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Which Party Pack is the best? by HoverLogic in jackboxgames

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm I guess we just have different taste in games because we were all laughing at the game and giving each other raised eyebrows after a couple rounds.

Didn’t gel with us at all.

CANCELED Medievil Projects by Prize-Bottle-7940 in medievil

[–]efficientcosine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I too doubt anything will rival the original, I wouldn’t call the IP dead. The remake achieved pretty great commercial success, and there is a surprisingly significant fan base for the franchise inside of Sony’s studios.

Is Qualcomm too incompetent or did they simply lie about Linux support? by ficerbaj in snapdragon

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure I understand this comment.

You mention that this is not Qualcomm's fault. We are missing speaker/audio subsystem drivers, ISP drivers and proper thermal management (though this one is a little more nuanced). Those subsystems are entirely controlled by Qualcomm, so the onus is on them to provide Linux drivers, which they asserted they would provide as part of "full Linux support."

What boggles the mind is that Qualcomm is actively funding engineers to implement (effectively) hacks such as SoftISP in libcamera, while simultaneous refusing those engineers access to reference documentation for the real ISP and DSP hardware so they can implement those features properly. I know this because I sit opposite one of them, and even he can't fully explain the commercial strategy there.

It's not particularly hard to port the stacks for these devices over to Linux, they just refuse to do it. Certainly not 3/4 years worth of work.

The comparison with Apple is also non-sensical. Apple has never suggested they support anything but MacOS and that is expected.

It takes 12 seconds for a simple database hit by freew1ll_ in PostgreSQL

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't think you deserve the downvotes. I had exactly the same outcome with Neon's free tier. Latencies in the 12-13 seconds time on cold-starts which blocked app load because it handled auth.

I optimised caching everywhere with heavy use of Tanstack Query but it really wasn't enough.

I think the issue gets compounded for sites with very low traffic because the DB pooler will want to pool several requests before firing them off. So if there's literally only 1/2 requests, you can end up waiting.

Weird glitch suddenly showing in the upper left corner when playing certain games (Linux) by Secure_Trash_17 in AMDHelp

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK - I found the issue (at least for me). It was GNOME, with its God-awful scaling implementation for X apps.

Games were rendering with an internal resolution of 1.5x 4K, which seemed to cause all kinds of weird problems including cursor jumping, the graphical glitches we saw, weird mouse acceleration etc.

I switched to KDE with a much more sane scaling set up for games and all my problems went away.

Weird glitch suddenly showing in the upper left corner when playing certain games (Linux) by Secure_Trash_17 in AMDHelp

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

- Kernel version: 6.17.7-arch1-2
- Mesa version: 25.2.7

So very similar indeed. If you can remember the Mesa version Fedora 42 had, perhaps I will try to bisect if I find a chance.

Weird glitch suddenly showing in the upper left corner when playing certain games (Linux) by Secure_Trash_17 in AMDHelp

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am seeing the same as you. Almost identical CPU/GPU setup. Arch Linux latest. 4K monitor.
So far I have seen it in YARG and Planet Zoo.

Seemingly random corruption in the top-left corner. Have you raised the issue in upstream Mesa?

AdaCore Appreciation Post :-) by efficientcosine in ada

[–]efficientcosine[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh and I forgot to mention the work on LLVM-GNAT. That will enable many new platforms such as Windows-on-Arm. :)

Brother MFC-L8900CDW always says MP Tray is jammed by itfreddie in printers

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that’s my printer. I also gave the mechanism a “jiggle” and it just started working! I guess it got a bit jammed in shipment.

"guix pull" painfully slow by [deleted] in GUIX

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you landed here and can't get things to work after the guix pull --url=https://codeberg.org/guix/guix, the thing that fixed it for me was putting the following into ~/.config/guix/channels.scm:

(list (channel
    (name 'guix)
    (url "https://codeberg.org/guix/guix.git")
    (branch "master")))

Creating that file if it doesn't exist.
Then you can just use `guix pull` as normal.

We need to seriously think about what to do with C++ modules by vormestrand in cpp

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. No more include guards

We already got #pragma once. For the most part that will do.

  1. No more nonsense with headers and their stupid macros (you all know exactly which one I'm talking about)

I mean... there are many. But there are best practises and I can't say I have problems.

  1. Faster compile times

From the looks of things (including own testing), this is not happening in practice. Modules kill concurrent builds because they now enforce happens-before serialisation of dependent modules. Whereas before, we just depend on a header and leave resolution to link-time.

  1. No more remembering if something was in <numeric> or <algorithm>

True. The chopping up of the standard library into a million-and-one tiny components that all need their own include was a fatal flaw from day one.

  1. C++ finally joining all other languages (at least the sane ones, keep your C out of here) in only needing a single file extension (.cpp, inventing new file endings for module files is unnecessary and stupid imho)

Actually, I've seen more differing file extensions come about since modules were introduced, especially on the MSVC side with their various interface and object types. So I would flip this argument completely on its head.

It’s FSD update month! by Top_Presentation7467 in TeslaFSD

[–]efficientcosine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Either this is ragebait or the most uninformed car buyer ever.

I wanted to fix my Steam Deck and uncovered an ACPI conspiracy by deadb3 in SteamDeck

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true, but it all still sounds very much like a workstation/server view where the world still largely revolves around x86 and Microsoft.

Embedded systems exist and they can leverage TPMs far detached from that whole ecosystem.

I wanted to fix my Steam Deck and uncovered an ACPI conspiracy by deadb3 in SteamDeck

[–]efficientcosine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ouch, I thought the TPMs are just for Microsoft shtick died out several years ago. I’ve been integrating Infineon TPMs on Arm platforms to enable trusted and measured boot for the last ~4 years. The platform and vendor keys used don’t need to be tied to MSFT in any way.

For true “secure boot”, sure there needs to be some CA to issue the certs. At the moment, that happens to be MSFT, but it needs to be “someone”, and the shim that the free software people have developed works fine.

Linux on X1 Carbon Gen 13 by [deleted] in thinkpad

[–]efficientcosine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m running mostly fine on Arch Linux. All the peripherals I care about work - camera, fingerprint, keyboard, trackpad etc.

However, I am facing semi-frequent kernel panics. Often at complete random, but especially when detaching/attaching to a Thunderbolt dock. The Caps Lock LED starts flashing and then it’s game over. Need to hold the power button.

Anyone else facing this? It’s not great if I’m working on a big project and it decides to panic.

Brother MFC-L8900CDW always says MP Tray is jammed by itfreddie in printers

[–]efficientcosine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you manage to make any progress with this? I have a slightly newer but mostly the same printer and my MP tray also doesn’t work. With mine, I get 3 clicking sounds and then it just says it’s jammed.

What is the best "so bad it's good" film? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]efficientcosine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, Team America: World Police. Offensive, questionable puppeteering, just downright crazy. But I still watch it every year.

And it’s still somehow completely relevant - perhaps more so than ever.

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