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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • If you’re using btrfs then you might need to rebalance it. I had the same problem, i.e. “no free space” while tools like df reporting that there should be available disk space, and it confused the hell out of me until I found the solution.

    See manual: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Balance.html

    This are the commands I run every now and then, especially if my drive has been close to full and I delete a bunch of files to make more space:

    sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=10 /
    sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=20 /
    sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=30 /
    

    The / at the end is the path, since it’s my root mount which uses btrfs. The example in the manual does 40 and 50 too, but higher numbers take longer time, even on an nvme ssd.



  • Maybe it’s changing now with Windows 10/11, but I think historically Windows has had just as difficult learning curve as Linux. People who have complained about Linux being more difficult than Windows just thought so because they had already spent years learning how to deal with Windows, while if they switched to Linux they would have to learn new things. If someone who has used MacOS 100% of their life were to begin using either Windows or Linux then I don’t think there would be much difference in difficulty.

    I’ve come across plenty of bugs and usability issues in Windows, and despite having 10+ years experience with the OS I sometimes found them very difficult to solve, often requiring copy-pasting cryptic texts into the command prompt and/or regedit. I also think troubleshooting on Windows is made worse thanks to them writing witty things like “oops, something went wrong!” instead of actually giving you a useful error message, some many issues are of course unfixable due to its proprietary nature. At best you get an error code which you can look up online, but the OS is not made to be debugged by the user.

    In the past Microsoft had really good support which you chat with, but the last time Windows refused to authenticate after an upgrade all the human support appears to have been replaced by automated troubleshooters. It got stuck in an endless loop of “run local troubleshooter” -> “you should try rebooting” -> “run online troubleshooter” -> “you should try rebooting” -> “back to the local troubleshooter again”. At work I still have a help-desk I can call with people who have taken countless hours of Microsoft trainings to get certifications.

    just so I wasn’t choosing between 100% and 200% scaling. That’s just beyond the average computer user.

    So if I understood you right, Fedora lets you choose either 100% or 200% scaling but you wanted more options than that? I.e. you wanted to overcome a limitation of the OS, rather than having to fix something which was broken? I don’t think the average computer user could do something similar in Windows. For example when I got my work computer with Windows 11, AFAIK there was no option to only show the task bar on one monitor, so it was always visible and taking space on all monitors. IIRC Microsoft added this feature last year, but I think it would’ve been extremely difficult for the average user to find a way to find a way to do it before that.

    Guesstimating 99% of the Windows users I know would just accept that kind of thing like “it’s annoying, but this is how computers are”. I have friends, family members and coworkers who use Windows, and I’ve found them all to be extremely forgiving towards computer issues.





  • IIRC you need to install vulkan both for 32 and 64 bits at least for some Lutris stuff, so it might be a good start to verify that you have that.

    On my system:

    /usr/bin/vulkaninfo is owned by package vulkan-tools

    /usr/lib64/libfluidsynth.so.3 is owned by fluidsynth-libs

    I don’t have the 32-bit version of either of those packages though, so that wasn’t necessary for the games I’ve played at least. Can’t remember if I installed them manually or if I got them through some metapackage.



  • Yep. I also like the 3D Printing Discord server, since many there have first hand experience with multiple printers. It’s of course also interesting to hear about the experience those who only own a single printer have had, but occasionally someone claims the printer they own is a great choice for beginners despite having spent hundreds, and countless hours, on fixes and upgrade to get it in a usable state :D


  • Most printer companies send out review units to a bunch of youtubers

    Unfortunately this also means that it’s not easy to know which reviews you can trust. Even if some youtuber isn’t paid in cash for a positive review, it’s still in their interest to make the manufacturer happy so they keep getting free stuff in the future. Neither does it help that most reviews have affiliate links, so they have an additional financial incentive to convince you to buy the product.