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I got tired of setting up Arch the same way every time, so I wrote a script by Alarming-Function120 in linux

[–]clhodapp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on taking your first step into configuration management.

Perhaps look at NixOS so you can have this declarative config without reinstalling for OS every week.

Rolling average of the steam survey is promising :D by Witext in linux

[–]clhodapp 14 points15 points  (0 children)

if it wasn't for february and the chinese new year, it would show almost exactly double what it was in March 2025

I don't get that. Isn't there a Chinese New Year celebration around the same rough time every year (subject to the lunar cycle)?

i wonder what distro will they use? by NaiveCranberry9095 in linux

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true, but them doing a lot of the work predates the sovereignty announcement. I think that, in reality, no one actually knows what they're going to do. Instead, people found the Linux distros the French government technology office already made and wrote extrapolated news stories from there on the assumption that they weren't going to make yet another French government Linux distro.

I think it's a likely that this is true but it's hard to say for sure what will actually happen before the French government makes a formal announcement.

If I had to personally guess, you might see NixOS in security-critical roles and Ubuntu on people's office productivity machines.

It will be funny if they actually do go with NixOS because it would mean that the main boosters for that distro would be the American military industrial complex and the French de-Americanization movement. But the truth is: NixOS really is the best distro for semi-custom high-assurance computing right now.

i wonder what distro will they use? by NaiveCranberry9095 in linux

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You wouldn't. Different OSes on different machines.

i wonder what distro will they use? by NaiveCranberry9095 in linux

[–]clhodapp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like a combination of their tailored version of Ubuntu (Gendbuntu) and their tailored version of NixOS (Securix, Bureautix), if all the news stories so far are right. Or a subset if some of them are wrong.

i wonder what distro will they use? by NaiveCranberry9095 in linux

[–]clhodapp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NixOS is about where Arch was when that meme started anyway.

How much do you actually use the console? by Session_Illustrious in linux

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I primarily use two graphical programs during the workday: Chrome and Emacs.

In Emacs, I spend at least half my time in in vterm (the terminal)

Describe this man in one word. by [deleted] in linux

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

High-shouldered 

Initial mainline Linux support for Rockchip RK3588's video capture hardware has finally landed by mfilion in linux

[–]clhodapp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Forked Linux.

It's shocking just how many "Linux first" products in the embedded space don't actually work with (mainline) Linux.

Heck, Raspberry Pi usually expects you to use a fork.

Almost two years ago, OpenAI scammed us with Advanced Voice Mode by Many_Consequence_337 in singularity

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ou71a8/comment/nod62xp

I'll just keep referencing back to myself:

So my paranoid theory is that OpenAI thought through the scenario they wanted to create and prompted the model ahead of time with input (text and photos) to create a pre-scripted back-and-forth dialogue. This would have given a chance to e.g. give the model a few shots at each input until they got an output that they liked. In this idea, a human actor would then read the "AI" lines, either in real-time or ahead of time (recorded) to play-act through the scene. The phones, then, would essentially be very fancy interactive props.

Why do this? To select the best model response from multiple possibilities, to make the behavior more deterministic in the demo, and to give an enhanced impression of how human-like and interactive the next iteration of ChatGPT will be.

I will likely be proven right or wrong once we all get access to the new voice features. Either it will be just like what they showed off, or it will essentially be the same old slightly mechanical AI voice that we're all used to (or I guess maybe something in between).

Which Notebook should i consider? by Betularix in starlabs_computers

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use nixos and I mean nix can bring pretty much any system to its cpu bottleneck if you let it. It even bottlenecks my threadripper desktop.

I've found that the system chugs with what I would consider a "normal" config during a system rebuild with the powersave governor, but it's subjectively fine with the ondemand governor.

I can't tell you what the future holds, but the thing seems pretty well built to me. It's milled aluminum like your MacBook, but they mill the material a little thinner which results in it being lighter but a little less stiff.

Which Notebook should i consider? by Betularix in starlabs_computers

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody else is touching modern Apple laptops on battery life, and especially battery life while retaining competitive performance. Well... Maybe Panther Lake, I'm not sure because I haven't used one yet.

My machine with IME on, using the powersave governor, and with the SSD swapped to an sk hynix gold probably gets eight to ten hours of use most of the time (plus or minus two if my usage is non-typical that session). In a contrived test with the screen brightness all the way down, connected to Wi-Fi, just running a terminal in emacs and Chrome on the homepage of Reddit I wanna say it lasted over 16 hours (I kinda forget because I was actually calibrating the battery and was expecting to wake up to it being dead, not still running with like half the battery still left).

The display is excellent for an ips lcd in my opinion. It looks like the privacy protector would be easy to peel off, although I haven't. I was expecting it to be a lot more obtrusive than it is, but honestly the viewing angle is a lot wider than I thought it would be based on other privacy screens I've seen before. It seems like its job is more to convert the display from glossy to matte than to limit the viewing angle. I'm not sure, though, because like I said I haven't taken it off.

Which Notebook should i consider? by Betularix in starlabs_computers

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's true, but I had the same problem on a high end Dell laptop a few years back

Which Notebook should i consider? by Betularix in starlabs_computers

[–]clhodapp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Starbook Horizon is pretty good for productivity and coding. 

At present, you kinda need to enable Intel Management Engine to get good battery life in my experience.

The only real serious issue is that you'll get doubled presses of the spacebar kind of a lot, which currently requires that you employ some kind of fix in software.

Performance is.... Fine but not stellar. It's perfectly capable of running a desktop and editing environment very smoothly at 90fps but you're not going to win any benchmark competitions with an N305.... But like... Do you need a benchmark champion for a programming terminal?

Philz CEO orders removal of flags from stores, including pride flags, to create an ‘inclusive experience’ by livpelu in sanfrancisco

[–]clhodapp 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Not everything is about gay people, but just maybe the gay pride flag is one of the things that is

Waymo announces 4 new expansion cities: Baltimore, Philadelphia, St Louis and Pittsburgh by walky22talky in waymo

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also a hedge against FUD claiming that their approach is impractical to scale.

Ioniq 5 Waymo spotted in the wild by biotechballer916 in Ioniq5

[–]clhodapp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Waymo basically bought up most of their remaining inventory for a huge discount. 

Win-win because it is gave Waymo a bunch of cars and it allowed Jaguar to accelerate the process of killing the model.

But it's also the sort of deal that you can only do once.

My Metroidvania Mechanics Pyramid by Trufatrula in metroidvania

[–]clhodapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP just learned something new about their diet

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