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  • Yeah, typically ICC profiles are used to make colour reproduction more accurate, but it should be possible to use one to make colours more vibrant/saturated instead of focussing on accuracy, the main hurdle will be creating a profile that does this how you want. Looking online it seems there are some tools that can edit/create ICC profiles like RawTherapee’s ICC profile creator and Argyll CMS, but these might be challenging to use to get the result you want.

    For a simple solution you could try nVibrant if you have an NVidia GPU, or vibrant-cli if there is a Wayland compatible version (you mentioned it in your post, but from what I could find it only supports X11).
    Gamescope can be run separately from Steam, but still has the issue that it will only work for whatever application is running within gamescope (unless you run the entire plasma desktop within it).
    Someone has made a GLSL shader to increase vibrance, that is part of a kwin-effect-shaders project, but it hasn’t been updated in 3 years. If you are going to make your own KWin script/effect, then that shader might be a good reference.


  • In the UK we have (in UK pints, 1 pint = 568ml): 1 pint, 2 pints, 4 pints and 6 pints. We also have slightly smaller metric sizes (1L, 2L) that are typically seen in convenience stores or on branded milk.

    I would say that 4 pints (2.273L) is the typical size that most would buy for regular use, with smaller sizes popular for those that don’t have cereal/porridge. I find that milk from the supermarket tends to keep well, so it’s not that difficult to get through a 4 pinter, unless all you use it for is adding some in your tea - in which case you can just get a 1 or 2 pint jug.




  • Even if you check, you should download with curl and check the downloaded file, then run that, as a malicious server could present a normal download to browsers based on user agent and other fingerprinting data, while presenting a malicious script to curl

    Wish people would stop suggesting the pipe to bash scripts as an install method but the simplicity of being able to tell all Linux and Mac users to just paste a string into their terminal to install and letting the script deal with any differences between systems is probably why we keep seeing it for major projects, rather than a long list of instructions for different distros






  • GPUs that are banned from export to China can be easily acquired in low numbers in the country due to individuals bringing in banned GPUs which get sold just like unbanned GPUs after passing through several people. Also possible that some banned cards are repaired QC failures from the Chinese factories that produce these cards (the cards are produced in China, but are supposed to be exported and banned from export back into China). The export restrictions present more of a barrier for building out large AI clusters with many, many GPUs.
    Nvidia almost certainly knows about this but turns a blind eye because they want to sell more cards and China is a large market.
    There are some repair shops in China that can not only repair the GPUs, but can also transfer the GPU die onto an aftermarket PCB and give it double the amount of VRAM to create a card that Nvidia doesn’t even sell.
    Individual banned GPUs are easier to get than the full systems that Nvidia also sells. AMD GPUs are much less popular, Intel GPUs are basically non-existent. The overall most popular card for smuggling into China seems to be the RTX 4090.





  • When I took a screenshot on the Minimal and emailed it to myself (to view on my laptop), the screenshot was in color.

    Just tested this, the colour correction only affects the displayed image on my device, not screenshots

    Either I don’t have that option or it’s buried under a different name/menu path.

    Not sure when the ability to add custom mode was added (I’m on android 16), but it’s part of the menu that contains bedtime mode, driving mode and DND (edit: custom modes were added in one of the android 15 updates). You could use one of those preset modes and set the display setting for it to grey scale, but I’ve noticed that colour correction actually has a quick settings toggle, so you could use that with colour correction set to grey scale as a sort of reading mode as well. Here’s what my modes menu looks like on my phone:
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  • Yeah, I search the AUR not to discover packages, but to see if something I want to install is in there, if it is I check the PKGBUILD and make sure none of the sources/commands/patches are suspicious.
    People need to remember it’s not some carefully vetted app store and that they need to be the ones vetting any packages they install and any changes when updating.



    • For Steam apps, the previous method doesn’t work (for some reason - maybe it uses a custom launch process?), but after trying many different ways, I was able to get most Steam apps to use the correct GPU (GPU 0) by adding the custom launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 %command%

    Steam runs the commands to launch the games directly, so editing .desktop files won’t affect anything launched through steam directly.
    PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 is related to the graphics back ends, so I wouldn’t use it for selecting the GPU, as, while it might work for making a game use the dedicated GPU, it probably won’t work reliably as you’ve discovered. For setting a game to run on the NVIDIA GPU I think PRIME and NVIDIA Optimus are the solution, but I can’t help you much since all my systems have only a single GPU enabled. One of the following 3 launch options in steam should work:
    __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only %command%

    DRI_PRIME=1 %command%

    prime-run %command%