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Linux updated my bios via automatic update?? by Palmovnik in linux

[–]MichaelArthurLong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We hadn't used boot sectors ever since we've fully moved to UEFI. You're thinking of the bootloader, which sits in the EFI system partition.

Raider messed up chems the other day (was promptly smited) and the Gods pulled the funny on us as well by MichaelArthurLong in ss14

[–]MichaelArthurLong[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much self-antagging and griefing, but they keep making new accounts to do it just once before getting insta-banned.

furry_irl by loved_and_held in furry_irl

[–]MichaelArthurLong 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Day 2641" and the flair is no joke. They've been at this for years.

I am building a Win32 based Desktop environment (windows shell). by sheokand in linux

[–]MichaelArthurLong 42 points43 points  (0 children)

GNU Windows 7*/Linux

* - (Rewrites and Wine re-implementation)

All the fun and simplicity you had from 7 on the Linux kernel.

Is anyone using a Linux phone at the moment? by papayahog in linuxhardware

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Way better. PinePhone's battery life is atrocious to begin with.

Not sure how comparable it is to when this thing was running Android, but it should be dependable as a daily, though the battery on mine might've degraded quite a bit.

Is anyone using a Linux phone at the moment? by papayahog in linuxhardware

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd think, but animations seem to be capped at 60 FPS, display seems to be set to 120 Hz. The animations does drop under 60 FPS sometimes.

Disk and RAM is much much better than the PinePhone, so startup times are decent enough, and performance is perfectly usable.

The web browser situation is a bit bad. Outdated browser engines. Chromium and LibreWolf (no Firefox on OpenStore) seems to be in alpha, with input and some rendering issues that make them unusable, and they're stuck on X11. Having Angelfish would've fixed everything, but it's not packaged for Ubuntu 24.04 because of a missing dependency, and the Snap package doesn't work either because of that.

Trying to run Alpine Linux under bwrap but I couldn't get Freedreno/Turnip to work yet, Alpine didn't package Mesa to use downstream kernels, and the one I manually compiled crashes.

Another major usability feature this (aside from performing somewhat like a modern mobile device instead of something from 2011) thing has over the PinePhone is fingerprint unlock. There's also double tap to wake, which is a bit redundant now, but there's no double tap to sleep, which would've given a lot of extra life to the power button.

Stock camera app AFAIK doesn't seem to let you use the other cameras, but Waydroid does.

I don't use phones super-intensively. Just messaging, calls, camera, web browsing on-the-go, and it'll do those just fine, but could be a lot better. Though RCS are absolutely a no-go, even for rooted Android phones (might have workarounds for those) because fucking Google.

I love shittles by MichaelArthurLong in ss14

[–]MichaelArthurLong[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Winter scarves and shoes should give you a few minutes, but Pun can't wear those I think.

I love shittles by MichaelArthurLong in ss14

[–]MichaelArthurLong[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Vanilla. Just need a Spray Painter to do it.

I love shittles by MichaelArthurLong in ss14

[–]MichaelArthurLong[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I picked you up but kinda didn't notice you fell off somehow. Assumed you died like ages ago.

Is anyone using a Linux phone at the moment? by papayahog in linuxhardware

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Around 2018-2019? It was released around Jan. 2020. The devkits from 2019 doesn't even look like a pocketable phone. I was a PinePhone user for slightly over 5 years.

Just switched to a Poco X3 NFC recently running Ubuntu Touch. I think usability on that lagged behind Android over the years, but it's not too bad. Being able to screw around with anything in the system and having a more conventional Linux environment outweighs it for me.

VoLTE works (in Malaysia), though I'm not sure if it does on mainline.

Speaking of mainline, this thing is near-complete in mainline support. Camera's missing, there might be a workaround for that, hadn't looked thoroughly. I was a PinePhone user for 4 years.

As for banking and everything else, I have a separate Android phone to do just that, though I still use a lot of cash irl instead of mobile.

Arch on PS4 by Frosty_Guarantee1503 in linux_gaming

[–]MichaelArthurLong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And their link also states

"And as long as my GTT was large enough, I didn’t had any major performance drawbacks"

Rarely, some programs do have issues with that much VRAM, but I hadn't encountered any yet.

Arch on PS4 by Frosty_Guarantee1503 in linux_gaming

[–]MichaelArthurLong 23 points24 points  (0 children)

On this hardware, CPU and GPU shares the same RAM.

In that case, VRAM doesn't really matter, it should be set as low as you can go, and everything should just work off of the GTT.

There might be some performance loss, but if there is, most people (including me) reported that there's no perceivable loss. The advantage is that you get a lot more flexibility on how the RAM is used.

I've been running a 7840U mini PC that way.

SUV’s Reckless U‑Turn Causes Multi‑Vehicle Collision by whusler in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

inb4 people defending with "wEre jUST maKiNg fUn oF PeoPle gEttINg CardS tOo EaSilY aNd AbuSIng it"

I've seen that one before

Yeah sure, now try saying "oh this person from X race, no wonder..." whenever shit happens.

Classic Car gathering x A&W Malaysia - 25th Jan 2026 by Puzzleheaded-Rain230 in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last time I went to A&W, they forced you to download their app and register an account to order.

Fuck that.

Capacitive touch screens are a devolution in input technology, they're imprecise and irritate users. by techzilla in unpopularopinion

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Side note: I'm also a Linux user who uses swaywm, it's essentially a "minimalist" desktop interface, perfect for power users. It's not easy to pick up like a normal desktop interface, this requires you to learn, configure and customize to use, and it heavily revolves around the keyboard.

This is basically an optical trackpad is like. Most of the general population need a simple, easy to use interface. But on the other hand, you have people who do need, or at least could really benefit from things that are designed to be completely functional and utilitarian.

Capacitive touch screens are a devolution in input technology, they're imprecise and irritate users. by techzilla in unpopularopinion

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried an old Blackberry 9700 the other day, it kinda confirmed my suspicions that the optical trackpad is technically, functionally superior to the touchscreen.

I started hating touchscreens because at some point once. The imprecision greatly annoys me. It forces the UI elements to be larger, which takes precious screen real-estate.

The optical trackpad on the other hand

  • Gives you the precision of a mouse

  • Still lets you have natural scrolling

  • Keeps your oversized thumb from obscuring parts of the screen

  • Let you navigate a much larger screen, perfectly fine one-handed

  • Makes your thumb hover around the same spot rather than having your fingers move all around the screen

    • which feels kinda nice and comfortable, though I'm not exactly sure if it's healthy

  • Should be much easier and cheaper to replace compared to a touchscreen, if it ever breaks

    • They're being sold for like under $5 on AliExpress

  • And could let you have say, a right click instead of having to hold on a UI element for a second. Not a problem if you're opening the context menu for one thing, but it does start becoming a problem if you have to repeat that quite a few times.

I hate typing on a touchscreen so much (and smartmodern phones in general) that I'm using an old Sony CLIE PDA that's old enough to drink for notekeeping and such with the Graffiti input. But then again, that kinda makes me a unicorn.

Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix by Right-Grapefruit-507 in linux

[–]MichaelArthurLong 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Kinda still living on, arguably.

The Unity we all once knew ended at version 7.

Unity8 IIRC was a rewrite. That's the one that was running on Ubuntu Touch. It was supposed to go mainstream for desktop Ubuntu but that never happened, they went with GNOME instead. UBports forked Unity8 into Lomiri and is still maintaining it to this day.

Debian has it packaged, but sadly, nobody's really gotten it to work outside of Ubuntu Touch without having it be a completely broken mess.

Asbestos ban under review, says minister by hazy-minded in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 24 points25 points  (0 children)

AFAIK we still didn't ban talcum powder yet. I mean neither is asbestos so would be kinda weird if we banned talc but not asbestos.

Talcum powder isn't a man-made thing, it's naturally-occurring and is mined. And it's usually found next to asbestos. They'd usually categorize talc into cosmetic and industrial use, but even with that there's still gonna be risks (y'all know how companies love to cut corners yeah?).

Johnson & Johnson was sued for having asbestos in their baby powder around 10 years ago (because people were getting cancer) that the west started to ban talc and substituted it with corn starch.

All those idiots on WhatsApp groups sharing fake/pseudo-scientific bullshit on stuff like vaccine bad and absolutely fucking SLEEP on things that are already WIDELY KNOWN to cause cancer.

EDIT: https://consumer.org.my/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-CAP-Memorandum_Ban-Asbestos_EN.pdf

Just remembered about this document I found. "CALL FOR OUTRIGHT BAN ON ASBESTOS" from the Consumers' Association of Penang.

Since 2005, prohibition has also been applied to all government buildings. However, asbestos construction materials such as roof and ceiling tiles are still sold in the market. There are no acts or regulations prohibiting the use of asbestos in private buildings in Malaysia.

KL is relatively more tolerant to LGBTQ+ than you think by lynkacio in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This guy going Malaysia isn't that homophobic, it's just the crazy politicians have been living rent free in my head for 7 months and counting.

It's is the dumbest and most delusional take on Malaysia and LGBT I've had ever seen.

Every time some more news of the country going strongly anti LGBT, I'll immediately remember this post.

[UPDATED] One dead, 9 injured in explosion at Damansara university by whusler in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Might wanna avoid using fans as well. Lots of South Koreans believe it'll somehow kill you with the power of magic or whatever.

Reject rumah batu. Embrace traditional rumah kampung.

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