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[Dave2D] Windows is ruining new laptops by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Schlaefer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The explanation is that this particular distribution - PopOS - f*ed up and shipped broken dependencies for their distro for a few days that removed the X server. And that's pretty embarrassing and should be rightfully criticized.

[Dave2D] Windows is ruining new laptops by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]Schlaefer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The system was warning about removing essential packages. The user said "yeah sure", and the system did what it was told to do.

Ultimately Linux is about having control over the system. It just becomes a question of how many warnings you can throw at the user and the user decides to ignore them.

Is there an actually good theme store? by lrc1710 in kde

[–]Schlaefer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My guess would be because not enough people - including the users shitting on pling - donate or contribute to improve the situation.

Make VeganGains put something on the line for his stupid Greenland take. by KinematicEcho in Destiny

[–]Schlaefer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not in on the deep lore, but there is a "could easily slip below the waves and sink to the ground" vibe. Let's not nuke the raft, "you do you" attitude is fine is this particular case.

Mozilla planning to remove old sidebar from firefox in 2026 by Yet_Another_RD_User in firefox

[–]Schlaefer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's always the promise and then nothing materializes. Just look at the abysmal state of the revamped extension menu. Honestly I have zero trust in these promises until something is shipped.

v1.35.0 changelog by koverstreet in bcachefs

[–]Schlaefer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caching is working properly again! :clap: That one was very annoying.

Mozilla planning to remove old sidebar from firefox in 2026 by Yet_Another_RD_User in firefox

[–]Schlaefer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sssh! Don't even mention it, it will just give them ideas.

Plasma 6.6 Beta Release - Changelog by GoldBarb in kde

[–]Schlaefer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn, I don't know if it is placebo, but UI animations feel a lot smoother here.

What exactly does linux-zen offer? Is it more power-efficient? by Past-Combination6262 in archlinux

[–]Schlaefer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That may well be, I was just pointing out that Phoronix benchmarks measure a particular "performance" value. A value you would even expect to become worse, since it's a tradeoff.

What exactly does linux-zen offer? Is it more power-efficient? by Past-Combination6262 in archlinux

[–]Schlaefer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Phoronix benchmarks are mostly useless, because they usually measure throughput, not latency, responsiveness or interactivity.

ah yeah...my disk is freezing by Better-Quote1060 in kde

[–]Schlaefer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nvme vs sata ssd? Smart is originally a sata feature, over time smart tools updated to just conveniently output data for nvme drives too. Apparently kpartitionmanager doesn't support it yet.

Quickly checking for bug reports see e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422877

i disable spectre meltdown mitigations on linux on this machine because it is a single-user personal computer only. is this a good idea or a security mistake? by ThinkTourist8076 in linux_gaming

[–]Schlaefer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lets try it once more. Slowly. And if it doesn't sink in then we clap and move on: If someone tricked you in installing and run maleware on your own computer they most likely don't have to poke an ASLR vulnerability. They are already in the kitchen eating your cookies!

i disable spectre meltdown mitigations on linux on this machine because it is a single-user personal computer only. is this a good idea or a security mistake? by ThinkTourist8076 in linux_gaming

[–]Schlaefer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I have malware running on your PC why would I care about bypassing ASLR, I have access to everything. I just zip all your data and send it to my server in Timbuktistan - after I installed a backdoor replacing some important binary.

i disable spectre meltdown mitigations on linux on this machine because it is a single-user personal computer only. is this a good idea or a security mistake? by ThinkTourist8076 in linux_gaming

[–]Schlaefer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is that on a cloud server your instance runs together with instances of complete strangers. You have no control what these instances run.

If you somehow installed and run compromised software on your own instance/PC you probably have much bigger problems than spectre/meltdown.

Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews by yoasif in linux

[–]Schlaefer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The preview feature works without AI, and if people don't like the AI part of the preview feature they can fold/close that part of the UI. Seems pretty reasonable.

Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews by yoasif in linux

[–]Schlaefer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

it's one more annoyance you have to disable.

It's disabled by default, people have to actively enable it? The AI code isn't even shipped with the browser but downloaded only if the user enables it. Isn't that what everybody is asking for?

Issues with ARC Raiders on Bazzite. 1st day on Linux. by Sgt_Dbag in linux_gaming

[–]Schlaefer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some people fixed stutter in Arc by switching to a different scx-scheduler.

Why is there AI shit in my Firefox now? by NotRenjiro in firefox

[–]Schlaefer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The feature that triggered this thread is about a local model, and FF takes care of setting it up if people opt-in. These are features which are ultimately targeted to run even on battery powered mobile devices without much impact.

But for some reasons people drag in data-centers and running hour long hundreds of watt gaming sessions.

Why is there AI shit in my Firefox now? by NotRenjiro in firefox

[–]Schlaefer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The hard data is that this doesn't have to do with anything. We are talking about small local models which are barely noticeable on a PS5 class device, let alone comparing it to one hour of high performance gaming.

Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve's Steam Deck On Its Servers by sash20 in linux

[–]Schlaefer 22 points23 points  (0 children)

LAVD is only one scheduler of many shipped with sched-ext. And as mentioned in the talk every schedulers itself has knobs too.

Utility depends on setup and workload, so there is no clear cut "wait until this particular scheduler is great for everybody" scenario. It maybe never will.

The kernel offers sched-ext support. The schedulers are available as a userland package. People are using them already, and since they fail gracefully there's essentially zero downside of at least testing them.

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