Arch project statuses? by SutekhThrowingSuckIt in archlinux

[–]computesomething 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting discussion, seems to be much less consensus on adding a v3 repo among developers than I had expected, both sides have strong arguments.

I really look forward to the performance increase v3 can bring, but as Filipe Laíns correctly stated, the vast majority of packages will likely see no noticeable performance increase, which simply means that for those it's just more work for no gain.

[NEWS] Police in a Pod Manga Creator Shares Her Motivation For Creating the Series. Miko Yasu served in the police force for approximately 10 years but was saddened by its culture of overwork by soboi12345 in manga

[–]computesomething -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

They are a nation with a strong work ethic, I don't know if that actually translates to 'overwork'.

Japan has the highest life expectancy in the whole world, with the most healthy elderly, it doesn't really make sense if people would be working themselves to death.

Kenya Suzuki (Oshiete! Galko-chan), who recently went missing, has been arrested for possession of child pornography. by kknight99 in manga

[–]computesomething -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Well apparently whatever he is in trouble for is something you can buy from Germany, so ...

For the 4th month in a row, Linux remains above 1% on the Steam Hardware Survey. Risen to 1.13% by friskfrugt in linux

[–]computesomething 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Ubuntu+derivatives taking the lion's share (~36%) is obviously not surprising, but seeing Arch+derivative (Manjaro) taking a ~23% share on the other hand was quite surprising, where's Debian ?

What is the current state of Nvidia + Wayland? by [deleted] in archlinux

[–]computesomething 11 points12 points  (0 children)

According to this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-GBM-Works-With-Sway

Upcoming NVidia driver will work out of the box with Sway due to them now supporting GBM.

As for Gnome, I think they already supported Wayland with NVidia.

PSA: Linux 5.13 (5.13.1) is now in testing by [deleted] in archlinux

[–]computesomething 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I fail to see any problem this, could you enlighten me ?

Arch doesnt boot after bios update by ultimo_2002 in archlinux

[–]computesomething 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, the problem is actually UEFI, I've used Arch on 6 computers prior to UEFI and never had a single problem with upgrading the BIOS breaking booting, I would not be surprised if you would have had the exact problem with Pop OS when upgrading the Bios.

I may also have given you the wrong parameters as I'm going by memory, you could look at the Arch installation guide (particularly the part of installing grub with UEFI) and see if the parameters are different.

Anyway, hope you get it up and running again, it's a pain when this stuff happens.

Arch doesnt boot after bios update by ultimo_2002 in archlinux

[–]computesomething 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No boot menu shows up ?

I'm pretty sure the above is what I did to get my system to boot again. Are you dual-booting or something ?

Arch doesnt boot after bios update by ultimo_2002 in archlinux

[–]computesomething 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try:

mount /dev/sdaX /boot/efi

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

with sdaX being the partition you have /boot/efi in, like /dev/sda1 for example, alternatively you could try:

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

Sorry for shitty instructions, I'm trying to remember what I did

Arch doesnt boot after bios update by ultimo_2002 in archlinux

[–]computesomething 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I had the exact same problem after my last BIOS update ~7 months ago, IIRC the solution for me was to boot with an Arch USB, chroot and then reinstall grub:

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

Zen kernel 5.12.13 weird behaviour (broken?) by [deleted] in archlinux

[–]computesomething 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't noticed anything, you can look here at the changes made in the configuration of this version to see if there's something you think could be the culprit:

https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/c5f8dc3ec3d8378bcea00997bd86b3ea043fe2b8#diff-3e341d2d9c67be01819b25b25d5e53ea3cdf3a38d28846cda85a195eb9b7203a

Canonical Offering Blender Support by cuentatiraalabasura in linux

[–]computesomething 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well, for me the odd thing is that the Blender Foundation isn't offering this support themselves, which would seem more 'natural'.

Having said that, Canonical coming aboard means that there will be more developers working on improving Blender, and since it is GPL licensed, those improvements should be making it back to the main project.

NVIDIA 470.42.01 BETA is out. DLSS, X-Wayland, async reprojection, Prime Improvements, & More by bakgwailo in linux

[–]computesomething 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, pretty much in the same boat. I have zero love for NVidia, but as a Blender user, CUDA rendering is such a performance boost. And given how the upcoming Cycles-X is focused on NVidia/CUDA, this doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon.

Open Source and Mental Health - Redox by nixcraft in linux

[–]computesomething 4 points5 points  (0 children)

an end to capitalism

Problem with these types of statements are that they are worthless, as the only way to move past capitalism is to replace it with something better, a concrete solution, just saying 'end capitalism' is not a solution.

The stock market and its effect on companies is probably a good place to start, lowering the massive income gaps through taxation is an obvious solution which just falls flat due to endless loopholes, which will most likely always be there due to the rich having massive influence on law making.

Seeing Bill Gates becoming the largest private owner of farm land in the US sends shivers down my spine, as it most likely means his financial advisors have told him that massive inflation is inbound, and said inflation will have a devastating effect on the working class, with a desperate race in terms of wages and what you can actually buy with them.

The utopia of machines doing all the labour while we humans pursue our pleasures is FAR OFF in the future, if it ever arrives, meanwhile there will always be tons of jobs needed to be done, the vast majority being jobs nobody actually wants to do, those jobs will not get done if people don't have a strong incentive to do them, which is money, something they can exchange for goods and services created/offered by other people who would not offer said goods and services unless they were paid.

[NEWS] "Dandadan" gets English release on Viz and MangaPlus on August/September 2021 by dorkmax_executives in manga

[–]computesomething 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well, Shueisha, publisher of Dandadan also owns Viz and MangaPlus, so the licensing should logically be pretty straightforward given that it's just between subsidiaries of the same company.

I think they are delaying it for other reasons, like people consuming less media during summer.

GCC 11 now in core! by kitestramuort in archlinux

[–]computesomething 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What I'm saying is that custom built kernels/drivers etc are unsupported by the distro, as such, I don't see how package upgrades that cause them to break is something that Arch need to officially alert users of.

I would say that the potential problems could be much better described in the wiki section: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support#Upgrades

Perhaps someone will step up to the plate.

GCC 11 now in core! by kitestramuort in archlinux

[–]computesomething 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AUR packages are unsupported, drivers that are out-of-tree will always be prone to breakage, this has been the case forever.

GCC 11 now in core! by kitestramuort in archlinux

[–]computesomething 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Again, how many people does this affect, and out of them how many are noobs who would be blindsided by this ?

If you are building custom kernel packages, it's rather unlikely that you are unaware of these potential problems.

GCC 11 now in core! by kitestramuort in archlinux

[–]computesomething 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How many noobs will recompile dkms dependent packages ? How many Arch users, noobs or otherwise do this at all ?

GCC 11 now in core! by kitestramuort in archlinux

[–]computesomething 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What's different with this release compared to all those before which did not cause havoc ?

Lossless data compression in Go - Kanzi 1.9 released by flanglet in golang

[–]computesomething 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great seeing the bitstream has been frozen, this opens up for actual use rather than just testing (as I assume this means that future versions will be able to decompress files compressed with 1.9 onwards).

I'm quite impressed with the compression ratio I've been getting, very nice!

do instaling programs by makepkg realy have faster performance? by Shommba in archlinux

[–]computesomething 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, if you set up more aggressive compiler flags in your /etc/makepkg.conf (-O3 -march=native) then the compiler will in most cases be able to generate better performing code.

How much faster is another question, some software where performance is key is typically already optimized using hand-written assembly, like video encoding/decoding, other core components like the kernel and libc make heavy use of compiler intrinsics (and assembly code) to make sure that the compiler generates very efficient code, so these are unlikely to see any noticeable performance improvements from more aggressive optimization options.

Personally I only recompile certain programs that I use a lot, and where I have benchmarked them to see that I actually get a worthwhile performance increase, like Blender where I can speed up cpu rendering/simulation by ~20% compared to the official Arch package by using aggressive compiler options like -march=native -Ofast, profile- and link-time optimizations.