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  1. AlpacaTechTips
    fixed now. before was: when trying to download video. firefox: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to edge01-na.floatplane.com. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. chrome: This page isn’t working edge01-na.floatplane.com didn’t send any data. ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
  2. AlpacaTechTips
    Could not find place where to report bugs, so: When downloading from floatplane at lower resolution than 1080p for the 5$ tier, instead of getting download prompt window with the correct filename, this happens (see screenshot). after the video has loaded (can take a long time) you can start to play it, or save by going to menu and choosing save page as. Happens on FireFox, have not tested on Chrome or other browsers.
  3. AlpacaTechTips
    for me changing resolutions work with this installed in the guest https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/virtio-win-guest-tools.exe Thanks for the guide Shawnsg
  4. AlpacaTechTips
    You seem more knowledgeable than me, I have used Gnome in fedora and arch and there I did not have the steam tray icon, and the last Ubuntu versions I've only used live, because I did not like them - so no installing of steam and checking that. So I'm wrong about that. Still, I use single monitor and with wayland I have had problems with video players, gamma in CS:GO and some other problems I can't recall right now( maybe less FPS in cs:go in fedora 32 when I used it?), once I switch over to X11 everything has worked fine for me. Anyways I still think KDE Plasma will be better for Linus in Kubuntu or other KDE plasma distro. I like gnome and gnome flashback(even more than gnome) for their visual style and sometimes use them ( I have arch with kde and gnome) ,but have problems with power saving where monitor will go black but not turn off and some other niggles. Multitasking or using multiple windows open and doing stuff with them at the same time is easier for me in plasma than in gnome.
  5. AlpacaTechTips
    I think for Linus good choice would be a distro with KDE Plasma desktop environment due to is similarity to Windows. First choice Kubuntu. KDE plasma has tray icons and uses X11. Gnome (Ubuntu, PopOS etc.) uses wayland by default and has no tray icon for steam for example. Wayland gives me dark gamma in CS:GO. I base my recommendation on having distro hopped various Ubuntu versions and flavors, trying mint, Fedora, arch, and others.
  6. AlpacaTechTips
    just dont kill it, many modern slim laptops have good specs and absolutely inadequate cooling.
  7. AlpacaTechTips
    I did too. Seemed pretty good balance to run CPU for Rosetta and GPU for F@h.
  8. AlpacaTechTips
    you don't have to confirm your email address - or at least i did not, so you can put in a fake one if you like. just remember the email, the name and password so you can log in when you need to.
  9. AlpacaTechTips
    Actually I've had more trouble in the past setting up Folding@Home due to OpenCL driver problems and other configuration issues. Setting up Rosetta@Home is much easier, just install BOINC, choose the Rosetta@Home project and log in/ register. Also when switching to advanced view, the User interface seems better organized and easier to use than F@H, at least for my tastes. I've been running BOINC / Rosetta for a couple of days and it consumes 1.81GB of storage, does not seem to be much of a problem. If it is, you can set limits in the settings on how much you allow it to use. You can also set memory usage limits, CPU usage limits and other options. F@H currently has enormous amount of contributors, but Rosetta has many many times less. Seems to me if F@H is struggling to give out WU, it is a good chance to help Rosetta@Home. Who knows which one has the right research strategy, so why not put help both.
  10. AlpacaTechTips
    Joined the team. Folding Rosetta@home project.
  11. AlpacaTechTips
    Just a reminder that BOINC Rosetta@Home has no issues and is researching Covid-19 with results already too. It does the folding on CPU cores though - GPU not supported.
  12. AlpacaTechTips
    I fold for Rosetta@home with my CPU only and use GPU only for Folding@home.
  13. AlpacaTechTips
    For people whose primary goal is not to win prizes in the competiton or help LTT get more points that the other team in the stats, but rather to help find vaccine as soon as possible, please fold for Rosetta@Home project while you computer has no workunits from Folding@Home
  14. AlpacaTechTips
    I have not read the 97 pages, but since F@H is curretnly overwhelmed, have you considered folding for BOINC Rosetta project which too is researching covid-19?
  15. AlpacaTechTips
    when is the next episode?
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