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Some heroes don't wear capes (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 116 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Shoutout to this guy for maintaining my mainboards temperature sensors and pwn fan headers: https://github.com/Fred78290/nct6687d

Without this and https://github.com/codifryed/coolercontrol my PC was either a jet engine from the sounds or a nuclear reactor from heat constipation.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fred78290 is the man. Much better than Fred78920

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Of course he's better, he's a whole 630 Freds above the other one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

But on the whole, every Fred counts.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Some dude wrote a driver for the temp sensors on my motherboard... Then quit maintining it because people were being shitty

https://github.com/a1wong/it87

DRIVER REMOVAL NOTICE ===================== I have been unable to meet support demands for this driver, resulting in unpleasant experience and frustration for everyone involved. Consequently, the driver will be removed from github, effective August 1, 2018. Interested parties are encouraged to clone the driver before that time and to start maintaining it on their own.

[–] SteveTech 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This guy still maintains it87: https://github.com/frankcrawford/it87

I've was using his for years on my old motherboard, since the mainline it87 didn't play nicely.

[–] SteveTech 2 points 9 months ago

Thought I should mention, he is also slowly adding his changes to the mainline kernel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Wow, thats just plain stupid. I hope someone forked it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Software discoverability on linux sucks so much omg. I was looking for something like coolercontrol for almost forever and I find it now that I dont need it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Uh, really? I find it to be much easier. apt contains almost everything, and for a niche thing like yours, a Google for aio fans linux came back with the first result of a reddit thread including the above software, and liquidctl which it uses and is all over the place. I have way more trouble finding things for Windows, but maybe that's because 98℅ of my use case isn't gaming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

i searched it at the time and all i could ever find was fancontrol.

which is fine and solved my problem, but 99% of niche linux software i use was found through forums like lemmy, on recommendation of other nerds. hardly a good way to find it quick.

ideally searching a distros app store should find almost everything, more or less like android can do today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While I agree with the sentiment, you're comparing a mobile OS, built that way from the ground up, to a desktop OS. The same problem exists in Windows and MacOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

it does, and we ain't in the ideal world! heres the thing, on one hand they got more media covering them, but on the other they use an universal kind of installer.

worse, some devs will spin .exes and .dmgs but on linux they wont even bother giving you an install script sometimes, let alone using flatpak which is a solution that fixes most of those problems.