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  • Yeah, typically ICC profiles are used to make colour reproduction more accurate, but it should be possible to use one to make colours more vibrant/saturated instead of focussing on accuracy, the main hurdle will be creating a profile that does this how you want. Looking online it seems there are some tools that can edit/create ICC profiles like RawTherapee’s ICC profile creator and Argyll CMS, but these might be challenging to use to get the result you want.

    For a simple solution you could try nVibrant if you have an NVidia GPU, or vibrant-cli if there is a Wayland compatible version (you mentioned it in your post, but from what I could find it only supports X11).
    Gamescope can be run separately from Steam, but still has the issue that it will only work for whatever application is running within gamescope (unless you run the entire plasma desktop within it).
    Someone has made a GLSL shader to increase vibrance, that is part of a kwin-effect-shaders project, but it hasn’t been updated in 3 years. If you are going to make your own KWin script/effect, then that shader might be a good reference.


  • In the UK we have (in UK pints, 1 pint = 568ml): 1 pint, 2 pints, 4 pints and 6 pints. We also have slightly smaller metric sizes (1L, 2L) that are typically seen in convenience stores or on branded milk.

    I would say that 4 pints (2.273L) is the typical size that most would buy for regular use, with smaller sizes popular for those that don’t have cereal/porridge. I find that milk from the supermarket tends to keep well, so it’s not that difficult to get through a 4 pinter, unless all you use it for is adding some in your tea - in which case you can just get a 1 or 2 pint jug.




  • Even if you check, you should download with curl and check the downloaded file, then run that, as a malicious server could present a normal download to browsers based on user agent and other fingerprinting data, while presenting a malicious script to curl

    Wish people would stop suggesting the pipe to bash scripts as an install method but the simplicity of being able to tell all Linux and Mac users to just paste a string into their terminal to install and letting the script deal with any differences between systems is probably why we keep seeing it for major projects, rather than a long list of instructions for different distros






  • GPUs that are banned from export to China can be easily acquired in low numbers in the country due to individuals bringing in banned GPUs which get sold just like unbanned GPUs after passing through several people. Also possible that some banned cards are repaired QC failures from the Chinese factories that produce these cards (the cards are produced in China, but are supposed to be exported and banned from export back into China).
    Nvidia almost certainly knows about this but turns a blind eye because they want to sell more cards and China is a large market.
    There are some repair shops in China that can not only repair the GPUs, but can also transfer the GPU die onto an aftermarket PCB and give it double the amount of VRAM to create a card that Nvidia doesn’t even sell.
    Individual banned GPUs are easier to get than the full systems that Nvidia also sells.