linux

I've just installed Devuan Excalibur using mostly the OpenZFS instructions for Debian Trixie, as I did before except with Chimaera (which I then upgraded to Daedalus.) I had a grand old time getting it to boot and started over a couple of times, which is not a big deal because it does not take very long to get to the point where it doesn't boot. I had been using legacy booting and chose to try UEFI, which is working okay now.

GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton 10.10, a heavily breathed-upon version of Valve's version of Wine used with Steam, and the big news is that it supports NTSYNC by default on supported platforms. That means amd64 systems whose kernel is built with the CONFIG_NTSYNC option, available in the 6.14 series or later or for 6.12 or 6.13 as a patch.

I run Devuan Linux, because I don't like systemd and I do like Debian. I have root on ZFS, which is a great way to protect your data but also comes with challenges. I wanted to install Linux 6.14 because I want NTSYNC support, but the latest release of OpenZFS for Linux does not support Kernel 6.14. However, the master branch of ZFS does support it, and has for a while now, so I decided to build ZFS myself so that I could upgrade my kernel.

nvidia-smi -pl `nvidia-smi --query-gpu=power.max_limit --format=csv,noheader,nounits`

This runs nvidia-smi to get the maximum power level for the GPU as a number alone, then runs it again and sets the power level to that number. This will work as long as you have only one nvidia GPU in your system. Otherwise take a look at the -i option information in nvidia-smi --help.

My PC has an M2 WiFi slot so I figured– why not stuff something in it if I could get it cheap. And then I looked around, and found that I could get WiFi plus Bluetooth for next to nothing...

My PC has a liquid cooler in it with two ARGB fans, and an ARGB infinity mirror on top of the water block. I wouldn't have paid extra for the LEDs, but once I had them, I wanted them to do something. So I connected them to my ASRock motherboard, and played around with that functionality for a little while, but it turned out to have a serious deficit.

nVidia corp has emerged as the de facto standard for both 3d graphics and GPGPU (today, mostly "AI") for a variety of reasons including performance and ease of development. But they are irritating in multiple ways, and I've just discovered another one that probably everyone knew about but me.

I recently found myself working from home, and needing a lot more pixels. I have been using a 40" Sony 3DTV as a monitor (sadly it won't take 120Hz input) and it's only 1080p, which is fine for gaming or doing one thing at a time, but no good for having four windows open and having to be able to make sense of them all at once. It's true that using a television as a monitor typically gives a fairly low-fi experience, but I go back to way back and spent many of my late formative years using Amigas with a TV as a monitor, so I have a fairly high tolerance for visual blemishes.

I have been using PlayOnLinux to manage wineprefixes on my Devuan system and decided to branch out and try using Lutris today. I have been having trouble with it since I installed CUDA (plus the accompanying nvidia drivers) from deb files instead of just using the run file.