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by bpye 1y ago
> What if I want to install/configure something that hasn't been Nix-ified? You can setup an FHS environment, this is often the strategy used when packaging closed-source binary packages. An example in nixpkgs is steam-run [0],
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by bpye 1y ago
This still exists? You can also use JavaScript to script/extend and there is a native code API too. Note: I do work at MSFT, I have used these capabilities but I’m not on the debugger team. https://learn.microsoft.com/e
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by bpye 1y ago
Fun outage, I can apparently receive messages but cannot view channels or send anything.
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by bpye 1y ago
Not that it stopped Intel trying - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark
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by bpye 1y ago
At least they're prepared for an earthquake.
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by bpye 1y ago
I type day to day on an Apple Extended Keyboard II, which is great, but I would very much like to find one of the NeXT keyboards…
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by bpye 1y ago
I don’t use Gmail anymore - what are they doing there?
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by bpye 1y ago
Having UEFI in some form means you can just boot your preferred Linux installer and install to disk, much as you would for an x86 device, rather that needing to get a specific disk image and dd it to an SD card.
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by bpye 1y ago
I think I’ve settled on both being the answer - Hetzner is affordable enough that I can have a full backup of my NAS (using ZFS snapshots and incremental backups), and as a bonus can host some services there instead of at home. My home netw
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by bpye 1y ago
Whilst not as fatal as a failing SSD, AMD also had a fun errata where a CPU core would hang in CC6 after ~1044 days. https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7002-rome-cpus-hang-af...
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by bpye 1y ago
For completeness sake - uboot can also boot EFI binaries, though upstream won’t support GOP video on RK3588, and is also device tree only so no Windows, just Linux and BSDs. https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/develo
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by bpye 1y ago
There are some Linux distros with ZFS as a near first class citizen. NixOS is one, I believe Alpine is another.
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by bpye 1y ago
Not AI - but businesses have tried offshoring them - https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126167551/would-you-like-a-s...
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by bpye 1y ago
> the paralysis tick I knew about Lyme and the meat-allergy inducing ticks, but not this one. Yikes.
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by bpye 1y ago
I’ve run games on Linux with success but these days do most gaming in a Windows VM with an assigned GPU - and it works very well. Yeah aggressive anticheat won’t work - but I don’t care much about multiplayer these days, and have consoles t
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by bpye 1y ago
Secure boot isn’t mandatory, and if you want secure boot you don’t have to use Microsoft’s keys, you can enroll your own. Lanzaboote for NixOS for example doesn’t use shim - https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote
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by bpye 1y ago
There’s also the Orion O6 if you need more IO/perf - https://radxa.com/products/orion/o6#techspec
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by bpye 1y ago
If you can build your own Uboot you should be able to enable UEFI no? It’s not as full featured as EDK2 etc, but it works to boot Linux and I think the BSDs.
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by bpye 1y ago
I guess you could run a Linux VM and pass the disks through? I considered something similar for an ARM64 NixOS build server - though that application doesn’t need the disks.
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by bpye 1y ago
Anbernic cheaped out when trying to support USB host mode, as a result the device will not work correctly with an electronically marked cable. You can fix this - but you lose host mode - https://www.wirehead.be/2024/10&
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by bpye 1y ago
Looking glass is another option, which uses shared memory [0]. I just have my two monitors hooked up to both my iGPU and dedicated GPU, and switch inputs if I want to use my Windows VM. It means things like colour profiles and VRR work as e
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by bpye 1y ago
Running them in a Windows VM with an attached GPU works great, I suspect you could use something like Looking Glass [0] as well - though I’d be nervous about colour profiles. [0] - https://looking-glass.io/
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by bpye 1y ago
That’s an ancient article - Nvidia have since open sourced their kernel mode drivers - https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules Yes the user mode side is still closed, but that was never really the issue.
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by bpye 1y ago
Adapting a PCIe slot to a single M.2 slot should always work, so long as the SSD is actually using the PCIe lanes and not the SATA port that M.2 can also support. Depending on how old the motherboard, or UEFI, is - it may not be able to dir
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by bpye 1y ago
Is that really realistic? Apple very specifically allowed booting unsigned, and even non macOS, operating systems on their ARM devices. Sure - they don’t document the hardware, but making it possible was intentional.
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by bpye 1y ago
Certainly agree on the chipset front - I went from an X570 to B650 which was absolutely a downgrade, the most painful being the loss of ACS on the chipset PCIe lanes.
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by bpye 1y ago
Can’t you pin a game to the 8 threads with the extra cache on the 16 core parts to get equivalent performance?
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by bpye 1y ago
Yep - I have a 9950X desktop. Building the kernel as part of NixOS builds almost every possible option as a module - for ARM64 that takes something like 15 minutes.
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by bpye 1y ago
Most (if not all?) BIOSes today will let you limit the TDP - on AMD it’s often called eco mode.
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by bpye 1y ago
> As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds. It’s a bit of a mixed bag though - whilst some big websites still have an RSS feed, you can’t get the full article text, smaller blogs etc seem to be better in that regard.

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