Running on underpowered hardware somehow reminds me of the good (or bad) old days of PC gaming where individual settings could make a huge difference.

Shadows off: Smooth

Shadows on: Unplayable

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The equivalent of not letting you unsubscribe from a spammy mailing list unless you provide a reason.

~$10/mo currently but since I recently switched to Linux, and it’s working very well for me, I feel like upping it a little.

I’ve long considered donating to Mozilla since Firefox is by far my most used open source software. But they don’t seem to lack money. So, huh.

Yeah, same. Previous years it was cars driving around with flags, posters for events, etc. This year I saw absolutely nothing. Feels a bit glum tbh.

I never really used Skype as a VOIP platform, but it was a great tool for many years for calling international phone numbers affordably. I’m sure it helped many people saving a lot of money calling their friends and relatives. For that I remember it somewhat fondly.

Not while the devs run a pro-genocide echo chamber. Tankie punks fuck off.

Yeah this is a great writeup. First time I noticed it. I’d follow your blog on RSS for sure.

It’s the new trend in software engineering: Turd-Driven Development

That’s great news. I can’t wait. While KDE Plasma 6 works near perfectly SDDM has given me so many problems. I hope a homogenized architecture between KDE and the login manager will make it behave more consistently.

This is the actual change if you’re curious: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=80b6f094756f

And the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626780

I think the writer just couldn’t resist the pun. A bit myopic of them.

Open sourcing old games is awesome for video game preservation.

I agree. E-mail is the original federated service. And 50 years later e-mail spam remains a big problem. I hope Fedi projects can get spam mitigations on-par with email before spammers start getting serious about this place.

America and Europe have been supposedly allied since WW2. That’s “no longer” the case, now more obvious than ever before.

Moving from C to C++ would also not solve any real problem. C++ of course adds OOP which I think can be nice (not everyone agrees with this!) but it also adds an insane amount of language complexity and instability. Mentally reasoning about C code is hard, reasoning about C++ code is nearly impossible.

Rust however brings a novel solution to classes of problems like ownership and mutability with the borrow checker. It’s now accepted to be a great tool for writing high performance code while preventing a substantial amount of common, but often subtle, bugs from slipping through. It’s not arbitrarily the first non-C code to be accepted in the kernel. And it’s used in other operating systems like Android and Windows already.

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Duh, I missed that it was under Steam Input. Yeah, most likely that’s just controller polling. Amazing that somehow saves 6% battery.

Oh, you refer only to this specific patch. I’m not 100% sure about this patch, but there are other kinds of polling rates, including a global kernel polling rate which greatly affects performance, and tweaking it might perhaps save battery life. And I just mean in general it appears Valve invests a lot of time into mobile power efficiency and I wonder if some makes it upstream.

It has been my experience, which seems generally accepted online, that Linux is greatly outclassed by Windows when it comes to power efficiency on laptops during normal usage. So contributions of new ways in which power efficiency could be improved would be great.