Ok, sounds good.*but do I have to write manual commit logs whenever a config file changes? Feels like a hassle to track down and understand all the specifics. For instance when are app updates to new version with new features and that is reflected in new config files. I currently use freefilesync for backups and keep up to 5 version of old files m
Thing is: it was the backup that I accidentally overwrote.
I know the feel, many years ago I chose the wrong folder and overwrote all my video recordings.
So after I last updated my deck I got a generic error message. No biggie. But then suddenly on the next reboot: stuck at the boot logo. Tried lots of things, no way of getting back in. Not with the current kernel, not with the previous one. Really annoying as I use my deck as a general purpose computer too.
So I created a recovery USB. Reinstalling the OS (which attempts to preserve user data and games) failed silently. So I reluctantly copied my entire home folder to an external drive and went with the nuclear option of completely reimaging the internal drive. After steam os finished installation I restored my entire home folder from the backup and restarted the machine.
I was expecting to having to manually reinstall and reconfigure so many apps and settings. And was verily not looking forward to it. But lo and behold: pretty much everything worked just the way it did before the fumbled system update. My desktop layout and window arrangements remained the same, settings and preferences were preserved, it didn't even log me out of email account. No manual imports of settings required. I had to reinstall most apps via the Discover store first, that much is true. But that took just a couple of minutes.
So yeah, really happy with how that went. Last time I had to reinstall everything on a Windows system it was a major pain as settings are all over the place (on the system drive, in the registry, inside appdata, inside the my documents folder, etc). I guess it has to do with the Linux philosophy of "everything is a file".
In the future I'll actually move my /home/ folder to my SSD card so that if this ever happens again the process is even less painful.
PSA: when you backup your home folder make sure to include all the hidden folders and files (anything starting with a dot like the .config folder).
The reason why English, French and Spanish are among the world's most widespread languages has its roots in the imperial past of the nations where they originate
Must be a hot day in Hong Kong for them to be throwing shade like that. It's true of course but it's true for all of the biggest languages that conquest played a significant part in their dispersal. Chinese, Arabic, etc are left out of the statement for some reason.
If I recall historia correctly the "of the people" root can be traced back to Christian missionaries and clergimen of medieval times who needed to translate religious teachings from latin to the common tongue.
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Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can't pronounce a newline, so there's that.
You're on to something but I doubt it's the syllables. Rather it seems about phonetic ambiguity.
"twentynine" could mean both 29 and 2009, so it's better to use "twothousandandnine" for the latter. "twentyten" cannot be interpreted as 30, only as 2010.
So I just checked, but couldn't find any data yet for 2024. The US Census Bureau has data online up to 2022, same for Statista. Judging from the past releases it would take a year or so for the information to be compiled and released. Looks like we'll have to wait.
Hey this is neat, but can you include lines to relate it to the number of eligible voters?
This was created at a time when European societies found a new appreciation for the language of mathematics. Thus [the Christian] god is depicted as constructing the world itself using the tools and precision of mathematics.
"Vamos a playa" by Righeira carries a lightweight, upbeat tune that vacationers might hum on the way to the beach. But the Spanish lyrics reveal that it's about the devastation left behind by nuclear armaments. And the schism between trying to live an ordinary life whilst having a nuclear Damocles sword waver over your head. That it became such a world wide hit makes it all the more ironic. I love it all the more for it.
If you want to read more: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-1938-jungle-yacht-was-explorer-gattis-way-of-glamping-in-the-african-jungle-179039.html
Lovely, I tried the decky plugin for this before but it was somewhat unstable and also caused games to slow down while recording. I wonder what the storage requirements will be for recording, let's say, a buffer of three minutes at all times? 🤔
Lovely, I tried the decky plugin for this before but it was somewhat unstable and also caused games to slow down while recording. I wonder what the storage requirements will be for recording, let's say, a buffer of three minutes at all times? 🤔
To those saying it's likely hardware damage: nope, luckily not. Booting into a different USB image doesn't produce this. But booting into tone same ISO produces these errors every time (it starts out normal and progressively gets worse over time).
Don't know how (or if) I can upload video clips directly to Lemmy, so I used Imgur instead.
OK, thanks for the hint. I just found out that you will only be prompted to update if you:
- power everything off (shut down deck completely, don't just sleep it)
- remove all peripherals connected to the dock (except network cable if you use that for your connection)
- start the deck
- if there are any updates for the the dock, they should show in the options of gaming mode
here's to hoping the updates will allay the display issues
I vaguely remembered it offering me updates when I first set the dock up (purchased the dock much later then the deck). I'll make sure I have the latest version.
I'm also using the deck as a work machine and for that I connect an external monitor, keyboard, mouse. Getting the monitor to display correctly is quite the hassle though.
Suspends, reboots, turning off the dock's power overnight or switching tween gaming and desktop mode all can cause issues with the external display being detected properly. Sometimes the deck uses it's internal display instead. Or worse both screens stay black and I have to restart the deck by holding the power button. Other times the desktop environment uses the wrong resolution and I have to manually adjust it. Or the resolution is correct but the image is off center (leaving a black bar on one edge of the monitor and missing rows of pixels on the opposite side).
¿Are others experiencing these issues as well? I never have trouble with the other peripherals (keyboard, mouse, network cable).
I purchased Steam's official dock cause I wanted the additional charger. ¿Can owners of docks from alternate manufacturers report how well external displays connect? Might be worth a switch to save me all the hassle.
--- edit: I just learned that you won't receive updates to the dock unless you follow this procedure:
- power everything off (shut down deck completely, don't just sleep it)
- remove all peripherals connected to the dock (except network cable if you use that for your connection)
- start the deck
- if there are any updates for the the dock, they should show in the options of gaming mode
🤨 why tho, valve? why not show dock updates always? how am I supposed to know about them otherwise... 😮💨
Yes, inspired by Alfons Mucha!
There was some degree of standardization. Especially for important legal and religious texts alteration, even if accidental, was considered a sin/vice.
Scribes very often simply had to produce 1:1 copies of existing texts. So the standard was right in front of them.
You wouldn't think how far clerical errors could go when it was laboriously copied by hand by exhausted monks in candlelight.
The whole Mary was a virgin thing (aka immaculate conception) was started because someone mistranslated young woman as (sexual) virgin. In some languages those terms are really close (even today for example in German: junge Frau Vs Jungfrau).
Back in 2016 while working on blog posts about the woodworkers depicted in misericords I encountered a devilish creature holding a scroll of paper. At the
I've had multiple occurrences of this lately with programs installed as flatpaks, such as Audacity (audio editor). The updates section might list 3.6.0 --> 3.5.4̀ for a program.
Whenever this happens I usually manually exclude any version downgrades and only upgrade the rest.
¿Can this happen due to security issues? ¿Or because the higher version has become incompatible with something else on my system?
The decision revives a lawsuit filed by 94 women who said their OB-GYN sexually abused them. Previously, a lower court determined that the actions they alleged had to be treated as medical malpractice.
Ich hatte mal eine Kommilitonin die größtenteils in den Vereinten Arabischen Emiraten aufgewachsen ist. Sie konnte perfekt Deutsch, hat aber manchmal drollige Ausdrücke, falsche Präpositionen, etc verwendet.
Sie sagte zum Beispiel immer: > den Lichtschalter zu machen
> der letzte macht das Licht zu
Kann sein, dass dieses konkrete Beispiel auch irgendwo im DACH Raum als Dialekt existiert, aber sie hatte noch viel mehr solcher Dinger. Das ist leider einzige Beispiel, was mir zurzeit noch einfällt.
Ich hab mir damals sagen lassen, dass diese kleinen Ungereimtheiten von den Sprachschulen in der Arabischen Welt stammen. Sie werden dort wohl teils einfach so unterrichtet.
Fallen euch noch mehr solcher Beispiele ein? Kann auch aus anderen Teilen der Welt stammen. Eine Aufstellung dazu wäre mal ganz interessant. Vielleicht kennt auch jemand eine Internetseite dazu?
Here's a more detailed description for those that like to read up: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experiment/
Curiously enough when a similar experiment was first performed decades earlier the original intent was to get the spiders to weave their webs during different times of the day, rather than alter the pattern.
I own an older monitor that has only has VGA and DVI port and I want to connect it to my deck for daily use.
In theory this should be as simple as getting a DVI to HDMI converter cable and then connect to a dock that has a HDMI port, right? Or perhaps a DVI to display port adapter instead? I've read about people having trouble with DVI monitors so I checked multiple dock vendors and their statements boil down to "we don't support it", ie they don't deny or rule out that it works but don't want to give guarantee either.
Is anyone in a similar situation and can recommend a dock? I want to resolve the monitor situation first and then worry about additional stuff like USB ports, etc.
My monitor is a Samsung SMT 2333T (https://www.samsung.com/us/business/support/owners/product/2333t-series-2333t/)
Edit: I got it working and it was quite simple, here's my steps:
- I checked the port at the back of my monitor (reference chart) which turned out to be DVI-I dual link.
- then I purchased a HDMI <–> DVI adapter cable which supports my monitor’s resolution (1080 p). This costs around 10 €.
- connected that cable to the official Steam Deck dock and my monitor and it works without any further setup
- while in the Deck’s Desktop mode you can go into the system settings --> display and make your external monitor the primary display. Primary means that your start bar is located there, new apps will launch on this screen by default, etc. In the same settings menu you can also turn off the Decks own display while the external one is connected. I do this because I can’t comfortably look at it anyway while it’s in the dock and also to save energy.
