I’ve long thought Condorcet is at least very close to being the absolute best election method. Nice to see it validated here!

makes the “hackers” scummy

Don’t get me wrong, you’re right that this is bad but I’d think the blackmailing alone would make them scummy.

Please, educate me. Send me a link with the text in question.

No, it doesn’t. One crime doesn’t absolve the other.

Aside from the arguments posited by this comment’s siblings, I’ll add: artificial scarcity is scarcity nonetheless.

We’re very far from post-scarcity despite the fact that there’s seemingly no material conditions stopping us from achieving it.

since they only distribute it via .deb

.deb are the Debian package format. Ubuntu is actually a Debian derivative, among others, which is why they use the same format. Debian lists a few of those derivatives in their docs: https://www.debian.org/derivatives/

Here’s my Debian setup for gaming: https://lemmy.world/post/9543661

Perhaps, and I’ll readily admit my ignorance on this.

That said, I doubt the HDR overhead would be any larger than the equivalent baseline SDR content.

If my intuition is right, depending on other factors like compression you could still fit at least 2 streams on that bandwidth.

No worries! I also posted the blog on this community (https://lemmy.world/post/9543661) and someone mentioned in the comments they’re running Debian stable for gaming.

That can also be an option if you’d like to avoid testing for the minute, though I’m not sure what pitfalls that setup might have.

Good luck on your journey!

100mbps should be enough for a few 4K streams, and I imagine you’re not streaming more than one thing to your TV at any given time.

You’re welcome! Also thanks for the feedback.

I’ve added a note on the firmware section clarifying there’s no harm in just pulling them, and also a link to a Stack Exchange answer explaining how to configure the default kernel.

Do you have any experience with the ones you mentioned, and if so did either have an actual impact for you?

I’m currently using the Xanmod variant. I haven’t compared them in any objective way but I have the impression that with the Debian kernel I get slightly more stuttery games. It’s very minor though. I imagine with recent enough CPU and GPU the difference would be minimal, if any. It’s easy to switch between kernels, so it doesn’t hurt to have them all installed to try them out. In the end, whatever works for you is the best choice.

are there any details on what the additional firmware components add on?

I’m not sure. You can search dmesg for messages of missing firmware (grep for amdgpu and if there are any missing ones it should show). In any case, there are no downsides to just pulling them from upstream the way I mentioned in the post. If the driver requests them, they will be loaded and you’ll benefit from it. Firmware files that are not required by the driver will just sit on your drive taking up a little bit of space.

I imagine all those files would eventually find their way into firmware-amd-graphics (https://packages.debian.org/trixie/firmware-amd-graphics), so you’re really just getting them earlier.

If there is firmware missing, some functionality of the GPU might not be available and you could have degraded performace or maybe other issues.

Anyway, if you go through the post or parts of it, let me know how it went. If there’s anything that needs correction or could be improved, I’d be glad to amend it.

Thanks!

This is prety much it actually.

I did do a lot more stuff but only things specific to my personal setup, like having the games on a separate Btrfs partition which can be mounted from other OSs, that kind of stuff.

Assumin all one wants to do is install a few games from Steam, once the setup I described is done, everything is an apt install steam away.

Awesome stuff! I’m running KDE as well - can’t wait for Plasma 6 to start hitting the repos to get HDR on CP2077.

I have an even newer GPU so a more current kernel was needed. I went with testing because I prefer to follow a more up-to-date system, and it’s almost as solid as stable so I don’t see many downsides. I wouldn’t do it on a server but on the desktop I can easily work around or fix whatever minor nags appear.

I really wanted to get Mesa from experimental though as it follows upstream pretty closely (just a few days lag usually), and testing being generally closer to it probably helps. Or not, I haven’t really tested that assumption. :D

You can give flatpaks permissions for those. Flatseal is a great GUI for that if that’s your thing.

Well, sure Brazilian is Latin American but there aren’t products from any other Latin American countries.

Considering there are some Portuguese products as well, it’s more of a “Portuguese language section” than Latin American.

Hey, I appreciate your warning.

For a bit of context, I have been a Debian user for almost 30 years now. Mostly using testing for desktop / workstation systems, and stable on servers and containers. Debian is comfortable and provides me with stability where I need and cutting-edge where I want. It mostly “just works” with great defaults for everything, and it’s easy to customise where I desire.

With that out of the way: you’re not wrong. In fact, the testing FAQ describes situations where these kinds of breakages could happen.

That said, this is exceedingly rare if not nearly unheard of, and I can always pull packages from sid or experimental if I need (like I do Mesa).

Edit to add: for anyone interested in trying out Debian testing, please check out the Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

Edit 2: I have published a blog post describing my setup if you’re interested: https://blog.c10l.cc/09122023-debian-gaming

I’m using Debian testing + a few packages from experimental (Mesa) and xanmod or liquorix kernel.

It’s been a great experience. Stable as expected, performant as anything else.

There’s GOverlay if you want a GUI for this stuff.

https://github.com/benjamimgois/goverlay

That reminds me of that joke:

Two economists are walking side-by-side.

One tells the other: I’ll give you $100 if you take a shit on the pavement.

He proceeds to shit on the pavement and grab the $100.

He then tells the other economist: I’ll give you $100 if you eat my shit.

The other does the deed and collects his $100.

After walking a few more blocks, one of them says: both of us left our dignity with that work back there and neither of us are any richer!

To which the other responds: no, but we grew our combined GDP to $200.

And they both walked away happy, patting each other on their backs.