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  • My definition is that if it’s something that common sense would call water, it’s water. This is the simple trick that defeats all stupid questions.

    In your example, brine isn’t water because it’s brine, you even said that in the example.

    And if you add food dye to a glass of water, it’s water but colored. Even with you yourself wrote the example implying that it should be water.

    The oil with chalk emulsified in water has nothing to do with milk, what does it matter that it looks like milk. And as you yourself implied, it should not be considered water, but an emulsion of stuff.

    And notice how I avoided talking percentages, I simply questioned your own common sense. You didn’t even think about it, and yet your common sense made the solution clear in your examples.



  • Obviously that’s not what “replace all water with milk” means. It means just replacing the water in water form. Like oceans, rivers, and aqueducts. If it meant also the water content of other stuff like the body it just wouldn’t be possible, because milk is mostly water and you would have to replace that as well




  • Have you tried gnome connections? It’s more on the “quick and easy” rather than “professional” side, but maybe it does the job.

    Tho I wonder whether it’s more of a windows-side issue… maybe windows 11 requires some kind of online authentication that cannot be implemented by other clients, and maybe this authentication can be turned off. I’m merely speculating here, but I know that remmina works for windows 10 so it’s suspicious.


  • AMD has an nvdec/nvenc equivalent called AMF, on Linux it’s going to be deprecated in months in favour of va-api.

    To my knowledge, it does not have an nvfbc equivalent. Which anyway, Nvidia has deprecated on windows in favour of a windows-native screen capture with a name I don’t remember.

    For what is worth, va-api encoding + kmsgrab works pretty well for me, it does have some latency, but nothing too unacceptable. Probably less than the one caused by the Bluetooth controller. And none of this is vendor specific, you can get it working on Intel, AMD and Nvidia (Nvidia needs a compatibility layer, but it works). Also, it works on Wayland, but sunshine needs some privileges to work.

    Sunshine supposedly supports nvfbc with patched Nvidia drivers, even on Linux, I haven’t tried it, so I don’t know if it works on Wayland. I don’t see why it shouldn’t, as long as you give sunshine privileged permissions (like you need for kmsgrab). Even without nvfbc you can use nvenc, so you don’t need the va-api compatibility layer.

    Supposedly, since this Nvidia driver release nvfbc is used as backend for pipewire screen capture, so it should just work for apps like OBS, I don’t know if sunshine has intention to move to it.

    In general, screen capture on Linux pretty much works, even on Wayland. The general sentiment that it’s broken is actually old news.

    There’s a caveat though. Proprietary apps tend to use outdated stuff (e.g. electron builds from 5 years ago) and thus don’t support screen sharing on Wayland.



  • Fstab is still there untouched, it’s the temporary units files that get replaced at reload.

    The mount program works as normally, if you edit fstab and then mount -a it will work as expected, it will just warn you that systemd is not aware of the change. It will reload it anyway at the next boot.

    daemon-reload is not daemon-restart, it just makes systemd re-read the configuration to make it aware of the changes, but the services don’t get restarted. Some services (e.g. nginx) can re-read their confuration without restarting, those services are also made aware of the changes when reloading and can be reloaded individually.

    You can edit any systemd units using systemctl edit so you don’t need to reload (fstab is not a systemd unit)


  • Fstabs gets converted into temporary unit files every time systems reloads config files (reboot or daemon-reload) so you can just keep using it like you always did. Actually it’s the systemd suggested way to manage mountpoints unless you need something advanced that fstabs can’t do.



  • Systemd does one thing, it manages services, and does so reliably, without messing around with spagettified shell scripts, with a fuckload of options, and all of that easily is configurable by dropping in files without editing stuff that arrived from the package manager. Seems pretti “do one (complex) thing and do it well”

    If you add other things built around it, it can do more. For example, if you install systemd-nspawn it can start and stop containers like it starts and stops services.

    Other things that you think of as systemd are entirely separate things (like systemd-networkd) that are just built around systemd. You don’t have to use them if you don’t like.

    On the other hand, you know what does not follow the Unix philosophy? The Xserver, which manages screens, graphic acceleration, input devices, printers, remoting, etc. And it doesn’t even do it well









  • Splitting the thread here. I personally used i3wm for more than a year and became white fast with it, then I had to use windows for a month and when I went back to i3 it was a pain, I couldn’t do shit. It was at that moment I decided “why can’t I just stop forcing myself to this PITA and just use the mouse faster?” And I never used a tiling VM again, personally I use kde on desktop and gnome on laptop.

    But, I can see the appeal of automatic tiling, so I raise you this: scrollable compositors. You get both the benefits of automatic positioning and oc moving things in and out of the way, without keeping track and managing 10 virtual desktops