Well, one of my grandmas died about a year ago, I don’t really talk to my other grandma, I’ve never met either of my real grandpas (my parents have never met them either) and I don’t really talk to my step-grandpas. I do go to family gatherings but I’m not really much of a talkative person, so I don’t really have much of a reason to talk to them.
I’ll keep it brief because I know that this kind of stuff is very triggering for some people but when I was in elementary school, my dad was an alcoholic. One year on my birthday, we decided to go out of town so we can eat at a restaurant that we didn’t have and buy some games from GameStop. Long story short, right before we reached our destination, my dad for a reason that I don’t remember (assuming there was one), decided to start physically abusing both my mom and my sister. So we ended up just going right back home and we just ordered pizza.
Something that I considered doing with a similar laptop, was to use it as a low-end portable gaming system. I’d take a lightweight Linux distro, like the 32-bit version of Q4OS if it’s system requirements are lower than your current setup, and get it loaded with a bunch of games with low system requirements and retro emulators. Obviously, it wont be anywhere near as powerful as your main computer (if you have one) but because it’s portable, there could be some value in having a portable gaming pc (unless you have something like the Steam Deck).
That’s the reason I don’t open random emails and I never answer the phone unless I’m expecting a call/text from a specific number. I’m too paranoid about getting scammed/hacked. I’d be using 2FA if it wasn’t for the fact that I’d have concerns about potentially loosing access to my accounts because the trusted device stops working or something.
I do already use different passwords for every account that I have and I changed my Gmail password recently. Is there anything else I should be worried about?
Yes but the problem for me was more complicated. Mesa is installed by default in Linux Mint and Vulkan should have worked out of the box but for some reason it defaulted to the wrong Kernel driver for the GPU. I didn’t know this before posting and, as I stated in other replies, every search result on every search engine told me the wrong information.
Yeah it seems like it’s working now.
Ok, it seems to have worked as the game I was using for testing seems to be working fine.
Although, I keep getting the error message (WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.), is that to be expected?
Ok, do I need to restart my computer now?
For some reason, I can’t get Lemmy’s “code” fuction to work properly in this reply but both commands give the same information:
Vulkan Instance Version: 1.3.204
VK_EXT_acquire_drm_display : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_debug_report : extension revision 10 VK_EXT_debug_utils : extension revision 2 VK_EXT_direct_mode_display : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_display_surface_counter : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace : extension revision 4 VK_KHR_device_group_creation : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_display : extension revision 23 VK_KHR_external_fence_capabilities : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_external_memory_capabilities : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_external_semaphore_capabilities : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_get_display_properties2 : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 : extension revision 2 VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2 : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_surface : extension revision 25 VK_KHR_surface_protected_capabilities : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_wayland_surface : extension revision 6 VK_KHR_xcb_surface : extension revision 6 VK_KHR_xlib_surface : extension revision 6
VK_LAYER_INTEL_nullhw INTEL NULL HW 1.1.73 version 1 VK_LAYER_MESA_device_select Linux device selection layer 1.3.211 version 1 VK_LAYER_MESA_overlay Mesa Overlay layer 1.3.211 version 1 VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_fossilize_32 Steam Pipeline Caching Layer 1.3.207 version 1 VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_fossilize_64 Steam Pipeline Caching Layer 1.3.207 version 1 VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_overlay_32 Steam Overlay Layer 1.3.207 version 1 VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_overlay_64 Steam Overlay Layer 1.3.207 version 1
GPU0: apiVersion = 4206847 (1.3.255) driverVersion = 1 (0x0001) vendorID = 0x10005 deviceID = 0x0000 deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU deviceName = llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits) driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_LLVMPIPE driverName = llvmpipe driverInfo = Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 (LLVM 15.0.7) conformanceVersion = 1.3.1.1 deviceUUID = 6d657361-3233-2e32-2e31-2d3175627500 driverUUID = 6c6c766d-7069-7065-5555-494400000000 `
Did I do it correctly? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1"
After saving, is there anything else I have to do it get it to work?
Because Vulkan has never worked out of the box for me in either Ubuntu nor Linux Mint and every single search result on every single search engine states that Ubuntu and it’s derivatives need that PPA for Vulkan to work. I would have tried other solutions if there was even a single mention of another way to get Vulkan working.
My computer has an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics. It seems like both the radeon and the amdgpu modules are installed but the kernel driver in use is radeon. I’d show the output of “vulkaninfo” but it doesn’t seem to show the full thing, is there a way I can get it to show the full output?
The GPU is an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics. It was a bit hard for me to find and I have no idea if it’s accurate but it should support at least Vulkan 1.2.170.
I would but I’m actually using Linux Mint because the Xfce edition has low ram usage. My computer’s ram is very slow and it’s only 4GB.
My GPU shouldn’t be too modern because it just recently became EOL. The only thing I know is that when ever I try to run something that requires Vulkan in Linux, it defaults to using Lavapipe instead of my GPU and if it try to disable Lavapipe, it acts like Vulkan isn’t installed.
Outside of sorting them by artist, album and maybe something else depending on what it is, I kind of don’t. If there is a song that I like, I’ll download it and add it to the folder where I keep all of my music. Yes, this does cause a playlist that is massive and kind of sporadic but I already listen to artists like A-one and Sound Holic which already have at least some level of variety to the style of music they make.
I’ve always pronounced sudo the same way that the sudo part of sudowoodo is pronounced. I actually used to think it was an obscure Pokemon reference when I first started using Linux but both Linux and sudo itself Predate Pokemon.
There has been four times I remember where I’ve either lost my temper or just got really frustrated when contacting support teams. Sorry if this seems long winded, I like to vent every time I can about some of these.
The first time was when I tried to contact Samsung because I was having an issue with the Galaxy Store. At the time when I was trying to contact them they only had two contact methods, which were by phone and through some form of a support forum. As someone who hates talking to people through phone calls and prefers to just use emails, I opted into at least trying the support forum. As I expected, Samsung’s support team ignored my post and I only got replies from users who either had no idea what I was talking about or were just bots.
I just gave up trying to contact them after that and I haven’t used the Galaxy Store very much. If you’re interested in knowing what the issue is, basically, the “recommended for you” section keeps recommending me apps that I’ve already rating, even if I gave them a low rating.
The second was when I tried to contact the support team for Hideout because I couldn’t get videos on their website to work in any web browser on my tablet. I did everything I could to provide as much information as I could, even providing screenshots whenever I thought it would be helpful. After a few days of doing everything they asked me to and continuing to provide as much information and as many screenshots as I could, the CEO of Hideout came into the conversation and proceeded ignore everything I stated up to that point and insinuated that I wasn’t being cooperative because one of the browsers I was using “looked outdated” and that the issue would have been fixed if I just updated that browser.
I don’t remember exactly how I responded but I remember calling them incompetent because YouTube working perfectly fine on my tablet but Hideout didn’t and reminding them that I stated multiple times that the browsers I tested were reinstalled before testing to make sure that my settings wasn’t causing any conflicts, so none of the browsers could have been outdated. They never responded after that and eventually marked the ticket as being solved when it very clearly wasn’t. I stopped using Hideout after this but I probably still wouldn’t be using it because sometime after that I heard that they stopped paying their users or something like that.
The third time was when I contacted Discord’s support team because I had an issue where email notifications just randomly stopped working for me. They had me try all sorts of things, like contacting the admins of the servers I joined and making sure that my Discord inbox was cleared regularly. This also included changing my email address on Discord, which caused them to temporarily refuse helping me for reasons that I don’t understand. After I asked them why they were punishing me after doing what they requested of me, they claimed that there was a miscommunication on their end and continued trying to help me.
Eventually, they determined that my issue needed to be looked at by the dev team and sent the information to them. I was expecting them to either fix the issue or at least tell me how to fix it on my end but when they responded about a week later, they gave me some bogus answer, stating that “email notifications don’t work for servers with more than 5000 users”. I know for sure that this was a lie because I was told by the admins for some servers that the email notifications are working for other users but the rep kept ignoring what I was saying and refused to fix the issue. I just gave up trying to reason with them and filled out the survey they gave me, even though I’d imagine that no one at Discord actually read it.
The fourth time was when I contacted Google because I was having an issue with the Play Store. The issue was that there was an app that I wasn’t able to review because when I tried to review it the first time, it glitched out and only used half of my review so I deleted it but I kept getting error messages every time I tried reviewing it again. I was using Firefox in Ubuntu at the time and I figured that the issue was something on their end and that contacting them would be quick and easy but I was wrong.
I was emailing them about and fourth for a little over a month because they kept giving me suggestions that were irrelevant to my issue, requesting that I use features that didn’t exist on any of my android devices (which still don’t as far as I’m aware) and forgetting everything relevant to my issue, even what my issue was in the first place. At one point, I thought that they just gave up and redirected me to a bot that ghosted me because all of the emails they sent prior had the name of the rep I was talking to and a message about some survey they’d have me fill out when the conversation was done. I received about three emails that didn’t contain either of those before they just stopped emailing me entirely.
Given that I thought that they wouldn’t respond, I decided to reply to the last email they sent with an angry email. I have once again forgotten my exact words but I remember expressing how I felt and that if they’re not willing to help me with my issue, that I’d want them to just give me the survey they mentioned in previous emails. They did respond after about a week but I really just wanted the conversation to end, so I repeatedly told them that I didn’t want to talk to them anymore and after a few emails they ended the conversation and gave me the survey. While I have no idea if they actually did anything directly but the issue seemed to be fixed about 6 months after that.
No, not at all. I’m already the type of person who gets extreme anxiety whenever someone expects anything thing from me. Adding a time limit just makes things worse.