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by akdev1l 6mo ago
>Windows 95 worked around this by keeping a backup copy of commonly-overwritten files in a hidden C:\Windows\SYSBCKUP directory. Whenever an installer finished, Windows went and checked whether any of these commonly-overwritten files had
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
Ironically this is one of my main use cases for LLMs “Can you give me an example of how to read a video file using the Win32 API like it’s 2004?” - me trying to diagnose a windows game crashing under wine
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
>Wi-Fi which is a lot higher quality than a consumer router I am not really sure about it. My ISP provided AP can do a gigabit over wifi. I need to change it because the ISP hardcodes the dns for spying reasons. But sadly to match that p
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
I think people are more complaining about windows crashing on updates or Microsoft putting ads everywhere or forcing one drive That’s way more than just the “position of the start menu”
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
It does weird things in multi monitor because dragging a window on top of the newly “maximized” window somehow does not work
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
Yes MacOS breaks down the user until they give up on window management
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
The window management style of Mac OS is complete chaos imo I have been using it for years and I just gave up entirely on managing anything and if I zoom out to see all my windows it looks like the freaking Milky Way from windows I forgot
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
>just a slow decline into incompetence. Give them some credit, it’s been quite rapid.
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
Also we could probably achieve this by using dnsfs and regular doom install https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st...
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
From all this what I got is that Microsoft is connecting to some random servers not using TLS and then somehow outputting that data straight into the Nintendo Switch
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
I believe Android will be blocking installations from outside Google play except through adb
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by akdev1l 6mo ago
I should clarify my original comment about stability only applies to glibc itself. Once we go out of glibc there will be varying degrees of API/ABI stability simply because at that point it’s just different groups of people doing the w
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
>On my 2020 Dell XPS, I still haven't figured out how to enable the subwoofers If I remember correctly dell never provided drivers/firwmare/docs upstream to drive the subwoofer. ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org&
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
Depends on the distro. Fedora looks like it carries a whooping 2 patches on top of upstream
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
glibc must match the linker so you would need a separate linker and the binaries usually have a hardcoded path to the system linker (and you need to binary patch the stuff - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/847179&#x
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
I thought you meant Proton-GE or such other patched builds of proton.
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
They announced Rosetta 2 will be deprecated and eventually removed (MacOS 28?) By that point they already hit the developers enough to get them to port to aarch64 (arguably though this could be a special case because it is due to architectu
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
Sorry I am not sure if 2.12 is a a recent release or older, I made up this number up If the application is built against 2.12 it may link against symbols which are versioned 2.12 and may not work against 2.11 - the opposite (building agains
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
Maybe you are right about esync but anyway I would also gather a lot of people don’t have that either. At least personally I don’t bother with custom proton builds or whatever so if Valve didn’t enable that on their build then I don’t have
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
Plenty of operating systems work like this. Just not highly commercial ones because proprietary software is the norm on those. From a bit of research it looks like FreeBSD for example only provides a stable ABI within minor versions and I i
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
Because dnf4 used the same dependency resolution as yum but they revamped it in dnf5 (it was initially supposed to be a whole new package manager with a different name)
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
It can revert back to building from source under some cases and I still think even when doing binary downloads it will execute install hooks which are ruby inside the recipe I would agree with you that probably Ruby itself is probably not t
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
Well I can tell you that if it didn’t make it upstream Fedora didn’t ship it. It looks there was a copr for a custom kernel-fsync and projects like Bazzite or Nobara are adding patches. From my understanding the fsync patches were never ups
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
Proprietary software needs a stable ABI. Not games. DOOM runs on any Linux system since forever because we had access to the source. You can build it for Linux 2.6 and it’ll probably still work today. Sadly most games are proprietary
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
People always say this to shit on glibc meanwhile those guys bend over backwards to provide strong API compatibilities. It rubs me off the wrong way. What glibc does not provide is forward compatibility. An application built with glibc 2.12
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
>These extreme gains are the result of benching against vanilla without fsync, which is what anyone gaming on linux uses Not for anyone using a kernel without these patches. Which would be most people.
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
The recipes for building and installing homebrew packages are written in Ruby You cannot really be compatible with this unless you run the Ruby as the install scripts could do whatever arbitrary computations In reality most recipes contain
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
pacman is faster simply because it does less things and it supports less use cases. For example pacman does not need to validate the system for partial upgrades because those are unsupported on Arch and if the system is borked then it’s you
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
yum was slow not because of python but because of the algorithm used to solve dependencies Anyway the python program would call into libsolv which is implemented in C. dnf5 is much faster but the authors of the program credit the algorithmi
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by akdev1l 7mo ago
in most cases you could just drop back into the initramfs that is included in most distros Or if you have access to the boot command line you can also usually stop the boot process before pivot_root happens (hence you’ll be left running in

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