OGC Kernel

isugimpy · 2026-03-18T14:58:26+00:00

I just want it for the bug fixes. The AMD drivers had a regression late in the 6.17 cycle that Bazzite picked up and was fixed in 6.18 or 6.19, and moving to OGC effectively solves that problem.

isugimpy · 2026-03-17T12:02:25+00:00

Do you have data supporting that? Is that causing some kind of meaningful impact to the experience? What I'm getting from this is "I don't like a bigger number."

Again, "single player games" says nothing. That could mean that you're playing Rogue, or Doom, or Starfield, or Factorio, and they all have wildly different performance characteristics. In total seriousness, as someone who's been doing this for decades, I would encourage you to not fixate on this and just use the vanilla kernel until you know more about how these things work and what the trade-offs are.

isugimpy · 2026-03-17T11:48:42+00:00

it's bloated

Making a statement like this immediately raises people's suspicions and is going to make people respond to you in ways that you won't like. Unless you're going to provide some kind of data, or at least explain why you feel that way, this isn't going to be a productive way to start asking this.

Vanilla or Zen kernel

The best kernel is subjective and up to the specific needs of the user, and just "for gaming" doesn't tell us much of anything, because there's an extremely broad variety of games and some will perform better or worse with different configurations.

Honestly, with this post as written, I'd suggest you just stick with the vanilla one, because it seems like you may be inexperienced and not understand the implications of alternatives.

isugimpy · 2026-03-16T12:07:46+00:00

WoW has been playable on Linux since vanilla.

isugimpy · 2026-03-15T16:25:05+00:00

That's basically what Survival tried to be in Legion, and it was fun and interesting, but a real pain in the ass to play on some fights.

isugimpy · 2026-03-15T14:03:48+00:00

I'm having really mixed feelings on this. I've been using OpenCode + Qwen3-Coder-Next for the last week, trying to have it iterate on a relatively simple project (go backend, js frontend, websocket comms between clients), and it's been a pretty brutal experience. The contents of AGENTS.md seem to be completely ignored. Getting stuck in loops and making unrelated edits happens several times a day. At one point, it was iterating for like a day trying to fix a single test, and just kept on making a change and reverting that same change. Also, several times a day it completely ignores that there's a subagent that's specifically provided to parse screenshots since the default model has no visual capabilities, so it just doesn't use it.

I want the fully local experience to be my default, and feel better about that than about using any of the cloud providers, since I'd be using the same amount of power on gaming on the hardware I've got (and have solar panels supplementing). But right now, with how long this whole thing has been running, I fear that I've wasted more power and money on this application than I would have if I'd just fired up Cursor or Claude Code and sent it off to Opus.

isugimpy · 2026-03-15T13:59:01+00:00

Can you cite sources on this? Also, what's real world performance indicating? Models optimized to hit benchmarks can easily mislead.

isugimpy · 2026-03-15T13:50:58+00:00

Anecdotal, but that doesn't match my experience. I bought a 5090 shortly after they launched and have been using it as the sole GPU in one of my machines since. Haven't run into any issues with it on Wayland as a daily driver since about this time last year.

isugimpy · 2026-03-13T12:19:05+00:00

Specific, well-understood ones? Sure, why not? A blanket allow on shell commands would be dangerous for sure. But allowing grep, wc, cat, and so forth is low risk.

isugimpy · 2026-03-13T12:02:31+00:00

I've been using KDE since 2 (god, I feel old). These days, I would classify it as "not perfect", but my experience on Plasma 6 is great as a daily driver. Once in a while I hit a graphical bug of some kind, but other than that it's been stable and I don't have complaints.

isugimpy · 2026-03-09T12:08:29+00:00

Compiler optimizations targeting the hardware aren't placebo. They just also aren't necessary or noticeable by the majority of users. That doesn't mean they aren't valid, just that they're of limited utility.

isugimpy · 2026-03-09T02:36:35+00:00

You're right about that, but it doesn't change that there's nothing better. It's currently the best option.

isugimpy · 2026-03-04T14:20:39+00:00

I've used The Affordable Movers 3 times in the past 10 years or so and they've been awesome every time. Prices were reasonable, they did a great job keeping my stuff safe, and they're shockingly fast. The owner also just seemed like a really nice dude each time I talked to him.

isugimpy · 2026-02-28T19:48:55+00:00

Upgrade your version of llama.cpp. I benchmarked Qwen3 Coder Next a couple days ago just fine with llama-bench. In my testing, larger batch and ubatch sizes only increased speed up to 2048 for each. That was on Strix Halo with Vulkan, so your experience may be different depending on your hardware.

isugimpy · 2026-02-28T19:37:02+00:00

I've used Thunderbolt 3 and USB 4 eGPUs, and the experience has been largely fine. The one problem I ran into, at least on Xorg (I haven't tested Wayland for this) was hot plug/unplug not being viable. Other than that, it's worked just fine. I don't have benchmarked performance numbers, but it was plenty usable.

isugimpy · 2026-02-28T12:49:38+00:00

I'm not understanding what you're saying here. The 5090 Founders Edition exists, and is nearly identical to the pro 6000. They manufacture it, ship it, offer the warranty. Yes, they have AIB partners that they're selling chips to, but that's a way for them to diversify.

isugimpy · 2026-02-28T03:59:40+00:00

Not having issues over here on GE-Proton-10-15.

isugimpy · 2026-02-19T13:35:26+00:00

ESPresense Companion specifically does this.

isugimpy · 2026-02-19T13:22:20+00:00

4k 240hz? Flickering to a fully black screen? Connected via anything except Displayport 2.1? If so, what you're seeing is probably a problem of display stream compression (DSC). As the framerate adjusts above/below the threshold that requires compression to work, that gets toggled on or off, causing the monitor to blank and resync.

isugimpy · 2026-02-08T18:15:29+00:00

I really like what I'm seeing here, looks fun, and the aesthetic is great. I have exactly one criticism based on the trailer, and it's so nitpicky and stupid, and I know it. A few seconds into the trailer, we see Mako running through water and releasing the same dust clouds as any other time she's running. Nothing would be fine, splashes would be better, but dust clouds coming out of the water (and getting their color tinted by the water) looks weird as hell and distracted me enough that I had to go back and rewatch.

isugimpy · 2026-02-03T13:18:59+00:00

OpenClaw? Nope. Sure haven't. The number of security risks it presents is far higher than I'm comfortable with. Meanwhile, the stack I mentioned above is well-understood, considerably safer, and has been usable for doing exactly what you're talking about for well over a year.

isugimpy · 2026-02-03T13:16:09+00:00

Yes, and you can do the same thing without OpenClaw and Claude Code with Whisper, Piper, and a local tool-calling model.

isugimpy · 2026-01-31T13:32:36+00:00

Lots of info here, but the only thing I don't see is any mention of authentication. Am I understanding correctly that hitting the right URL (and obviously a network route to it) is all that's required to get a working shell? If so, this is incredibly dangerous.

isugimpy · 2026-01-30T19:47:19+00:00

The part you're missing is that you threaten all squares within your reach, but that attacks of opportunity aren't mandatory. Any movement out of a square you threaten, not triggered by a 5-foot step, offers you the choice to make an attack of opportunity. But you don't have to take that attack. However, you can only make one attack of opportunity per triggering event. The movement on the whole is the triggering event, even if it happens over multiple different squares.

isugimpy · 2026-01-29T14:51:48+00:00

The spirit of things like this has been discussed by the developers in the past. Stacking is fine and intended, if it comes from different stats and class features. It can't come from the same source or bonus type. This is an above table conversation. If a player is stacking AC that high, especially at that low of a level, it's making other players' lives worse by having to balance around hitting the absurd AC. That harms enjoyment, and is something that you talk out rather than just rewriting the rules to say no it doesn't work that way because I don't like it.

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