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Gallium-Nine also tends to be buggy if used with 32-bit software in particular. All the 32-bit games I’ve tried have problems with it. They usually work fine for the first 30-60 minutes and after that the framerate becomes unstable to the point where the game becomes unplayable. It happens consistently with Gallium-nine but not at all with DXVK.
Can’t wait to see all the tech bros training their LLMs on superior western Tube- Intel/ARM-based computers while claiming that chinese RISC-V/LoongArch systems are worse because backdoors and communist spies.
Same. But I also want to live long enough to experience the world post collapse, at least for a little bit.
Got a link to the article?
Nice. Go home imperials
ComfyUI seems like the most promising but it also uses ROCm/CUDA which don’t officially support any of my current GPUs (models load successfully but midway through computing it fails). Why can’t everyone just use compute shaders lol.
I’m pretty sure I tried that one but it kept running out of VRAM. Also it utilizes proprietary AMD/NVidia software stacks which are a pain to set up. GPT4ALL is a lot better in that regard, they just use Vulkan compute shaders to run the models.
On the topic of GPT4ALL, I’m curious is there an equivalent of that that but for txt2img/img2img models? All the FOSS txt2img stuff I’ve tried so far is either buggy (some of the projects I tried don’t even compile), require a stupid amount of third party dependencies, are made with NVidia hardware in mind while everyone else is second class or require unspeakable amounts of VRAM.
Kepler cards work “OK” with nouveau. What sucks is that reclocking has to be done manually, video decoding/encoding requires firmware blobs and OpenGL support tends to be meh. Overall it’s an unstable experience. I have a stack of Kepler based cards that would still be usable if Linux/mesa had a decent driver.
XMPP is cool but so many things that you’d expect to be standard are extensions that both the Server and all the Clients need to have installed and enabled. Also some XMPP clients don’t support all extensions and some extensions also require third party software and extra setup. Matrix just works.
That being said signing up to matrix.org is cringe. Absolutely host your own homeserver.
I found the best strategy for reddit right now (besides not using it) is to go for tiny, less obvious subs where the average post has at most a double digit upvote count and a handful of comments. Anything bigger gets dangerous since it may get ranked higher in r/all
Or the buggy Bloom effect in Cities Skylines, Stellaris and Surviving Mars that would cause flicker and a weird black screen. Pretty sure they never bothered to fix that.
It’s especially jarring when the post has like hundreds or even thousands of upvotes and tons of engagement, and then you check the subreddit and the average post there gets like 50 upvotes and a couple comments. I’m 100% certain some Imperial 3 letter agency has a legal bot farm just sitting around.
Debian is still the better distro overall compared to Ubuntu imo. and it’s much more lightweight too. Canonical has become more and more like Microsoft in recent years.
Firefox does sandbox everything but vulnerabilities exist and sometimes go unnoticed for a while before they’re discovered and patched. If a malicious script does manage to escape the sandbox it will be able to do literally anything to the system since it has root privileges. It would have full access to any device that’s in /dev, it could create, modify and delete udev or iptables rules, it could mess with the BIOS since the kernel exposes EFI variables, if the mainboard has re-writable flash chips for the firmware it could write malicious code to them since they may show up in /dev, etc. If any of this makes you uneasy then you probably should stop running stuff as root in general except for when you really need to.
Also in general you don’t want to run any graphical applications on a Server unless there is a very specific reason for it because it takes up extra resources and therefore makes the machine use more power overall. This is especially bad when the machine in question has no hardware acceleration and renders everything in software. Remote desktop also adds CPU/GPU load and takes up a good bit of I/O and network bandwidth which is not ideal for a NAS server.
Happy new year!
May the US Empire decline and crumble more this year. 
Anyone that thinks X11 is still superior probably runs on a laptop with a single screen.
It really does seem that way. I’ve dealt with many different multi-monitor setups on X11 and only ever had problems. For example, I have an AMD based setup with 3 monitors, 2 are average 1080p60 displays and the third has a higher refresh rate. On X11 this setup always has either screen tearing/flickering, unusually high CPU usage by the compositor or the refresh rate seems noticeably off and hot-plugging additional monitors makes things behave weird or even crash, especially when unplugging monitors. On setups with multiple monitors across multiple GPUs it’s the same but worse. On Wayland it all just works without any problems, no matter the setup. Hot-plugging monitors on Wayland is very seamless. Even X11 software runs better for me on Wayland.
I agree. The proxy solution they’re proposing seems like a band-aid on a fundamental design issue to me. It’s easier to just tack yet another library onto a big project than to refactor large amounts of code. This is exactly why a lot of software is getting more and more shit.
https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker