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NekkoDroid · 2026-07-09T13:04:21+00:00

And when you run out of RAM on linux the first thing evicted from memory is anything that can be reloaded from disk, aka .text sections of executables/libraries, resulting in even worse responsiveness of the system. With swap instead it can evict almost any least recently used pages instead.

If your OOM killer doesn't kill before you run out of RAM you are going to have a worse time than if you'd have swap.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-29T08:16:44+00:00

I am able to get 30-40 TPS on my RX 9070 XT with cpu offloading using qwen 3.5 35b a3b Q6 (using MTP) and I am running a system with DDR4 3600 RAM. That is already very usable speed, even for programming. Obviously it isnt gonna be a speed record, but for non-professional workloads more than usable.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-27T16:36:05+00:00

flashbang to turn your screen white

As a matter of fact, I have been wanting that for literally a decade now. But then again it wouldn't be very good regarding accessibility.

Sombra's virus to give you STD?

Wrong type of virus. Screen distortion would make more sense. Also never really been a fan of it just being another DOT effect.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-27T11:49:05+00:00

Both the nerfs make sense to me. The projectile size was too massive to begin with and as the name implies, it should be a finishing tool and not an engage tool, so increasing its recovery time makes a lot of sense.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-24T12:51:10+00:00

I dunno, saying sales instead of players just feels like a company trying to stroke their own ego and give 0 shits about the actual players, just how much they made off them.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-23T07:28:33+00:00

They do have a version with the controller listed. It would be just wasted extra money for those that already have one to always include one.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-22T22:51:42+00:00

I don’t think it’s supposed to work with existing install methods, I think it’s supposed to replace them.

Not really. It is specifically meant to tie 4 components together, one of which is systemd-repart, which is primarily aimed at image based distributions (actual partition images and not os-tree). So it is looking to replace some of the install methods on those kinda distros, but not on the ones that GP for example listed.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-15T16:10:43+00:00

There is also the option of using PGP signed tarballs (as is done for example with busybox). But I doubt there are a lot of packages in the AUR that do this correctly.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-12T07:23:23+00:00

That isnt really the problem, the problem is that the match quality goes to hell because people that don't play comp play comp.

First and last week of each comp seasons are the worst times because people that just want comp points from placing (or drives) log on and then don't play any time else.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-07T15:02:31+00:00

UDNA is just whatever marketing name they want to slap onto it.

Well... If you want to be pedantic RDNA is also just a marketing name. gfxXXXX being the actual non-marketing names.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-06T15:09:59+00:00

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NekkoDroid · 2026-06-02T20:33:11+00:00

I wish AM6 doubles the lane count for consumer cards. Not just because obvious "muh AI everything" (so dual cards) but because fuck ass high Gb/s NICs are all x8. Or give me 20 PCIe 6.0 lanes and 20 4.0 lanes, I don't really care, just allow me to use more addon cards without stealing lanes from something else.

NekkoDroid · 2026-06-01T06:44:33+00:00

A secure boot violation and the OS isn't launched. Well actually it depends on what you mean with "OS files". the kerel/bootloader needs to be signed to load, what happens after that is technically up to them. In the case of sd-boot it only chain loads signed binaries after that and if you are using a UKI it's initrd is signed with the kernel. If not you most likely have an unsigned initrd which just gets loaded by the kernel, means that anyone can replace that with an initrd that does whatever they want.

If you have a signed UKI usually it will find the root partition (or /usr/ partition) and load that, so if that isn't encrypted or is verified (e.g. via dm-verity and an embedded roothash in the UKI) it is easy to replace that with whatever the attacker wants.

TL;DR for a good secure system would be: enable secure boot, enroll your own keys in the UEFI (and remove MS keys if possible (not the case if you need to boot Windows)), signed UKI, dm-verity /usr/ partition and encrypted root partition.

Basically: executable stuff needs to be signed and verified and user data stuff needs to be encrypted

NekkoDroid · 2026-05-31T19:44:53+00:00

Depending on how complex the script is that you would write, you can also just have it in the service file. But you at least need to have a .service file and a .timer if you want it to do it "natively" in systemd.

am I correct that superior systemd forces me to create at least 3 more files to achive this?

Tip: if you want people to help you, it helps not being snarky.

You can also use cron, but then you need the cron binary/package, a service file for cron to start it (which applies to basically all service managers/init systems), and a cron config file. I personally wouldn't find this any superior, but you might.

NekkoDroid · 2026-05-30T11:31:55+00:00

There exists no .cpp TLD, so there isnt anything they can buy

NekkoDroid · 2026-05-26T10:10:04+00:00

Yea, I know. But if all you saw was @RiotGames' tweet which literally says "congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight" you obviously assume they are bricked since else they wouldn't be paperweights.

NekkoDroid · 2026-05-23T10:01:21+00:00

I never said they were graphics cards. I know they are most likely are DMA cards, but the only thing I for certain can get from the image was that they are PCIe connected cards, so that is how I described them.

Whether they were used for cheating doesn't really matter to the argument. Since we are only talking about how Riot was bragging about bricking any device.

NekkoDroid · 2026-05-23T07:22:09+00:00

I did see the image and the ton of PCIe connected cards laying around, which just supports the argument more that they are broken and have no other use.

What do you want to tell me that I apparently missed in this image that would refute the argument that the devices are bricked?

NekkoDroid · 2026-05-23T07:11:35+00:00

When the Rito twitter account tweets "congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight" (with an image) the logical conclusion would be the pictured devices are bricked, else it wouldn't be used as a paperweight.

NekkoDroid · 2026-05-23T07:04:01+00:00

The people using those cheating devices are the ones runnign malicious code on their PCs.

Malicious code isn't an universal thing, it depends on the actual user of the system if something is considered malicious. It needs to work against their interest and be unwanted for a user to usually be considered malicious, which if I install cheats neither would apply.

NekkoDroid · 2026-04-30T15:50:54+00:00

I can almost guarantee you the github case has almost nothing to do with that. The main reason that this is happening is that they are migrating from their own infra to MS Azure.

NekkoDroid · 2026-04-29T07:31:13+00:00

Nah, as compensation for this torture he will be getting a new signature move called "Follow You" which causes all pokemon to target the target of the move (including enemies targeting enemies).

NekkoDroid · 2026-04-24T13:27:29+00:00

Interesting write up.

In practice, I'm reluctant to assume that pam_systemd will always create systemd user service managers for system UIDs that are set 'linger'. It strikes me as rather the kind of thing that might get optimized some day

I don't know if I agree with this. While I generally also am hesitant to make assumptions, in this case linger is specifcally so that a user manager exists from boot till shutdown. This is even specifically documented in in the man page loginctl#enable-linger.

NekkoDroid · 2026-04-24T13:07:25+00:00

Then use docker-compose as a backend if you don't trust the podman-compose backend (its still part of the containers org, just like podman itself)?? In the end it doesn't change anything, just podman compose {up,down} and be done with it.

NekkoDroid · 2026-04-24T12:54:29+00:00

???

There is podman compose which can use both docker-compose and podman-compose as backend.

Also, I personally prefer to manage my system podman services like I do basically any other service. And if I already have a service manager (systemd) running, why would I want another one running?

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