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Cake day: July 4th, 2026

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  • Oh, we doing “what doesn’t work for you” comment section? Count me in!

    My LG TV consistently broken on multiple amd devices on linux. Something to do with how LG implemented HDMI protocol and how AMDGPU driver percepts it. I think it have something to do with color bit depth, cause all DEs allow to set 16 bit color (which is insane, not supported by any software nor my hardware and shouldn’t be a allowed as option without some special flags in my opinion) but like, there no protection and some DE/WM even defaults to max available bit depth, which in turn straight up doesn’t work and result in black screen.

    Windows or nvidia — those work fine.

    Another pain in the ass for me — connecting dualsense controller via bluetooth. It connects, then just disconnects. There a workaround that includes fetching it’s ID via terminal, then using commands to connect and entrust that device. After that it connects fine. Until you need to reconnect it, that is, cause it stops being recognized. Apparently that was fixed like, a year ago. Yeah, right.

    Another pain for me would be steam client on wayland, but Valve finally started working in that direction so I will hold my complains for now.







  • Nah, I was joking. I tried 3 apps this month:

    1. Fet — shows you ads on every move. Even to check your gallery you need to watch full screen ad. Patched this out by luckypatcher - still shows ads now and then. Swaps are limited in free account. No commenting either. No one answered to my messages, nor messaged me. Uses imperial system instead of metric, you can switch it if you verify your account apparently, but I couldn’t: my country not supported.
    2. Bumpy — couldn’t bare onboarding video that bugged out and started showing each time I launch app. Like, straight up unskippable video about “how great this app is” for about 3 minutes. Also, profile strictly moderated, couldn’t even put my discord/telegram, got blocked. Also-also, uses imperial system instead of metric (I live in Europe) and you can’t switch it at all.
    3. Velvet — paid account required for most things, “Delete account” button throws 404 error (you can’t delete account), “Support&help” doesn’t react (probably dummy button and not mapped anywhere), there no profiles unless you max out range (capped for free account at 50km I believe) and then it will show one profile - app just a fraud.

    So yeah, nah, I’m done for now. It’s not even dating itself that sucks, but even experience of getting there.









  • It especially cool that steam deck basically set the rules upon arrival:

    • Being cheap (not anymore tho) — it was two to three times cheaper than competitives
    • Providing best user experience with SteamOS — showing that UI matters on such devices
    • Being serviceable — you can easily fix or at least replace components

    It’s not like they was first company to present x86 handheld, but they was first one who was able to take off. I bought asus rog ally year ago (with z1extreme) and I already swapped os, nvme and sticks in it, battery will be next, cause in this model it abysmally small. And I can bet if not for stream deck, even if asus would release rog ally, it would cost x2 and repairability would basically none existent. And chance are it would have problems with linux (like their rog ally xbox version)



  • If you’re worried about credibility

    Not really anymore. (considering Louis Rossman behind it)

    My harsh comment strictly regarding this part:

    but they are not required to release the code to the public

    Again, it make no sense to pay this theoretical person (well, I wouldn’t, hence I won’t donate), cause there actually no benefit to anyone.

    The point of all this is to be able to demonstrate to legislators that the DMCA needs to be fixed

    Well, then why that money used for this charity event and not for cause mentioned above? “yeah, we know how to jailbrake your console, take that sony! Oh, but don’t worry, we won’t release this hack nor collaborate in any way to provide this feature to other people”

    That being said I’m not deaf and yeah, I can understand legal side of thing. Won’t make it less annoying tho.