silverdiamond

joined 11 months ago
[–] silverdiamond@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Apart from screen mirroring and sms that everyone has mentioned the proprietary alternative undeniably has more features. I don't know whether it is phone link or link to windows but one of them has a feature where your phone can be used as a webcam over WiFi. As someone who set up ip webcam on my phone and used obs virtual camera through most of the pandemic's online classes it's quite useful and I'd like to see features like that just work and are not relying on mjpeg and proprietary software on the phone end. Their auto hotspot feature i haven't gotten to work and i think is useless but I'm thankful that i don't have to turn off kde connect when using samsung dex.

[–] silverdiamond@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

No user replacable battery, no SD card slot, no headphone jack, i'm guessing that since its a new samsung there's little to none avaliable custom ROMs for it. to be absolutely fair the note 20 ultra I'm using to write this comment is basically the same when it comes to a lack of these things except for the sd card slot.

[–] silverdiamond@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

you can disable paging (swap) i guess apart from launching more things at the same time and letting apps know you have ram for them to cache shit (check app settings some apps do have a how much ram should we use slider like okular the kde pdf viewer) and virtualisation of multiple os's i can't think of much

[–] silverdiamond@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

nvidia, i swear most of the issues i experience are nvidia related in some way yeah i know using a GTX 1080 with a i7 12700k isn't like the best idea but when given the options of use said gpu and get reasonable framerates with the games im playing (but get massive headaches when something related to the proprietary linux driver eventually breaks, and it does) or use the igpu and get unplayable framerates (or low res) or unnecessarily buy a newer gpu that isn't that big of a jump in performance for me to justify the price I'm sticking with dealing with nvidia