I don’t think I’ve ever updated a BIOS from any operating system, always flashed via the BIOS itself. Most can flash the BIOS without even a CPU installed these days.

It’s a good idea to validate the information before being outraged at it.

but really would feel bad for any packager maintainers.

It’s already unpackageable because of the license anyway.

The only “legit” way to get the emulator is their provided AppImage bundle, and nothing else. The author also has a rant about Flatpak being broken and unreliable and refusing to support that, so…

I find mostly complaints around Wayland not working like Xorg, like complaining they can’t just get the absolute cursor position and things like that.

Sounds very much like parroted points from probonopb’s rants, like claims of “broken by design”.

You can’t fork it or redistribute it… but you can distribute patches for users to apply, and those are easy to add in a PKGBUILD. That’s how a lot of game/ROM patches are distributed and they appear to be legal.

It’s an emulator, lets be real, the majority of the users couldn’t give a shit about license terms anyway.

ArchLinux users can be a pain sometimes, but we’re also often right when calling out someone’s broken software.

Given other drama around that project and the developer clearly being a Windows fanboy, they’re probably doing a lot wrong and blaming the Linux fragmentation for it instead of doing things properly, getting called out on it, and then being pissed at the users for it.

Makes me want to write an intentionally buggy PKGBUILD with wildly unsupported patches out of spite.

I cringe everytime someone’s like “subscribe to my Substack”. No, fuck off with your substack, everyone knows they’re nazi supporters, you’re complicit.

Oh no, what a terrible thing to believe in live and let live and minding our own business. How dare we suggest we should treat everyone as equals and keep the government out of people’s private lives. The horror.

If you think about it, it kinda makes sense. The fediverse is not a safe place for women especially not the average normie women, due to the fediverse’s very public nature of things and general inability to really delete anything.

Reddit can detect and deal with stalkers, you can make your profile more private. Lemmy can’t do a whole lot when every instance is firehosing all the data in realtime to everyone’s servers. It’s a scary amount of data I have in my local Postgres database: everyone’s every vote, comments, tied to a profile, with accurate timestamps and all.

If they use an instance without the image proxying, I can also potentially trick them into loading an image from my server and collect IP addresses and correlate to a user via vote timing, and then use GeoIP to get a location.

Lemmy’s also very appealing to those that can’t stop getting themselves banned from elsewhere as some instances are very friendly to unlimited free speech and gross behaviour. I don’t have data to back this claim, but I feel like there’s definitely a correlation with those kinds of people and women not feeling safe around them.

Hughes will work okay as a backup internet if that’s what you’re after. Typically when people talk about Hughes they’re really desperate and satellite is the only option at all.

I would very much rather not feed the nazi either, but that was my only Internet option I’d probably have to consider it. Although I also probably wouldn’t consider moving somewhere without decent connectivity, given I’m a sysadmin and really need the bandwidth.

It’s one of those use cases where I would very reluctantly take the L and order Starlink.

Classic satellite Internet is borderline unusable. Forget about any sort of call or video chat, you’ll be seconds behind on watching streams. If you want to stream yourself, it won’t be great and the stream delay will be horrible.

You can do bulk download, like downloading large games, that’s about the only thing that works well.

Also last I heard, the data caps and bandwidth were also really crap.

Aside from the other answers, no you can’t offload computations to memory. Memory stores data, it doesn’t compute.

The only way having more memory can possibly improve performance, is by having a cached copy of files so they don’t have to be fetched from disk, and applications potentially caching the results of heavy but reusable computations. (Unless you run out of memory and starts spilling over to disk, then more memory will make it fast again by avoiding swapping).

I mean I guess technically yes you could transcode into H264 into a tmpfs mount, and then play the H264, but you’re still not doing it faster and certainly not fast enough to watch in real time, you’re just decoding the AV1 well in advance before actually watching it.

Nope. Even Qualcomm themselves provide what’s needed to run Linux on the Windows for ARM PCs.

The only one I can’t find for sure is whether there’s any lockdown on the firmware for the Microsoft Surface and Copilot+ laptops, but I’m also not finding any sources pointing that it would be. But at this point you’re buying Microsoft hardware, what do you expect.

It has nothing to do with ACPI whatsoever. And firmwares this broken are the exception not the rule.

That’s bullshit. ARM is an architecture and by itself does not specify secure boot any more than x86 does. Raspberry Pis don’t have secure boot. You can unlock the bootloader on a Pixel, install GrapheneOS, and relock the bootloader just fine. Several other manufacturers allow bootloader unlocks no problem. The main reason you can’t on some popular phones is US carriers, even international Samsungs you can unlock the bootloader and flash whatever you want on it.

I’m literally typing this comment on a phone running a custom OS (LineageOS on a OnePlus 8T). I’m literally 2 versions of Android ahead of the latest supported version. I also have a Galaxy S7 running Android 15, a phone that officially tops out at Android 8 and launched with Android 6. Both you literally just toggle the bootloader unlock option in the settings, no hacks no craziness, it’s literally a feature.

At this point you’re just straight up making shit up.

Works fine for me.

Obviously you don’t want to swipe them away from the task switcher. You can go to other apps, but swiping away an app means closing it.

It’s like minimize vs close on PCs.

That’s the whole point of enrolling your own keys in the firmware. You can even wipe the Microsoft keys if you want. You do that from the firmware setup, or within any OS while secure boot is off (such as sbctl on Linux).

That’s a feature that is explicitly part of the spec. The expectation is you password protect the BIOS to make sure unauthorized users can’t just wipe your keys. But also most importantly that’s all measured by the TPM so the OS knows the boot chain is bad and can bail, and the TPM also won’t unwrap BitLocker/LUKS keys either.

Secure boot is to prevent unauthorized tampering of the boot chain. It doesn’t enforce that the computer will only ever boot Microsoft-approved software, that’s a massive liability for an antitrust lawsuit.

Most likely sending pseudorandom data so that the data can be validated at the other end.

Given they say it’s really 19 fibers in one, that’s really just 6,600Gb/s per fiber which is really just 4 colors per fiber with one of those and some amplifiers: https://www.fs.com/c/1.6t-osfp-infiniband-1392

Apparently those go into a watercooled switch. Those 1.6T NICs sound absolutely insane. Makes your home 10G network look strings and cans.

It’s not that insane in perspective. Probably still needs a whole rack of equipment to run just that test, but the technology is not too far off that it’s quite plausible.

As commenters on the LWN thread said, I doubt that many firmwares even bother to check anyway. My motherboard happens to have had a bug where you can corrupt the RTC and end up in 2031 if you overclock it wrong. I didn’t use secure boot then though so I don’t know if it would have still booted Windows. But I imagine it would.

That said, I’ve always just enrolled my own keys. I know some other distros that make you enroll their keys as well like Bazzite. At least that way you don’t depend on Microsoft’s keys and shim or anything, clean proper secure boot straight into UKI.

Sounds more like a rolling release than a mess to me. Makes sense for development and users that want to try out new features as they get developed.

From a developer’s perspective that sounds like a good idea too, no need to rip out features that weren’t ready in time and no need to rush a feature because it was in the developer preview therefore it has to ship.

I got asked the same. I simply pointed out the test is a reproduction of last week’s bug that took down prod at 2am and got paged to fix, and is therefore as realistic as it gets of what they’ll need to be able to handle.

It’s always DNS, everyone should know that.