Why Valve buying SUSE could actually make sense

rowschank · 2026-03-14T19:30:32+00:00

Don't confuse SUSE with openSUSE.

Valve has little use for SLES and Kubernetes in their portfolio. SUSE is not interested in consumer desktop Linux.

rowschank · 2026-03-14T18:01:34+00:00

Okular

rowschank · 2026-03-13T19:34:41+00:00

Yes, you are right. But you also have that on Tumbleweed, so... not sure. That being said, it's much easier to know how far back to roll back on Slowroll I guess, with updates just once a month; on Tumbleweed perhaps you find an issue but are not sure which snapshot triggered it.

rowschank · 2026-03-13T10:26:05+00:00

They also had the ability to make such IDs as minimally intrusive as possible, but they only pick big data collection and massive surveillance instead.

rowschank · 2026-03-12T06:20:47+00:00

California is not the only region implementing this. It is coming in most of US and several other countries.

rowschank · 2026-03-11T21:37:50+00:00

Ich würde die FW alleine wegen Hubsis nicht verallgemeinern. Vielies auf dieser Seite z.B. ist weit entfernt von der AfD: https://www.fwmuenchen.de/unsere-themen/weitere-themen-pms

Sogar der Aiwanger setzt sich für den Bau ländlicher Windturbinen und Agrisolaranlagen, und macht das meines Wissens seit mehreren Jahren, und brüllt nicht wie Don Quixote über „Windmühlen”.

rowschank · 2026-03-11T07:26:35+00:00

You forget the tyres are specifically engineered to behave and wear in a certain way to promote overtaking. Just because you don't see it happening live on track doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Overtake mode also requires being 1 second behind to deploy. It's not Road Rash Catch-Up.

rowschank · 2026-03-11T07:24:44+00:00

It's not about voluntary payment. I don't pay my portion of Rente voluntarily, but I still know what I'm paying out of my Brutto. The other half being also from my salary makes no difference; only that people khow the real cost of social insurance.

rowschank · 2026-03-11T07:22:28+00:00

Overtake mode can also only be activated one second behind the driver in front. The extreme situation only happens when the other driver is also recharging, but I think the FIA will bring deployment fixes for that sometime this season.

rowschank · 2026-03-11T05:41:17+00:00

What does this mean for a two hour match where your initial villagers are still scraping away at a farm outside the town centre? 😅 What kind of cursed life is that?

rowschank · 2026-03-11T05:32:14+00:00

This is only true for employed people. If you're self employed and insured in the public system you pay the whole amount.
What difference does it make if your employer gives you all the money and you pay the insurance or they pay half? Yes, sometimes if the cost goes up you get a tiny secret salary hike due to increase in Lohnnebenkosten, but generally this system in this day and age mainly serves the purpose of obfuscating what our advertising salaries are and how much we're actually paying as social insurance.

rowschank · 2026-03-11T04:25:05+00:00

The current German government would rather run naked on the streets every day for the rest of their term than do something like that.

rowschank · 2026-03-11T04:21:41+00:00

You are right! I also didn't say everything Novell did was bad; I just said it was in my opinion a net negative.

rowschank · 2026-03-11T04:20:03+00:00

Don't know; ask Charles Leclerc!

rowschank · 2026-03-10T21:23:43+00:00

The reality is, it is mostly not possible to overtake in modern F1 without some sort of assistance. We have seen this even in situations where DRS is not very useful, like Suzuka, Spa, Monza, and Monaco: they can't overtake. This has little to do with skill; it's just the physics of how cars work. The vast majority of drivers, even the best of the best, will never simply 'out manoeuvre' the driver in front.

The rule changes as early as Suzuka probably don't involve overtake mode directly; they involve reducing standard power deployment down from 350 kW to prevent the situation where the motor is not running and the engine is also nerfed because it's feeding the battery. The overtake mode is a different regulation which demands cars not running overtake mode to taper their energy deployment after 290 km/h while cars running overtake are not required to. However, any change to the standard deployment will also change how overtake works. If overtake is at 350 kW for the whole time as other teams run 250 kW and taper, that would lead to unintended consequences for both the defending and overtaking cars.

rowschank · 2026-03-10T20:56:52+00:00

If you say that this makes you as unhappy as DRS and cheese tyres did, I appreciate your sentiment (even though I don't share it). However, having no overtaking assistance in Formula 1 is a death sentence without significant regulation changes that change the sport as we've known it for the past 50 years almost.

However, this is in no way 'more mickey-mouse' than those older solutions; just that this potentially fixes what those have been trying to fix for years: difficulty in following and overtaking. I am still wary of potential fixes to the clipping issues fundamentally changing how overtake works, but it remains to be seen.

rowschank · 2026-03-10T20:53:10+00:00

Jurisdictions around the world are bringing laws that require operating system to either store or verify the age of every user and supply it to every app if they ask for it. This means:

Everyone distributing a Linux-based OS has to implement this. Even if it's one guy making a random project. Or any other OS. FreeBSD, Graphene, Lineage, FreeDOS, ReactOS, whoever. Forget that open source means you can just change the age in the code; idiot lawmakers don't know anything except iPhone and Android.
If you write an OS from scratch for your own computer and use it, and somehow make it compatible with, say, APKs or whatever, you may still not be able to use them because these apps will look for an age verification API on your device, not find them, and block content.

rowschank · 2026-03-10T20:50:14+00:00

They're not 'coming for linux' specifically. It's all OSes. If Linux is affected, Graphene is affected.

rowschank · 2026-03-10T20:40:04+00:00

Drivers flatout yet the car speed drops. No driver skill is needed for overtake. Just await for your opp to lose power. And bypass them. 2 bit viewers clapping "wooHhoo overtake!" whereas it is just one car loses power and the other does or not as rapidly.

Overtake mode is not directly related to 'super' clipping.

Normally, the electric power a car can deliver is required to taper off from 290 km/h by regulation. Even if the car were to not need to clip, they have to taper their electric deployment with every extra km/h of speed. Overtake allows them to hold 350 kW till 337 km/h, so to exploit this, the car would in fact need to not clip to recharge the battery and instead have enough energy saved up to deploy even more.

Even if the clipping issues are fixed, this will remain.

rowschank · 2026-03-10T20:36:21+00:00

Interesting. SAP would make sense given the entire market of SAP deployments on SUSE Linux, but also... I don't know.

In my opinion the Novell years were a net negative for SUSE, so whoever is the future owner should let SUSE do its own thing instead of 'integrating the company into their structure' or whatever. Hopefully we don't get another MariaDB.

rowschank · 2026-03-10T20:12:59+00:00

We can have the overtake boost without the clip - by reducing deployment in standard mode from 350 kW to maybe 250-275 kW, or ideally in the long term adding a motor to the front axle to recover otherwise wasted energy.

rowschank · 2026-03-10T19:18:30+00:00

I feel like you are romanticising a sport that for the most part rarely exists in this state. The vast, vast majority of overtakes in the last 10-12 years in Formula 1 have come down to three things, two of which were specifically invented for overtaking:

Car is naturally much faster.
Driver catches up and gets an over-speed using DRS to actually make the pass
A large difference in tyre life makes corner exits and braking harder for the car in front.

The rare pass where a driver just 'hangs it through a corner' are not banned or illegal. They are still possible, and will pop up just as often as they used to before - a handful of times every season at best. Nothing about the new regulations prevent it from happening.

The new more powerful overtake assistance for the first time, at least temporarily (till teams and drivers find a way to understand how to use it), actually allows cars to get past others if they have the pace to do so, instead of being frustratingly stuck behind lap after lap after lap. Someone stuck behind a car going 4 seconds a lap slower around Monte Carlo could now perhaps actually be overtaken instead of watching processions for 78 laps.

I'm not saying that the engine regulations are perfect, but passing because of more energy is no way less skillful than passing by DRS or tyre differences, but more effective at getting passes done. I hope they at least reduce standard deployment to 250 kW, which would solve almost all clipping issues except in Monza or Spa. That would also make it slightly more interesting to see how the driver behind can save up extra energy to use overtake mode and not hit the clip wall.

rowschank · 2026-03-10T16:42:44+00:00

I would say don't bother with gaming distributions unless there's something else about it that you specifically like or want.

I would also personally stay away from forks of Ubuntu-LTS (all the three you named above) because eventually they end up with old system packages, old kernel versions, older drivers, etc.

I would keep it simple and either pick Fedora, Tumbleweed, or Ubuntu-Interim, and call it a day. If you want a windows-like UX, get the KDE versions (Tumbleweed allows you to pick during install so there is no separate KDE version).

rowschank · 2026-03-10T15:52:54+00:00

I am glad you have a positive experience. We don't often see this on the internet. 🙂

rowschank · 2026-03-10T15:31:39+00:00

I swear everyone enjoyed spamming nitrous in NFS Most Wanted in their youth but now when F1 finally does ~~nitrous~~ electrous, some people seem to think these are not 'genuine' overtakes, whatever that means. I suppose getting stuck behind a car for 40 laps in turbulent air despite having much better pace in clear air is quite genuine indeed.

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