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by vetinari 3y ago
In 2017, when I got Vega, OpenCL didn't work yet. Today, in 2023, Vega is already not supported. Meanwhile, during this period, ROCm was unbuildable by mere mortal distribution maintainers; you either used the binaries thrown over the
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by vetinari 3y ago
We had two 2013 Nexuses: one with 3g radio and one wifi-only. First, the 3g one died, on sudden black screen of death. Then, year or two later, the wifi one, on the flash deterioration. The flash issue wasn't problem only for Nexus. Th
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by vetinari 3y ago
Only in terminal and only if you have developer tools installed. Otherwise, it is not.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Many white-era officers did serve in the Red Army; including Zhukov and his ex-boss Rokossovskij. Being a cadre in pre-revolution times wasn't the issue itself; willingness to sabotage their own country was. Incidentally, the blunder i
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by vetinari 3y ago
> However, if I install Homebrew, then install python, then install a pip package, there's really no kind of scanning/notarization/checking happening at all. There is: you are running that pip package in a chain of process
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by vetinari 3y ago
In the past, some phones and tablets did support MHL. Today, some phones and tablets support DisplayPort alt-mode over USB-C.
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by vetinari 3y ago
More than decade ago, in 2011, my father had Galaxy S2 and I had Galaxy Nexus. Hardware-wise, they were comparable (Galaxy Nexus was something like Galaxy S2.1), but the former run TouchWiz and the latter vanilla Android. The latter was muc
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by vetinari 3y ago
1) iPhone 13 is 09/2021; Galaxy S20 FE is 09/2020. One year older device. 2) System updates do not mean the same on Android and iOS. On Android, all the apps are going to be updated still. Browser, mail, chat, maps are not hostage
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by vetinari 3y ago
My several years old Samsung doesn't blank the screen. Android indeed does tear down the activity and creates a new one with different rotation and size; but activity is not the framebuffer currently displaying. Recreating the activity
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by vetinari 3y ago
He frames it differently; more optimistic than the reality on the ground. He is also conflating things in a way that does not work (just because Intel ships something does not means that it is a standard to benchmark compliance to spec agai
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by vetinari 3y ago
He is wrong; UEFI does specify FAT (section 13.3). It does not prevent supporting other filesystems, as well as other partition schemes or volume formats (nothing prevents UEFI from supporting LVM, for example), but only FAT and GPT are man
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by vetinari 3y ago
It does. It has to boot in the first place. Only after windows kernel is running, it can read filesystems it supports.
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by vetinari 3y ago
exFAT is not supported by UEFI. Only FAT32.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Only if: - you want to boot in legacy mode (and your machine supports CSM) - your UEFI firmware supports NTFS (only mandatory filesystem is FAT32). Otherwise, if you want generic, UEFI boot media, you would have to find out how to boot from
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by vetinari 3y ago
You can just copy the files, there is no need for tools to prepare boot media. UEFI will look for efi/boot/bootx64.efi file (on x64 arch) on your removable drive and boot that. There are no magic boot sectors anymore. The issue is
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by vetinari 3y ago
Windows ISO files are iso9660, so you cannot "burn them" into the usb; only to optical drive. For USB, Microsoft provides media creation tool, which will format the usb to FAT32, and then copy the files there. As said elsewhere in
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by vetinari 3y ago
It is not just fat32 and overhead up to cluster size; once I had 800k tiles in a single directory on ntfs. It was unusable. The only thing that I was able to do is to tar it up and move to a machine with xfs, where I was able to sort it up
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by vetinari 3y ago
Many filesystems have an issue with tens of thousands or more files in a single directory, which is exactly what you can get with map tiles. No wonder sqlite is faster.
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by vetinari 3y ago
You can add plugins to applications in flatpak; package these plugins as extensions. How it is done can be seen with OBS: flathub has several OBS plugins available (com.obsproject.Studio.Plugin.*).
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by vetinari 3y ago
Keyring is another component, specifically for passwords. GOA is for storing account information: e.g. you configure your Gmail/nextcloud/whatever account once, and then all apps that need it can access it. So your Geary, Contacts
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by vetinari 3y ago
Some wayland compositors provide RDP remote access, without futzing around like it was necessary with X11.
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by vetinari 3y ago
There are two different things mixed together: - fractional scaling of the display output - app rendering at fractional scales. The first one works fine with Gtk 3 and newer; the application renders its output at nearest higher integer scal
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by vetinari 3y ago
There is a new wayland extension, that allows for rendering at fractional scales directly in the application, so when you use a display with fractional scaling, there is no downscaling done by the compositor. Support for this kind of render
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by vetinari 3y ago
Motif is compatible, because it is dead.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Gnome has an component, Gnome Online Accounts. It's purpose is to provide and manage account information for applications that need it, so the user doesn't have to configure their email, calendar, whatever, in each application sep
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by vetinari 3y ago
Samsung did it with DeX; so now you have your mobile OS with mobile apps inside overlapping, dynamically sized windows. For emergency use, it is ok. For a prolonged one, a separate laptop is vastly better experience.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Still not a great way to win friends and influence people, if you piss them off.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Widewine and similar DRM schemes pretty much require hardware assistance; the lower levels that do not will provide you with 720p, which is exactly what you are getting in Linux. For 4k, it requires tee application, or similar mechanism tha
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by vetinari 3y ago
> Not on Firefox for Android, it just makes me download the file That's... interesting. I did import my ca cert exactly this way, so they must have changed it... bummer. In the about:certificate I can see the ca cert that was import
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by vetinari 3y ago
Let me remind you Windows RT for ARM. Same restrictions of TPM, some screws tightened somewhat more.

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