I got a legion 5 gaming laptop back in like 2020 and while the laptop itself works fine, about a year or two in the screen brightness just... stopped funtioning. I was still on windows at the time, but the issue is still here now and I'd really like to be able to use Plasma's new hdr-without-hdr thing. As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the hardware in my computer.

that being said, I've run windows (which it came with), ubuntu, tuxedo os, and fedora (current) on this laptop and aside from the brightness sometimes briefly coming back after a restart until I restart again (I think it happens after updates when it happens but it's so rare I can't tell), it won't come back. I'm using lvfs for firmware stuff and do get stuff from it sometimes, and I keep my system up to date. I haven't been able to find any solutions online so I figured my best bet would be to ask here. anyone know how to fix or at least diagnose it?

I've seen a lot of people lately saying that upscaling (fsr, dlss, etc.) is a bad thing, including some calling it 'fake frames', which is probably due to them confusing it with frame generation.

What upscaling does is take an input (a frame rendered at 1080p, for example) and attempt to improve it by generating more information (bringing that 1080p frame to 1440p). this does make things a little fuzzy, but it also frees up resources to allow stuff like improved lighting to be rendered which makes games like cyberpunk able to be rendered at a decent framerate without a $5,000 gpu.

Frame generation is different. It takes an input as well (same 1080p frame, for example), but it doesn't improve the frame. It makes a new one based on that frame, sometimes several. These actually are 'fake frames', and this is what the people who called upscaling fake frames were really talking about.

I won't lie, upscaling is definitely a crutch and the goal should be to be able to render that cool stuff at native resolution. however, the tech that can render that stuff is too expensive to be worth buying unless you have money to throw away, which real people typically don't. it's up to you whether a little fuzziness in the graphics is worth it to you, but the fact is it'll give you the leeway to choose between higher framerate and prettier lighting. without it most people are stuck just setting their graphics to 'no', because they can't afford the kind of processing power making things look good at native resolution takes.

Part of why I am making this post is that I wanted to see what other people think of this take, and more importantly get feedback so I can improve the take later. I'm currently running a laptop with a 1650, and I've had it for years. I'm used to balancing frames and quality and making compromises, and upscaling tends to be one of them that's worth making.

I recently got underdogs for my quest 3, and I was expecting somewhere in between real steel, pacific rim, and (if it had a game) battlebots. I got not only that, but an excellent rougelite with a great soundtrack and visual style. It takes place in a cyberpunk 2077-esque world in which you (rigg) must help your brother (king) get into the last place controlled by humans, new brakka, before an ai called big sys hacks into his brain. you are trying to get in via underground mech fights in your mech called the gorilla. the controls match the mech perfectly, making you move by grabbing the ground and throwing yourself around the arena (like a gorilla, shockingly) and enemies. it also features a sandbox and challenge mode that's a lot like the map maker from portal 2. overall the game is awesome and totally worth the $30 price tag.

edit: Should also mention it is a great workout, I got the game a couple days ago and my shoulders and biceps feel like I dipped them in lava.

What the title says, specifically I am wondering about floorp.

Back in 2017, a bug report was created on bugzilla asking for 'Locally Integrated Menus' like the Unity desktop. This was a feature where the menubar of an app was displayed in the titlebar, appearing on hover by default (though you could make it always visible).

Over the next couple years there was some development, but it was mostly in individual window decorations such as "Material Decoration". In 2021, there was a merge request made to finally add LIMs into KDE plasma as an option for titlebars. Unfortunately, due to proximity to the release of plasma 6, reliance on x11, and "a technical disagreement over where it should live" [Guido Iodice, @giodice, 2023 comment under merge request], the merge request has had no changes since August 11, 2021.

Personally, I would love to have this feature as it would save a entire menubar's worth of vertical space on my screen and would allow me to make use of some of the dead space in my titlebars. similar sentiments were expressed throughout the threads under both the bug report and the merge request. many people also talked about giving the option of showing on hover (like unity) or showing always (my preference), and some even suggested making it the default behavior. Do you think this would be a good feature?

@BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social this might make for a good video https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375951 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/breeze/-/merge_requests/126/commits

long story short, fuck company; still want shows. I remember popcorn time being good at one point, is it still good?

I use a Linux distro with kde, so I have a lot of customization available. I like trying other distros in VMs, but stuff like windows (no need to copy really kde is similar by default) and Mac is a pain in the ass to use that way. so, I want to know what your os does that you think I should copy using kde's customization. I'm looking for Mac in particular (bc I haven't used it before) but any OS or desktop environment is fair game.

I currently use mbin and I like it because I like reddit-style social media, but for stuff from specific people and organizations microblog is sometimes better. I want to use the microblog part more (for example, make a post asking the Vivaldi account if there is any possibility of Vivaldi switching to a Firefox base instead of chromium. also I know it's not that easy no need to discuss that on this thread) but tbh I don't understand microblog stuff at all. in particular I want to know how I'm supposed to use @s and #s, and how I'm meant to interact with it. I know this seems kind of silly but I've never really used microblog-style social media until I got into the fediverse a couple months ago.

edit: to clarify, I am not asking how to use the microblog feature of mbin. I am asking about microblog in general.

why is like 30% of the content on Lemmy star trek related? is it just a side effect of the particular communities I'm in or is it an actual platform-wide thing?