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  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • I did not enjoy finding out only at the end that the images in this blog post are generated/made using AI.

  • Matrix to XMPP migration

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  • Tuwunel had intentions to build a Synapse migration tool, but I haven't heard anything about it since. Was waiting for it so I could bring over profiles and most importantly chat history for myself and my family.

  • Introducing Voxtral (Apache 2.0)

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  • Sweet, perhaps it will run better than Whisper (according to the graphs at least) on my poor phone as voice input method. Whisper works great if I give it 20-30s to think :)

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  • Ah yes my favorite Country, the European Union.

  • How are RDNA 1 and 2 (AMD RX 5000 & 6000 series) cards on Linux nowadays? EDIT: Apparently they're quite good :)

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  • I had a ROG Zephyrus G14 "AMD Advantage" laptop with a AMD GPU in it that suffered from these "ring" crashes (according to dmesg). They came and went every few months sometimes with several weeks between crashes. When it would happen, audio kept playing but the display was frozen (can't even go to tty) and I had to force poweroff. The crash could also happen on Windows (I installed it just to test repro) but Windows handled restarting the GPU so it wouldn't freeze unlike Linux. The conclusion, at least in the community of people with that laptop, is that it was a hardware defect and the laptop needed to be RMA'd. ASUS wouldn't do anything for mine though despite explaining the issue to them and showing it happening on Windows.

    Either way, I now own a Framework 16 with a 7000 series GPU and am very happy :)

  • 2 gamers, 1 cpu, NO Virtualization! Using the power of Systemd's Multiseat feature to share a single powerful gaming PC with multiple people in the same house, at the same time.

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  • What magic incantation are you using? My OBS either crashes with the ffmpeg setting or uses software enc, and is always blurry. Firefox does all video and audio enc+dec on CPU. Am on all-AMD NixOS and so far gave up on any hw accel for media.

  • Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • Absolutely +1 for flakes. It's got some annoying UX sometimes (make sure you git add any new files before building!) but absolutely makes up for it by its features.

  • Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • NixOS is indeed probably the safest way to run an "unstable" distro. No matter what you do or mess up you can always reboot back.

  • Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • I (maybe) ended distrohopping last year when I gave NixOS a shot. I can't recommend it for beginners but once you understand generally how things work on Linux (and have an interest in programming) it's a superpower to be able to define your entire setup as a single git repository. If something ever breaks, I can reboot into an older commit and keep using my computer, or branch off in a different direction... I've only scratched the surface of NixOS and yet I can already make a live USB containing my setup with a single command, or deploy it ("infect") to another machine and manage e.g my work desktop and my personal laptop sharing most settings. Also it taught me about Nix (the package manager, which also runs on any distro and macOS independent of NixOS) which I now use to set up perfect development environments for each of my projects... if I set up dependencies once (as a flake.nix shell), it'll work forever and anywhere.

  • Fennec with Google as a standard search engine

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  • What hardware does not support Linux?

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  • Ah I see, haven't been on "stable" distros for a long time so I wasn't affected. I've enjoyed the good support and the video stuff is definitely nice. On the AMD side, still no idea how to encode or decode anything on my Framework 16, meanwhile Intel is acing it.

  • What hardware does not support Linux?

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  • Hmm, I run an Arc GPU at work without any issues. Just using plain mesa on NixOS. The Intel devs were quite responsive when we ran into issues as well.

  • A Hat in Time gets a surprise update with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support

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  • Peeeeck.... neeeeeck!!!

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  • Enjoyed the article but augh that sticky banner at the top that follows as I scroll took up 30% of my reading space. Gave up halfway through to enable reader mode on Firefox mobile...

  • Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode

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  • Awesome! Maybe I can finally switch to using it, though OBS settings are quite confusing.

  • Locked

    I'm on a list somewhere, I can feel it

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  • omg I totally accidentally enabled this

    I'd bother removing it but it's kinda funny to get an email reprimanding me when I ctrl+c out of a sudo command I mistyped, and maybe it will serve as a warning if it gets compromised :p

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  • Bravo la France ! Here's to hoping more cities follow suit :)

  • Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB

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  • Very cool! Added the RSS.

  • The European Union is under pressure to strike a trade deal with Trump, but an influx of mass-produced, low-quality food must be off the table.

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  • I actively avoid any and all US products, including food. I hope others do as well. So long as we keep origin attestations, I am not sure they will sell as much as expected.