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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • If you want better compatibility with Microsoft Office files, you could use WPS Office. It has given me better results overall than OnlyOffice and far better than LibreOffice.

    Not dissing the other suites, I like LibreOffice for daily use but there’s nothing I can do about M$ Office templates bugging out because they don’t follow their own OOXML implementation properly.


  • Hi! To enable HDR in most games you will need to set your game in fullscreen. Windowed or Borderless won’t allow you to use HDR functionality.

    You’ll also need to use the DXVK_HDR=1 %command% startup variable in steam to enable HDR in any Proton game. Proton 8 and 9 should support HDR without issuez although there are some games that might need additional configuration.

    If you use an NVIDIA card, you might need to enable NVAPI with DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1

    Happy gaming! :D



  • After years of using linux distros and settling on an arch based distro for my daily use, I switched jobs and they allowed me to have “linux” as my laptop OS.

    They put Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the laptop. Admittedly I hadn’t used it for a few years, maybe 18.04 outside of server use cases maybe.

    The experience is horrible. It throws errors about Ubuntu, about Visual Studio Code or any program every hour, without those programs having any trouble whatsoever to function.

    It reminds me so much of Windows, and even though I prefer it over that system, I can’t shake the feeling I’m serving the OS, rather than the other way around, just like in Windows.

    And don’t even get me started on Snaps over DEB packages. Had never tried them before and I can say with confidence the hatred is deserved. Code didn’t even start up in the snap version and Firefox was so slow and laggy I was thinking the laptop was broken somehow.






  • So after some trial and error I found out it’s somehow the official Steam Dock. It breaks family sharing on shutdown, reboot and suspension.

    The solution seems to be unplugging the Dock whenever any reboot, shutdown or suspension action is going to be done and replug it only when the Deck is active and signed in.

    Really weird bug. I didn’t even think the Dock could be an issue in this regard.




  • Hi!

    To answer your first question, yes, you absolutely can use your desktop computer as server and client at the same time. Just bear in mind you’ll need to have it powered on 24/7 to have access from other clients, be it locally or from outside.

    Plex has multiple options to scan the library when changes have been detected and does a sweep of the whole library at intervals you set it up. You can also trigger a library scan manually if you want. Don’t worry about changing names, it will detect and move around the library without any trouble.

    About the encoding part, Plex encodes the stream that is being sent to the client, if necessary. There’s the possibility of creating “optimized” files that would take up space in your HDD, but re-encoding streams so that the client can play the files won’t take space AFAIK.

    I hope this answers your concerns, cheers!