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by zlynx 7y ago
xeyes is also a great way to tell if you're in a Wayland session. If it tracks your mouse always, it's X. If it only tracks in its own window, it's Wayland.
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by zlynx 7y ago
And somehow Fedora always seemed to do systemd and pulseaudio correctly. It's Debian and Ubuntu who somehow manage to make it into garbage. Is it intentional? Is it just because they use ancient, old versions? If indeed they want to be
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by zlynx 7y ago
Just how loudly do you think people would complain if PulseAudio decided to link in JACK and replace it, instead of getting out of the way (and becoming a JACK client itself, I believe).
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by zlynx 7y ago
Not sure what you mean about stuck at 2 GHz? My current Dell laptop and the previous one used 45 W CPUs and can hold a sustained 3.2 GHz while compiling with 8 threads. That immediately drops as soon as I start using the iGPU or even the Nv
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by zlynx 7y ago
I believe Windows 95 has trouble with CPUs that are too fast and needs to be patched to handle it. I think I also read somewhere that older Windows (and some other operating systems) don't handle modern TCP/IP very well. A TCP ses
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by zlynx 7y ago
I read about one recently where an evil user program was able to bring a 28 core Xeon to its knees. Apparently a LOCK INC on an unaligned value that hangs over a page boundary forces this super-advanced CPU to lock everything in every cache
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by zlynx 7y ago
I haven't looked recently but several years ago I was shocked to discover the GNU libstdc++ didn't use strchr or memchr. It used a hand-coded for loop because it was a template for various kinds of character. There was no speciali
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by zlynx 7y ago
On a Windows 10 VM set to 2 GB of RAM, Windows idles at about 1.1 GB. On a 16 GB Windows it uses about 7.5 GB. All of that seems to swap out or go away somewhere if I get busy with Visual Studio. On a 64 GB Windows it seems to idle at about
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by zlynx 7y ago
And the latency depends on the compositor. I believe Arcan achieved 0 frame compositor latency with Wayland. I think the latest gnome-shell Mutter is there as well. If your application can draw its frame and get its notification into the co
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by zlynx 7y ago
HiDPI? Um, what? I've been running Wayland gnome-shell on Fedora since Fedora 25, on a Dell m3800 and now a Dell XPS 15, both with 4K internal displays. I often connect to external monitors or projectors, either 1080p or 4K. Wayland ha
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by zlynx 7y ago
I am pretty sure that HDMI CEC has a way to enumerate the connected devices and see if there's anyone alive on the other end of a cable. Assuming the other end also does CEC. Now, if only we could convince PC graphics manufacturers to
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by zlynx 7y ago
A function could be compiled assuming the passed argument is always 2. All of the code for other values is just left out. As long as the compiled code has a check for values that are not 2 this code works great. It isn't correct though
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by zlynx 7y ago
I had to stop using IPFS to read websites because it kept crashing my router. It makes hundreds of connections to other IPFS servers. And if you have working IPv6 it makes many of those twice . I'd often see over a thousand, then the
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by zlynx 7y ago
I don't understand why anyone would run btrfs with MD RAID. That configuration loses the ability to recover from corrupted blocks. All that MD can do is in response to actual reported drive errors. If one of the drives accepts the writ
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by zlynx 7y ago
I've been using btrfs on my home NAS (a custom build) and on my Linux laptops with SSDs since 2012. I run Fedora on everything which I think helps because I've never been stuck on an old kernel with old, stupid bugs. Only the fres
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by zlynx 7y ago
Not only table styling, as another person said. Duplicate CSS also. I've done view source on some newsletters. On at least one there is a top-level CSS style block with all of the rules. Then, who knows why, there's a duplicate of
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by zlynx 7y ago
ZFS is OK I suppose, but it isn't native. So you have to jump through hoops to use it, just like Nvidia binary graphics drivers. BTRFS works well. I've used it for a NAS since 2012. It started with two mirrored 2 TB WD RED drives.
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by zlynx 7y ago
Users who intentionally run beta / nightly are not normal users. How many of them run on cheap "desktop" computers they bought on sale at Target, do you think?
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by zlynx 7y ago
It turns out DMARC isn't actually required. Having it might help your acceptance score, but gmail and outlook don't actually require it. I know because I haven't set up DMARC for my email domain, and my email still gets accep
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by zlynx 7y ago
A spam filter can't whitelist government email. My personal SpamAssassin filters out spam from government servers all the time. The latest was from somewhere in Quebec. You'd think the various governments would put more effort int
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by zlynx 8y ago
I also love ripgrep and use it all the time. Thanks! I've lately been doing some Windows programming. Ripgrep from a Git Bash command-line can generally find ALL instances of some word before Visual Studio's Find In Solution can e
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by zlynx 8y ago
For that kind of environment Microsoft provides embedded versions of Windows.
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by zlynx 8y ago
AMP is mostly a response to sites that want to load 20 MB video and endless popups timed to appear just when you want to click on "Next". Build reasonable web sites and don't use AMP. I won't even use mobile web without
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by zlynx 8y ago
Your problem with the Dell was likely its Nvidia GPU. Even if you aren't using it, the Linux drivers seem to leave it "on". You have to actually unload or never load the drivers. My XPS 15 gets six hours, easy on Fedora 29.
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by zlynx 8y ago
It's a programming site, which means no one should be typing code in by hand. It's always got a typo or six. Cut the code, then paste it, select it and use the {} icon on the StackOverflow editor to indent the entire block. No nee
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by zlynx 8y ago
Tripwire is packaged up in Fedora. It's listed as GPLv2 licensed. So, yes. RPM verification checks that all of the files installed through RPM have checksums that match the original RPM. It also checks that the RPM cryptographic signat
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by zlynx 8y ago
It might help protect against an OpenSSH zero-day but those are pretty rare. I've been running my home server with an completely open SSH port since 2012 and haven't been hacked yet. And I know since I check occasionally with Trip
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by zlynx 8y ago
They were also unfairly crippled because of the drive to be ultra-cheap. I think that hurt them in the market. Netbooks became amazingly better with a bit of a RAM upgrade to 4 GB,a real SSD, a real Debian installation and a light-weight
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by zlynx 8y ago
systemd refusing to boot without required drives is actually a favorite feature of mine. Ever since I had an RH AS server boot without /var mounted. It was truly lovely with a gigabyte of trash filling up / then trying to decide i
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by zlynx 8y ago
I have a Dell XPS with an Nvidia 1050, running Fedora 29. The Nouveau driver was so bad here that I blacklisted all the drivers and just use the Intel GPU. It's the difference between 3 hours or 6 hours of battery. It apparently ran th

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