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Well, I think the issue is in the AMD GPU driver. So, presumably it works on the Frame natively? Surely... Right?

For good reason. Last time I checked (this year), Alyx crashes Mesa (i.e. your Vulkan layer) when the player enters an in-game load zone. This happens with native linux and the proton windows version.

ripdogon Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/releases

Trivial to self-host, and gives you full control of blocking.

ripdogon Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

That's something people should run themselves. I run Adguard Home on my router. Unlike the main Adguard product, Adguard Home is fully FOSS. It's been rock-solid for me, and improves on pi-hole in various ways - like full IPv6 support.

ripdogon RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

But do real apps actually use them directly? Or only through the userland libraries?

Just FYI, the https://www.darlinghq.org project is doing MacOS app compat on Linux - i.e. building the userland libraries.

ripdogon RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

The real link: https://www.cappuccino.dev/aristo/

Looks great, so sad that it's yet another web framework. Kinda smacks of GNOME, though.

ripdogon RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

I honestly think the kernel interface is by far the easiest part of building a MacOS compat layer. The userland is gigantic, super complex, and totally closed source. That's the hard part.

AFAIK all macos software only talks to the kernel via userland APIs - so there's no particular benefit to basing ravynOS on XNU anyway. (Just the opinion of a layman.)

ripdogon Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

Because more-or-less all code in the kernel increases the attack surface and makes general security improvements more difficult. Removing code of all types makes maintainability easier, so old, unmaintained code is an easy sell for removal.

>This is the opposite of what my parent was hoping to see, extended support for old/obscure hardware because we have LLM.

That would only happen if the linux project was happy to accept LLM-generated fixes without human review - which they aren't. If human review is necessary, then unleashing LLMs to produce fixes and improvements to thousands of linux drivers is a detriment, not a benefit. The amount of code would just be too much, and reviewers would be swamped.

ripdogon Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

They're being removed due to a lack of maintenance. If anyone cared about that hardware and fixed the bugs, surely they would be kept.

ripdogon Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support

So, devuan?

ripdogon Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels

Windows has containers?

ripdogon Free software scares normal people

I'd argue that's more because the average person has no interest in installing a new OS, or even any idea what an OS is.

Most people just keep the default. When the default is Linux (say, the Steam Deck), most people just keep Linux.

ripdogon I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

Because latency matters when gaming in a way which doesn't matter with AI inference?

Plus cloud gaming is always limited in range of games, there are restrictions on how you can use the PC (like no modding and no swapping savegames in or out).

ripdogon A new experimental Google app for Windows

AFAIK it's not really possible to implement Everything in Linux because Everything relies on reading the entire file list at once from the NTFS metadata, allowing it to index at incredible speed. On Linux, there are dozens of filesystems which likely make it impossible to achieve the same.

That said, I do wonder why Linux gone search is always so slow even on indexed files.

ripdogon Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

It's incredibly obnoxious when people type "in my country" as if we're all supposed to just... know where they live. It's also incredibly common. Why do people do this?

ripdogon Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

Thank you for the correction, I did get that wrong. To be clear, there was no easy solution to get reliable, low latency DNS responses from my own resolver without breaking keepalive by forcibly caching entries longer?

ripdogon Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

Well that's the experience I had. Obviously caching was enabled (unbound), but most DNS keepalive times are so short as to be fairly useless for a single user.

Even if a root server wasn't in the US, it will still be pretty slow for me. Europe is far worse. Most of Asia has bad paths to me, except for Japan and Singapore which are marginally better than the US. Maybe Aus has one...?

ripdogon Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

Not a hardware issue, but a physics problem. I live in NZ. I guess the root servers are all in the US, so that's 130ms per trip minimum.

ripdogon Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

>Or just run a resolver yourself.

I did this for a while, but ~300ms hangs on every DNS resolution sure do get old fast.

ripdogon <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

Um, so, how are Mozilla supposed to get the hundreds of millions of dollars a year it costs to pay engineers to maintain an evergreen browser without Google's funding?

ripdogon After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs

>If I have users that use OpenAI through my API keys am I responsible?

Yes. You are OpenAI's customer, and they expect you to follow their ToS. They do provide a moderation API to reject inappropriate prompts, though.

ripdogon Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code

"Emulator" is the wrong word, but the answer is yes. The word you actually meant was "re-implementation" - writing a completely new, clean-room program which reads Source data files (levels, assets, scripts) and allows the user to play a Source game is perfectly legal.

It is necessary to avoid distributing any copyrighted material, so the user must provide the game assets from a legitimate copy for using the program to be legal. In addition, the 'clean-room' must be maintained by ensuring that no contributors to the re-implementation have ever seen the source code for Source, or they become tainted with forbidden knowledge.

Indeed, it's quite common for beloved old games to be re-implemented on new codebases to allow easy play on modern OS's and at high resolution, etc.

See https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity, https://openrct2.io/, https://github.com/AlisterT/openjazz

ripdogon RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent

Then just turn it off. qBT isn't windows, it doesn't demand autoupdate.

That said, you really shouldn't be running outdated torrent clients, like any network-connected programs. Case in point - the topic of this thread.

ripdogon RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent

Without a formal audit on a variety of BT clients, this isn't really an answerable question. Just because this one issue was discovered in qBT, doesn't mean that there are hundreds more in it, and Transmission, say, has none.

ripdogon RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent

Qt isn't just a GUI toolkit - it's an everything toolkit. It's somewhat intended to be used (potentially) alone with C++ to allow the creation of a wide variety of apps. It includes modules like Bluetooth, Network, Multimedia, OAuth, Threading and XML.

See a full list: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/index.html

ripdogon Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation

They're entirely manual. A whole bunch of volunteers write filter rules to block known ads. There's a big github where people can post issues about ads they've found, and volunteers will write filter rules to block them.

See https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues

ripdogon U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

I live in NZ, there's no standard here. It's damned annoying. I've heard that Facebook Messenger is the most popular, but I only know one person who uses it and I don't have an account myself.

ripdogon U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

By default was missing from the sentence. You can do it with Whatsapp etc, but both you and the other party need to download a 3rd party app to do so.

ripdogon Akira Toriyama has died

Tragically, a large proportion of manga artists die early. The lifestyle of spending 12 hours a day bent over a desk, frantically drawing, stressing about deadlines, all contributes to a variety of causes of early death.

Treasure your mangaka while they're alive, as theirs is an industry fuelled by passion - often far too much. (And greedy/demanding publishers, but we'll leave that discussion for another time.)

ripdogon Akira Toriyama has died

This sort of nitpicking really isn't appropriate for this time and place. It comes off as criticism of Dragon Ball for being aimed at boys, though I understand you did not actually intend that.

A mourning thread is not the place to start arguments about technicalities.