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Wayland Cursor Lag: Just give me a break already...

I no longer consider any of this to be valid, and consider this entire adventure so far to have been intellectually dishonest and filled with questionable assumptions about everything, so, please, if you're reading this and got linked here, stop reading this and tell whoever linked you here to shut the f**k up already.

UPDATE: This (and, therefore, the promised bug reports) has been put on hold until I get around to getting actual evidence with the herein-mentioned RPi Pico + photoresistor setup, which is itself "delayed until further notice" because I simply have better and more important stuff to do[^1] right now.

UPDATE 2: Some madlad actually did it, only for GNOME though but that's still amazing

*UPDATE 3: Apparently, it's like this on purpose, at least

This guide was created for EndeavourOs Endeavour Release which if using the Online installer, as of July 2024, will provide Plasma 6.1 and Nvidia 555 drivers. This guide shows using Grub but will work with systemd-boot as well if you follow steps for kernel params.

Create file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf with the following contents

options nvidia_drm modeset=1
options nvidia_drm fbdev=1
options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0
options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp

Update firmware WD Black SN770 firmware on Arch Linux

Been having problems with my new SN770 drive, and decided to check if I can firmware update it on Linux. WD only provides a Windows tool, Western Digital Dashboard to download and install firmwares, but, it's possible to find the firmware and install it using Linux tooling as well.

1. Check that `nvme-cli` is installed:

❱ sudo pacman -S nvme-cli

Modern Arch linux installation guide

Arch Linux SilverBlue - Bootstrap Process

Create an arch linux chroot using podman:

podman run --rm -it \
    -v "$PWD:$PWD" \
    -w "$PWD" \
    archlinux:latest

Installing Arch without pacstrap is easy. No, you won't use archbootstrap. That is only for chroots. Instead, you will do it hand made.

First, make the file system.

mkdir -m 0755 -p /path/to/root/var/{cache/pacman/pkg,lib/pacman,log} /path/to/root/{dev,run,etc/pacman.d}
mkdir -m 1777 -p /path/to/root/tmp
mkdir -m 0555 -p /path/to/root/{sys,proc}
cp -a /etc/pacman.d/gnupg "/path/to/root/etc/pacman.d/"

Update: As of June 2023, Chrome has officially added support for prefers-color-scheme as of this in version 114!

Paste the following into your terminal. You'll have to fully close the browser with pkill chrome each time you want Chrome to re-read the settings.

Also, use the following flags for full GPU acceleration:

ignore-gpu-blocklist
enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer
enable-gpu-rasterization
enable-vulkan

	#! /usr/bin/env bash

	# ansi colors
	bold='\033[1m'
	red='\033[0;31m'
	green='\033[0;32m'
	yellow='\033[1;33m'
	blue='\033[0;34m'
	reset='\033[0m'

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	usage() {
	echo "Usage: $(basename "$0") [-d DEFAULT_BORDER_PX] [-m MAXIMIZED_BORDER_PX]"
	}

	get_waybar_height() {
	# Waybar's config is JSONC, ie it contains comments. We need to strip
	# these for jq.
	grep -v '//' ~/.config/waybar/config \| jq -er '.height'

	#!/bin/bash

	# Execute Windows programs with Proton from Steams installation folder, without
	# starting Steam client.
	#
	# 1. Create a directory for Proton environment to run in. As an example make a
	# folder "proton" in your home directory. This folder must exist in order
	# to make Proton work.
	#
	# 2. Point the variable "env_dir" in this script to that folder or...