Yeah, I'm only interested in the "least bad" here. Taking usability, libre and performance into account. I don't think that even the Framework Laptop 13 RISC-V will be completely libre.

Thanks for input though!

Actually, it is not true from what I've learned. For example, Intel is about to push chipset/bios upgrades to boost the performance of the new Core Ultra 9 285k. And that kind of driver can at best be open source and in the upstream kernel or at worst closed source and only installed by some windows only bloatware.

Nice website! Thanks!

Having to use windows when upgrading firmware is very Linux unfriendly.

Ah, I think I have a better understanding of the PCIe hardware protocol now. Feel a bit more confident regard a 2 x8 setup. Thanks.

Just for the record: my understanding is that the HW protocol performs a handshake which settles the number of lanes that will be used when establishing a link. And the PCIe standard is always backwards compatible, so things should work just fine even if I buy something that says PCIe 6.0 later. Or at least the lower layers of the protocol should be compatible. And as long bandwidth isn't an issue.

Maybe I should rephrase my question.

Are PCIe 5.0 or backwards compatible 6.0+ devices (GPUs), that say x16 (16 lanes) in their product specification, required by the PCIe standard to also support only 8 lanes? I.e. can the device transceiver decide to not connect if not all lanes are available at the protocol level? I'm not referring to slot size here.

The thing is that there are motherboards that have 2 PCIe 5.0 16x slots that are connected to the CPU (hopefully not false marketing). But the slots are downgraded to 8x if you connect two devices, since a AM5 CPUs only have 24 lanes.

I probably need to read the PCIe 5.0 standard document if I want to be sure.

Because of admiralty law.

Isreal has created a situation where they rely on the far-right in the US for their survival. The same people that was openly anti-semitic about 15 years ago. And will be again, as soon as they forget about the current anti-muslim hype (which is waning). At the same time they have created a situation where maybe 50 million people are willing to die if it means removing Israel from the map, and maybe 6 billion people who thinks it's probably a good idea if Isreal is removed.

USA and the EU has to prepare for 10 million Jewish Israeli refugees, within this century. I believe.

The US Israel lobby is largely responsible for this situation. Responsible because they've pushed the US into a position where they reward Isreal for whatever crazy fundamentalist genocide agenda they run. And Israel is now so good at the operative and tactical level, that they've completely forgotten about the strategic and geopolitical level. For which they will pay sooner or later (tiresome comparing with Nazi Germany, but the situation is very similar).

I feel sorry for all the Arabs that are victims because of this. And I feel sorry for the many Israelis who actually did not vote for the current far-right sionist regime and its suicidal strategy.

That's what I thought. Thanks. The specification says that only 24 of the 28 lanes are available. Do you know why?

Solved it! And it was mostly due to my incompetence (like not being good at RTFM and being a Guile Scheme noob). I did the following to get a functional Emacs environment for hacking on my Guix home configuration:

1. Load the right path by adding the following to my init.el.

(with-eval-after-load 'geiser-guile
  (add-to-list 'geiser-guile-load-path "~/.config/guix/current/share"))
(with-eval-after-load 'geiser-guile
  (add-to-list 'geiser-guile-load-path "~/src/nonguix"))

2. Load the configuration file with Geiser Guile. C-c C-l or geiser-load-file or geiser-load-current-buffer.

Then it should work.

I thought that it was enough to load the path to the cloned Guix (not compiled) source code and then just open a Geiser Guile REPL associated with the current file.

These two chapter in the manual helped: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-repl and https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Using-Guix-Interactively. I kind of missed these chapters and went straight for the "perfect setup".

I think the manual should inform new users that they can load ~/.config/guix/current/share/ into Geiser Guile if they want to hack on their home configuration. Or maybe I missed that part.

I can relate to this. And off the record (I know it's not always a super appreciated opinion in the Fediverse): for this kind of problem I find that LLMs help a lot.

Thanks for sharing!

That kind of behavior can also be a sign that the documentation is hard to find or hard to comprehend. Or that something isn't documented at all, but the seniors imagine it is, because the answer is obvious to them.

If someone actually wants help searching Lemmy or the Fediverse, I recommend this site: https://fedi-search.com/

Very simple, but it does the job. It's also good if one wants to learn advanced Google queries.

Remember that most people don't even know there is something called "rankings" or "indexer" in this context.

Probably good, but I want to stay away from anything related to Kubernetes. My experience is that it's an overkill black hole of constant debugging. Unfortunately. Thanks though!

Looks good. Thanks!