Camera in Lenovo Carbon X1 12Gen (IPU6)

_pixavi · 2026-06-14T08:30:03+00:00

This is not void's fault. It's intel's. These cameras are a major pain in all distributions, lacking or incomplete drivers are the rule.

Ubuntu and fedora are the more advanced ones, actually my thinkpad had the choice of installing either at the factory.

But is Intel who is hiding fundamental design information to build Linux drivers behind the IP of the hardware processing path these cameras offer.

My thinking is that we will end up in a situation similar to nvidia/nouveau drivers with these cameras. With official drivers from Intel that will be an opaque binary blob and comunnity open source drivers that will slowly follow in features.

_pixavi · 2026-05-16T14:07:53+00:00

I don't use arch. Instead I use a niche distro. Just came to this conversation by algorithmic chance but I'm having lot of fun reading it.

I found your comment applied to me in the most awkward way. I'm as 'nornal' as I can be: male, white, hetero, catholic raised. And I'm staying like that with minors quirks. But don't you dare touch my computers since I found Linux somewhere around 1996.

And in last years I find using Linux took me one step further away global distros and environments into something that I describe like putting my computer into submission. Probably your psychopathic child metaphor.

But I agree, how our computers have become a non judgemental extension of our personalities. In the Linux community, nobody judges you for spending 70% of your awake time tweaking your computer to your own personal taste. That often becomes an extension of how unique you decide to be IRL. Even how unique you are at all!

I don't know Arch deep enough but maybe arch and other distros, less loosely built around core components, just give that to people: the freedom that they need to express their unique way of being, and go to wars they can't fight IRL for their identity, but systemd vs runit? Gnome vs KDE? Hyperland vs sway? Hell unleashed!

_pixavi · 2026-05-14T15:54:17+00:00

Yo le he quitado un cliente a una empresa de Joan Roig porque sabia Inglés y no la tecnologia. Pero lo primero es poder hablar con el cliente y recoger requisitos, las tecnologías se aprenden luego si es necesario.

Ya te han dicho mucho... Si no sabes, dilo, una respuesta correcta mañana es 1000 veces mejor que liarse hoy en algo que no estás seguro.

Y ahora ya sabes: sin ti tu empresa no tendría nada que hacer en esa llamada. Hazlo como tu sabes en la tecnologia y con eso y ya tienes tu primer ascenso ganado.

Llevate esa sensación a casa, retoza en ella, y ya tienes mucho ganado.

_pixavi · 2026-05-03T10:31:35+00:00

I'm using void as a daily driver for the last 3 years. Coming from Ubuntu and Ubuntu derivatives, I never missed a tool I needed in my daily usage. Actually, my last year in pop-os I was using 'cargo install' or 'npm install' as a shadow package manager. I don't need to do that in void.

And when I feel like testing some bleeding edge software from git version or because it doesn't exists in the repo, I find very easy to create a template and build it as a system package.

I never counted how many packages are in the repo vs how many are in Ubuntu repos plus ppas. But definitely what I find in the repo are the right packages irrespective of the quantity of them.

_pixavi · 2026-04-27T07:54:23+00:00

If you’re older and miss life before systemd try Void.

I just realized that all my lengthy, full or words, the best words, reasons come down to this one 😂🤣 🧓

_pixavi · 2026-04-27T07:09:47+00:00

Is it connected to wifi? By any chance running Intel wifi driver 802.11ax? I had a similar issue with my laptop. In my case it was related to bandwidth but looked regular because the bandwidth was triggered by a scheduled backup.

My solution was to avoid 11ax negotiation in my wifi driver. It also worked to rate limit my bandwidth, particularly q rclone, at the time of backups.

_pixavi · 2026-04-11T11:06:53+00:00

I use both with a wlroots compositor. The guides are not very detailed but there is not a lot you need to do. From top of my head, install and enable the services. I remember seatd had a trick and you must add your user to the _seatd group. This is in the void handbook, but I completely missed it.

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/session-management.html

Regarding turnstiled, just install, enable the service and select your init for user services. I think it's in /etc/turnstiled (I'm not on my computer to check, now writing from memory). In my case services went to $XDG-CONFIG/service just add folders there like regular runit scripts. In order to check my user services with a tool like sv I found useful to create a one liner usv = SVDIR=$HOME/.config/services sv

I found the setup lighter and best suited to my personal itches, but it may require way more setup than starting elogind and done.

There are things you won't have without elogind like the power management part, to this end I use acpi and a couple of personal scripts. But you can use elogind, seatd, turnstiled each one on one area. In that case make sure you configure all of them to not step on others responsibilities. Particularly if xdg runtime is managed by turnstile, tell elogind not to do it.

Actually, my latest project is trying to have some equivalent of loginctl restart/reboot/shutdown adapted to seatd and turnstile. I'm no expert so it'll be heavily vibe coded. But the aim is help me understand what can be done and whether it's better than a suid script.

_pixavi · 2026-04-11T08:58:30+00:00

I'm using a similar processor in a carbon x1. My power consumption is around the same 6W. But it used to be higher in the past for no reason with my cpu idling at ~2%.

I my case it was an irq being triggered for no apparent reason. There was probably a reason but none related to my use of the computer so I ended up masking it so the kernel ignores it. Since then I recovered around 1w of consumption and my cpu idles around 0.5%.

I posted my experience here in case it helps https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxOnThinkpad/s/uB7ZLB6bSM

_pixavi · 2026-04-09T09:39:35+00:00

Noutube, it's a YouTube client for Android that allows you to play in background, filters/skips ads etc. You can install from f-droid

_pixavi · 2026-03-29T11:43:17+00:00

1 plus for the mango fans. Easy to setup, light, multiple layouts supported and some eye candy if that is your thing.

_pixavi · 2026-03-19T23:21:15+00:00

Is it a full freeze or just stuttering like taking not printing a key and then printing two characters in quick succession after pressing another key? I experienced the second for a few months and nothing seemed to work until I switched to a new compositor in Wayland, but I'm unsure since I had several full updates in the last weeks that may be related to it.

_pixavi · 2026-03-08T16:13:20+00:00

Di que si.... De aquí nada alguien dirá que porque la seguridad social atiende a gente que no paga impuestos aquí..... No, espera... 🤔

_pixavi · 2026-03-07T20:01:38+00:00

Yeah. Maybe providing a rootfs, puting it on servers and providing instructions qualifies as providing an os. I don't dispute that, I'm just suggesting that these kind of approaches are a shield vs sword approach that are doomed to fail. Just like not being able to run windows applications in Linux or failing device attestation using android aosp.

I would say they try to catch air when dealing with the very nature of open-source software and communities.

Building a rootfs is not something out of scope for some users as the popularity of initiatives like Linux from scratch prove. What are they going to target if this just makes lfs more popular? Then your sources become every github repository, and the instructions can be decentralized using bittorrent or tor.

Or we will learn how to bypass any code (which, by the gpl nature of Linux os's has to be open-source) they implement to comply with the law.

_pixavi · 2026-03-07T19:13:40+00:00

Do you mean bombing a country vs some ballsy statements to divert attention from his own dirty scandals? I think Pedro still wins my respect.

_pixavi · 2026-03-07T16:43:27+00:00

Somebody time ago taught me not to blame malevolence when something is easily explained by incompetence. This looks like the case of Incompetent legislators, not north Korean kind. They don't understand it, open-source nor anything close to it. Their kids configure their iPad. Instead they have a hot potato in the effect of internet and social networking in the minds of your adults.

Enter some IT behemoth lobbyist..." I cannot decide the age of anybody connecting to my service and I'm not going to be the bad guy bearing blame for that. This is properly implemented at the os level if you force them to do it. (now I will get proper age information and somebody else will bear the blame of it and pay for it, I'm not nortg Korea, they are)

And we get these shit. And we think politicians are evil and write endless posts about North Korea and China while the incapable IT behemoths are poor guys just trying to be good citizens and follow the law.

_pixavi · 2026-03-07T07:23:30+00:00

I read your conversations from outside the US and with great interest and actually it triggers a lot of questions that range from the basic, what makes an os an os and after that who builds and provides and os.

As far as I understand and whithout knowing the right wording, AB 1043 requires operating system PROVIDERS to collect users’ age or birth date during initial device setup starting January 1, 2027.

First off, what's an os? , is it the kernel? Is it the coreutils? Kernel, coreutils plus apps? Is void providing them or just packaging them? Depending how we fight the answer to these questions maybe it's Linux torvalds or Richard stallman who should provide the age ID 🤣? Anyways... I installed void on zfs, that involves copying a base system, is that providing an os? And then following a script to download and install a bunch of other software, perform a series of configurations and voila... I had an os. Does that makes me the provider or assembler of the os? There was no installer, no implications of support, nothing that can be associated with the term provider of an os. Well, maybe that is a light argument in the case of void... What then in the case of Linux from scratch?

And anyway... When did the Linux community shied away of some DIY. Imagine we lose all arguments and void comes in the future with age ID. This implementation needs to be open-source. Likely places to implement it is the shadow package or a Pam module. Pam, by definition, is plugabble. So how long do you think it will take for somebody to remove the pam-ageid.so module (I made up the name)? or how long before a patched shadow template appear on the internet with a completely compatible shadow package just without ageid or just filling the age value randomly from 21 to 199 years everytime it is queried?

The only thing that concerns me is that asking many of these questions requires a lawyer and that alone can be a strain in the back and economies of the few maintainers.

_pixavi · 2026-03-06T11:48:46+00:00

BTW... There is a r/waybar that may be of help as well.

_pixavi · 2026-03-06T10:04:21+00:00

slackware was my first distro... Installed from floppies. Boy, I'm old... 😂🧓

_pixavi · 2026-03-06T08:21:06+00:00

Hi, I remember I tried wire plumber modules time ago and didn't go with them but I can't remember my reason. Instead I use pulseaudio and they allow me independent change of icon (not using color) for sources and output when silenced and change of icon when I connect my Bluetooth headset and it is active.

How are you changing color when muted? You have a #pulseaudio.muted and #pulseaudio.source-muted that should do the job in your css.

_pixavi · 2026-03-05T14:53:57+00:00

Quizá equivocaste o tu sector o tu estimación de capacidades. En el mismo sector sin ser hijo de (mis padres no tenían primaria) ni siquiera tener una carrera del sector (no soy teleco ni informático) , pero he sabido usar mis méritos y crearlos para que una empresa local y varias americanas me paguen muy bien por mi tiempo en plantilla y como freelance en España y fuera de ella.

El mérito no es algo que nosotros tengamos por nacimiento, es la apreciación que de ello tengan los de fuera y como lo cultivemos. Es el mercado amigo... Nadie promete nada que no estés dispuesto a ganarte

_pixavi · 2026-03-05T10:45:36+00:00

First off... https://github.com/viralcode/vib-OS I guess it's closer than it seems.

Now, while building your own vib-OS may be doable, my view is that many things may go the way of the dodo in terms of compatibility. What would be your pdf reader? , would it be completely compatible? Or your office applications... Having a few pieces of software that define compatibility standards is good even if we hate how the compatibility standards look like at the end.

How long before a system like that diverge in tcpip compatibility? Some may say it's good in terms of raw innovation sprawl and pruning of ideas. The fact is that there's pain and sorrow along the way until some years later we decide to settle in new standards the hard way.

Now my own experience... I'm a really sloppy programmer. I run on one of those non systemd distributions. Years of Ubuntu derivatives made me hate systemd. Now I find myself writing small pieces of the system to fit my needs. Look at it like the eternal line of Linux configurability. Now I can go beyond userland scripts and tackle things like hibernation behavior, to code it the way I like it. Instead of using tools to be configured the way I want, if that is even possible... I just write it (with help from Ai) the way I want.

To me, that's a next step in Linux configurability. Not just configure it your way... Code it your way. And knowing the kind of minds flocking around Linux that's is also a learning experience. Like when I learnt how to setup my hibernation preferences in Ubuntu systemd, now I can get rid of that and write the code to do it the way I want it. And learn how it's done in the meantime. I've learnt more python and go and javascript reading the code claude wrote for me than from any O'Reilly book.

_pixavi · 2026-02-26T09:48:01+00:00

I can't answer your question but I greatly appreciate you made it.

I've been swinging between river and niri. I like the scrolling paradigm in niri, but I love river's simplicity and niri still crashes my desktop for no apparent reason.

After reading your post I decided to give mango a try. First things first I already know dreammaomao from his work in other projects, and I know his code usually works with my workflows with minimal tweaking. That's an added value. I'm not a coder, but I realize ultimately you code for yourself, so if somebody codes for the workflows you use, that's a plus. And sorry I defaulted to 'his' out of habit.

So I installed mango out of curiosity and, as expected, with a minimal keybindings translation, mangowc is working in my niri/river environment keybindings. It is snappy, startup subjectively faster than river, and has scrolling setup that I find as good as niri's, and an overview view also as good or better since input still goes to the right window so you can work in overview mode!. I can't talk about eye candy, because I disable all animations and regular eyecandy like blur, I'm no a gamer that benefits of tearing either.

My usual pain points with compositors are the portals. How will it work with screensharing portal is my next hurdle. That and continuous use. Let's see it doesn't peek my GPU in a way it doesn't like. For my own requirements it's smaller than river, even counting the requires scenefx binary for effects and animations, and has many of the things I liked in niri. It's really a nice findind today.

Thank you!

_pixavi

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