ProtonBadger

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He didn't step down from Asahi, just from the Linux kernel maintainers. Another person took over the Linux kernel Maintainer role for Asahi. It gives Hector one thing less to worry about.

EDIT: As of Feb 13th he has resigned from Asahi. No mention of his alter ego Asahi Lina, she's still listed as a member? As Hector is an incredibly talented and productive individual it'll be a big blow to the project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah as far as I understand, it's available with the xdg-desktop-portal Global Shortcuts for any application to implement. It's available for both sandboxed and regular applications to implement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I've been using Linux since the nineties and I've been through the rolling distros and agree with you that usually it's not a big hassle, just keep an eye on the process and .pacsave/.pacnew (or .rpm-ditto) - but I just don't bother at all anymore, I only game and code some Rust and I prefer a LTS distro that keeps the kernel up to date, for me that's the best of both worlds.

I'd also say that running a major upgrade on my stable distros (both on servers and laptop) takes less than an hour, not a weekend and I never have issues with it. Issues when upgrading either rolling (every update) or LTS releases usually comes from the admin having made incompat/bad changes to the system on their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Well, I settled on a Ubuntu derivative so I guess it's in the family. It could just as easily have been Fedora though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No I am of few means and I wait until games are on sale. Like Solasta I waited for until I got a good deal. There's really no rush. As an exception I paid full price for BG3 because Larian have shown extraordinary community spirit.

Running executables from whatever source is scary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My laptop gets shut down every night, booted every morning. If I suspend it sometimes spontaneously wakes later, but boot is so fast anyway so it’s fine.

My server gets updated and rebooted weekly. I don’t bother checking CVE bulletins, I just upgrade weekly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I have Intel iGPU and Nvidia dGPU on my laptop, it works perfectly with Prime offload. I never need to switch, it uses Intel for desktop/VA-API and offload for games. No issues, at all on my distribution.

Anyway, every thread have your kind of unhelpful comment. The thing is some people have Nvidia, some have AMD and AMD also have bugs. Let's try to make everyone happy, not everyone have piles of money to throw after new hardware.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Jeremy Brett was the best Holmes ever, his personal issues and depression augmented the role and he sunk so deeply into it that he sometimes referred to Sherlock the character as a real person.

Other portrayals shows healthy detectives full of vitality and charm but Jeremy Brett understood the brilliant but self abusive sometimes obsessive character with many layers to his complicted personality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it's because it keeps track on object lifetimes and data access when sharing objects, even across threads. It means that once things compiles a whole category of common and often difficult to debug errors are gone. It means much less time debugging and fewer issues once in the hands of the end user. There can still be bugs but it's more about logical errors than difficult memory issues.

As a C++ dev for 20 years, I love Rust. Humans are fallible, even if endeavouring to use safe patterns. Might as well just let the compiler use some CPU cycles on that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The GNU Image Manipulation Program introduced optional single-window mode in version 2.8, which was released on May 3, 2012. It was made default starting with version 2.10, which was released on April 27, 2018.

Here's what warrants a major version bump: GIMP 3.0.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I always end up with SF Pro Display for my desktop. For terminal I’m happy with several mentioned here.

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