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PeakKS··on US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
It is now, haven't you heard? Computers are reserved for LLMs only.
PeakKS··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
Well no because it's not actually compatible with X11
PeakKS··on Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"
To be fair, it's all "junk insurance"
PeakKS··on Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally
Wow you're right, a massive coal plant would be much more ecologically friendly.
PeakKS··on Firefox is the best mobile browser
There is some activity in the mozilla bugzilla related to the gecko ios port, who knows when anything will be usable though.
PeakKS··on Comparing Rust to Carbon
While raw C is not super helpful for generating nice bindings, I think you could get most of the way there if there were annotations for everything, e.g. like how the __counted_by__ attribute was added.
PeakKS··on Zlib visualizer
Damn I tried the bee movie script, they got me.
PeakKS··on US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care
Those two attributes are not contradictory.
PeakKS··on I ported pigz from Unix to Windows
No?
PeakKS··on I ported pigz from Unix to Windows
It's 2025, just use meson
PeakKS··on Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
What? Wayland is a protocol. Not an API.
PeakKS··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
Up and down and up again. The entire US economy is being used as a pump & dump scam.
PeakKS··on Watt The Fox?
Hah yeah I used to do the same thing for my USB DAC, except I just did had `play -qn &` start when I logged in.
PeakKS··on Wyden Releases Draft Bill to Secure Americans' Communications
How about we secure Americans' communications against domestic surveillance demands
PeakKS··on Trump to Tariff Chips Made in Taiwan, Targeting TSMC
No you are right, that is pretty much the basis of his platform.
PeakKS··on Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC
It does
PeakKS··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
Dynamic triple buffering is basically just giving the hardware time to clock itself up when there is a sudden change in workload, e.g. idling then opening the overview (drawing basically nothing -> redrawing basically the whole desktop).
PeakKS··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
Well it's already better than X11, so task accomplished.
PeakKS··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
No, that article is about copying frames between gpus
PeakKS··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
This is pretty bad methodology for someone to call it "Hard numbers"
PeakKS··on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
They are clearly building GW from MGS2
PeakKS··on TikTok goes dark in the US
The American voter is sidelined the second their elected official is sworn in, and immediately reneges on everything they said they stood for in favor of their moneyed interests. 90% of politicians have no intent whatsoever of fixing problems, after all those problems are what got them elected.
PeakKS··on Trump wins presidency for second time
I find a lot of his voters seem to respond to criticisms with "Oh don't worry, he's not actually going to do those things." I think your point about making his lying a feature of his candidacy is spot on. Here's to hoping that nothing ever happens.
PeakKS··on Trump wins presidency for second time
The FTC would be well within their duties to obliterate every single tech company in existence
PeakKS··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
More like flatpak/flathub since it has it's own runtime, with the addition of community features and purchasing.
PeakKS··on Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination
The writer is just using an old version, you can just click the bar to enter edit mode.
PeakKS··on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports
You can actually. New versions of Wine support WoW64, allowing you to run 32 bit windows programs on a fully 64 bit Linux system.
PeakKS··on New Renderers for GTK
The xdg-portal attempt was misguided and I don't beleive anyone is pursuing it at this point. Ideally drm-leasing would be managed by the login manager, allowing multiple compositors to lease connectors and run independently on other monitors, as well as being used for VR headsets. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/29078.

Sidenote: I hacked the wayland protocol implementation for gnome into working at least for SteamVR, but at least with AMD gpus there is some serious bug preventing the card from performing properly. It basically throttles itself for no reason and never hits the refresh rates needed for smooth VR, especially since there is no asynchronous reprojection at the moment. So while ideally the drm-leasing problem would be solved already there are other even more important problems to solve with linux VR for now.