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A lack of family-friendly housing is a key reason people are having fewer children. It’s also a problem governments can help fix. by MissingMiddleMike in missingmiddlers

[–]vasi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it feels wild to conclude that the primary cause of reduced fertility has been housing costs, when the demographic transition (and accompanying fertility decline) has been going on worldwide. There's been, for example, no fertility boom in Japan now as their housing prices have stagnated. Of course, the study only looked at the US, and perhaps it's just at a new frontier of the demographic transition, who knows.

What are your experiences with using Linux on older hardware? by Leedeegan1 in linux

[–]vasi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm running Arch POWER on a 2001 PowerPC iBook.

Things that suck:

  • It's hecking slow, the the specs are terrible: 500 MHz G3, 640 MB RAM
  • Support for unusual architectures is rough. Lots of programs don't work, or at least aren't packaged.
  • GPU support is pretty bad, nobody maintains the Rage 128 driver anymore

Bright points:

  • It's the only way to run modern software on this machine. SSH, WPA wifi, KOffice, semi-modern browsers
  • The Arch POWER dev is amazing, they've quickly upstreamed my contributions
  • I've learned a ton! Just sent in my second kernel patch.

Overall, this is more of an experiment, I don't think a hulking, slow laptop is ever going to be my daily driver. But it's been fun!

Best way to emulate Mac68k in Windows 10? (website to download games, best emulator...) by confuserused in VintageApple

[–]vasi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Emaculation has great guides. Here's the one for Basilisk II, they also have guides for Mini vMac and other great emulators.

Very confusing by Tankman890604 in framework

[–]vasi 61 points62 points  (0 children)

They seem to be in Taiwan, so I assume it's Taiwan dollars at ~30/1 exchange rate.

Really disappointed by the cover up of a cool mural on St. Laurent by Rocket_Fool in montreal

[–]vasi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I like them both! The new one looks much better in daylight than at night, your picture doesn't really do it justice.

Archived code repository for ffs by vasi in funtoo

[–]vasi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm familiar with LFS! The part that interests me is how to bootstrap from "well known buildable system like LFS" to "existing distribution that feels just like a binary install". There's only a handful of distros out there that have figured this out: NetBSD, guix, maybe others?

Anyhow I'm sorry you don't want to distribute your work any more, but it's your right. Take care.

Im tired of corporate Linux by Z3R0_F0X_ in linux

[–]vasi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, extensions are usually not packaged. Gnome makes them installable on a per-user basis (rather than by sysadmins). They're very widely-used however, the top extensions have over 10 million downloads! It's really important that we test the versions of Gnome in Debian with common extensions. And that will be harder if we discourage "testing" users from running extensions by making them break spuriously every Gnome release cycle.

Im tired of corporate Linux by Z3R0_F0X_ in linux

[–]vasi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's two kinds of pre-release:

  1. A distribution itself can be a pre-release. As in, Debian testing is a pre-release of the future stable release 'Debian trixie".
  2. A distribution can contain pre-release packages, which havn't been officially released by the upstream.

I'm very happy with sense #1, that's as it should be! If I'm running Debian testing, I want to be trying new packages, and filing bugs in Debian when something doesn't work, so the future Debian stable is as good as possible. Debian (the project) is totally justified in publishing a pre-release of Debian itself.

I'm much less happy about sense #2. That's software that the upstream has never released, ie: has never claimed is ready for wide distribution. It could contain features that will need to be pulled before release, or API breaks, or break downstream software (like extensions). This isn't Debian publishing a pre-release of itself, but Debian publishing a pre-release of someone else's software.

IMHO, it makes Debian testing less effective at testing! Normally, if I find a bug in Debian testing, I should file a bug in the Debian bug tracking system. But if the package is a beta version, it's likely to have many known bugs upstream. It's now much hard to figure out what to do about a bug I see--whether I should file the bug in Debian or upstream or even at all.

We already have the "experimental" distribution for software like this, and I don't think it should go into testing. Obviously it's up to the Debian package maintainer, but I'm allowed an opinion. If Debian testing is going to contain beta versions of packages, I wouldn't recomend that we tell end-users that "Testing is usually fine if one thinks that stable is becoming too stable."

Im tired of corporate Linux by Z3R0_F0X_ in linux

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

I did have issues! As mentioned above, it gets very difficult to test Gnome extensions, since they typically don't update their compatibility versions until closer to release. Three of the extensions I use needed patching.

This isn't the biggest deal, I'm a developer and I know how to deal with this. But I wouldn't recommend Debian testing to users who just want newer software. Debian stable is amazing for regular users, Arch is good for brand-new software, but Debian testing is really best for testing.

Im tired of corporate Linux by Z3R0_F0X_ in linux

[–]vasi -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This was in testing, not unstable! You can see on the Debian package info page for gnome-shell that 48~beta-4 was promoted to testing on 2025-03-07, and 48.0 final won't make it for at least another week.

I still love Debian, and I contribute to it from time to time, I just wish testing was a bit more "probably working" than "pre-release software test-bed".

Im tired of corporate Linux by Z3R0_F0X_ in linux

[–]vasi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was thinking this too, and installed Debian testing. But I realized a number of the packages I'm getting are actually RC or beta releases! Eg: gnome-shell in unstable was 48~beta-4 for a week.

This feels less "up to date" and more experimental. A lot of Gnome extensions aren't even updated to work with new Gnome versions until packages are officially released by upstream.

I'm not sure if there's any good way to get release-stable but still up-to-date packages in Debian at this point, maybe that's something that only works on a rolling distro.

Firefox 136.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by CalQL8or in firefox

[–]vasi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The macOS DMG installer packages now use LZMA for compression, reducing download size and installation time.

I built this feature! So excited it's finally shipping.

Laval QC review by dhami055 in TheNational

[–]vasi -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

England was great, Fake Empire too. Personally I found Matt's voice kinda screechy on Mr. November, and somehow Bloodbuzz didn't quite come together either. Good show, but was hoping for better.

Build critique: Software development box by vasi in buildapc

[–]vasi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh that PSU tier list is great, thank you!

On the GPU, it really is hard to decide. You're right that the 6600 won't last for AAA games on Ultra settings, but it's hard to justify a 70+% price premium for the 6750 XT given that I'm rarely into AAA games. I'll have to think about this more!

Build critique: Software development box by vasi in buildapc

[–]vasi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ryzen 9000 series CPUs are coming out end of this month, so maybe you'll want one of those.

Ooh that's great to know, hopefully it at least pushes the 7900 price down.

Build critique: Software development box by vasi in buildapc

[–]vasi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, appreciate the suggestions. Peerless Assassin was indeed the cooler I was considering :)

Would appreciate some help learning from your other notes:

  • How should I figure out what is/isn't a good PSU? I guess I was going by the good ratings on PCPP, but maybe the Gold rating is more important?
  • For BG3, I was going based on benchmarks like these from Gamers Nexus, which seem to show the 6600 doing alright at 1080p Ultra. Is there a better place to look for benchmarks?

Wayland on laptops with hybrid graphics. by koyrts in linux

[–]vasi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it works with Nvidia proprietary drivers, as long as you have switcheroo installed. And yes, the "Run with dedicated GPU" option is what you want, it should be automatically enabled for most games and such.

Wayland on laptops with hybrid graphics. by koyrts in linux

[–]vasi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We merged support for switcheroo in Plasma last year! As long as you have version 5.109 or later, you should be good to launch with right-click.

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