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hurricanepootis··on My brother's new high rise apartment doesn't allow individual internet services
Honestly, what's stopping a high rise building from doing an internal GPON/XGS-PON distribution to all the buildings inside?
hurricanepootis··on Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series
I hope Qualcomm upstreams all the device tree kernel level stuff to Linux for every laptop model. One of the things I don't like about Arm Laptops is—for example—how even if a SoC is supported upstream, if the manufacturer does not upload a device tree for their device, then you're cooked.

I read that while these Snapdragon laptops do technically have UEFI + ACPI, the information they provide is not useful for Linux and is more coupled with Qualcomm's proprietary drivers on Windows. Therefore, device trees are needed on Linux (I could be wrong about the first part).

hurricanepootis··on KDE's new Photos app offers a sleek alternative to Gwenview
The actual app and binary is called koko, but shows up as "Photos" cause it's named that in the desktop file.
hurricanepootis··on Asahi Linux on M3
Asahi linux has been going on for a few years now
hurricanepootis··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
So, looks like SteamDB is gonna get a billion features behind paywall. Probably gonna rate limit how many depots you can look up for free within the hour lol
hurricanepootis··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
Realtek wifi chips suck, their drivers are always buggy
hurricanepootis··on US oil inventories fall to 'precariously low' level as Iran war disrupts supply
> household hasn't burned through a full tank in the months since. They may have killed the EV subsidies in the US but they just went out and created a huge regressive tax on everyone not driving an EV.

Modern fuel blends are usually 10-15% ethanol. Ethanol is an alcohol, and thus is able to absorb ambient water from the air into the gasoline solution. Gasoline stored for a long time will generally increase in water content (if I am not mistaken lol), thus it maybe for future reference, try to avoid ethanol based fuels if possible if you're not gonna be using your ICE car. It's like how people who store their motorcycles or fancy performance cars during the winter leave it without fuel, or add a fuel stabilizer.

hurricanepootis··on Fretboard Memorisation with Modular Arithmetic
As someone who learned the double bass in school, jumping to bass guitar & guitar was super easy cause of the fourth tuning intervals. Anytime I ever jumped on cello, it was a nightmare cause all of the sort of "relationships" between the current note I was playing and other notes were totally different.
hurricanepootis··on Using XDG-Compliant Config Files (2024)
I'm on KDE 6, and I don't have a ~/.kde. I think now a days, KDE uses ~/.config and ~/.local/share. Honestly, sometimes I wish the KDE Frameworks had a thing like Dconf, so apps can store their configurations inside of a database instead of barfing everything out into a ~/.config folder.
hurricanepootis··on Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows
Anytime I see anything posted by an Iranian on Instagram, there are always people commenting "how much did you pay regime for white sim" or something like that (white sim refers to users who get internet access without any filtering). I know multiple people in Iran who bypass restrictions using modern VPN solutions such as wireguard + xray for proxy.
hurricanepootis··on French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety
As long as people get hurt and there's research to do, doctors are not going anywhere. Maybe the profession will change, but having a dedicated person/team of people for healthcare is something I think that will stick around for a long while.
hurricanepootis··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
I have an OG Steam controller.

On Linux, whenever I connect to my computer without steam running, it will show up as a standard USB HID device. This means, funny enough, I can use the trackpads like a mouse n stuff on my desktop environment.

However, SDL3 (and SDL2 via sdl2-compat and SDL1 via sdl12-compat with sdl2-compat (lol)) supports the steam controller. This means that, without using steam, I get native gyro support and stuff in software like Ryujinb and Citron.

Furthermore, at least on linux, there is sc-controller which is a userland driver that makes the steam controller present itself as a standard Xbox controller. Of course, this means you aren't gonna be able to use the fancy features directly in the game, but it does mean for software that doesn't use SDL and isn't on steam directly, it will act as an FOSS alternative steam input layer. Also, it even has Cemuhook motion server. This mean before SDL3 added gyro support for the steam controller (giving any emulator using SDL3 and SDL2 via sdl2-compat gyro support native), you could have still used gyro controls. Also, with Proton now, I think there is a flag to tell Proton to use SDL input method instead of steam input. I think this means (i have to test it), that you can use SDL to use steam controller with proton outside of steam.

I think on windows, we will see something like sc-controller.

hurricanepootis··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
SDL2 and SDL3 have steam controller support. Also, now that SDL2-Compat is a thing (alongside sdl12-compat), this means literally every game/software that uses SDL 1-3 for controllers on Linux (and windows too) should support the steam controllers.
hurricanepootis··on Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
I remember 4 years ago I was able to setup MacOS in a virtual machine. Maybe you can setup an Intel copy of MacOS on a qemu/kvm virtual machine?
hurricanepootis··on Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
This doesn't affect the web extension, no?
hurricanepootis··on Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
I've used something like this before on my Samsung S24 to see a deleted text from Signal. I checked the notification history and the text was there. Fortunately, Signal has an option to make it where notifications don't actually have the message in it. However, the receiver has to enable that option.
hurricanepootis··on 10k-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat
> either that or you're severely autistic

I mean, it's y combinator. This is where all the CS venture capital and FOSS people come to lurk and post.

hurricanepootis··on SDL bans AI-written commits
Gabe may be a the front man, but he's still like the benevolent dictator for life of Valve. Kind of like how Linux Torvalds is the BDFL of Linux
hurricanepootis··on SDL bans AI-written commits
Pretty sure Gabe's been partying it up in New Zeland ever since he got stuck there because of Covid
hurricanepootis··on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
Huh, I just saw that. Huge bummer.

I have a Radeon RX 6800 and on my system, I use ROCm's OpenCL for some stuff and HIP for blender cycles rendering. If ROCm were to drop support for my card, that'd be a huge bummer.

hurricanepootis··on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
RX 580 is a GCN 4 GPU. I'm pretty sure the bare minimum for ROCm is GCN 5 (Vega) and up.
hurricanepootis··on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
I've been using ROCm on my Radeon RX 6800 and my Ryzen AI 7 350 systems. I've only used it for GPU-accelerated rendering in Cycles, but I am glad that AMD has an option that isn't OpenCL now.
hurricanepootis··on How to turn anything into a router
There is iptables-nft, which is iptables with an NFT backend.
hurricanepootis··on My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
Yes, my bad. I totally agree with that it does indeed suck. I've had to replace the C cover of my laptop before for reasons not related to the keyboard (a screw post broke because Dell had the bright of idea of attaching a metal screw post to the body with plastic). I ended up fixing that issue, but the keyboard that was installed in the C cover was noticeably shittier than my old one.

I'm now on a Framework 13, and it's been pretty fun so far.

hurricanepootis··on My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
This isn't an issue with macbook keyboards, a lot of windows laptops have their keyboards riveted to the C cover of a laptop.
hurricanepootis··on Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
I've been on wayland since KDE had it available (like the KDE 5 days) because it offered fractional HiDPI scaling that wasn't buns. As a laptop user, it has been one of the best features of Wayland.

Furthermore, getting stuff like VRR on Wayland working is way easier than X.org. And, Wayland also supports HDR.

hurricanepootis··on US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike
The current situation we're facing can be traced back to, in some parts, Trump pulling out of JCPOA and Biden's tepid resistance to Israel's war in Palestine, leading to this situation.
hurricanepootis··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
I bought a pair of IEMs. A while back, the cable broke, and I was able to repair by just buying a new cable.

Also, I enjoy not having another device to charge. I recently have been wearing a traditional Casio watch more often instead of my smartwatch.

hurricanepootis··on I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux
I wish Arch could learn some lessons from NixOS packaging. One thing that really bothers me about Arch is how many pain points there are in the packaging tooling. Furthermore, I wish AUR packagers used utilities like namcap and chroot building to check their packages before pushing their slop onto the AUR; whenever I use new software from the AUR, I check the PKGBUILD to see how well it was made.
hurricanepootis··on Exploiting Iran: A Political Timeline
Glad to see an accessible post of Iranian history
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