Linux works well on supported ARM platforms, but the problem is that a lot of ARM platforms aren't supported. I recently got a Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro (had to import it as it's a China-only model) and put postmarketOS on it. The experience is surprisingly good. Paired with a Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad, it is basically as functional as a normal light-duty Linux laptop except for the lack of x86 support, which mostly just means no gaming. I have been attempting to run Steam via box64 and FEX, but pmOS isn't a supported distro for that so I have been trying in a Docker container and in Distrobox. I managed to get it started but it crashes due to steamwebhelper, and I think it's a dependency or configuration issue. Otherwise, for browsing, coding, videos, terminal use, office, etc. it's great and the battery life is amazing compared to my laptop. This is on a Snapdragon 870. Open source games run and they can hit 120fps on the 120Hz screen. I hope to see ARM support continue to improve, but I am worried about bootloader locks on these new ARM Windows machines.
I don't care if it's "better" than the existing system, Mozilla should not be helping the advertising industry at all. They should be actively working to block any and all attempts to gain access to user data, flat out. They are not, and their acquisition of an ad company shows that their motives are not in line with what their users want. They're a company after money, no different than any other. Big fucking shame, but when you hire business people and operate as a business, you can't have true integrity no matter what your supposed mission is. Yes, Mozilla operates a nonprofit but they also operate a corporation, and the corporation exists to make money above all else which is why they've succumbed to this ad industry bullshit. I hope we see a viable third option for browser, but until then the best option is a Firefox fork that actually gives a damn about the user and not just their wallets. I've switched to using LibreWolf on all of my devices. Like Firefox, but without the anti-user, pro-ad-industry garbage turned on by default. I've been calling Firefox adware for years now ever since they started stuffing Mozilla VPN ads, sponsored link garbage, "Pocket recommendations" horseshit, and all the other paid/sponsored nonsense in users' faces without their permission but people were like "no no Mozilla is actually good"....cut it out, Mozilla has shown their hands very clearly now. They want the advertising $$$ and are willing to give up any respect and integrity they used to have for it. They aren't at the level of Chrome and Google, but they're inching closer every day and acquiring their own ad company certainly isn't going to help in that regard.
Both Huaying and Delta fans are OEM, your Deck could have either fan. Valve has multiple suppliers for some parts.
Same. I started really using Linux with Ubuntu 6.06 and was drawn in by its "Linux for human beings" goals - the Ubuntu homepage of the era really pushed the ideals of community and openness. Canonical sat in the background paying to send you free CDs in the mail. It was such an idealistic thing back then.
And then it all changed around 2010. The color scheme shifted to a shitty MacOS lookalike, the human elements were dropped, the logo was reworked, it got bundled with a paid music store, then Amazon ads in the search, and it's been a roller coaster on a downward spiral ever since. I switched to Debian not long after the initial enshittification in the early 2010s and have not looked back, though I moved most of my systems to Arch a few years back because I like life in the fast rolling release lane and Debian wouldn't support my new GPUs.
Just fitting objects into the smallest box isn't everything according to the article. This is trying to identify fragile objects and recommend appropriate protective packaging where required to minimize the risk of damage in shipping. If you use a conventional packing algorithm to pack dishes and vases into the smallest box you will receive a box of glass shards on your doorstep. Is AI the best solution? I'm not sure, but using actual statistics of damaged goods and their means of packaging sounds like a worthwhile consideration.
The AMD radv driver is best for gaming at the moment IMO. If you're stuck with NVIDIA hardware then yes, the proprietary driver is the best for gaming as the open source driver is quite slow, but the good news is that this is rapidly changing after being stagnant for 5+ years. NVK is the new open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver in Mesa and it just recently left experimental to be included officially in the next Mesa release. Also, NVIDIA's GSP firmware changes mean that the open source nouveau kernel driver can finally reclock NVIDIA GPUs to high performance clocks/power states thus it could achieve performance parity with the proprietary driver with enough optimization. On my RTX 3070 laptop it is still significantly slower and some games don't work yet, but there is no flickering or tearing that I experience with the proprietary driver. Unfortunately for GTX 10 series users, these cards do not use GSP firmware and have no means of reclocking still so they will be stuck using only proprietary drivers for the forseeable future.
git reflog, you can get your old commits back
Or choose btw (Arch)
They already refuse to fix their EAC so that the game can run on Linux so I can't not play their game any more than I already do. I played Paladins briefly when Overwatch was having its China drama and enjoyed it, but I'm done booting Windows to play games.
This is why I trust GPL licenses over things like MIT. Fully permissive licenses are ripe for developers to sell out. GPL licenses ensure the code remains open and limits even what the original developer can do (so long as they merge a sufficient number of third party changes to make relicensing impossible). Permissive licenses allow developers to close off future updates should they desire. I haven't looked at the license of Mastodon's code to be fair, I'm just speaking in general.
Good. I'm tired of the absolute cancer that is paid content with an expiration date that you still have to play to actually unlock. Either let us play the game to unlock content (the way things should be) or sell us the content if you must, but don't double dip and require both. Absolute madness that this shitty concept ever was greenlit but gaming companies are scum these days. Valve is the best of the bunch, but their hands aren't clean of bad monetization tactics.
I wrote a program to do just that
https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/TouchpadEmulator