Alex @ stsquad @lemmy.ml

FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

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How many people maintain LibreWolf? How closely does it track the upstream?

The app has been slow to update to Wayland. In general I've just gotten used to using the web version.

Yeah my kids don't have gaming PCs (yet?) but have fun playing through a bunch of the plus stuff when they are not on Minecraft or (shudder) Roblox on their tablets.

Price rises aren't welcome and the latest one does seem quite high. However I've been paying for plus since I got my PS4 and I'm still ok with it. Considering I maybe buy one game every two years for the price of another triple A game a year I've built up quite a library. The hours my partner has put into Spiritfarer, Slay the Spire and Hades indicates it's still providing good value. Every month we at least check out the new games unless it's a survival horror.

If I have one complaint it's since I got off the CoD train as I got older when I do occasionally dip into the free ones via plus I find it very hard to find any online matches. I assume this is because all the hardcore players move pretty quickly to the current iteration leaving the lobbies of the older games empty.

Not even as an Android app? I've run Firefox from crostini as well but the Android approach is a lot easier.

Is this the coughing from ::: spoiler spoiler the red infection spreading in Forbidden West ::: ?

but not quick enough to commit some ecocide of the local wildlife?

I've never had problems with hotspotting on all my pixels. I think this only occurs when you get the handset from the network rather than unlocked and off plan. After all only the phone knows where each packet came from.

lol - it looks like a Sync bug, I've used the website edit box to tweak the tag.

Hopefully the spoiler tag works.

There is a standardised boot flow. The SBSA architecture specifies minimum specs, firmware interfaces and how platform initialisation works. You can buy Windows on Arm machines that follow this and boot any modern Arm distro on them. It's currently a small selection but it's growing.

I'd rather they didn't have to waste their valuable engineer time supporting the small niche case of some making certain magic binaries a little easier to hack on. Their time can be much better spent working on the upstream project wherever it might be hosted. As long as the license is respected Red Hat can distribute as they want. Indeed you could argue that CentOS stream provides the "preferred form" of code access required for building Red Hat like distros.

This is a storm in a teacup when we have bigger oceans to boil.

The GPL only cares about ensuring the four freedoms are maintained for binaries and their related sources. It has nothing to say about other services you may or may not be asked to pay for. Indeed as you say the GPL allows for reasonable costs to supply source code. We have gotten used to this being ubiquitous and "free as in beer" but it's not really. All this distribution costs someone somewhere money to do.

The four freedoms may say you can run the program for any purpose without restriction but there are definitely other laws that would have a say if you did certain things with those programs.

What further restrictions are they making? You are free to do whatever you want with the source code provided for the binaries they distributed to you.

They are not getting around anything - they just won't keep you as a customer if you redistribute the patches. But no one is stopping anyone from exercising their rights under the GPL.

There is a lot of talk about their community reputation and really for me as a FLOSS developer this comes from the work of their engineers in the upstream. We don't care about the downstreams because the people that do pay someone to care about it for them. If anything the only real practical difference for us is it makes it harder to include RHEL/RHEL-like distros in our CI loops. However they are big enough to worry about that themselves.

It's certainly a distro that will help you understand how a Linux system is put together. It's fairly unmatched in its ability to craft your selection of binaries with just the features you want and no fat. However the downside of that is you get to keep all the pieces of your bespoke collection of binaries when some interaction gets missed. Adding new packages is super easy, especially if the package uses a build system which is already understood by Gentoo's eclasses.

I used to run Gentoo on my x86 desktop but given how frequently things like browsers need to be rebuilt it became a chore. Now I tend to run Debian stable with the occasional backport/snap/flatpak if I want a newer app.

However I do have a nice little 24 core Arm server which sucks a continuous 5w idle or fully loaded. When I got it we were doing a lot of Arm enablement work and Gentoo made sense from a developer flexibility point of view. It runs the ~amd64 profile because I got bored of unmasking stuff for ~arm64 when most packages just work when built on non-x86 these days. The rare cases that don't I can always submit the patches upstream.

I enjoy combining some holiday when I travel for work to new cities (e.g. taking the weekend after a conference). However the idea of being productive away from my home office where things are setup for maximum productivity is silly. I'm 100% WFH but wouldn't want to combine that with traveling even if I could (family etc).

I blame the streaming algorithms for that one. It's certainly a banger of a song but things like You Tube music can't help but it insert it into any vaugley guitar based auto playlist I might listen to.

If you consider the amount of text an LLM has to consume to replicate something approaching human like language you have to appreciate there is something else going on with our cognition. LLM's give responses that make statistical sense but humans can actually understand why one arrangement of words might not make sense over the other.