QEMU is vastly superior. Supports a great amount of different architectures and KVM acceleration is painless. Plus it’s not from Oracle.

It doesn’t help that they keep deprecating and changing standard stuff every other version. It’s like they can’t make up their mind and everything may be subject to change. Updating to the most recent release can suddenly cause 10s or 100s of compiler warnings/errors and things may no longer behave the same. Then you look up the new documentation and realize that you have to refactor a large part of the codebase because the “new way” is for whatever reason vastly different.

On distros w/o systemd there is always syslog-ng. s6 also has its own log system.

It’s not necessary, but a good thing to have if something goes wrong and you want to debug/monitor something. It’s really up to you and your needs.

Whenever I used macOS I felt very restricted, like as if I had to do real work but all I had in front of me was a toolbox full of plastic toys meant for children. It was NOTHING like GNOME, despite what many like to parrot. Compared to macOS, GNOME on Linux or BSD is SO much better in terms of workflow.

https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker

Gallium-Nine also tends to be buggy if used with 32-bit software in particular. All the 32-bit games I’ve tried have problems with it. They usually work fine for the first 30-60 minutes and after that the framerate becomes unstable to the point where the game becomes unplayable. It happens consistently with Gallium-nine but not at all with DXVK.

It’s like the cyber zombie apocalypse happened and there are only a few fortified camps left, the fediverse being a federation of camps.

Can’t wait to see all the tech bros training their LLMs on superior western Tube- Intel/ARM-based computers while claiming that chinese RISC-V/LoongArch systems are worse because backdoors and communist spies.

I didn’t realize how much worse YouTube has gotten since I last used it in 2019. Still, through Invidious I’ve been noticing that the comments on popular videos have gotten weird, especially in recent years. Also it seems like YouTube is deleting any comment that is even remotely negative. Because all I ever see anymore are generic positive praise comments. Meanwhile there are content farms out there that put out videos for “Kids” on a rapid pace that contain borderline sexual content. I wish more people would start using PeerTube because I have a feeling that YouTube won’t be getting any better in the future.

incognito mode in chrome is little more than the illusion of being logged off.

Which shouldn’t be a surprise since Chrome itself is just another one of Google’s spyware products.

Westmere Xeon processors are still quite OK imo. I have an old enterprise machine with one. 12 Threads, 2.6 GHz is still quite usable for many things. I mostly use it to compile larger software. But personally I’d argue that Longsoon is already far better than Intel/AMD since Longsoon is based on MIPS, which is based on RISC, while Intel/AMD still clings to their bloated and way too power hungry CISC crap. Plus today most performance comes from parallelism and cache size rather than core frequency and Longsoon does already have 128 and 256-bit vector instructions in their ISA, which is pretty decent. Maybe they can figure out a 512-bit vector extension that doesn’t severely throttle the CPU when using it before Intel can, lol.

Same. But I also want to live long enough to experience the world post collapse, at least for a little bit.

US Imperials about to seethe

I have the same experience. I wrote a simple program with SDL2 to test a software renderer. All it does is create a window then go into an event loop and after each iteration it streams a framebuffer to a texture that gets displayed in the window. In the default mode (X11) my frame timings fluctuate a lot and for a while I tried to massage the code to get it stable because I was convinced that it was just my draw code. Then I eventually forced SDL2 to use Wayland and not only did the draw time per frame go down by 2ms but the fluctuations went away completely.

It’s depressing to see so many AI powered FOSS projects that are basically just a chatbot/autocomplete or something that can spit out some images, when there are so many cool things you could use Neural nets for. For instance, as a FLOSS enthusiast a tool to help with reverse engineering proprietary binaries, specifically firmware and driver blobs would be awesome and could permanently change computing for the better. But everyone in the west seems to be more concerned with how they can use Neural nets to reduce production costs and increase profits.

Nice. Go home imperials

ComfyUI seems like the most promising but it also uses ROCm/CUDA which don’t officially support any of my current GPUs (models load successfully but midway through computing it fails). Why can’t everyone just use compute shaders lol.

I’m pretty sure I tried that one but it kept running out of VRAM. Also it utilizes proprietary AMD/NVidia software stacks which are a pain to set up. GPT4ALL is a lot better in that regard, they just use Vulkan compute shaders to run the models.

On the topic of GPT4ALL, I’m curious is there an equivalent of that that but for txt2img/img2img models? All the FOSS txt2img stuff I’ve tried so far is either buggy (some of the projects I tried don’t even compile), require a stupid amount of third party dependencies, are made with NVidia hardware in mind while everyone else is second class or require unspeakable amounts of VRAM.

Kepler cards work “OK” with nouveau. What sucks is that reclocking has to be done manually, video decoding/encoding requires firmware blobs and OpenGL support tends to be meh. Overall it’s an unstable experience. I have a stack of Kepler based cards that would still be usable if Linux/mesa had a decent driver.