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ozymandias117 ,

For the Steam Folders, you can use Flatseal to declare other folders any Flatpak you install is allowed to access

ozymandias117 ,

Google is certainly planning on it being viable.

They’ve been merging RISC-V support in Android and have documented the minimum extensions over the base ISA that must be implemented for Android certification

ozymandias117 ,

Yeah, that’s bizarre. I’d never have guessed /home was created by tmpfiles

ozymandias117 ,

To expand - DirectX is a proprietary Windows solution. Any time you pick it on Linux, it will run through a translation layer

OpenGL/Vulkan are cross-platform

OpenGL is to DirectX 11 as Vulkan is to DirectX 12

Microsoft kept the same branding, but also followed in Vulkans/Metals footsteps of using lower level calls to the hardware. This makes the graphics drivers simpler, and can be way more performant because the CPU doesn’t have to do as much

ozymandias117 OP ,

How does bluefin fit in the dependency chain here - is this just the repository that builds official uBlue images?

Part of my confusion is trying to understand how these projects are related to each other

Edit - oh, I guess bluefin is the Gnome variant

ozymandias117 OP ,

The developer image, dx, includes rocm-hip and rocm-opencl:

github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/blob/…/packages.json

The packages under “dx” are the main reason I’m considering it over stock Fedora

ozymandias117 OP ,

When I check out the ISO for microOS, it lists microOS Kalpa as “alpha”

Is it ready to be used as a primary install?

ozymandias117 OP ,

Hey! Thanks!

I’ve installed Aurora to my new drive based off the comments here so far, and it’s been pretty smooth bringing my configs over :)

Immutable is new to me, so I’m wondering how you manage host daemons and cli applications, such as mpd for music and password-store for password management

Is the best practice to keep one Fedora <current release> distrobox with them?

Also, are there any issues with upgrading a distrobox to a new major release over time?

So far my mindset has been make sure I don’t layer anything, but maybe some things like mpd do make sense to layer?

I also see brew as another option. Perhaps that’s the preferred way for those types of tools? However, it seems like the system upgrade script updates distrobox and not brew?

Sorry for the rambling question - just trying to understand best practices with an immutable distro 😅

ozymandias117 OP ,

Thanks! That sounds like exactly what I’d want to run mpd. I’ll check it out

For virtualization, I’m all good since I went with uBlue instead of Silverblue for now - the developer images come with lxc/lxd/qemu/libvirt :)

ozymandias117 ,

Wow! I didn’t expect sched_ext to be accepted based off historical precedent of not allowing multiple schedulers

I thought the focus would be on optimizing EEVDF now

ozymandias117 ,

They’re saying that it only works if your browser is installed natively and your password manager is sandboxed, which is the exact opposite of what you’d want

The browser is the vulnerable software that needs sandboxing

Both being sandboxed would be fine, too

ozymandias117 ,

Not to mention that even in the 60’s Nixon’s cabinet has stated he specifically started the war on drugs and marijuana in order to imprison black people and anyone against the war.

“We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news”

www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/…/index.html

ozymandias117 ,

The RK3588 is pretty nifty, and is the first Mali GPU (610) where ARM themselves have contributed the firmware upstream and have helped with Collabora with Panfrost development

Bleeding edge, still, but kernel 6.10 and Mesa 24.1 have GPU support

HDMI TX and DSI/CSI are still in-progress

AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips (www.tomshardware.com)

In another attempt to convince us that “AI PCs” are somehow fundamentally different from the PCs we’re already using, AMD has officially dropped support for Windows 10 from its new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series platform. This can be observed by glancing at the official AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs page, which now only lists...

ozymandias117 ,

If your motherboard supports it, it’s really easy

Ensure IOMMU is enabled and run the little script in section 2.2 to see if you can isolate the graphics card

wiki.archlinux.org/…/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

After that, you can do everything in the virtual-manager GUI

ozymandias117 ,

I’m working off the assumption you are using one GPU for the host and one for the guest

The guest one is permanently blacklisted on the host, and you can select the passthrough settings in the GUI

If you’re dynamically detaching the GPU, my statement was incorrect

ozymandias117 , (edited )

The software has improved a lot since I got the phone in 2022 (I pre ordered it in 2017)

I would be willing to use it as a daily driver if it had better battery life

As the other poster said, the camera is kind of crap, but I don’t take many pictures. At least you don’t have to manually set the exposure/balance/focus to take a picture now, though

The updater has been a little flakey and I’ve just fallen back to update via command line frequently

Fairly thick, but it feels quite sturdy to me. SD card slot and headphone jack are great. Charging speed is kind of slow

ozymandias117 ,

Netflix is limited to 720p on Linux due to the DRM they use… maybe OP was confused because of that?

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

ozymandias117 ,

If you’re relying on iMessage for privacy, ensure you and everyone you’re messaging have gone to iCloud settings and enabled “Advanced Data Protection”

ozymandias117 ,

Qualcomm has, so far, been extremely against upstreaming drivers. Google has told them they can’t touch the kernel anymore over it

If that’s actually changing, it could be huge for a real alternative

ozymandias117 ,

They do when Qualcomm wants to use their processors in Android phones

ozymandias117 ,

I don’t use PIA, but /opt and /etc are both r/w in Silverblue/Kionite

ozymandias117 ,

Not that it’s better, but it’s not new

I did something similar as a kid in the 90’s at a papa johns

ozymandias117 ,

Yeah, just wanted to make sure people knew this wasn’t some new thing. It’s been going on since at least the 90’s, and I’d bet if you found someone older, they’d say it’s been going on longer

ozymandias117 ,

The Netherlands use the same copyright laws?

I always assumed that was just the US copyright system

ozymandias117 ,

My assumption is that because “the state claimed the rights” for that specific book makes me think this is a special case in their laws

Can a US state or the federal government claim the right to someone else’s writing?

ozymandias117 ,

I enjoy that they literally did. The article says the OTA update is just to ignore a hardware sensor

Which begs the question, why was that sensor needed originally?

ozymandias117 ,

The design/manufacturing of a chip is separate from the lithography machine itself

This is the first lithography machine Russia has built. They’d be getting the 90nm ones probably from ASML

ozymandias117 ,

Which is why they’re trying to make their own now

ozymandias117 ,

System on a chip. Think like a Qualcomm or Samsung processor, or the new M line from Apple

ozymandias117 , (edited )

The comment over on hackaday pointing to it being bricked possibly being down to font licensing is funny if true

ozymandias117 ,

For most intents and purposes

SoC is from the embedded system development world - as more and more coprocessors were being put into the same chip to consolidate board space and power efficiency, it wasn’t “just” a cpu - it had the CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and other coprocessors in one

x86 has moved a lot closer to this architecture over the years, but you still generally have a separate chipset controller on the motherboard the CPU interfaces with

ozymandias117 ,

I haven’t looked that closely at laptop CPUs

My guess would be partially because there are fewer possible interfaces, and they’re directly connecting the CPU to a separate Ethernet/WiFi MAC, USB hub controller, and audio DSP rather than having a separate chipset arbitrating who’s talking to the CPU and doing some of those functions?

ozymandias117 ,

I can’t say for all of them, I just knew that e.g. the z790 chipset still ran the ethernet phy, audio dsp, SPI, their version of TrustZone, etc through the chipset

funkykit.com/…/intel-z790-chipset-diagram.jpg

If you have the block diagrams for the laptop ones, I’d be curious

ozymandias117 ,

I’m so curious to see how a Qualcomm gambit plays out for Microsoft.

With the ethos at Qualcomm being support a chip for 1 year, then move on, I have trouble believing they’ll update the drivers for a major windows release

Google browbeat them for nearly 10 years, and then ended up going with the majority Samsung designed chip called Tensor just to compete against Apple in years of updates

ozymandias117 , (edited )

Wait. He lost a finger or toe???

Edit: more seriously it’s been since 3.0 after being on 2.6 forever

there are no special landmark features or incompatibilities related to the version number change, it’s simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering system

It used to only get bumped after a major new feature update, but it was stable enough at 2.6 that it got stuck there for 8 years, so he switched to a different update number

ozymandias117 ,

I wonder if development has actually accelerated, or if this is just a change in the approach to the release/versioning process

Both.

Development has increased, but you should use your comparison from the last 2.6 release.

It stayed on 2.6.y for 8 years - that was where it got stable enough that there wasn’t some major milestone to use as a new marker for its update number

There are cool new features, but if it followed the old versioning scheme, we’d still be on 2.6 because it hasn’t (intentionally) broken the API between the kernel and userspace

ozymandias117 ,

With an HDD, your operating system can (mostly) directly access bits on the magnetic disks, so you can wipe them by just writing 0 to it over and over (historically, there was a paper saying 7 times would make any bits unrecoverable - this changed as density got higher)

With SSDs, your operating system has very little control over what bits a write is touching, a lot more was moved into the firmware on the flash memory itself

So SSDs need a special command “Secure Erase” to wipe them

ozymandias117 ,

Yeah, and as densities have increased, fewer passes have been needed to even do that

ozymandias117 ,

A big thing the other comments are missing is that just running the iptables rule only works for the current boot. You need something to rerun it every restart

ufw is a front end to make it easier to use them

If you want/need more control, you should look into /etc/iptables/rules.d config files

Edit: or depending on what your distro already has, the firewalld comment makes a lot of sense. E.g. that’s Fedora’s default front end

ozymandias117 ,

The funny part, to me, is that the command he ran was so dangerous that Pop_OS required you to type out the entire phrase

“Yes, do as I say!”

With correct punctuation, or it won’t continue

If it was just an “Okay” box or a “Y” to continue, I don’t think he’d have gotten as much flak for that one

ozymandias117 ,

I mentioned above, but it definitely tried to make absolutely sure by requiring the exact string

“Yes, do as I say!”

With punctuation and capitalization required.

They’ve even tried to add more protections after the video to make sure that’s what you meant to do

ozymandias117 ,

Looks like it’s behind an about:config setting, media.webrtc.camera.allow-pipewire

github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/…/1215#iss…

ozymandias117 ,

Do you know what the link to Uyghur is?

The Han Chinese people I know from Shaanxi still seem to eat congee regularly

Is there something lost in translation that the Uyghur style congee is different than the Han style or something?

ozymandias117 ,

Not exactly - I’m wondering if 酸粥 is being discouraged, while the Han are still eating 稀飯

ozymandias117 , (edited )

Ohhhh I read the congee statement as you shouldn’t eat it, not that you should

Now I understand. Thanks!

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...

ozymandias117 ,

In this case, it seems pretty likely. We know Google paid Reddit to train on their data, and the result used the exact same measurement from this comment suggesting putting Elmer’s glue in the pizza:

old.reddit.com/…/my_cheese_slides_off_the_pizza_t…

And their deal with Reddit: cbsnews.com/…/google-reddit-60-million-deal-ai-tr…

ozymandias117 , (edited )

I literally linked you to the Reddit comment, and pointed out that Google’s response used the same measurements as the comment

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