

> obs
debug: Found portal inhibitor
debug: Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
debug: Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
debug: Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
debug: Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
debug: Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Yami.qss
debug: Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Yami.qss
info: Using EGL/X11
info: CPU Name: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz
info: CPU Speed: 1129.667MHz
info: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 8
info: Physical Memory: 15740MB Total, 505MB Free
info: Kernel Version: Linux 6.6.0-1-MANJARO
info: Distribution: “Manjaro Linux” Unknown
info: Desktop Environment: KDE (KDE)
info: Session Type: x11
info: Window System: X11.0, Vendor: The X.Org Foundation, Version: 1.21.1
info: Qt Version: 6.6.0 (runtime), 6.5.1 (compiled)
info: Portable mode: false
info: OBS 29.1.3-1 (linux)
info: ———————————
info: ———————————
info: audio settings reset:
samples per sec: 48000
speakers: 2
max buffering: 960 milliseconds
buffering type: dynamically increasing
info: ———————————
info: Initializing OpenGL…
info: Loading up OpenGL on adapter Intel Mesa Intel(R) Xe Graphics (TGL GT2
)
info: OpenGL loaded successfully, version 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.1.9-ma
njaro1.1, shading language 4.60
info: ———————————
info: video settings reset:
base resolution: 1920×1080
output resolution: 1280×720
downscale filter: Bicubic
fps: 30/1
format: NV12
YUV mode: Rec. 709/Partial
info: NV12 texture support not available
info: P010 texture support not available
info: Audio monitoring device:
name: Default
id: default
info: ———————————
warning: Failed to load ‘en-US’ text for module: ‘decklink-captions.so’
warning: Failed to load ‘en-US’ text for module: ‘decklink-output-ui.so’
libDeckLinkAPI.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or director
y
warning: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers ma
y not be installed
warning: Failed to initialize module ‘decklink.so’
error: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/frontend-tools.so->/usr//lib/obs-plu
gins/frontend-tools.so): libluajit-5.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file
: No such file or directory
error: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/frontend-tools.so->/usr//lib/obs-plu
gins/frontend-tools.so): libluajit-5.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file
: No such file or directory
warning: Module ‘/usr//lib/obs-plugins/frontend-tools.so’ not loaded
info: [pipewire] Available captures:
info: [pipewire] – Desktop capture
info: [pipewire] – Window capture
warning: v4l2loopback not installed, virtual camera disabled
error: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_h264_supported
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) obs
The problem stems from incompatibility of obs with the current libva-vdpau-driver that provides hardware accelerated video decode/encode.
A solution is to delete the libva driver and install the nvidia-vaapi-driver instead.

Brave, a browser focused on privacy installed a VPN service in Windows clients without even asking to do so. This behavior dates back to 2022 but is limited to the Windows version.
It’s possible to remove these services manually or another is to uninstall Brave and reinstall it without admin rights so that the program can’t install additional services.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925192/brave-browser-vpn-windows-11
FOSSCOMM (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) is the annual nationwide meeting of Greek FOSS communities and this year takes place in Heraklion, Greece on Oct 21 – Oct 22.

For a complete conference schedule visit https://2023.fosscomm.gr/
“After months of gruelling fights with the MacOS sandbox system that is mandatory for MacOS App Store applications, and the Apple review process”

Testing was performed in a 4 TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD running Windows 11 Pro (22H2, with all patches installed) paired with an Intel Core i9-12900K and 32 GB DDR4 RAM.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-software-bitlocker-slows-performance
New AMD Ryzen 7040 series offer an AI engine that helps accelerate the system but it is currently only available for Windows and a Linux driver is not published yet.
A Github ticket was opened by an AMD staff member, thus allowing Linux users to voice their preference.



https://github.com/amd/RyzenAI-SW/issues/2
https://www.amd.com/en/products/ryzen-ai
A summary of changes since 14.0-RC1:

https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-RC2-amd64-bootonly.iso



Following these instructions solved the problem and I can now surf the Internet and watch YouTube videos without any ads!! You are welcome 🙂