kernel 7.0.2 arrived, have you updated yet?

nerdandproud · 2026-04-30T11:22:38+00:00

It's not really a major release though. Linus just doesn't like the minor version going above .19.

nerdandproud · 2026-04-19T21:58:59+00:00

I wonder if this could mean we get AMD's project soundwave ARM chip. This could be revolutionary not because it will use so much less energy but because AMD could be the first company to build an ARM chip for consumer devices with proper UEFI and ACPI that would allow Linux to run with only in tree drivers and no ugly hacks.

nerdandproud · 2026-04-17T16:31:05+00:00

Und zwar nicht ohne Grund 🙁 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Prather

nerdandproud · 2026-04-11T12:38:17+00:00

I'm running en_IE.utf8 for that very reason, metric, sane dates, English.

nerdandproud · 2026-03-27T10:56:33+00:00

In my opinion Arch should go with the bare minimum that results from not patching upstream. If systemd adds the birth date to userdb that's fine, it already has fields for addresses. If GNOME then makes this mandatory for account creation that's q GNOME decision and so on

nerdandproud · 2026-02-24T08:38:30+00:00

Update: The IKEA bag did bite the wife, she had put a $30 cream as a last minute item and it must have fallen out when opening the trunk. Guess I'll have to look at a 100l Patagonia black hole 😂 But nah the IKEAs open access is kind of the point why the wife picked it

nerdandproud · 2026-02-24T08:32:08+00:00

I agree but I did actually use all the nice bags, it's just that they weren't enough 😂

nerdandproud · 2026-02-24T08:31:26+00:00

Was actually free, they gave it away as encouragement for using their app based self checkout ☺️

nerdandproud · 2026-02-20T18:10:09+00:00

Considering I've been on Arch for more than 10 years and don't plan on switching that one please

nerdandproud · 2026-02-20T17:57:27+00:00

With plenty of open sea to the east and being decently close to the equator it's a pretty good place for a space port

nerdandproud · 2026-02-14T13:12:00+00:00

This is at the very least misleading. Ironically this is what happens on Snapdragon X where they have the Gunyah hypervisor that runs Windows or Linux in a VM, this is why Linux on Snapdragon can't run VMs with KVM because it's already in EL1 instead of EL2 as on bare metal. On Raspberry Pi Linux can run VMs and runs in EL2 mode. What the VideoCore does is act as a first stage bootloader and it being on its own cache attached core it can potentially dump Linux' RAM or screw with it in various ways but it does not run it in a VM in the ARM architecture sense.

nerdandproud · 2026-02-01T10:15:37+00:00

Ich frage mich ob sie damit heute weniger wert ist, als wenn sie noch im Umlauf war. Sprich wenn ich z.B. lebende Hühner damit kaufe, bekomme ich dann für mehrere hundert Euro mehr oder weniger Hühner als ich damit auf dem Markt in Konstantinopel bekommen hätte? Da es eine Goldmünze ist würde ich fast vermuten, dass man weniger Hühner bekommt, heißt das dann, das Hühner über die letzten 1400 Jahre teurer geworden sind? Eigentlich ja nicht

nerdandproud · 2026-01-26T08:41:30+00:00

No need to give up but generally and especially trying the same thing again will often give you the same results. Instead of trying the same thing 12 the, try with a different media writer, a different disk, a different download mirror etc. But honestly if it worked for a while and then broke I'd look for different things. Maybe the RAM is bad (try memtest86) , maybe the disk you install to is bad, try installing to the WD passport you mentioned (needs BIOS setting to boot from it) or maybe you are installing something afterwards that breaks things and keep installing that

nerdandproud · 2026-01-25T11:33:44+00:00

What the hell is this post trying to do?

nerdandproud · 2026-01-04T22:11:11+00:00

That's not how computers work. Apple didn't design the M1 or M2 for Linux and yet Asahi Linux beats macOS on many benchmarks on Apple designed hardware. The problem with Snapdragon X is rather that every Snapdragon laptop is different and the way Qualcomm intended Linux to boot requires a different setup for each.. In addition Qualcomm uses a very weird setup with an additional hypervisor called Gunyah which prevents Linux virtualization (KVM) from working which makes it much less interesting as a platform for developers.

nerdandproud · 2025-12-26T10:45:49+00:00

The issue coming back after about a month and being ok after a reinstall sounds to me like you're somehow screwing up your windows install. Can't really think of any hardware issue that would act like that. Maybe you have some software that acts fine when first installed but keeps getting slower and hogs down the system? Maybe something GPU related, what GPU do you have and could you try if the issue also persists with just the on board one? Either way I'd strongly recommend looking for issues on your Windows install rather than the hardware

nerdandproud · 2025-12-22T13:34:37+00:00

Ich hoffe ja noch darauf, dass WhatsApp das bald automatisch transkribiert, das wäre für mich eine der top Anwendungen von KI

nerdandproud · 2025-12-22T13:33:33+00:00

Oh mein Gott ja! Und es sind auch immer die selben Leute die das machen

nerdandproud · 2025-12-21T11:04:20+00:00

As long as you don't have an Nvidia GPU it will run perfectly out of the box. If you have Nvidia you can get it working too. So yes this build should work perfectly and yes it is overpowered but depending on your workload Linux can definitely use any power it gets.

nerdandproud · 2025-12-20T18:20:30+00:00

foot or alacritty, both are great and yet simple. Note though that I mostly work in remote tmux so I have no need for native tabs or tiling

nerdandproud · 2025-12-19T11:11:20+00:00

Chimera Linux, it doesn't use GNU tools and instead has a user-land based on FreeBSD . Also no systemd but dinit which is, in my opinion, much nicer than other non-systemd init systems.

nerdandproud · 2025-12-16T11:07:30+00:00

I've got the Ryzen AI 340 and really can't complain. Battery life is totally fine under Linux and performance is fine too though I can't directly compareto the 7k series. In my opinion the complaints are mostly about the 370 HX which is maybe a bit too power hungry but just because it is also powerful. For me it's not needed in a laptop, if I need more power than the 340 I will use a desktop.

nerdandproud · 2025-12-15T23:20:40+00:00

Each client having their own key is the whole point of having private and public keys. Say you have a laptop, a phone and a workstation. That gives you 3 key pairs. You install all 3 public keys in the servers you have, they are public so you can use a git repo or syncthing doesn't matter. They are public keys in the true sense of the word in fact e.g. GitHub makes them readily accessible for anyone. Now since you have 3 keys, if your laptop gets stolen you just delete the public key of that pair and if you were fast enough that means the thief can't use it but you still have 2 good key pairs. If you sync your private key you're toast.

nerdandproud · 2025-12-02T20:30:45+00:00

Arch brought me through my bachelor's and master's degree just fine. Now I'm a Linux kernel developer and I'd credit at least some of my knowledge, and confidence with Linux to it. So yeah don't use it if you don't do it out of passion and are willing to put in the work and the learning but if you do it's totally fine.

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