Hopefully their plan for software sovereignty includes using a European desktop environment.

Gotta find something else to grate your cheese.

Right now Asahi increases the value of ARM based Macs slightly since there’s another market of people who will buy them.

Once Asahi means that people can keep end-of-life ARM based Macs running, the calculation for Apple will change.

Open source, mainline PowerVR drivers are a huge step forward for practical RISC-V machines.

Yeah, it’s pretty much that Fedora is to Red Hat as Ubuntu is to Canonical. RHEL vs. Ubuntu Pro work a bit differently though.

I was supposed to get a device with 64 gigs of RAM later this year. I just got an email telling me that due to the RAM shortage they’ve cancelled the 64 gig version.

A distribution with first class KDE support, obviously 😛

Just another reason not to use Mint.

If it were me personally I’d have a nice KDE gear there.

Hmm let’s start a fight.

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THAT? You have THAT crap on your wall? Gross!

(More seriously, this is awesome and I appreciate the creativity. Hexagons are the bestagons.)

Tim Sweeney has a shitty take? Must be a day ending in Y!

Based on the actual bug report, because the people working on this are volunteers and the workaround is simple.

If you think fixing bugs like these is a worthwhile endeavour, chip in some money or volunteer. There are many ways for people volunteer that aren’t writing code, so if you aren’t a software developer don’t let that discourage you.

He wants everyone to become prompt engineers sloperators.

This take is so cold it could make solid helium.

(I agree FWIW)

Relies on awk

As someone who owns several RISC-V devices the primary thing preventing usable (low end) RISC-V laptops is the GPUs. Most RISC-V silicon has Imagination GPUs, and the current state of the drivers there is “proprietary drivers stuck on an old LTS kernel.”

If someone makes an RVA23 compliant chip with open mainstreamable drivers and a BXS-4-64 GPU (or, better yet, somehow manages to license a GPU from Intel or AMD for it), that’ll be a cash cow.

They don’t in general, but things that do heavily detailed graphics work (like your compositor or browser) or lots of cryptography work on the CPU can get a bit more out of those newer instructions than many other programs.

Very approximately, things that Gentoo offers prebuilt versions of because compiling them is so resource intensive are often the things that can get the best benefit out of your architecture variant. (Not singling out Gentoo here as an example of “doing it badly” - they do the sensible thing by providing these prebuilt binaries, but in some ways it defeats the purpose of optimised source distributions.)

It’s a Hard Problem™ to solve.

Look I don’t have heat in the winter so I compile Firefox for various processors to keep my bedroom warm okay?

The irony is that big things like Firefox can get the most advantages from building for your specific CPU variant, especially if you use them frequently.

Another win for Linux!