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shmerl··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
I think it's a combination of it's done to a degree and comfort + habit.

Let's say there are areas to improve still, but introducing anything new requires investment of time to learn it, breaking habits and giving discomfort. Even if it eventually starts paying off, it can cause a push back naturally. So it's really hard to do it right, may be only very gradually? Surely not like Gnome tried to do it.

Some direct comparison with such idea could be let's say a suboptimal keyboard layout and more optimal ones that are barely used.

I personally stick with KDE exactly because "it just works well enough" and its flexibility at the same time.

shmerl··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
Nah, I don't buy it. There is room for assembly usage, yes, but the claim that it's the only way to do things is clearly false and compilers from high level languages in most cases are enough.
shmerl··on C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Why does the loop mean halt in that embedded case example?
shmerl··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
More generally any GPU computation, not necessarily graphics. The above argument could go that there is no point in high level languages for CPUs either and everyone should just always use assembly, which is obviously false. Same can go for GPUs.
shmerl··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
Nvidia only? Typical.

This is more promising: https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu/

shmerl··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
I'd say it's deserved, not FUD. Nvidia did improve in some ways, but it's still way too heavy into blob even in case you plan to use it in the future with nvk. Nouveau / nova developers explained that Nvidia pushed a lot more into their firmware than AMD, turning the kernel driver into more of a shim than an actual driver. That's already a big downside.
shmerl··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
> A lot of people still use X11 over Wayland because Wayland is said to have much worse input lag

Wayland is fine. People should use AMD and KDE Plasma.

I'd avoid Nvidia to begin with.

shmerl··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Exactly. Let them sell games on GOG DRM-free. You buy it, it's yours as long as you back it up. No one stops you from storing it on any physical media you want. Just use an HDD.

When things on the other are presented as rent only, it's very bad.

shmerl··on Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
Why not on floppy disks.
shmerl··on Free the Icons
Apple will never care about what users want, they only do what Apple want. If you want to free anything, don't use Apple. It's an obvious lesson that should have been learned a long time ago.
shmerl··on Show HN: DRM-Free Books
Nice. Good to know that Tor books are DRM-free.
shmerl··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)
Does it work with US networks?
shmerl··on 10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module
To make it less hot, just use fiber optics.
shmerl··on The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
Releasing source code for games (including server part) should help.
shmerl··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
I don't care much what it says as in "fix", "chore" etc, but for me the main benefit is breaking changes indicated with "<type>!", something like "feat!: ... ".

This makes neovim plugin manager highlight the change differently which brings attention to it when you update stuff.

So please do use it instead of complaining!

I do like the suggestion of

scope!: ...

if it will be treated the same way with breaking changes reactions.

shmerl··on Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
+ Long live Linux Desktop!
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
Ban on software patent is more than warranted, only trolls themselves don't like such idea obviously.

But what also needed is persecution these patent trolls for racket like any mob racketeers. There were attempts of persecuting them this way in the past, but they should be renewed.

shmerl··on Nvidia RTX Spark
I wouldn't trust it to have good upstream support. It's Nvidia. So not really interested.
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
It's pretty much the modus operandi of any patent troll or in more general case - of any racketeer. Nothing new about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs&t=1m30s

shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
There should be a stronger push to fight these trolls. AOM has enough resources to bust their garbage patents and make them pay damages for patent racketeering. At least until software patents are banned for good.
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
No one can predict patent trolls - they can surface at any time randomly. But there should be a more organized fight against them. I assume AOM should be backing that.
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
Because they have nothing to do with AV1, they simply want to leech on it. It's fitting to call them a patent troll.
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
I'd classify any patent racketeer as a troll. Dolby has nothing to do with AV1, they just want a parasitic rent on it. Whether the troll actually does anything else besides the trolling part isn't really relevant.
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
AMD added AV1 encoding only in later SoCs though. Next Steam Deck will have both.
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
Even better, software patents should not be allowed in the first place.
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
Hopefully their patents will be busted and preferably Dolby will be also forced to pay damages for filing invalid lawsuits. That's the only way to teach patent trolls proper lessons.
shmerl··on Local Git remotes
Good to know, thanks. I should try it with vim.pack for local repos.
shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
That's fine and not anything new for codecs, they always take a long time before mass adoption.

Take a look at AV1 itself, you can't even say it's really ubiquitous on all hardware. It's quite well along in adoption compared to early days, but some mobile devices are still lacking hardware acceleration for it.

shmerl··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
Congrats!

How is the case of fighting off Dolby's patent racketeering going? They tried to attack Snapchat for using AV1.

shmerl··on Local Git remotes
Can it work with file://?
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