Vik @ vikingtons @lemmy.world

grow a plant, hug your dog, lift heavy, eat healthy, be a nerd, play a game

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Fully agreed on Fairphone. The mission is noble but the execution has been poor. I saw a revent interview with Nirav Patel, hoping against hope that framework would turn to phones next.

In the end it seems the most degoogleable phone is the pixel.

Safteynet is now more or less deprecated anyway. I shared this concern until I reached out to the team, mind you.

I also only recently learned that microg can run unprivileged

What binary blobs does microG download from Google? If you're referring to safetynet, this is opt in and deprecated now anyway.

MicroG can also work unprivileged though that is contingent on your ROM

Unfortunately PSP is required for x86 core initialisation. I'm not sure if this can actually be bypassed.

You'll want to upgrade your system BIOS when your board vendor makes this fix available.

I love that the pup is all like

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"🥺"

"HONK"

The link includes 'CVE-2023-31315'

that's all well and good, I was just responding to someone who wanted the list of affected products

Isn't this specific to AGESA rather than the hardware itself?

The article links to this:

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7014.html

RISC-V ISA isn't magically exempt from vulnerabilities. You can still be hit at a microcode level.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostWrite-Vulnerability-RISC-V

For AMD, I'm wondering if OpenSIL can help prevent similar, deep system firmware vulnerabilities from lingering cross numerous product generations.

On Steam, I use -novid -anticheat_settings=SettingsDX12.json

It does and has done for quite a while now on Wayland. GNOME Presently has experimental support for it but it works well enough in my testing.

Gotta love how they keep referring to it as an arena shooter despite these classes or factions.

To add to this, you can also boot apex in the dx12 mode on Linux (this will switch it from DXVK to VKD3D).

The benefit of this is that the game will generate most shaders at the title screen ahead of time. This greatly improves first play experience at the cost of having to wait a little bit the first time you open the game.

For what it's worth, s22 in apex seems to have reintroduced an issue with server side connectivity problems that can manifest as acute hitching when close to a large number of other players. You should be able to spot the network icon under these scenarios but it's not always presented in time.

If you're talking about overall input responsiveness, I've found that VRR on Fedora + GNOME + Wayland has made a world of difference

for the package manager remark, you can get by with the GUI on most popular distros now.

I like using the cli but every now and then I challenge myself to only use GUI and I feel like it works fine on fedora, ubuntu etc.

I particularly like that fedora workstation keeps the system updates/upgrades in the GNOME app store, it feels cohesive and intuitive.

Will check this out thank you for the tip!

Excellent sploot. Great form. 11/10

Sort of astounded at this deficiency, though it seems scroll speed is (erroneously) tied to DPI at present?

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/add-touchpad-scroll-sensitivity-adjustment-feature/18097