to understand why r/unixporn exists

Saw all the cool desktop screenshots and thought maybe I should try that. So from the safety of my Fedora KDE install, I booted up a VM and went full Arch. No archinstall, no training wheels, real ISO, manual partitioning, the whole painful ritual. Cool, fine, whatever, I was committed.

Then I installed Hyprland. Then I installed Firefox. Took me about two minutes after that to realize I had just burned an entire evening for this. If you're daily driving Hyprland, you might as well be daily driving no desktop environment at all, because that's basically what it is.

I genuinely don't understand what this is for. Is this a hobby for people who can't afford a second monitor and can't focus on one task, so instead they spend every waking hour ricing their OS and distro hopping every 48 hours instead of doing literally anything else? Because at this point I refuse to believe these people actually use their machines for anything except taking screenshots of their rice and posting them to farm upvotes.

You can't even fullscreen Firefox if a terminal window happens to be open. And you need to open a terminal just to launch anything in the first place. It's a catch 22, every single thing is a keybind or a config file or a typo away from breaking entirely.

So yeah. Moral of the story: total waste of time. Use KDE. Use GNOME. Go outside. Save yourself the LARP.

u/glimp_glob — 26 days ago
▲ 51 r/ps3homebrew

Built a native Jellyfin client for PS3 - v1.0

Hey, been working on this for a while and just hit v1.0 so figured I'd share.

JellyFin-PS3 is a native homebrew Jellyfin client written in C++ with PSL1GHT. Talks directly to your Jellyfin server, no middleware. Installs as a .pkg like any other homebrew.

Features:

  • XMB-style UI with animated background
  • Browse Movies, TV Shows, Collections
  • TV show navigation (Series > Seasons > Episodes)
  • Full library search with on-screen keyboard
  • Hardware H.264 decode via PS3 VDEC (SPU-accelerated)
  • Double-buffered RSX GPU blit
  • Hardware vsync, Bresenham 2:3 pulldown for proper 24fps at 60Hz
  • MP3 audio via minimp3, DMA output at 48kHz
  • AV sync locked to ±5ms

Requires Evilnat CFW or HEN (CEX). Jellyfin server needs to be reachable from the PS3 - local network works great.

GitHub: github.com/Tuggs-Bunny/JellyFin-PS3

Happy to answer questions, still a couple of rough edges but it's genuinely watchable.

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u/glimp_glob — 3 months ago
▲ 153 r/jellyfin

Update: PS3 Jellyfin client - v1.0 shipped, AV sync finally cracked

A few weeks ago I posted here when I first got video playback working on my PS3 Jellyfin client. It was rough then - judder everywhere, sync all over the place. Since then I've ironed out most of the major issues and shipped v1.0 as a proper installable .pkg.

https://reddit.com/link/1tma2fz/video/vwuh77o5q23h1/player

What's been fixed/added since the last post:

  • Cracked two nasty VDEC bugs that were causing all the judder. Turns out vdecGetPicture invalidates the pic metadata struct on call, so reading pic->pts[0] after the call gives you garbage - has to be before. On top of that, passing VDEC_TS_INVALID for DTS alongside a valid PTS causes VDEC to silently discard the PTS entirely. Both bugs together looked like one problem. AV sync is now locked to ±5ms.
  • Bresenham 2:3 pulldown for proper 24fps cadence at 60Hz
  • Hardware vsync via gcmSetVBlankHandler
  • Full library search with on-screen keyboard
  • TV show navigation (Series > Seasons > Episodes), Collections
  • Ships as a .pkg now, installs like any other homebrew

Current state: solid for movies, a couple of edge cases still being chased down. Good enough to actually watch stuff on.

Requires Evilnat CFW or HEN. Talks directly to your Jellyfin server over the network.

GitHub: github.com/Tuggs-Bunny/JellyFin-PS3

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u/glimp_glob — 3 months ago
▲ 159 r/jellyfin+1 crossposts

Hey all, I've been working on a homebrew Jellyfin client for the PlayStation 3 written in C++ using the PSL1GHT SDK and wanted to share an early alpha. Sorry for the phone footage, no capture card yet.

https://reddit.com/link/1t1n8gz/video/wzrxxun5lpyg1/player

Video playback is sort of working - it browses your libraries, logs in, and streams H.264 transcoded video directly from your Jellyfin server over the network. The PS3 hardware decoder handles the video, Jellyfin does the transcoding server side.

What works

  • Login and library browsing
  • Search
  • H.264 video streaming (MPEG-TS, up to 720p 30fps)
  • Credentials saved to HDD so you don't have to log in every time
  • Aspect ratio preserved with letterbox/pillarbox

Known issues (it's an alpha)

  • No audio yet
  • Frame timing artifacts and some visual corruption
  • No thumbnails or album art
  • No music player yet
  • No seek or resume

Got a lot planned including audio, a proper GUI with thumbnail browsing, and a music player. Just wanted to get something out there since working video felt like a milestone worth sharing.

Repo and release (with a prebuilt .self you can just drop on your PS3) here: https://github.com/Tuggs-Bunny/JellyFin---PS3

Requires CFW or HEN. Tested on a CFW slim PS3.

Happy to answer any questions or take suggestions on what to prioritise next.

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u/glimp_glob — 4 months ago