Framework just announced their Desktop computer: an AI powerhorse?

Recently I've seen a couple of people online trying to use Mac Studio (or clusters of Mac Studio) to run big AI models since their GPU can directly access the RAM. To me it seemed an interesting idea, but the price of a Mac studio make it just a fun experiment rather than a viable option I would ever try.

Now, Framework just announced their Desktop compurer with the Ryzen Max+ 395 and up to 128GB of shared RAM (of which up to 110GB can be used by the iGPU on Linux), and it can be bought for something slightly below €3k which is far less than the over €4k of the Mac Studio for apparently similar specs (and a better OS for AI tasks)

What do you think about it?

I've installed "Overcooked 2" and "Moving Out" through Heroic Games Launcher (flatpak) and then used the ad-hoc option to add it to steam (also installed as flatpak). If I try to launch the game from Heroic it works properly, and it works also if I try to launch it from the command line with the command it added to steam

flatpak run com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl --no-gui --no-sandbox "heroic://launch/legendary/8e29583ae4b44a21883038668f7e301e"

but if I click the PLAY button on steam, the game fails to launch and the following error is printed on terminal:

chdir "/var/home/lez"
Game Recording - would start recording game 12260096395435835392, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 532 for gameID 12260096395435835392
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/lez/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/lez/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/lez/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
pid 534 != 532, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=12260096395435835392]
Removing process 532 for gameID 12260096395435835392

Anyone else faced this issue? If so how did you fixed it?

I've made the following backup script for my immich stack to be automatically run every day

# Load variables from the .env file
SCRIPT_DIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
set -a
source "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.env"
set +a

# Create a dump of the database and back it up
docker exec -it immich_db pg_dumpall -c -U immich > immich/latest_db_dump.sql
rustic -r $BUCKET_NAME/immich backup immich/latest_db_dump.sql --password=$REPO_PWD

# Backup the library, uploads and profile folders from the upload volume
rustic -r $BUCKET_NAME/immich backup immich/uploads_v/library --password=$REPO_PWD
rustic -r $BUCKET_NAME/immich backup immich/uploads_v/upload --password=$REPO_PWD
rustic -r $BUCKET_NAME/immich backup immich/uploads_v/profile --password=$REPO_PWD

# Apply forget policy
rustic -r $BUCKET_NAME/immich forget $RUSTIC_FORGET_POLICY --password=$REPO_PWD

and when I test it everything works properly, and the created sql dump file is complete and properly backed up.

However, when the execution is triggered automatically by a cronjob (as specified in this crontab line)

"30 3 * * *    root    /home/admin/WinguRepo/scripts/docker_backupper.sh"

(the line is taken from the nixos configuration file, that's why it also contains the user executing the operation)

it seems something breaks in the dumping process, because the script completes successfully but the sql dump file is an empty file (as can be noticed in the following output of rustic -r myrepo snapshots

snapshots for (host [wingu-box], label [], paths [immich/latest_db_dump.sql])
| ID       | Time                | Host      | Label | Tags | Paths                     | Files | Dirs |      Size |
|----------|---------------------|-----------|-------|------|---------------------------|-------|------|-----------|
| 10a32a83 | 2025-01-06 20:56:48 | wingu-box |       |      | immich/latest_db_dump.sql |     1 |    2 | 264.6 MiB |
| 1174bc2e | 2025-01-07 12:50:36 | wingu-box |       |      | immich/latest_db_dump.sql |     1 |    2 | 264.6 MiB |
| 00977334 | 2025-01-08 03:31:24 | wingu-box |       |      | immich/latest_db_dump.sql |     1 |    2 |       0 B |
| 513fffa1 | 2025-01-10 03:31:25 | wingu-box |       |      | immich/latest_db_dump.sql |     1 |    2 |       0 B |
4 snapshot(s)

(the first two snapshots were manually triggered by me executing the script, the latter two instead are triggered automatically by the cronjob)

Any idea about what is causing this behavior?

EDIT: Solution found thank's to @farcaller@fstab.sh comment:

You don’t need -it because you don’t run an interactive session in docker. It might be failing because you ask for a pseudoterminal in an environment where it doesn’t make sense.

Hi! I'm a flutter developer and I've recently switched from Ubuntu to Bluefin (based on Fedora Silverblue) I was trying to install flutter and all the dependencies it asks for when running flutter doctor and while for clang++, cmake and ninja I have been able to install them with Homebrew (brew install llvm cmake ninja) and the warning went away, flutter seems not to detect GTK 3.0 development libraries when installed through homebrew (brew install gtk+3)

After having looked a little bit online, I've seen that the problem is probably that it's searching the libraries in the wrong place and in fact even when I run pkg-config --modversion gtk+-3.0 I see the library as missing. Therefore, I tried setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH env variable to the folder where brew installed my libraries (/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/gtk+3/lib/pkgconfig) and after that the output of the pkg-config program above is the one expected. However, this doesn't seem to fix the issue with flutter doctor... why? where should I specify this path for flutter to notice it then?

EDIT: I found out that I was almost right! The PKG_CONFIG_PATH env variable is what flutter looks at to find GTK-3 libraries, but should be set to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/pkgconfig (if pkg-config has been installed through brew as I did) and then everything will work properly.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/9251429

I was previously using PopOS! 22.04 on my tuxedo laptop and I'd installed on it Howdy to take advantage of the IR camera and have a windows hello alike face recognition feature.

Everything was working fine, but after some time GNOME 46 and its new goodies were too tempting to stick with Pop's old GNOME version (at least for me) and therefore I switched to Ubuntu 24.04

However, when I tried to install howdy using the PPAs as I did with Pop I noticed it wasn't working because of some changes that were made regarding on how Python is managed, and I couldn't find a solution for that. Looking at howdy's GitHub issues, there are a lot of them talking about this problem that seems to be started with 23.x versions already, but having so many issues created a bit too much confusion to me and I didn't manage to find a working solution from there.

Is there anyone here using Howdy on Ubuntu 24.04? How have you managed to install it?

I was previously using PopOS! 22.04 on my tuxedo laptop and I'd installed on it Howdy to take advantage of the IR camera and have a windows hello alike face recognition feature.

Everything was working fine, but after some time GNOME 46 and its new goodies were too tempting to stick with Pop's old GNOME version (at least for me) and therefore I switched to Ubuntu 24.04

However, when I tried to install howdy using the PPAs as I did with Pop I noticed it wasn't working because of some changes that were made regarding on how Python is managed, and I couldn't find a solution for that. Looking at howdy's GitHub issues, there are a lot of them talking about this problem that seems to be started with 23.x versions already, but having so many issues created a bit too much confusion to me and I didn't manage to find a working solution from there.

Is there anyone here using Howdy on Ubuntu 24.04? How have you managed to install it?

Yesterday I was trying to install the Ubisoft version of AC Odissey on my PopOS! machine, and I wasn't able to do so because when I try to launch Ubisoft Connect from Lutris, it asks me to do the login and then shows only a black rectangle.

I tried looking online for a solution but as far as I understood it's a problem of the new Ubisoft Connect UI and I wasn't able to find any fix... can someone help?

It really sucks because it prevents me to play some games that are supposed to run on Linux just because at the time I bought them on Ubisoft Connect instead of Steam :/

I've recently bought my first Tuxedo laptop, an InfinityBook Pro 16 - Gen8 and after having some minor issues with Fedora on it (mainly with the Tuxedo Control Center) I moved to PopOS! and since then it worked flawlessly. Or at least, it used to work flawlessly until last week, when the laptop started to reboot at (apparently) random points of its usage. This is REALLY annoying.

Does anyone encountered the same issue? Have you identified its causes? And how have you fixed it?

I recently finished the episode of The Verge's podcast #Decoder with the interview to Bluesky's CEO and it seems a quite interesting project. At the beginning I wasn't looking really into it because of their choice of using a new protocol instead of the existing ActivityPub, but after listening to her and the reasons behind this choice maybe I'll give them a chance.

What do you think? Do you use it alongside with the fediverse?

A couple of years ago with my old phone (running if I don't remember wrong Android Pie) and my old laptop (running Manjaro KDE) I discovered KDEConnect and how it could enable a clipboard sharing feature similar to the one Apple provides between Macs and iPhones. It was great! Now, after having changed both my phone (now running Android 14) and my laptop (now running PopOS! 22.04) I wanted to reproduce that magic but I found out that with Android 10 some complications regarding clipboard sharing arrived and so it doesn't work out-of-the-box anymore :(

I found some saying that the only way to do that was by the persistent notification button (still ok but meh) and some others reccomending some adb commands to make it work as it was before (which would be great but I wanted to investigate a bit more before pasting some random commands to my terminal)... but it was all kinda old content (referring to Android 10 or at most 11), what's the situation as of today? Do you use clipboard sync? And if so, how?

In the last months, the battery of my S2 tablet was draining really quickly, untill it died and I wasn’t able to recharge it. So, I thought that the battery was dead (it served me for a bunch of years so it could have been acceptable) and I ordered on Amazon a new battery to replace it.

After replacing the battery, though, the tablet turned on saying the new battery was at 50% and, when plugged in, it was acting as if it was charging. Apart from the fact that it wasn’t charging the battery that instead was quickly draining even if plugged in.

Obviously I tried cleaning the charging port, changing cable, changing power adapter, changing socket on the wall, but nothing worked. So I assumed that the new battery they sent me was broken and I purchased a new one but when it arrived: exactly same situation.

Could it be that I was very unlucky and I got a broken new battery twice? Or maybe the problem is somewhere else? Did anyone encounter a similar issue?

I’m finally moving my selfhosting experiments from a VPS to a physical machine in my house but, since I don’t have a static IP address, I opted to use the dynamic dns service offered by Cloudflare.

On their official website I’ve seen suggested ddclient but I haven’t find that much information on which labels should I add to set it up. Therefore, I’ve also found this docker image that seems pretty clean and easy to set up, but the video talking about it was of 3 years ago and I’ve seen that the github repository has been archived last year…

Which option (not necessarily among the two above) do you prefer to set up your Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare? (I don’t know if this can be an important information to add or not, but the Linux server I’m using is running NixOS)