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I don’t think they’re waiting for ARM specifically. If that ends up working out, sure, but if they can get x86 with the right power to performance ratio I doubt they would complain.

x86 to ARM translation is a fairly different problem than what proton solves, so I don’t think it’s clearly in their wheelhouse. Proton / wine is mostly just an implementation of windows libraries on Linux, but doing efficient x86 emulation on arm is a compiler problem. I would guess that Valve could do it or at least hire people to do it, but it’s a bit of a different skill set. Doing x86 efficiently on ARM (particularly with concurrency) also likely involves some extensions to ARM like Apple does with their chips. I haven’t heard if the snapdragon elite chips have anything for x86 compatibility baked in at all. Frankly, I’m treating the snapdragon elite with a fair degree of scepticism until you can actually buy the thing, but I hope it’s good!

Display manufacturers may understand what Valve might want in a screen, but they might not understand how many units of a screen of such a specification they would be able to sell — is it going to be a custom job for just a few thousand of valve’s experimental console (which may have different degrees of success), or is it going to be something that they can sell to more people and a wider audience.

There’s definitely things to dislike about Apple, but a lot of the complaining just feels like some childish console war.

The arch wiki tends to be a good resource, but I would argue that the arch wiki is not really the same thing as the arch distribution. It’s definitely part of the ecosystem and relevant to user experience with a distribution… but I think my interpretation of “best / worst distro” is mostly in terms of “when you know how to use it, how is it?” If documentation is a factor NixOS is terrible, if documentation is not a concern then it’s amazing haha.

I’ve personally been kind of disappointed with my experience with Arch, and I don’t think the Arch wiki redeems it in the sense that no matter how good the wiki is I still don’t really want to use Arch. My problems with Arch are largely just related to the upgrade processes, which I haven’t had great experiences with. In my experience it’s painful to roll back, pin / install specific versions of packages, and the update process with pacman is just rough in my experience (e.g., the keyring update issue, or the fact that it deletes all kernel modules for the running kernel on an update). My impression is that some of this stems from the philosophy of KISS (e.g., why have rollbacks for system updates when you could use snapshots for that), which I think is fair in some cases, but less fair for others (like the keyring update). Ultimately I feel like these choices in Arch just make it not the distro for me. I’ve been bitten too many times by it, and I feel like other distros do a better job of managing packages and at maintaining a stable and updatable system. I’ve had far better experiences on Gentoo and NixOS in these respects. At the end of the day if you like Arch that’s fine by me — I get the appeal as it’s kind of the main rolling release distro that provides binaries, but it didn’t scratch the itch for me unfortunately!

Bring a camera.

Can you do both at the same time?

If people like Arch, more power to them… but I feel like no distro despises their users as much as Arch does. Just please for the love of god update the keychain first without manual intervention T_T (I think maybe this finally got fixed recently?).

So… more importantly, what’s the story with the HDR support? I know there was something with gamescope supporting it. Is this something that’s finally going to be available on a normal Linux desktop?

It is kind of weird that real world measurements always have error to them so you only really know something to a few digits of precision… but mathematical constants like pi can have effectively have unlimited significant figures (but it’s kind of pointless to have more because any real world applications only need a rather small amount of them). I feel kind of similarly about integration. It’s nice to find a closed form solution for an integral, which can make certain calculations a lot faster and more accurate… but in reality if you’re just solving an integral or two for an engineering project you’re probably better off just computing it numerically to the correct number of sig figs. There’s something a little sad about that to me.

There’s facts about pi we don’t know, though. We have not proved whether or not pi contains every finite sequence of digits. A breakthrough about this will probably have little to do with brute force computing billions of digits of pi, but maybe there can be a clue there. As far as I know we basically just calculate a bunch of pi to flex. It’s the mathematical equivalent of walking around shirtless to show off your abs.

People keep talking about a federated YouTube… I kind of want a federated Google docs.

I think you’ll be waiting a pretty long time for high end RISC-V CPUs, unfortunately. I don’t particularly trust Qualcomm, but I’m really hoping to see some good arm laptops for Linux.

My experience running arm on x86 with qemu was dog slow. This was years ago, though, so hopefully it has gotten better.

The particle collider also doesn’t need to ensure the safety of the particles. Frankly, if it did it would be a rather shitty collider.

I was kind of thinking that $22 billion really doesn’t seem like that much money for a project like this.

I stopped using monal in favour of Siskin, but I think it’s gotten a lot better recently too. My problem was monal started sending notifications for every message in every chat room at some point so I uninstalled it. I assume this has been resolved.

Siskin, but it doesn’t do push with omemo perfectly. Monal does that better.

The iOS clients have gotten miles better in recent years. It’s still far from perfect, but I’m grateful for the improvements.

It’s not, but I think this things serve a similar roll as a stream of content for people, without the need to curate their subscriptions so much.