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Key philosophy about tech: "A two-bladed sword is neither inherently evil nor good; its moral alignment depends entirely on how it is used and by whom"
https://github.com/Szowisz/CachyOS-kernels
Which enables you to run a Gentoo based system on the kernel modified by the CachyOS kernel team through a ebuild for the official sources on GitHub.
When emerging it deals with all necessary dependency flags and configuration for you, just a little bit tinkering with USE flags required.
But games using the likes of Vanguard (Riot), Javelin (EA) and Ricochet (Activision) which really mess around with your system on kernel level? Forget about it.
And maybe, just maybe, that's even good. These things are nasty and invasive, and due to how they are designed could be even used for exploits and gain low level access to your system.
Which isn't new, by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
Busy getting my new build together so today I bought a 8 Tb WD Black 2280 SSD, a 2 Tb WD Black 2230 SSD and 2 x 64 Gb Crucial SODIMMs for (in comparison) a whopping 1850 USD...
Yes, that's pretty much a complete PC. Or at least it used to be.
Hopefully prices for Radeons remain a bit stable for the coming weeks, I'm still figuring out which one to buy to replace my aging Geforce 1080 and drive my 3840x2160 widescreen...
If they cannot access the information on the web for whatever reason (including Anubis and friends) this happens.
You can let them know their information cutoff date by simply politely asking them what their information cutoff date is. Do note however that some models, the model behind Copilot comes to mind, require some hard... convincing before they want to tell you. (I believe it was end of 2024 for Copilot when I asked)
However, there's some interesting things going on in WSL 2 versus a "normal" Hyper-V virtual machine. For example, a Linux distro running on WSL can (and will) use GPU partitioning (aka PCI/GPU passthrough) and a special implementation of DirectX enabling the installed video card to accelerate graphics within X and/or Wayland.
Although this feature can be enabled with a lot of hacking in both the Linux guest and vanilla Hyper-V on the host (the latter through Powershell) it is officially unsupported on Windows 10 and Windows 11, and is only supported on Windows Server.
This is about Chronosphere (https://chronosphere.io/), a US based observability platform founded by two guys originating from Australia, being sold to Palo Alto Networks for $5B.
The reason why it works on Elon's kingdom is that - as far as I know - the Onion services died when Elon took over (because the people who cared about those simply left) and over at X - as far as I understand - they really, really try and discourage you from connecting and posting from Tor and VPN.
Also, when people turn discussions into absolute flame wars or decide to post stuff which could turn nasty in the comment section there's always dang. And believe me when I say that even when community moderation fails for whatever reason the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) will get enforced when needed.
Which according to DSM V either can be level 1 ("Requiring support"), level 2 ("Requiring substantial support") or level 3 ("Requiring very substantial support").
As explained here:
But to simplify diagnosis they swept it all up and since DSM V was released all those things are now under the ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) umbrella
For NixOS and Gentoo, for example, all the firmware you will probably ever need is included in one big package: linux-firmware. Install that, and you are pretty much done and ready to use almost everything connected on your computer without any problems.
Almost, because there's one big exception: Nvidia video cards. Which will need their own proprietary drivers to run properly. AMD works out of the box...
For example, at one of the orgs I worked my team lead was based in (and native to) a country in the south of Africa. While hammering out a big feature req he told us, based in Europe, through Teams text chat he wouldn't be around for a few hours because he wanted to take a afternoon nap.
We thought he was just joking around, and we needed his opinions a little while later because of something we ran into so we tried to dial him in: no response. Chat: no response. Turns out the guy was really off taking an afternoon nap.
Luckily we could solve things without his help, but to us in Europe that was really weird. Later we did some research and discovered that people in that part of the world really like to take afternoon naps, even though they should be at work...
That's when I personally discovered modern Windows is more or less fundamentally broken, and probably already was when Windows 10 was released (11 is still basically 10, by the way, look at the build number).
Also, it's amazing to discover how ridiculously fast "old" hardware still is in 2025 just by installing a non-Windows OS.
Zen really becomes particularly awesome if you run Linux with a alternative Wayland compositor like Sway, Hyprland, Mango, Wayfire and friends due to the window management in those environments. As a example: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen_browser/comments/1ky8rdp/arch_h... (this particular Zen instance is modded to be transparent, by the way)
You: "You installed something with malware while I explicitly said you should not do it."
Copilot: "I didn't install anything at all."
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If you add Karpenter (https://karpenter.sh) to the cluster it can scale based on the rules set out in the configuration and sends out requests directly to the underlying cloud orchestrator. Which in practice means it spins up new compute resources near instantly.
I see that they added support for Azure aswell recently (been a while since I used it)
There are tons of people happily running mixed DPI setups with -at least- wlroots based compositors (although first time setup can be a bit tricky, as these are built by hackers for hackers)
Also note, which I accidentally found when messing with filesystems Samsung created a filesystem called F2FS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS) which apparently has been supported in the Linux kernel and GRUB for ages (2012 and 2019 respectively) and seemingly works great with any kind of flash storage (but mostly external flash storage, because why run F2FS if you can run BTRFS on your NVMe SSD :) )
Going to experiment with it a bit soon, because this IMO is a much nice format than thumb drives which stick out... yes you guessed it.
But yes, they also should work on making it super easy to integrate best of breed OSS CI/CD with their SCM and turn Actions off. If they manage that they are on their way making a product which blows GitHub and Gitlab right out of the water. Because while Gitlab allows to integrate third party CI/CD it really feels clunky. (at least at the time I've used it professionally)
If they move to self hosted Forgejo (which I assume this meeting is all about) Microsoft is going to lose a pretty big customer.
And yes, (good) CI is still is a big blocker to move to Forgejo for any org (or self hosting). Hope they can speed things up a bit there now they now a gov org is seriously interested.
Can't wait until my new hardware arrives.
Also really hope that KDE Plasma and GNOME usage statistics go to the moon and Microsoft really shits their bed this time around. With all these enshittification tactics they really deserve it.
Throne and Liberty, which is also protected by EAC and has mtx, is also playable on Steam Deck.
So this is bullshit and it clearly shows it's the publisher's choice. What Sweeney thinks has nothing to do with it.
Just deploy Rook and Ceph? ARE YOU BLEEPING KIDDING ME?!?
There's a job description called "Storage Engineer". These people know a little bit about Kubernetes, but are mostly specialized in everything Ceph. This tells you everything how hard it is to keep Ceph humming along in production. As a sidenote: if you want to make really good money there's also somebody called a "Ceph consultant" who is called in when SHTF. And if SHTF in a Ceph cluster, it really does.
And that's besides all the crap it takes to get and keep Kubernetes running smoothly: Kernel Optimization. Networking. Security. Storage integration. Observability. And the list goes on...
In other words, unless you are VERY well versed in a variety of topics ranging from server architecture to deep Linux knowledge and are knee deep in the usual day to day operations stuff already you are better off running Kubernetes in the cloud and leaving all the intricacies to the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon than trying to run a well designed cluster architecture yourself. It just isn't worth it.
However, EAC - who is a major player in this field producing generic solutions - does support Linux. The involved publisher, however, needs to approve this and the developer need to turn on a feature flag. That's it.
However, some publishers simply deny this for... totally mental reasons ...and this means that the game is marked as borked in protondb even though the game could as easily be played on Linux thanks to EAC's Linux support.
With 99.9% certainty this box is carrying on the legacy of the Deck and the Deck OLED, which means that it has a 100% custom crafted SoC with soldered components. Which also means they also could perform some trickery not found in "normal" PCs, like UDMA and custom interface.
> "but doesn't mention what kind of games it can run at that quality."
According to the specs it has a custom RDNA 3 chip w/ 28 CUs and boost clock at 2.45Ghz. The Playstation 5 has a custom RDNA 2 chip w/ 36 CUs @ 2.23 GHz and the Xbox Series X has a custom RDNA2 2 chip w/ 52 CUs @ 1.83Ghz.
Given the optimizations AMD made in RDNA 3 (the "budget" 9070XT can easily keep up with the prev gen "enthousiast" 9700XTX) I could make a safe bet it's on the same level of performance as a Playstation 5
> "No performance benchmarks, or mention of what the equivalent retail CPU/GPU to their custom one is."
~7600X, ~RX7700, but like I noted earlier that's meaningless because the overall architecture of the hardware in this box is likely completely incomparable with a generic PC (just like with XBX and PS5, by the way)
https://frame.work/nl/en/desktop?tab=machine-learning
So to me the only thing which seems to be interesting about the Spark atm is the ability to daisy link several units together so you can create a InfiniBand-ish network at InfiniBand speeds of Sparks.
But overall for just plain development and experimentation, and since I don't work at Big AI, I'm pretty sure I would not purchase Nvidia at the moment.
Because, IMO, it is one of the most beautiful features of the ecosystem. If you get tired of KDE, you can easily switch to GNOME on the same system and still keep all the things you care about. And if you decide that GNOME is not your thing you can easily revert back on the same system. And unless you are running Gentoo (wink, wink) that only takes a cup of coffee on modern hardware.
Better yet, if you get tired of both you can get something like Mango (https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc) or Hyprland (https://hypr.land/) and hack your own DE together, or if you really have spare time to shed you can pick up something like QuickShell (https://quickshell.org/) and build a DE pretty much from scratch all by yourself. That's how caelestia (https://github.com/caelestia-dots) came to be, which is also prominently showcased on the QuickShell homepage. It's just that beautiful (and useful too).
Speaking of useful, from someone who installed Linux for the first time way back then when CD-ROMs and Windows XP were still things and Slackware was the most popular distribution the UX of all desktop environments has improved a lot.
And that's actually a understatement. I'm currently migrating (for real this time, and for good) and also want to ween my parents off Windows 10 so I casually slapped a KDE Neon live CD on a USB stick in order to demonstrate that the UX in Linux has improved a lot over the years and is nothing to worry about.
After booting up from the stick I was absolutely blown away myself, because of how good it was. Hell, I can imagine if less people get freakish about Linux a lot of people will finally make the switch. The UX IMHO is so damn good compared to Windows 11 or current OS X for beginners to advanced users alike (in case of the latter meaning that if you want to customize your shell to oblivion within the borders of KDE's UX guidelines go right ahead, nobody is stopping you)
TL;DR: Nothing needs to be changed. The only thing what is required is that people learn there's more than macOS Big Sur or Windows 11, and that these alternatives are just as easy to use.
You'll need a model able to work with tools, like llama 3.2 (https://huggingface.co/meta-llama), serve it, hook up MCPs, include a STT interface, and you're cooking.
https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-dgx-spark-review-the-gb1...
If (and in case of Nvidia that's a big if at the moment) they get their software straight on Linux for once this piece of hardware seems to be something to keep an eye on.