Zangoose @ Zangoose @lemmy.world

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Do you know what a use-after-free bug is? Rust was literally designed to make this type of memory bug impossible.

But then the kernel wouldn't be free! Free as in 'use-after-free'!

(/s in case it wasn't obvious)

My town has $20 million of debt in our education department alone that we didn't know about until this year after a board of education administration change 😭 so I think 10,000 might not make too much of a difference to them. That being said I'd probably donate to a local foodbank

The problem with CachyOS is that it's arch-based, which is fine, but I wouldn't recommend it for people who aren't willing to deal with arch problems and be familiar (or willing to learn) using the CLI. I normally just point people to either mint or bazzite depending on how many games they play.

once installed, what everyone and their uncle forgot to mention during the rave reviews (and you kinda glossed over) is that a steam account is fucking mandatory. like, you can't even log in, switch to desktop mode, change resolution, nada. ...

This is not true. When you download the installer from their website there is a prompt asking you if you want a Desktop-first install or the Steam-mode first install. The desktop install boots directly into KDE or Gnome just like any other distro, and doesn't require a steam account, but will come with the steam launcher pre installed.

I get that it's not great UX to put install options like that in the website but If you're going to go on a long rant about how awful it is, please at least put a fraction of that effort into seeing if you're actually right.

If you chose to download the steam gaming mode version I think it's understandable that the expectation is that you have a steam account. The whole point of that mode to begin with is that it replicates the experience you'd get on the steam deck, so you can make your own home-console PC or install it on a handheld like the Lenovo or ASUS ones. It's not really designed around regular desktop use.

Side note, I haven't used it much yet but so far bazzite has been working fine on my i7 7700hq + 1050ti laptop with the same ram and storage as yours that I got because it couldn't run Windows 11. It should be about as powerful as yours, maybe slightly weaker on the CPU side and slightly better on the GPU side. Have you looked into it being maybe some weird driver issue with your laptop's power management? It could maybe have something to do with that.

I like the idea but I feel like it makes a lot of the endstone look almost greenish? It looks a little off to me

The name "tapeworm" also predates the invention of tape. From what I can tell (Google search results) tape used to refer to any long, thin strip of material instead of just the sticky kind.

Does winboat have GPU support? Could be wrong but I was under the assumption that it works similarly to WinApps and can't have GPU passthrough to the virtualized windows install under the hood

The Pixel 10 series' launch was at basically the same time as the release of Android 16, so they used a more-custom-than-normal android branch to get things working. That means that people haven't been able to get Pixel 10s booting on any regular AOSP images. GrapheneOS is kind of just stuck waiting until Google pushes the QPR1 update to AOSP.

Generation proxmox?

They haven't released Android 16 QPR1 to AOSP yet, even though it came out on Pixels at the beginning of September. Normally the gap is ~1-2 days.

So yeah, a lot of custom rom devs are pretty bleak right now and honestly their concerns are pretty warranted given that it's Google we're talking about.

Is citron the emulator that tried to implement DRM into their emulator? I don't really remember but I've been meaning to find a good yuzu fork recently

That's the thing though. If I'm going to need to be on-call tech support then Linux isn't actually a better option then Windows. Sure it would be more private and less sucky but if the computer doesn't actually work then that doesn't mean anything. I'm willing to make ad-hoc workarounds to my own problems because I'm a software developer and don't mind falling down a rabbit hole to get something like push-to-talk working with a custom pipewire script. My friends who want to play games and relax when they get home from work are understandably not willing to go through that hassle.

I'd love for Linux to be ready for daily driving but for most people I know it just isn't. Maybe when Wayland desktops are more mature but I'm not going to make people choose between functioning shortcuts (X11) and functioning monitors (Wayland).

I could never get any of my friends on Linux (maybe I'll be able to now that Windows 10 is dying) but I was able to get everyone on prism instantly because it's just a better launcher than the official one in every possible way (it's also on Windows and MacOS)

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1683/

If it's only for them then they shouldn't mind getting their Wayland protocol veto privilege taken away 🤷

As someone who probably fits your definition of "young," nah this is painful no matter how old you are. I've done this several times since high school and every time I feel miserable for about 2 days after. If you don't get enough sleep it starts to become normal, until you start getting enough sleep again.

Sleep is important y'all, don't miss out on it

Note that if you're in the US, Samsung doesn't unlock the bootloaders at all and afaik Motorola is also hit or miss. Importing a phone is also risky as international versions might not have the cell bands required for US carriers.

If you want a custom ROM in the US you basically have to buy a pixel, and at that point you might as well go with GrapheneOS since it's the most secure

I think there is more evidence pointing to it being the runner's cartridge or N64 having a hardware fault that caused it to happen. If I'm remembering correctly the runner said they had to frequently reset their runs because their game would crash for no specific reason, and they would reinsert or adjust the cartridge to get it working again.

They're being pedantic but they're also just factually wrong. The last few generations of Intel macs have an extra security chip called the T2 chip that makes it incredibly obnoxious to get the hardware working correctly on Linux. The wifi cards are also proprietary and you need to extract their firmware from MacOS in order to use them on Linux.

Edit: on top of that the last few generations of Intel macs didn't sell well because they overheated and the keyboards broke easily so they're already at a disadvantage in terms of support even compared to the apple silicon macs