LaggyKar

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[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

It's better in one way, in that updates are applied on reboot rather than pulling the rug put from under running applications. But I agree that it doesn't go all the way, as it doesn't provide a verifiable base system with clearly separated modifications. OSTree would be great.

Another possibility would be to distribute a base image as a btrfs send stream (possibly differential against previous versions) containing a compose-fs image and associated files. And then OS extensions could be installed with systemd-sysext.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 14 points 8 months ago

I used to use it, but then I switched to MPV, as it works a lot better with hardware acceleration. MPV supports more methods for hardware decoding (e.g. nvdec), and also MPV will keep the frames in VRAM when doing hardware decoding, and do additional processing and presentation using the GPU, while VLC copies everything back to system RAM and processes the frame on the CPU.

At the time I switched hardware decoding with copy-back would actually result in twice the CPU usage compared to software decoding, but that was a long time ago. Also, I would get tearing in VLC and not in MPV.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You're right, that might work

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

That requires root

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Motorola and Nokia have phones with 3.5mm jack, and they come with pretty clean Android, without a bunch of bloat, aggressive task killers and whatnot. Though I can't speak for camera, photosphere or repairability.

Pixels are good in some ways, but of course, those don't come with a 3.5mm jack.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

A310 is the cheapest.

I wonder how well it does for transcoding on older computers without ReBAR, since apparently gaming on it is straight out broken without ReBAR. As in, it would actually freeze for a second or so every now and then.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem is the previous one only has 2G, and the 2G networks will soon be shut down, hence why they're making a 4G version.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Could be that the graphics card is outputting an HDR signal (Rec. 2020 color space), but the monitor is in SDR mode. That would result in desaturated colors.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Already daily driving it on my laptop, which uses AMD graphics, and my work laptop, which uses Intel graphics. For Nvidia, there's missing explicit sync (which should be fixed soon), and Steam completely freaking out (might get fixed by explicit sync). Kwin also seems a bit unstable on Nvidia, but I haven't tested it for extended periods of time.

I also have a computer with display on an Nvidia card via reverse prime, which suffers performance issues on Wayland. Might be improved on Plasma 6, but that computer runs OpenSUSE Leap, so it won't get that for some time.

There is also the issue of picture-in-picture, but that can be worked around with Kwin rules.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Have they done anything about the lack of security? Last I checked, anyone could mount an NFS share and access it as whatever user they wanted, without authentication.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That though would make it break when the host system updates glibc, just like it does in snappy.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

But then you also need to cover your face

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