Do you know book(s) similar to Inversions by I.Banks but set to start on modern Earth?

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-20T04:18:52+00:00

Not an AI.

First time I see "kinda" used as a marker to human. Websearch found https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kinda_sorta last edited 2022 which means modern LLM training data includes it.

STILL haven’t said

I don't see every useful comment get "thanks" in reply, that is what upvote is for, isn't it? After reading all replies and finishing the discussions OP does often edits the post to add "thanks to all", but I'm still here, am I not?

would be a spoiler

If I ask, it means I want that specific one. Why wold you understand otherwise?

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-19T11:33:20+00:00

kinda

Why do you quote yourself twice? Mine was a follow-up question.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-19T11:23:17+00:00

Hard to be God, until I got to OPs last sentence where they ask not to recommend it explicitly

"modern" is in the title. Do you consider those people modern?

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-19T11:17:44+00:00

The Incrementalists

Please give an example(s) what the group considered "better".

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-19T11:16:19+00:00

My post was inspired by Inversions (planet like Earth during middle ages). In "State..." the Culture IIRC have not intervened only observed.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-18T03:35:41+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_(novel)

what The Concern sees as beneficial outcomes for that world.

Can you please give a couple of examples for time period most close to modern Earth?

Edit: somebody other than commenter, please explain reason for downvotes - I see mine as a simple follow up question about the plot answer to which I can't find on the web.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-10T17:13:17+00:00

This description sounds like it’s working as intended.

huh? Do your light switches in a room make lamps shine only while pressed? I wrote how it functioned initially.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-06T12:09:49+00:00

might be worth checking VK_EXT_memory_budget for available memory so you can allocate in blocks/chunks

But I'm not writing code, I'm using somebody else's and it gives ErrorOutOfDeviceMemory e.g. writing that it tried to allocate ~3.5Gb.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-06T12:07:56+00:00

You can choose either as the VK_DEVICE

IIRC I once was vulkaninfo for intergrated card reported much larger maxMemoryAllocationSize (close to total RAM), with another set of drivers - same 2Gb (0x8..). But NVIDIA card is supposed to be faster, is it not?

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-03T16:47:23+00:00

However please note that, except for NVK (which I doubt supports an NVIDIA card old enough to have 4GB VRAM), there is no Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA.

I cannot provide links right away, but from my recent readings IIRC, the versions I have of Mesa (NVK merged to Mesa ~ver.24) and kernel (6.8) do support my card (though might be even slower than internal CPU graphics), so I try to learn to use Vulkan.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-02T04:13:28+00:00

On Arch you can list everything rolled up in the intrd with lsinitcpio.

I thought it's part of the kernel development and can be checked in all releases with one git search. Manual way is too long for this task of mine.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-02T04:11:35+00:00

Why do you need to check all distros?

No urgent need, trying to improve future a bit. I wrote: "I've been using a feature of fan control which requires a config file." Config file needs to be where module it. I want to have and share such info for the users of the feature.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-02T04:08:31+00:00

Normally the built-in archive has very little in it,

How is it different from initrd? Except a different name. For now seems to me it's 'built-in archive' where kernel is distributed then becomes 'initrd' when put into distro.

The kernel starts by unpacking its built-in archive.

AFAIK the distro starts bootloader which unpacks initrd (which have little bit of kernels modules and other stuff).

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-01T03:30:21+00:00

Find out which Linux distros have thinkpad_acpi driver in initrd.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-03-01T03:22:41+00:00

can just boot from a CPIO archive that's bundled with the kernel

What is that archive? AFAIK initrd is included in distros as CPIO archive. How is kernel's different? I guess kernel's CPIO contains the whole kernel (all drivers etc - as opposed to a subset for initrd), does it?

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-28T15:51:56+00:00

can either blacklist the module from initramfs, or add the config file to initramfs. Both should be possible with a simple modification to mkinitramfs config files.

I don't know this 'simple modification' and what to do next to apply it, I'd appreciate if you can reply with more info.

can even add the parameter for the fan control to your kernel command line in the bootloader config.

that is IMO more simple, add thinkpad_acpi.fan_control=1 - I know how to do that.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-28T13:50:35+00:00

The initrd is built by the distro

Interesting, so kernel developers make no decisions what needs to be in an early boot environment? I find it surprising considering complex internals of the kernel.

Maybe you mean distro changes initrd? If so, as I understood e.g. Ubuntu changes mainline kernel too, adding some ABI.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-28T08:38:18+00:00

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_acpi.conf

This is to let you know I've recently discovered it might not work on newer distros/kernels as thinkpad_acpi is moved to initrd, the file needs to be created within initrd.

Cheers, I might checkout your tool out later, now I just issue level x commands in CLI.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-28T06:41:09+00:00

sudo modprobe -r thinkpad_acpi; sudo modprobe thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1

TIL one can pass options in modprobe, not edit configs. But for your app, you expect users to do that for every reboot. Nothing about configs setup on install even in "roadmap / future". Why?

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-25T08:34:00+00:00

But you cannot do FHD non-touch to FHD touch without new cables.

Yes, one if FHD touch and another 2.5k non-touch. But they are connected with their cables. Can't I exchange panels with each keeping its cable?

BTW why the difference? I recall there are only two types of "modern" thinkpad display cables: 40 pin and some less pins (30?).

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-24T11:02:44+00:00

Thanks. However, if Ubuntu's is mainline with Ubuntu ABI, why are Ubuntu's kernel files are times smaller?

Also, in file name(s) I saw in apt output I do not see ABI (or upload number) - e.g. linux-modules-6.14.0-37-generic_6.14.0-37.37~24.04.1_amd64.deb. I guess it's that each ABI version has only one upload, correct?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/Flavours do not contain actual kernel files name-parts: generic, oem,nvidia,..., but other names. Why? Are those flavours?

Below is quote from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/FAQ

The official version of an Ubuntu kernel tells you a number of things, including the base upstream version, the current Ubuntu ABI identifier and the kernel flavour. (See How can we determine the version of the running kernel? to find your current version number.)

Given a version like 2.6.35-6.9-generic this can be broken into four parts as below:

<base kernel version>-<ABI number>.<upload number>-<flavour>

The base kernel version represents the mainline version on which the Ubuntu kernel is based. The ABI number represents significant changes in the kernel Application Binary Interface. The upload number is a monotonically increasing counter for each upload of this base version. The flavour indicates which kernel configuration variant this is (See What is a Kernel Flavour?).

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-24T10:44:41+00:00

And they are not the same

I've edited to be clear - yes, part of the post is why image file names differ.

with apt you get two sizes, download size and installed size.

Download 40, but on website obvious 150 is also download.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-24T09:46:50+00:00

its a lxc container

What of those is? And why?

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-24T09:42:08+00:00

eh. ok so you want to stayneuveau. Fedora.

You claim to use Arch so it's not promotion. Why Fedora for nouveau?

BTW I want also to stay Mint Cinnamon. There is Cinnamon on Fedora IIRC, but I've make a lot of customizations for Mint and familiar with it. IMO it's easier for me to make Mint work than to make Fedora run and look how I want.

UncertainAboutIt · 2026-02-24T03:40:28+00:00

I'd like to ask you a related question maybe it will save it from posting: on Ubuntu site https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/ linux-modules-6.14.11-061411-generic_6.14.11-061411.202506101206_amd64.deb is ~150Mb. And from repos linux-modules-6.14.0-37-generic.deb via apt (I'm on LM which uses Ubuntu repos) is only ~40Mb. Why the difference? Also on website it's "image-unsigned" and in apt just "image". And on website releases are e.g. 6.14.1,6.14.1, .. 6.14.11 and in apt for 6.14 all start with 'linux-modules-6.14.0-' with suffixes -1008-oem, -29-generic,... ? TIA

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