• Short tip: amdgpu freezes with Steam under Pop!_OS 22.04

    calendar Jul 10, 2023 · 4 min read · amdgpu popos  ·
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    Recently I noticed that the entire graphical interface crashes after a few seconds as soon as a game is streamed via Steam - for example via a Steam Link or Apple TV box.

    I'm using Pop!_OS version 22.04 LTS, the kernel used was 6.2.6-76060206 - but the older version 6.1 and 6.0 seem to be affected.

    The whole thing is …


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  • Short tip: brltty interferes with esptool.py under Pop!_OS

    calendar Aug 28, 2022 · 2 min read · esp8266 kurztipp popos  ·
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    When using ESPHome or esptool.py under Pop!_OS 22.04 I recently encountered the problem that development boards (ESP8266, ESP32) could not be flashed:

     1$ esphome upload hurrdurr.yml
 2INFO Reading configuration hurrdurr.yml...
 3esptool.py v3.3.1
 4Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
 5Connecting....
 6Chip is ESP8266EX
 7 …

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  • New year, new PC - based on AMD Ryzen

    calendar Feb 21, 2021 · 4 min read · popos  ·
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    After roughly 8 years it was time to upgrade my desktop computer. Even though I already upgraded the graphic card two times in the mean time, processor and memory resources reached their limits. Especially computing intensive tasks and newer video games were slowd down. Fortunately, things have changed a lot in the …
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