u/tycraft2001

I was trying blind tests, especially ones like flac/320/128kbps, and noticed I was consistently picking 128kbps 100% of the time as the "highest quality"

If it were random, that would be understandable, but instead it's 100% 128kbps, which is not statistically likely. If I were hearing "quality" then I would pick the highest quality, not lowest?

Tbf the only tracks I can ever tell with is basically C418 for an actual definitive better quality since it gets destroyed and crunched by mp3. But with normal music that normal people listen to, I cannot tell a difference it seems, but pick 128kbps consistently, 100%.

Any ideas why?

I run a few legacy monitors that are capable of amazing resolutions and refresh rates. The only problem is as these are old VGA monitors quite a few don't have an EDID pin. You know what wayland does with no EDID? Default to 1024x768. Then if you want to change it? Make a fake EDID for your display and load it in the kernel.

Why does this suck? Because xrandr I could run cvt and a few commands and have *all* my resolutions. I could configure, 10, even 20 if I wanted. Since I have higher resolution CRT's these higher resolutions can actually hit higher pixel counts than 1080p and even (once I get one) higher than 1440p. But if they have no EDID? Wayland will set them to 1024x768 at 60hz. You need a minimum of 75-80hz to get rid of flicker. Most monitors of that era can do 75hz at that res to reduce flicker.

Wayland completely lost a lot of legacy hardware support that some people still use and appreciate. I shouldn't have to spoof an EDID and reboot just to change resolution. I should be able to run like 3 commands, maybe tweak an interval to coax a bit higher res or refresh rate, and be done with it. Xorg for its flaws actually just lets my CRT work how it should with setup, giving the same ease of setup as... Windows 10 with NVIDIA control panel or CRU for example.

At least it's not Windows 11 deciding changing my monitors resolution with a native VGA card is a BSOD crime.

I'm seeing practically nothing online. It's oem locked and debug locked, it wants a google account of mine that I don't even remember anymore. The phone model itself doesn't even have an XDA forum. Either would like an option for free or another forum somewhere I can ask around.

Overall I felt slightly underwhelmed but also knew that what I was seeing was expected. I have 1300 hours on Minecraft for Switch.

Vibrant Visuals brought my 5 year world's fps feeling like I was on the switch 1, even with everything at ultra, 20-30fps fluctuating. Meanwhile I could run the new highest render distance with fancy/simple graphics and hit 60fps. In my opinion it's either you get fancy 60fps or switch 1 performance with a weird built in shader.

First thing I tried though was mouse mode, which didn't exist.

Load times were even better than switch 1 version played on switch 2.

There was weird stutter in handheld mode that was noticeable, but it was basically gone in the dock.

Overall I feel like if they just added Mouse Mode, and maybe cranked max render to 32 chunks with a warning it'll lag a bit, I think that the switch 2 port would be a good free upgrade. Especially since my main world is almost unplayable on Switch 1 hardware, and is only a bit better with Minecraft for switch 1 running on switch 2. The experience was what I expected, just a bit let down by lack of mouse mode. Edit: Realized I should clarify, pushing 32 chunks should be an option in simple and fancy graphics, not VV

I am trying to install Arch from Ventoy on my laptop since Arch at least mantains the 390xx drivers, and Debian is a bit too stable for my recent tastes. Since I have a large Ventoy disk and no USB right now, I just chucked the arch install media on the disk. Every time I attempt to install after the edd probe says "ok" my external drive stops spinning and the install never finishes.

External drive is a Toshiba over a 2.5 inch sata to USB adapter, which I've tried in my USB 2.0 and my single USB 3.0 port/ports.

I know my laptop is legacy, but if I use the official NVIDIA drivers performance is still quite good, and I'd like to try out Arch. But if I can't install that's very difficult.

I'd like to sample a bit newer packages, see if there's any performance increase, and just try out something a bit exciting. Only issue is my laptops 560m. I game on here so the open source drivers aren't an option as they can only do maybe a fifth of the performance. If I went to testing, updated kernel, anything really, what are the chances my driver stops working and how would I mitigate this?

It blocks enabling dev mode, it's OEM locked, can't disable OEM lock because dev options are locked, the phone removed factory reset/wipe from the recovery mode menu while keeping other options. The recovery software for windows keeps management. Google Appstore/play is blocked. Phone will not allow swiping to the panel and won't load app icons until all the pinwheel stuff has loaded. Battery management won't work and tells me to reset it. The apps portion of settings is also locked down and kicks me out of settings. Toggling pinwheels accessibility kicks you out of wherever you are and brings you back to the home screen.

For the purpose of whatever I need to do I have a microsd card, I have a Linux PC, and I can make windows virtual machines. It is linked to my google because of a now patched exploit that let me at least sign into google but the account itself isn't mine, the find my device factory reset does not work. I can do file transfer with PC if needed.

I'd like to flash AOSP or some variety of Linux phone to it.

My desktop, featuring the Debian spiral.

My first PC was windows 10, but I like this style better. I tried sorting my desktop icons a bit. ASUS G74sx, so the image is 900p. The laptop has 16GB RAM, a 2nd gen i7, a 560M using proprietary drivers, and an upgrade to SSD.

The base image I have forgotten who I got it from, but I edited the Debian logo over it. My desktop was sorted so the top left is files, top right is games, and bottom right is random tools. Bottom left is where any display or driver or device related stuff will go. The GIMP file ended up in the middle left by accident, but it's another wallpaper I'm working on based off of Harmony.

Debian has been my favorite distro so far, so I wanted to feature it prominently in my desktop design. Fugiter Aero has always been interesting, so I looked up Fugiter Aero designs and found this appealing wallpaper without anything in the bubble, and used it as a canvas to create my desktop background. Then my icons on the desktop were chosen to be my most played games, file related stuff, and slightly more "professional" oriented icons, alongside the NVIDIA control panel since for some reason my rofi is having trouble finding it.

The icons were chosen because they looked the most visually interesting of the icon pack I found, which is the Oxylite icon pack. Other icons were Windows based, or Mac which I dislike, or simplistic/minimal beyond belief.

Finally the taskbar at the bottom was placed their since I'm familiar with it being there and my screen doesn't have enough vertical space for a vertical (right oriented) task bar like I use on some other computers. The top right bar was placed there so that I don't accidentally click it and swap apps, and since the normal button bundle of close, minimize, and shrink are top right and related to opening/closing apps, I put the top right bar there on autohide.

Desktop

Got my 2011 laptop to feel better than ever. I tried debloated 10 and it was still slow. It never was going to run competitive games so why should I care if it's on Debian? I also run Debian normally but this is the most I've customized the desktop and icons. I forgot who I took the bubbles theme from and would like to credit them for the wallpaper base, all I did was put the Debian logo on it.

Icons are oxylite.

Also I just prefer XFCE over KDE for some reason, it's not about the resource usage here.

My first OS was Windows 10, so I have no inherit nostalgia for this style, I just think it looks neat. This laptop is all I got for a little bit so I wanted to make it look nice in my eyes. This laptop used to be a headless server but it wasn't that hard to swap over.

I tried Mint and other distros on here but Debian was the easiest to get an NVIDIA driver that supported my GPU, as the FOSS drivers don't support this old of a GPU very well and my FPS is horrendously low on there. Thanks to Debian it was a simple swap. Debian has been my favorite distro I've tried, out of trying Mint, Debian, AntiX, and a brief Arch stint.

Overall since Debian OOTB is lightweight and kinda barebones, but not to the degree of Arch or LFS, it's been easy to customize and add upon whilst only having what I want to run run, instead of other distros having a bunch of preinstalled software I never use.

I've tried myself and I feel like my number is a bit off due to assuming things that shouldn't be assumed and overall it was my first time working with Newtons.

The walls were there, the walls of course, what could I be talking about besides physical walls? Walls there were and walls there was, nobody seemed to see the walls but I.

I saw the walls, the walls there were, the walls that weren't part of halls.

I saw the walls for what the walls were, the walls they were there

The walls, the walls, the walls, nobody knew what the walls were for besides me, but I knew what the walls were for.

The walls were there, just to keep you in the walls, but why were the walls there? The walls were there, the walls that were, but nobody knew why they were, but I knew why they were.

I saw the walls for what the walls were, and the walls saw me for what I were, the walls of course the walls, why wouldn't I be talking about the physical walls and not what they represented?

What did the walls represent? Everybody said "What walls?" and if I showed them "They're just walls dude." But I knew what the walls were, for the walls knew what I were.

The walls they were, of course the walls, with the purpose of walling something, but walling what from what? Nobody knew what the walls were. But I did know what the walls were.

Of course I liked them, a comforting presence, but over time the walls that were became walls I could merely just see, but of course over time the seeing of the walls got worse and worse, I went mad at the walls that were.

Of course the walls they surrounded us, but to keep us in or them out? But nobody said the walls were for anything, but I knew better as I knew the walls were there to be the walls to trap one in inside the walls.

The walls of course they were there, the walls that are or the walls that were.

We all knew them, but I was the only one who bothered to see them, to dwell on those walls that I could see, looming always, nobody else could ever see them until I pointed out the walls to them.

The walls of course? The walls that are there? The walls you know, the walls they shared? Well, I never liked sharing of course, so I decided I would take the walls, the walls that were, who wouldn’t take the walls that were if the walls were there and you could see them all the time?

So one night I took the walls, yep the walls being gone? That was my fault, I took the walls and saw a pit, a large pit, a pit I could put the walls in after I threw them, I threw the walls in the pit, the pit that were, but nobody cared about the pit that were until the pit that were had the walls that were.

The day the walls went missing, everybody knew.

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That was the worst paced direct of all time. That was not an actual Nintendo direct we had like 6 actual first parties or something. It was like, 8 sword soulslike games, a bunch of random junk, a few remakes, and more remakes. And already existing games being announced for switch 2 like they never existed.

The OOT remake was fine but we got maybe a whole minute of exciting content to every Nintendo fan in a 50 minute direct. Xenoblade is cool but that isn't a general broad game like Zelda or Mario. When I saw Wuhu island I did quite literally say out loud "Nintendo switch sports resort?" right before the title drop, not a huge reveal.

Whole thing was just ports and remakes + some weird soulslike stuff.

Most boring direct.

I am 16 and decided to plan my first LAN party. For the party I will have a 24 port 10/100mbit switch, and a 5 port gig switch.

I have access to about a room and a half of the house and ability to run an extension cord from somewhere else.

3 of our people are laptops, everybody else is a desktop.

My main concerns are sleep and the amount of food all my friends are going to eat, last time I had people over it was 4 people for 4 hours and we drank 6 liters of soda and ate 5 bags of chips. Scaling up and the fact I'm planning the day after school gets out people can showup whenever after 9am, and hopefully I can run until the day after at 7pm, as some of the people going will want to be home Sunday morning due to their religious parents, church obligations.

I have a NAS and it seems it can store stuff fine.

I also want ideas for games, my friends haven't been helpful at suggesting games everybody can run or missing the "LAN" part of "LAN PARTY"

So far I have Minecraft, and Mindustry, but I haven't come up with much else.

So to summarize: I would appreciate sleep suggestions (We have a room and a half of space, large room), food & drink ideas, and game suggestions.

Edit: The lowest end hardware we are planning for is an asus g74sx with 16gb ram, 900p screen on debian. Games also have to be Proton/Wine compatible.

I can't figure out how to make TrueNAS generate file thumbnails in SMB shares, they have thumbnails before I move them but not after.

I've only tested to see if they're made on a Linux Mint desktop and a Debian Laptop, they'll both have thumbnails before transfer but after the transfer of files there are no more thumbnails.

I am on TrueNAS Community 25.10.3 - Goldeye