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by chme 2y ago
Personally, I have more trust in open source software than anything the vendor puts on their devices. But very often either the vendor software is only allowed to run, or you have to disable secure boot to run your own software, weakening y
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by chme 2y ago
My only fear is that every vendor will now have to implement secure boot and other mechanisms in order to make sure that only signed software runs on their devices, while providing no way for the customer to take ownership of the device bac
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by chme 2y ago
> Sounds like you're leaning more towards the Qubes OS model, even though I'm sure you don't want to go that extreme. Qubes OS is full virtualization. I don't want to boot a separate kernel for every process I want to
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by chme 2y ago
In NixOS you have only one central package store `/nix/store`, so all packages need to be installed there. This is necessary, because the software is patched to use that path. IMO patching it this way is a bit hacky, when there a
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by chme 2y ago
> So the end goal is to not make any modifications to the host image. IMO the goal should not be to have a immutable host image, but to have a immutable rootfs of each process. Immutable host base images might contain libraries or softwa
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by chme 2y ago
I only ever tried NixOS, but the FHS stuff there seems to only be about getting Steam and other proprietary software to work. I would suggest to have this per default, so that the only application that actually sees the real file system wou
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by chme 2y ago
I would consider Fedora Silverblue/CoreOS, NixOS and even flatpak as a sort of hacky way to implement that. I don't know of any PoC for this. I would guess that there might be some research budget available for that approach.
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by chme 2y ago
I would love to see a Linux distribution picking up on the concept of NixOS, with its content-addressed-package store and then use overlayfs and bubblewrap to create process local FHS compatible root file systems with only the dependencies
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by chme 2y ago
I owned a Kobo Glo and Pocketbook Touch, and I preferred the Pocketbook, because it allows to install koreader as a application into the stock firmware, while on Kobo you need to quasi dual-boot your system into koreader or stock firmware v
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by chme 3y ago
I am a bit disappointed. I though this was about the Linux perf tool and would make a point that better tools are required while providing some suggestions. All I got was a piece that more or less states that generic benchmarks are not as u
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by chme 3y ago
I think that was pretty clear from the first picture on that page. But there are some empty files for other operating systems in the source: https://github.com/wojfil/perun2/tree/master/src/os So su
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by chme 3y ago
This is a pretty useless poll when trying to compare MacOS, Windows and Linux usage, because they split Linux up into different distributions. Because adding all numbers up, you get >100%, I suppose multiple-choice were allowed, which do
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by chme 3y ago
Are really that many developers using Macs? Maybe I am in a different bubble/country, but most professional developers and hobbyist hackers I know have either ThinkPads or Framework laptops running Linux or sometimes Windows, if they h
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by chme 3y ago
> An utterly irrelevant side point since the whole question is the use of the implementation not the API. I find this interesting, and maybe I am just a bit confused. But here is what I am wondering now. If it is not about the use of an
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by chme 3y ago
A lot comes down to how people measure success. In a capitalist system, success is often measured as having the most bucks, be it deserved or undeserved, how they got them, or how many people were ripped off on the way doesn't matter.
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by chme 3y ago
The cat command is meant as a placeholder for whatever other commands are used for printing out a file stream to stdout.
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by chme 3y ago
Named pipes don't work? Or some bash magic: `handbrake-cli -i <(cat video-file.mp4)`? I never used handbrake-cli, only used the gui before, so I have no idea.
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by chme 3y ago
Well, this is a company that creates Linux laptops. So if they decide to offer laptops with dGPU, they might want to use hardware that is well supported by Linux. Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs are available from many/most other manufacture
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by chme 3y ago
This isn't dogmatic, it is practical considerations. From experience, open-source drivers that are integrated into the kernel and open-source source user space have much better quality, better out-of-box experience, and push the whole
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by chme 3y ago
Well, aparantly my comment is not about this laptop then, because this laptop doesn't have a dGPU. (But you are right, maybe I should have formulated it better. I meant all Laptops with dGPU they offer are with a Nvidia dGPU.)
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by chme 3y ago
But that is a iGPU.
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by chme 3y ago
Strange, for a company, advertising to the Linux community, to offer only Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs, where you actually have to taint your kernel/userspace with proprietary software in order to use it.
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by chme 3y ago
Maybe relevant, but from 2019: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/8/18250031/book-product... So from that article, not really. It wasn't really successful when it was tried. So I would guess
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by chme 3y ago
I still don't get how that would solve the issue of having no linux drivers. Lets say I create a new GPU IP core, i give it to a third-party chip manifactorer to produce it, then that delivers it to a fourth-party to burn a privat key
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by chme 3y ago
I get you in principle, but the company should still be allowed to sell hardware with some default software installed, because if I had to search for someone on the internet that wrote software for my specific smart TV, washing machine or w
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by chme 3y ago
I don't think you need a subscription, however you need to upload the files to their cloud and from there it is uploaded to other providers. You cannot sync directly to your services. IIUC. Their subscription is just required if you wa
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by chme 3y ago
Yeah. I bought one where a lifetime subscription was included, but for any new customer, I would advice against the remarkable 2. Because of my disappointment I have to rant a little. Still their cloud stuff (even without subscription) is p
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by chme 3y ago
> 3. LLM Integration. It might make NPCs more realistic Not sure. That doesn't seems game engine related and more game specific. I think integrating LLM is just some scripting in your game. In terms of AI integration, I would be mor
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by chme 3y ago
I don't get the $8/month. If you would pay for verification, that would be a one time payment. If the creators would be payed, then this might be fine, but they aren't. So it is only a fee to use the infrastructure. You get a
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by chme 3y ago
> Web passwords are the primary issue. Secrets that are local on your system with hardware enforced rate limiting, such as a pin on a yubikey, are reasonable. Pins are short and memorable. Passwords generally must be 256 bits of entropy

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