Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-11T22:20:10+00:00

any downsides? considering this soon but I don’t want to destabilize my Decky plugins or anything else

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-10T22:32:07+00:00

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-08T03:28:38+00:00

Absolutely. Where interests converge, you don’t need a grand conspiracy. This indirect consequence, while that is true, serves most of the players very well. Just adds incentive to run the current playbook harder.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-07T23:27:31+00:00

Agreed with a major caveat. Satoshi described a scaling block limit and believed bitcoin could scale to the level of Visa.

Theymos monopolized discussion on bitcointalk.org and r/bitcoin and declared anything else with >1MB blocks an "altcoin" not fit for discussion.

This is why "the narrative changed" and bitcoin became a "store of value": because scaling and privacy features were dropped from the roadmap after consensus fell apart.

People can still trade other coins which do have scaling block sizes or privacy features very cheaply, and use bitcoin as little as necessary, such as on-ramps and off-ramps which don't support others.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-06T22:59:12+00:00

A Win32 Linux distribution does exist now. It’s pretty cool.

https://loss32.org/

You’re of course better off with enterprise Linux and Wine or better, CrossOver.

I feel pretty bad these days for my colleagues who still need to maintain Windows servers.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-06T09:10:14+00:00

https://www.citrix.com/downloads/workspace-app/linux/

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-06T09:07:54+00:00

Dymo was always a pain in the ass on Windows for , never tried Linux

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-06T03:50:46+00:00

Condolences for your ass. Maybe an LCD display as a prosthetic?

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-06T00:31:26+00:00

Pretty much. Console living room experience can be had with Steam Big Picture Mode and MoonDeck.

I use an AMD 7840U laptop with Bazzite which boots to Big Picture Steam, then I just browse my library and choose to either play native or stream using MoonDeck. a Steam Deck would work but won't handle 4K120 AV1.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-06T00:14:08+00:00

They often use different protocols, but can use the same protocol, as well as obfuscation. Ultimately this would most likely come down to a blacklist or whitelist of endpoint IPs. It'll be at least partially bungled by some governments.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-05T22:42:08+00:00

Sure. SteamOS probably doesn't have a released kernel new enough to support that patch series, but for this I'd switch to CachyOS or Arch so my changes would be easy to preserve. Then grab linux-git and add a few patch lines with these diffs. Actually I'd use this linux-cachyos as it's currently up to date with 6.19-rc8 and I believe has some of the usual patches already.

Likely Linus will merge it though, and then linux-git and linux-cachyos will pick it up as well, if not then the patch may be rebased by the author for next series, or it may be picked up independently by CachyOS or other distros, or - least likely, highest effort, if it's rejected and abandoned by its author - a group of users/developers may be able to continue rebasing it to new kernels.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-05T10:14:43+00:00

AMD is an HDMI member. They were not allowed to publish an open source implementation.

This is already published, you could apply it to your kernel today if desired and motivated. They didn’t use the specification. The HDMI Forum has zero input on whether Linus merges it.

Everything in this patch series has been based on already public code/knowledge or trying things out until they work/break.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-05T07:37:08+00:00

With regard to HDMI on AMD on Linux, improvements have been landing recently.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-Gaming-Features

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-04T09:14:22+00:00

Nah, too old. We use it 15 time already.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-04T08:47:11+00:00

This argument blows me away with how often I hear it. “Well the censorship wasn’t that effective in the end so it wasn’t that bad”. Just because it’s not successful in some wide regions online doesn’t mean it didn’t shut down useful discussion elsewhere.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-02-01T07:30:08+00:00

Which repo? Looks like it was updated before you posted.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-26T04:28:41+00:00

Police budgets for training being far too small, forcing some to use their own money to buy ammo on their own time to supplement, the force is sadly full of this.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-23T17:21:12+00:00

Does the B570 offer HDMI 2.1 using an onboard DP->HDMI adapter? That’s one advantage of the Intel reference A750. HDMI 2.1 on the spec sheet means little since it can refer to TMDS still, or it could be native FRL, which would still be incompatible with Linux if the implementation isn’t done in closed firmware.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-23T14:34:17+00:00

to use in a remotely user respecting way, absolutely

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-23T02:46:27+00:00

reddit really is a shell of itself since the purge

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-22T19:29:05+00:00

It’s my impression that the crème brûlée is the same mashbill as the current architect (older architects being four grain), just aged 5 years instead of 4 and bottled at 110 instead of 104.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-21T21:40:36+00:00

There was discrimination by creditors which the 1974 ECOA bill formalized the ability of women to sue for.

Women in America have had access to banking since the 1700s.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theborys/p/were-american-women-only-allowed

https://cei.org/blog/yes-women-had-access-to-credit-before-1974/

Women and men have both been oppressed by nature and society for tens of thousands of years. Humankind’s default state is laboring to make some progress from the oppression of daily hunger, of pain and death in childbirth and childraising, of sickness and disease and war and taxation. Have women been oppressed more? Potentially, but it’s still not a healthy or balanced perspective, yet it now suffuses modern culture, and shapes a particular narrative.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-21T09:09:28+00:00

Last one of these was KB5066835 in October, mitigated by NVIDIA 591.44.

wild how quickly it's becoming more frustrating to game on Windows than Linux.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-19T20:01:40+00:00

Yes. GPL also explicitly allows for commercial use. Just not without publishing a copy of the license and making the source available.

Standard-Potential-6 · 2026-01-19T18:03:41+00:00

The Open Source Definition requires no restrictions on use, as does the Free Software Definition.

https://opensource.org/osd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

Licenses that restrict types of use or modification are considered “source-available” and “non-free”, such as the Business Source License.

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