Tried to install nix but am stuck with an issue I'm not able to resolve. Whenever I boot the system, it uses approx 5min on the boot-up of Nixos Stage #1 as seen in the picture. After a while it will boot into the system but without a GUI. I've done the installation twice, with different isos to make sure I didn't do it wrong. It only works if I downgrade to nixos 23.11, but if I update(+plasma 6) from there It results in the same problem.
The error is:
kernel: Acpi Error: Aborting method (long string) due to previous error (AE_AML_UNINITIALIZED_ELEMENT)
Have no idea what this error is, and there don't seem to be alot of info on it. Reaching out here to see if anyone is able to help me troubleshoot this, as I would really like to try latest Nixos.
I don't usually see as many prints as you have there, but it's quite a few, and the number seems to vary (grow?) over time. I keep meaning to investigate it, but haven't got around to it.
I think you should keep looking in your logs for other problems. If you can share the full log I'd be happy to take a look.
FYI a great way to share your logs (if you have internet on the machine but no GUI) is to use a pastebin like 0x0.st. E.g. do journalctl | curl -F'file=@-' https://0x0.st and post the link here.
I have the same motherboard! I also rock the AMD 6700 XT graphics card, which I acquired this year, so it would defo leave a sour taste in my mouth if this was the guilty puzzlepiece in the my stack.
Whilst trying to install other .iso's late last night i kept seeing the ACPI errors over and over again, which has me thinking this is a problem with my hardware setup, as you suggested by others. Journalctl command results in this if thats to any help; 0x0.st/Xt2e.txt
Describe the bug After following instructions from https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Sway, the Sway DE starts just as expected. However, when you attempt to start it with WLR_RENDERER=vulkan it fails due to:...
Do you also struggle with extremely long boot times? Whenever I reboot or start the computer up, I am stuck with watching the ROG Asus logo for approx 5 whole minutes... Even if I try to press delete to enter bios, it still takes that long for it to enter bios. However, this doesn't always happen, sometimes it decides to be "quick about it". I've just made sure I'm running the latest bios version, and have set all values back to default values. So not sure what it can be. It only started this year, too, after acquiring the AMD GPU...
I dont know if this is the issue, but is your motherboard bios up to date? I had some weird error like this before and after updating my bios it worked.
Agreed with others that this is likely a BIOS issue, and it would be good to check for a firmware update first.
In particular, this looks like it might be an issue with the USB port locations described by your BIOS ACPI. Maybe one of the embedded root hubs? You might be able to play with USB settings in the BIOS Config to see if that helps, especially loading default values. I also think it might be possible to blacklist ports from kernel parameters and that could be a good check... but I'm not very familiar with the parameters in recent years and didn't find anything in a quick search.
As a last ditch, you can disable ACPI entirely, but it can/will cause very odd performance and configuration issues along with no power management. (This goes double for portable systems.)
Hmmm might be, I'm also experiencing very long boot times. Normally have to wait 3-6min while watching the Asus ROG logo before the system decides to boot up. Might just be easier to look for a new mobo than to troubleshoot something I know so little about to be honest.
That's definitely a frustrating situation you have, and I very much encourage you to take the path that feels most possible to you!
Before moving on, I would like to point to trying what u/mvirts suggested, disabling ACPI from the grub bootloader. It's easy and great for getting an installer running and working, and sometimes the freshly installed and updated OS whisks the problem away.
But regardless of what you choose, I wish you much luck in your endeavours!
I'd try the kernel version used in 23.11 to see if that fixes it. Add boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxKernel.packages.linux_6_1; to your config (make sure to add it before the closing }) and sudo nixos-rebuild switch . You can also try older versions, like linux_5_19. If it doesn't fix the problem it might be that the ACPI error is a red herring and the problem is something else entirely, in which case it'd be more difficult to diagnose, and I'd recommend just staying on 23.11 for now and only taking the new packages that you need from 24.05. There's a great post on how to do this here: discourse.nixos.org/t/installi… (probably also in the docs somewhere but I couldn't find it easily).
This is definitely possible, but many ways lead to Rome. To understand this it’s important to first understand what NixOS releases and channels actually are.
I am typing this while sitting in the Fountain Garden at Hampton Court Palace, as a test of being out with it. We are at the Hampton Court Food Festival today. It is a sunny day but the sun is behind me, and I have the screen in my shadow. It is a reflective screen though, so it is not ideal in bright sun. The laptop is balanced on my legs and I’m able to type OK – not super fast still, but getting there (and I have read others in the forums comment about how they have been-able to level up their typing speed on the Pocket).
I’m using the GNOME app, Apostrophe, to do this basic writing, although I’ve also been using a number of TUI apps at the console for a lot of tasks. When I started out, I installed Tilix, which
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Using the Pocket Reform outdoors
I am typing this while sitting in the Fountain Garden at Hampton Court Palace, as a test of being out with it. We are at the Hampton Court Food Festival today. It is a sunny day but the sun is behind me, and I have the screen in my shadow. It is a reflective screen though, so it is not ideal in bright sun. The laptop is balanced on my legs and I’m able to type OK – not super fast still, but getting there (and I have read others in the forums comment about how they have been-able to level up their typing speed on the Pocket).
I’m using the GNOME app, Apostrophe, to do this basic writing, although I’ve also been using a number of TUI apps at the console for a lot of tasks. When I started out, I installed Tilix, which is a console app I use on other Linux machines, in place of Foot which is the default installed on the Pocket; I’m currently using Alacritty instead, as it is fast and minimal. I think I’d been put off from Alacritty before from the lack of menus or GUI for configuration, but do I really need those? Discovering that maybe they are overrated. The laptop is sitting at 94% battery right now. I think it would benefit from a brightness slider adjustment for the screen (by default, the reform-tray tool only offers low and high brightness options). I just used brightnessctl s 80 to turn it down a bit to save on power.
I don’t have mobile phone data right now – I am on the EE network – when we come to this event, I usually do find that the network is patchy. I didn’t put my WWAN / modem card in the laptop before we came out, and I don’t know whether the SIM I am using (which is a network called Smarty) would fare any better! So this is an offline-only deal, which to be honest is fine for writing purposes.
CPU and Performance
I’ve experimented with the Banana Pi RCM4 A311D SoC module in the past week, and that works really nicely and runs slightly cooler than the default Freescale NXP i.MX8M Plus that came in the Pocket from Crowd Supply. I’ve now ordered the RK3588 SoC which will be available soon, as that will give a bigger performance boost and add much more memory. Day-to-day though, although I tinkered with the A311D option, so far the i.MX8MP has been fine for my current limited usage.
Noting that as I’ve been sitting here, the CPU temperature has barely gone near 60C – there is a light breeze out, I am in the shade slightly and the wifi is not doing anything right now, plus I’m not heavily stressing the machine with code compilation or anything like that.
Customisations
A few changes I’ve made to improve the default setup:
I am using Sway over Wayfire. I’ve not really used tiling window managers before, and I’m still trying to get the shortcuts and patterns into my muscle memory, but I think this is ideal for a constrained display.
I changed to a scaled display (output DSI-1 scale 1.5 in my .config/sway/config file) which means there is a bit more space for content without breaking my ability to read the text.
the default system is based on Debian unstable, which means paying attention to bug reports if I run any package upgrades; I’ve learned to love apt mark and apt unmark.
I borrowed a bunch of Waybar config from others, and now have the CPU load, temperature, multiple workspaces etc showing there. I’m sure that I should put my dotfiles online somewhere, at some point.
I installed a lot of tools that have proven to be helpful. Definitely a non-exhaustive list, and YMMV as to whether they are useful to your workflows. wavemon, nvme-cli, hdparm, blktool, avahi-utils, mdns-scan, zip and unzip, build-essential to get compilers etc and git, fdisk, lshw, cups, plocate, fastfetch (ok this one is more just, “because…”), iw, wdisplays, azote, srain.
(BTW, reform-fetch is an alias I made that formats fastfetch to include the MNT logo etc, don’t look for it as a default tool)
I’m hoping that suspend and hibernate are possible in the future, as it would mean that I can shut the lid and throw in my bag when done and pick right back up where I left off later, but it’s not a huge issue for me right now. It is an ideal size for a small messenger satchel I tend to carry around town.
MNT have been making devices that aim to be “open source, accessible and modular” for a number of years. I didn’t get their original Reform laptop, but I’ve seen those around at events like FOSDEM and I’ve been following the team’s progress with interest. When the Pocket Reform was announced I was immediately intrigued – a smaller form factor, 7 inch full Linux system with open hardware that is easily portable.
I went for the Hyper edition, which came with a beautiful Piñatex sleeve, SSD, and printed manual. Purple, of course, because I want to be on brand 🤓 and, also because I love it!
I posted a very brief unboxing video. I’ve now had a couple of weeks to occasionally tinker, and I’ve been putting off writing about it all in part because there’s a lot of things to dig into!
One of the things I like, surprisingly, is the chunkiness of the machine. It is really well constructed, solid, and feels great. Fits in a small cross-body bag or satchel. It’s less than half the size of a 14 inch MacBook Pro – you can more than fit two of them side by side on top of the Mac – but it is about 3 times thicker – and that’s OK, because, it is in service of making the innards very accessible and user serviceable. It comes with a complete manual and schematic, which is something I’ve not had in a computer since the 8-bit machines of my youth! The top half contains the mainboard and display (all the ports are in the top half), and the bottom contains the battery cells and mechanical keyboard. The upper panel has a copper layer and acts as a large heatsink for the processor module. The keyboard is ortholinear, which means it is a direct grid layout rather than offset row-by-row. It’s the first time I’ve used this format, which – along with the smaller keycaps – has made it a little challenging to learn, but I’m doing pretty well now. The trackball is nice and responsive. The backlit keys are easy to adjust. The screen is excellent – bright, and sharp. Actually I think the screen is probably the aspect that has impressed me most so far.
In terms of ports and connectivity – I’ve yet to hook up to an additional screen via the micro-HDMI connector, but I’ve used the USB-C connections (one of which is used to charge / power the machine), and the micro SD slot. The industrial iX connector for ethernet is likely a good choice for the target niche, and certainly does give more space on the motherboard than an RJ45 socket would… but I’ve yet to put my hands on a passive adapter to enable me to plug in to a wired connection, so it’s currently not as useful to me.
There’s a lot more to talk about, primarily (but not exclusively) on the software side, and also around hardware enablement. Out-of-the-box the Pocket Reform runs Debian unstable from MMC, with some customisations to provide a nice getting started wizard. It is important to point out that this is a machine for hackers and tinkerers – although it works very nicely, it’s not all fully baked in places – for example, the firmware for the system controller (a Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip) is being tweaked and tested, and I’ve already tested one update to that. The other day I posted about some issues with an NVMe SSD – that, unfortunately ,was on this machine. I actually think there was a physical hardware issue with the drive, as I’ve now replaced it with a higher-performance NVMe and things are moving along nicely (while the problematic SSD continues to report errors when accessed in an adapter over USB). I also managed to temporarily brick the machine by corrupting the uboot in flash, and needed to rig it up with Dupont wires on headers and access the machine from another via USB to get back to where I wanted to be. Very Open Source! 😎 but, I’m comfortable with this, and knew what I was purchasing. The forums and IRC have proven to be useful so far and I’m enjoying learning as well as hopefully (!?) helping the MNT team through my feedback and bug reports. I have a huge amount of respect for what they have built, their ethos, and their commitment to making this as open hardware as they can.
I should be receiving a modem / WWAN card for the second internal expansion slot shortly. I’ve been both learning the Sway desktop environment and also working out how best to organise my setup, so there will be more to cover in future. I particularly want to play more with the onboard I2C, and other hardware opportunities, as well – for example, potentially swapping in a Raspberry Pi CM4 if that becomes a modular option in the future. andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/06/mnt…
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På kort tid har högerextremister försökt döda palestinademonstranter, bränna ner eller spränga en vänsterpartilokal och överfalla en vänsterpartist i en palestinademonstration i Göteborg. Det handlar om en serie högerextrema attentat mot vänstern.
I searching for a tablet for drawing and discovered this one. Anyone tried drawing on it? I wondering if the experience is good.
On the page they doesn't mention if the screen supports drawing pens, but it's possible to order an MPP pen with it, so I assume that it works with Wacom or Surface pens?
Its fanless design ensures your StarLite will never make more than a whisper - unless you want it to. The Mk V supports coreboot open source firmware which you can effortlessly configure to your preferences via our coreboot configurator.
But i'd say be careful as there's not much information on the screen (refresh rate, gamut range) and it's great to brag about you being able to switch parts but there's not much info on that, i'd be surprised if you can swap anything beside the ssd and some ram. Also the marketing is a bit weird, the keyboard is showed at all time but the price shown is wothout until you try to actually check the price... Kinda scummy if you ask me.
A part of me still think it looks a bit like a barebone low quality tech that is almost useless in it's option-less, low spec state.
Uh, the refresh rate is 60hz the gamut is listed on the specification section. The ram is soldered as it could not be increased it is 16gb which is the max supported by the n200.
main board, screen, battery, daughter board and all the parts can be swapped, they sell them on their website.
I agree the keyboard marketing sucks and the keyboard itself isn't great either. Granted its nice to have a cheaper option without the keyboard, but in current Linux tablet state you probably still want it.
The specs are pretty decent for a tablet and the price of the device. Can handle most tablet tasks and non graphically intensive. I use it for programming and arts and anything needing more power I offload the compile to my PC.
I checked on mobile maybe it is not listed there, I'll check on pc, what do you mean by daughter board ? Also, doing art do you bought their pen ? Is it compatible with other pen tablet pen ? Thanks for all the details !
right yeah my bad, all the io is on the right this one doesn't have a daughter board. The daughter board is for their other laptop. I did buy their pen but its pretty average it works on other tablets but I replaced it with an mp0p 2.0 pen
In my limited experience Wacom pens don’t work with anything but Wacom tablets… I don’t own one of the “new” fancy ones with a screen, but capacitive (most new touch screens) don’t seem to detect the Wacom pen. There are pens out there that are supposed to work with any capacitive screen, but I don’t think they provide the force/angle information that the Wacom pen does.
Now I’m confused again… the specific Lenovo pen you got supported tilt? You mentioned mmp 2.0 was coming, or something to that effect, that was the next version I was referring to.
I was kind of turned off by the keeb* being sold separately, also wasnt the aspect ratio meh.
Rule of thumb larger screen or surface means more fluid strokes, thus smaller screen means more fine motor skills and more tension in the hand and less* fluidity in the work.
I was incorrect about the aspect ratio it's 3:2 not 16:9 and I think 3:2 is fine especially at 2160x1440p.
Still with the dialogs on the left and right anything except minimal would make the drawing area small taking the left and right.
I did notice it on sale, maybe if you have humble expectations it would be okay for sketching, but if you are used to better quality things or larger draw surfaces you might not be easily impressed.
Hey, I own one of these. For drawing its pretty solid and most software can run on it. The device support MPP 1.51 and 2.0, they sell a 1.51 pen but its quite expensive for what it is. The digitizer isn't amazing and I have found external wacom screens to be better but considering the price of the starlite is about the same (when I bought it) as an only drawing tab I went with the starlite.
Performance is decent, I was quite surprised how managable the n200 is. Personally I use it as a study device and it handles 40 Firefox tabs and 15-20 windows just fine. Only thing is that gnome does not support triple buffering yet so overview animation is slightly laggy on the 3k screen, however this is less on the 2k version and fixed with the triple buffer PR.
The screen itself comes in either 3k or 2k. The 3k screen was only the first batch and the second+ batch is 2k. Screen is 60hz and I believe 300 nits.
To get buttons mappable on the pen device currently you have to use a custom libwacom entry. I have a PR for that on the github.
The Tablet itself is very solid
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Hey, I own one of these. For drawing its pretty solid and most software can run on it. The device support MPP 1.51 and 2.0, they sell a 1.51 pen but its quite expensive for what it is. The digitizer isn't amazing and I have found external wacom screens to be better but considering the price of the starlite is about the same (when I bought it) as an only drawing tab I went with the starlite.
Performance is decent, I was quite surprised how managable the n200 is. Personally I use it as a study device and it handles 40 Firefox tabs and 15-20 windows just fine. Only thing is that gnome does not support triple buffering yet so overview animation is slightly laggy on the 3k screen, however this is less on the 2k version and fixed with the triple buffer PR.
The screen itself comes in either 3k or 2k. The 3k screen was only the first batch and the second+ batch is 2k. Screen is 60hz and I believe 300 nits.
To get buttons mappable on the pen device currently you have to use a custom libwacom entry. I have a PR for that on the github.
The Tablet itself is very solid the main complaint I would have is the keyboard, its quite mushy and bounces as it doesn't have much structure. Its alright but not amazing.
Realistic battery is 4-6hr under usage and 9-13 with light usage and ~2 days in full sleep.
main board, screen, battery, daughter board and all the parts can be swapped, they sell them on their website.
nah it doesn't really get that hot, I use it a bit in bed to watch movies and I haven't found it uncomfortable. Its currently winter here though so the passive may not be as great in summer. Anything that's going to heat it up a lot though your prolly going to be using it at a desk.
No I jumped ship in May/June and got a refund as they kept kicking the can down the road for release. Was supposed to be Oct '23. Used that money to get something else for drawing. Curious if I should have waited.
The views are all just webviews. You can find all of the pages in the app/src/main/assets/pages folder, it's all html and css.
Their package name is also still com.example, their target sdk doesn't match their compile sdk, and also neither match with the target sdk in their AppManifest.xml.
So I'm guessing this is just someone who isn't really familiar with java or native android views or something, so just decided to build it in something they do know instead.
Nope. It is an android app. The author is probably using some kind of webview to display the data, so html and css are for laying out and styling the components. This is pretty common nowadays
I don't think I've had issues with reddit, as long as you use the link to the reddit comment thread, not one of the shortlinks or the video link or something else.
Reddit is listed in the list of supported sites. I just tested it with a random post video post on Reddit, and it downloaded the file perfectly fine (played in local player). My theory you either did a user error and gave a link that is not a video post, I'm not sure if posts that link to a video would work, I think the post itself must be a video post. Or you tested it when Reddit blocked yt-dlp. The yt-dlp team needs to update it first, then it functions again. YouTube does the same.
Unless the artist only posts on YouTube, try soulseek. Most files have metadata already included, and if they don't, you can just download from another user.
No you have to edit the file for CD metadata and convert it to flac so you can pretend it was ripped from a CD, as is P2P file sharing tradition. Bonus pts if you put it through some filter to introduce a bunch of noise into the audio. Then ask in chat how you can convert a 128kbps mp3 to flac to increase the quality. Priceless.
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Maybe a little bit shameless plug from me, but I want point to my Bash script for Linux to make the daily yt-dlp life easier: github.com/thingsiplay/yt-dlp-…yt-dlp-lemon -h will show only a few options and yt-dlp-lemon -H shows everything the script supports.
It's the main way I watch youtube now. After Piped and Newpipe stopped working for me across all devices, I only use 2 methods of watching Youtube now. Open in mpv (which is configured to use yt-dlp in the backend to make things faster), and download using yt-dlp. So it's key to me keeping on watching Youtube. Recently, I've started getting ads showing up even on Mobile Vivaldi, so no more YT on my phone.
So my new workflow is to use Piped to find a video, then copy the end of the link and type "yt-dlp " in a terminal, wait for the video(s) to download, and open in mpv.
OR
In some cases, use Qutebrowser, with a custom keybind to open a video in mpv.
How ever YouTubers get paid is entirely between the YouTubers and YouTube, that is the relevant contract. Adblocking is necessary for user security and not negotiable. I do choose to pay some YouTubers via Patreon but that's completely a personal choice that I feel no obligation towards,
So my new workflow is to use Piped to find a video, then copy the end of the link and type “yt-dlp ” in a terminal, wait for the video(s) to download, and open in mpv.
Why not just pass the YouTube link to mpv so you don't have to wait for the video to download?
I still have to wait a long time for the video to load in the Mpv cache, and sometimes I want a bunch of videos to watch later (or watch multiple times if they're educational). In which case, I either open up a bunch of videos in their own mpv windows and they all load while I'm watching the first one, or I download them while I'm doing something else.
But loading a bunch of mpv windows is heavier than a bunch of terminals running yt-dlp (and I could also just switch to using tmux.... which I probably should get around to at some point).
Strange. I downloaded thousands of videos with this tool (but just watched a handful of them) and never noticed an out of sync. Can you point me to a video I can download and test where you have this issue? Is it a new issue? Maybe Google is trolling us or you or your region.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
I've downloaded it and replayed the video file in VLC Player. Just skipped parts and listened to it a few seconds, also towards and at the end when we see the person speaking. It looks fine to me, the lips are synced to what he is speaking. Besides that the uploader could have made a mistake (I've seen videos desynced online), this seems to be fine. It could be a problem with the video player or codec on your system? Or the ffmpeg version you have (yt-dlp uses ffmpeg to do stuff).
It's hard to say what's going on. I can only confirm that downloading this video with yt-dlp looks correctly synced to me. Edit: I remember in the past I had a video player that would out of sync for long video sessions. It was a problem with some codec not properly supported or like that and switching the video player worked. I have no more information, it was random on a Tuesday morning years ago.
Wow, thanks for the reply! I guess it must be a problem on my end. I was playing with kodi on a raspberry pi,, so I'm not surprised, but really helpful to know that it's not the downloader.
I've had audio sync issues on kodi myself-- specifically osmc on Vero V which is optimized for playback. I tried checking my notes, because it was some time ago. Nothing definitive, but it may have been related to a random crashing issue that turned out to be a bad hdmi port-- which was the last thing I considered checking after triple checking everything else. Anyway, good luck with the troubleshooting. Audio sync issues are a pain but I can also attest yt-dlp has been solid.
I wrote my own web app in Python, using pytube-fix and its lightning fast. Great library. I found a recent screenshot that's a bit behind in commits but you get the idea.
Edit: I published the source code, please note there is a LOT of work left to do, but it works. codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafte…
Thanks! Would you happen to know how to install with pipx? I don't fully understand Python venv stuff, but I followed instructions on how to install yt-dlp using pipx. I'm not clear on whether I could do that with your app.
So, pipx only installs a single package into an isolated environment, and my app has a list of package dependencies that must all work together. If you run the instructions in my readme line by line, you should get it working, but I understand sometimes that's not the way everyone wants to do things in a one-off manner. I have been spending some time this week getting my Dockerfile finalized and my build scripts working, so I hope to have a docker image ready within a few weeks at least of the application in its current state.
Happy to, I'll do it tonight. Just be aware this is only "good enough for myself doing some testing" level yet. I do plan on doing a lot more work. EDIT: here goes nothing: codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafte…
If you use it frequently, I suggest getting a GUI that have profiles or remember options so you don't have to mess with commands all the time. I wrote my own little command line wrspper which is Windows only since I don't have Linux to test on. Though it shouldn't take much effort to add support.
Makes it much more convenient when you don't have to specify things like archive (ignore duplicates), filename to be "artist - title" (where possible), download destination, etc. Just alt-tab, Ctrl-v, Enter. And the download is running. And mine also has parallel downloads and queue for when you got many slow downloads.
The two options for compensating a creator for their work online are advertisements or direct payments. There are no other functional alternatives. In a better world, more countries would have grants or universal basic income, but that's not the world that exists right now.
Absolutely. Bar none. Here's my config for downloading best quality YT videos (but works for other sites too) if anyone wants to base theirs on it: pastebin.com/ba9sFURT
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Ads exist because people want to make money. So these bad actors go out and look for places where people like to spend their time, and they poison these places with their money-hungry practices. In the process they destroy the innocence of all these manifestations of human creativity, and manipulate people into buying shit they don't actually need, effectively destroying the planet through overconsumption. That's not even mentioning that ad-companies put us on a path towards a mass-surveillance society, just because big-data leads to more effective ads. I can't help but see ads as a destructive force of evil in our world. I like human creativity in it's many forms, and I'm all in favor of rewarding creators to a certain extent, but using ads seems to be the worst possible method of doing so.
(not intending to criticize your comments, just spreading the anti-ad gospel
I don't like ads either, but they are the only functioning way of paying creators outside of direct payments, especially with economic inflation and competition from streaming services eating away at people's budget for media. No one else has a solution that works under capitalism.
But ads are not functioning, they are destructive. They are by no means cheap either, people are paying through being manipulated and we are paying collectively for the damage it's doing to our world. We'd be much better of if we had only direct payments. Direct artist payments will always be the more effective and efficient financing structure because then we pay just for the creative output, not all the unrelated economic parasitic activities.
The solution is very simple and there is nothing that inflation can do about it: we don't watch ads, we pay creators that we want to support, and if from these donations a creator doesn't earn enough money he has two options: 1. One has an intrinsic drive to create and publish so he does so through other means, for instance by working a part time job. If this sounds unreasonable then let us not forget that already most of all human creativity is financed exactly like this, it is only the exception that is financially lucrative. 2. One chooses not to create (or in a less costly manner). You could think of this as a sad outcome, but yo
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But ads are not functioning, they are destructive. They are by no means cheap either, people are paying through being manipulated and we are paying collectively for the damage it's doing to our world. We'd be much better of if we had only direct payments. Direct artist payments will always be the more effective and efficient financing structure because then we pay just for the creative output, not all the unrelated economic parasitic activities.
The solution is very simple and there is nothing that inflation can do about it: we don't watch ads, we pay creators that we want to support, and if from these donations a creator doesn't earn enough money he has two options: 1. One has an intrinsic drive to create and publish so he does so through other means, for instance by working a part time job. If this sounds unreasonable then let us not forget that already most of all human creativity is financed exactly like this, it is only the exception that is financially lucrative. 2. One chooses not to create (or in a less costly manner). You could think of this as a sad outcome, but you'd be better off concluding that this creative output wasn't so important to anyone, not to the creator nor to the public. This means we'd be left with the better and more intrinsically motivated creative content.
So let's not justify ads, but let's reject them in the most radical ways we can.
This is wonderful, I've been struggling with piped for some time now, it's always asking me to sign in to confirm that I'm not a bot. Also it's showing me videos in very low quality and often it stops loading halfway through the video. With this I get to see good quality videos once more, without unwanted pauses and without financing yt in any way. Great!
Currently, almost anyone in the Fediverse can see Lemmys votes. Lemmy admins can see votes, as well as mods. Only regular Lemmy users can't. Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?
There is a discussion going on right now considering "making the Lemmy votes public" but I think that premisse is just wrong. The votes are public already, they're just hidden from Lemmy users. Anyone from a kbin/mbin/fedia instance can check out the votes if they are so inclined.
The users right now may fall into a false sense of privacy when voting because the votes are hidden from Lemmy users. If you want to vote something and not show up on the vote list, please create another account to support that type of content and don't tell anyone.
if I leave it there. It’s because it’s not foul enough to warrant a ban but I don’t want to press a little green check box explicitly endorsing its existence. I have been here the whole time :/ Yal couped me
A busy news week, with a major report on governance on the fediverse, conversations about public or private votes on the content-aggregator side of the fediverse, ⁂ as a symbol for the fediverse and more.
The News
Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi have been working on a massive research project about governance of fediverse servers, and they released their findings this week. The entire report is worth reading, as well as the two additional documents that they published:
A busy news week, with a major report on governance on the fediverse, conversations about public or private votes on the content-aggregator side of the fediverse, ⁂ as a symbol for the fediverse and more.
The News
Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi have been working on a massive research project about governance of fediverse servers, and they released their findings this week. The entire report is worth reading, as well as the two additional documents that they published:
Kissane and Kazemi explain that “whole swathes of knowledge about the aspects of server management that extends beyond the more purely technical concerns of hosting, provisioning, and technical upkeep exists only as insider knowledge.” This research paper is a great counter, and documents many of the cultural intricacies of the fediverse that have not been easily accessible before.
There are a great number of insights in the paper, and I want to comment with my own observations on one of them. Kissane and Kazemi write “we think the diverse and robust conversations and viewpoints on Threads federation could serve as a useful jumping-off point for server teams to even informally document their philosophies of federation and the policies that flow from those philosophies” (p87). From my observations, when federation with Threads was a frequent topic of conversation in spring 2024, there was a potential within the fediverse for servers to talk about and publish their federation policies, as well forming diplomatic blocks for servers with similar federation policies. The conversation about federation was top of mind for everybody, and it was clear that there was a need for clear understanding of federation policies. This opportunity for better server governance simply did not happen, the conversation has moved on, and it feels like the moment has passed. I still think this is one of the larger missed opportunities and ‘what ifs’ that I keep thinking about regarding how the fediverse could have turned out better.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been arrested in France, with Reuters reporting that ‘the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram’. For more information about Telegram and the situation with Durov I recommend any news source that is not this blog, but I do want to point out the responses on Nostr to the arrest. Nostr’s culture is strongly focused on censorship resistance and leans culturally rightwing and libertarian. There are two aspects to understanding a network that preaches censorship resistance: the types of posts that such a network actually facilitates, which is not surprisingly posts that many people prefer not to show up in their feeds (or exist at all really). But the other aspect is how people who use such network and value censorship resistance understand themselves and think about what is important in the world. And in that framework, the arrest of Durov is seen as a huge validation of the viewpoint that censorship resistance is important and people should be wary of authoritarian behaviour of government. To be clear, this is not a viewpoint I am endorsing. What I am observing is that Nostr sees itself this way ([1], [2], [3], [4]), and how Nostr frames the event as an indication of the importance of Nostr and Nostr’s values. With a significant part of the rightwing internet ecosystem speaking out against the arrest, it’s worth noting if Nostr can take this opportunity to grow.
The Lemmy developers have opened a conversation on whether votes should be displayed publicly, which turned into a major topic of discussion on Lemmy. To understand the situation, a short bit of context: there are three platforms on the content aggregator side of the fediverse: Lemmy, the biggest platform, Mbin, the successor of Kbin, and Piefed. How you voted is visible to Lemmy moderators, but not to regular Lemmy users. How people voted is visible to everyone on Mbin, including if that vote was made with a Lemmy account.
Responses on the threads indicates that a majority of Lemmy users prefers their votes to be private. This demand for privacy is understandable and should be encouraged, but runs into the practical limitations of the way the current fediverse works, with the limitations being both of governance as well as technical. Upvotes on Lemmy get translated to Stars on Mastodon, which are public. The most straightforward implementation of ActivityPub for vote/like/favourite support assumes that this information is public. As interoperability between the fediverse content aggregators is already a hilariously chaotic mess (shout-out to Elena Rossini who documents it all in painstaking detail in her latest newsletter), changes to more privacy are not likely to make the interoperability situation any better. Still, Piefed gave it a shot and did implement private votes this week in response, by creating shadow accounts in the background that do the voting on your behalf.
The situation also indications the limitations of governance as it currently is in the fediverse, especially between fediverse software developers. Lemmy developer Dessalines talks on Github about Lemmy is dependent on other implementations for votes to stay private. The problem is that none of the developers of any of the projects appear to be in any form of communication or conversation with each other about this, which makes good governance between the different implementations slightly difficult, to put it mildly.
⁂ is a new proposed symbol for the fediverse. In a manifesto, the authors explain the need for a unicode symbol that represents the fediverse. The fediverse already has two symbols: a coloured pentagram and an icon by Meta. The authors state that the coloured pentagram is a great logo, but that it not being available as a typographical unicode character limits it’s usage. Getting people to voluntarily adopt to a new logo is never easy, and even more so in a decentralised network. Personally, I think the proposal hits on an important theme: there is value in a unicode symbol that can be used to denote that something is federated. Meta already does this by putting their own fediverse logo next to Threads profiles that are federated. This is a good innovation by Meta, and I think there is value in adopting this idea without having to adopt Meta’s (centralising) logo for the fediverse. The comment made here by the authors gives an illustration of what this means. It also helps push the proposal for the ⁂ symbol as an addition to the current logo instead of a replacement.
Bluesky Feed Creator, an external tool for people to build their own custom feeds without having to code, has a major update with a new automod system. Moderation of custom feeds and groups is not a solved issue so far, neither on ActivityPub nor on Atproto, and this takes a step in the right direction.
BrowserPub is a browser for debugging ActivityPub. Creator John Spurlock explains that the goal is to make it “a bit easier to see how well the various players in the fediverse support the C2S side of the ActivityPub spec. You can punch in any ActivityPub discoverable web url or fediverse handle, and BrowserPub will discover and display the underlying AP.”
Newsmast showed a preview of Patchwork, their upcoming plugin system for Mastodon. As the research by Kissane and Kazemi indicates, there is a lot of potential for better moderation tooling for the fediverse. However, Mastodon is slow to update, with 11 months between it’s two latest updates. Enabling servers to get additional moderation and federation tools via a plugin can significantly improve the ecosystem.
Robert W. Gehl is writing a book about the fediverse, ‘Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Ethical Social Media‘, and make an overview of the draft available.
The fourth episode of WordPress.com’s Youtube series on the fediverse, this time with an interview with Matthias Pfefferle, creator of the WordPress-activitypub plugin.
Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
I have been stopping myself from using those and instead restructure my sentence. But if people like it, guess I can start keeping it.
I do find it more useful, however, to have a kind of a reference to the thing written at the end instead [1], but markdown doesn't seem to have anything for that, and using the syntax for Markdown references, is only useful for hyperlinks, or if the reader is willing to read the hover text 2.
[1]: Like This. I would love it if the markdown viewer would link the above [1] to this line. Maybe with a scrolldown effect.
I'm pretty sure Apple and Google already rewritten all important GNU parts into something with Apache or BSD license, to throw everything GPL licensed out of their embedded systems. The biggest and most important part was obviously GCC, replaced by Clang.
How many GPL-licensed system libraries and tools are in Android right now, except for the kernel? I'm pretty sure the answer is zero.
Yeah, gotta’ love how all the Apple fanboys were like Bash? Meh’ zsh is the superior shell in the span of a day.
I mean was the GPL viral… yeah probably. But it’s not like the courts came after either of them. Or ever really will in a meaningful way. Although hope springs eternal for non-webkit browsers in the not-EU 😌
What’s wrong with ZSH? I was using it for 5+ years before it became the default over bash, mainly because of the auto complete features, oh-my-zsh and later just plugins and powerlevel10k.
Oh I didn’t think there’s anything wrong with it, I love oh-my-zsh. But it did feel like a bit of a cannery in the coal mine scenario when they elevated it the default and said they would phase out bash because of the GPL license.
Clang and the LLVM with BSD like licences so we can get the 80's suing experience of UNIX yet again.
It's impressive how many people in the FOSS community hate GNU. Even to the point of creating OSes without GNU in it. Working for free for companies just to get their contributions stolen or expunged.
Apple loves Open Source, they can stole it as they like, like they did with Darwin (a derivation of XNU). Everything is open until we no longer want to, and you don't have any right to desist such actions. This sounds like a dream for them.
Google loves Open Source, they can build an spyware, ad vending machine, DRM platform that is hosted in almost any IOT machine. This is Android.
The community has to realize that if you care about your software you have to ENFORCE the freedom of it.
The are entire projects just to liberate android from google. That's is all fault of the open source licence.
There are quite a lot of projects which exist to liberate software projects that have been taken hostage. This is no sense.
Most of the IOT devices are
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Clang and the LLVM with BSD like licences so we can get the 80's suing experience of UNIX yet again.
It's impressive how many people in the FOSS community hate GNU. Even to the point of creating OSes without GNU in it. Working for free for companies just to get their contributions stolen or expunged.
Apple loves Open Source, they can stole it as they like, like they did with Darwin (a derivation of XNU). Everything is open until we no longer want to, and you don't have any right to desist such actions. This sounds like a dream for them.
Google loves Open Source, they can build an spyware, ad vending machine, DRM platform that is hosted in almost any IOT machine. This is Android.
The community has to realize that if you care about your software you have to ENFORCE the freedom of it.
The are entire projects just to liberate android from google. That's is all fault of the open source licence.
There are quite a lot of projects which exist to liberate software projects that have been taken hostage. This is no sense.
Most of the IOT devices are presenting paywall features thanks to Android: cars, fridges, TVs, etc. What is next?
Yeah. And I like how even from the message it shows that it's been already well recognized by then.
If I recall correctly from some RMS' talks I've seen many years ago, they've been working on it for years before, it's just the kernel that was missing. As I see it, GNU and Linux was the breakthrough for FLOSS, since at that time you would still have to use a proprietary kernel. (Well, there's GNU Hurd, but I'm not sure if it existed at that time, and even if it did, it was not ready.)
GNU Hurd didn't take a good path of development following MACH design. But I still think GNU Hurd is the kernel of the future. Probably the Next generation Hurd. Just because GNU MACH and Hurd present very convoluted designs.
A kernel that performs most of their activities in user space and that it is truly modular looks very promising for the kind of systems we have nowadays and in the future.
Someone has to make the change, or we will stagnate in cumbersome and up featured systems.
MINIX originally was developed in 1987 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a teaching tool for his textbook Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Today, it is a text-oriented operating system with a kernel of less than 6,000 lines of code. MINIX's largest claim to fame is as an example of a microkernel, in which each device driver runs as an isolated user-mode process—a structure that not only increases security but also reliability, because it means a bug in a driver cannot bring down the entire system.
In its heyday during the early 1990s, MINIX was popular among hobbyists and developers because of its inexpensive proprietary license. However, by the time it was licensed under a BSD-style license in 2000, MINIX had been overshadowed by other free-licensed operating systems.
Today, MINIX is best known as a footnote in GNU/Linux history. It inspired Linus Torvalds to develop Linux, and some of his early work was written on
MINIX originally was developed in 1987 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a teaching tool for his textbook Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Today, it is a text-oriented operating system with a kernel of less than 6,000 lines of code. MINIX's largest claim to fame is as an example of a microkernel, in which each device driver runs as an isolated user-mode process—a structure that not only increases security but also reliability, because it means a bug in a driver cannot bring down the entire system.
In its heyday during the early 1990s, MINIX was popular among hobbyists and developers because of its inexpensive proprietary license. However, by the time it was licensed under a BSD-style license in 2000, MINIX had been overshadowed by other free-licensed operating systems.
Today, MINIX is best known as a footnote in GNU/Linux history. It inspired Linus Torvalds to develop Linux, and some of his early work was written on MINIX. Probably too, Torvalds' early decision to support the MINIX filesystem is responsible for the Linux kernel's support of almost every filesystem imaginable.
Later, Torvalds and Tanenbaum had a frank e-mail debate about the relative merits of macrokernels (sic) and microkernels. This early history resurfaced in 2004 when Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution prepared a book alleging that Torvalds borrowed code from MINIX—a charge that Tanenbaum, among others, so comprehensively debunked, and the book was never actually published (see Resources).
That kind of depends on how you define FOSS. The way we think of that today was in very early stages back in the 1991 and the orignal source was distributed as free, both as in speech and as in beer, but commercial use was prohibited, so it doesn't strictly speaking qualify as FOSS (like we understand it today). About a year later Linux was released under GPL and the rest is history.
Public domain code, academic world with any source code and things like that predate both Linux and GNU by a few decades and even the Free Software Foundation came 5-6 years before Linux, but the Linux itself has been pretty much as free as it is today from the start. GPL, GNU, FSF and all the things Stallman created or was a part of (regardless of his conflicting personality) just created a set of rules on how to play this game, pretty much before any game or rules for it existed.
Minix was a commercial thing from the start, Linux wasn't, and things just refined on the way. You are of course correct that the first release of Linux wasn't strictly speaking FOSS, but the whole 'FOSS' mental
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That kind of depends on how you define FOSS. The way we think of that today was in very early stages back in the 1991 and the orignal source was distributed as free, both as in speech and as in beer, but commercial use was prohibited, so it doesn't strictly speaking qualify as FOSS (like we understand it today). About a year later Linux was released under GPL and the rest is history.
Public domain code, academic world with any source code and things like that predate both Linux and GNU by a few decades and even the Free Software Foundation came 5-6 years before Linux, but the Linux itself has been pretty much as free as it is today from the start. GPL, GNU, FSF and all the things Stallman created or was a part of (regardless of his conflicting personality) just created a set of rules on how to play this game, pretty much before any game or rules for it existed.
Minix was a commercial thing from the start, Linux wasn't, and things just refined on the way. You are of course correct that the first release of Linux wasn't strictly speaking FOSS, but the whole 'FOSS' mentality and rules for it wasn't really a thing either back then.
There's of course adacemic debate to have for days on which came first and what rules whoever did obey and what release counts as FOSS or not, but for all intents and purposes, Linux was free software from the start and the competition was not.
I've read Linus's book several years ago, and based on that flimsy knowledge on back of my head, I don't think Linus was really competing with anyone at the time. Hurd was around, but it's still coming soon(tm) to widespread use and things with AT&T and BSD were "a bit" complex at the time.
BSD obviously has brought a ton of stuff on the table which Linux greatly benefited from and their stance on FOSS shouldn't go without appreciation, but assuming my history knowledge isn't too badly flawed, BSD and Linux weren't straight competitors, but they started to gain traction (regardless of a lot longer history with BSD) around the same time and they grew stronger together instead of competing with eachother.
A ton of us owes our current corporate lifes to the people who built the stepping stones before us, and Linus is no different. Obviously I personally owe Linus a ton for enabling my current status at the office, but the whole thing wouldn't been possible without people coming before him. RMS and GNU movement plays a big part of that, but equally big part is played b
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I've read Linus's book several years ago, and based on that flimsy knowledge on back of my head, I don't think Linus was really competing with anyone at the time. Hurd was around, but it's still coming soon(tm) to widespread use and things with AT&T and BSD were "a bit" complex at the time.
BSD obviously has brought a ton of stuff on the table which Linux greatly benefited from and their stance on FOSS shouldn't go without appreciation, but assuming my history knowledge isn't too badly flawed, BSD and Linux weren't straight competitors, but they started to gain traction (regardless of a lot longer history with BSD) around the same time and they grew stronger together instead of competing with eachother.
A ton of us owes our current corporate lifes to the people who built the stepping stones before us, and Linus is no different. Obviously I personally owe Linus a ton for enabling my current status at the office, but the whole thing wouldn't been possible without people coming before him. RMS and GNU movement plays a big part of that, but equally big part is played by a ton of other people.
I'm not an expert by any stretch on history of Linux/Unix, but I'm glad that the people preceding my career did what they did. Covering all the bases on the topic would require a ton more than I can spit out on a platform like this, I'm just happy that we have the FOSS movement at all instead of everything being a walled garden today.
I read a biography of Stallman several years ago. The whole free software movement was an attempt to preserve the early hacker culture where everybody freely swapped code. So, Stallman didn't really "invent" FOSS; he just codified that early hacker ethos.
In 2017 the world (including Tanenbaum) found out that the Intel Management Engine uses Minix internally. Intel just kind of did that silently. So Minix is still around.
Funny how he made it basically for his desktop computer.
33 years later, and Linux is dominating in every part of the OS world except ... the desktop.
(I'm paraphrasing his quote -- he said something like this years ago, can't find it, though.)
(Edit: to be more fair with quotes, it might be the case that I "hallucinated" the quote. he might not have said that, or he might have just said part of it and other part would be someone else's comment. This cio.com article is probably a better source on his position )
Where he mentioned that the desktop is unique in that it has to support thousands of different devices for all kinds of people, and that most people don't really care what their computer is running as long as it works.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Well, I was thinking of a quote that was much more similar to what I wrote (and it's not in the video you linked).
I had such a trouble finding it that I'm starting to feel like it might be one of those "quotes" where the credited author never really said that, but I haven't completely given up :D
While Linux pretty much dominates almost every walk of our lives, even on the consumer devices like smartphones and smart TVs, it has not had the same success on the desktop. What does Torvalds think about it? Is Linux a failure on the desktop? Not really. “The desktop hasn’t really taken over the world like Linux has in many other areas, but just looking at my own use, my desktop looks so much better than I ever could have imagined. Despite the fact that I’m known for sometimes not being very poli
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Well, I was thinking of a quote that was much more similar to what I wrote (and it's not in the video you linked).
I had such a trouble finding it that I'm starting to feel like it might be one of those "quotes" where the credited author never really said that, but I haven't completely given up :D
While Linux pretty much dominates almost every walk of our lives, even on the consumer devices like smartphones and smart TVs, it has not had the same success on the desktop. What does Torvalds think about it? Is Linux a failure on the desktop? Not really. “The desktop hasn’t really taken over the world like Linux has in many other areas, but just looking at my own use, my desktop looks so much better than I ever could have imagined. Despite the fact that I’m known for sometimes not being very polite to some of the desktop UI people, because I want to get my work done. Pretty is not my primary thing. I actually am very happy with the Linux desktop, and I started the project for my own needs, and my needs are very much fulfilled. That’s why, to me, it’s not a failure. I would obviously love for Linux to take over that world too, but it turns out it’s a really hard area to enter. I’m still working on it. It’s been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I’ll wear them down.”
Without a distro to rally behind I'm personally somewhat skeptical. Ubuntu was the best shot we had but since switching everything over to SNAPs it's on the slow side. With the number of Windows ads and early end of support for Windows 10 there's a real opportunity for desktop Linux, but until there's a well supported distro that genuinely doesn't require using the terminal I can't see there being mass adoption.
My grandmother ran Linux for a couple decades until her death at 101 years old. My 80+ year old mom has been running Linux for at least 2 decades. Yes, I'm tech support, but I don't really have to do anything. It just works.
Any distro that ships KDE/Plasma as its default desktop should do the trick. I'm not personally using it right now but I hear OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is kicking a lot of rear end lately.
It's not about the distro. Most distros out right now are pretty good. What you need is hardware that lots of people want to buy with Linux installed on it as the default choice. Normal people don't want to install any OS, be it Linux, Windows, MacOS or BSD. Whatever comes by default, it's good.
I'm pretty sure that right now the most popular Linux distros are ChromeOS and SteamOS. I wonder why
People don’t want to use operating systems, they want to use applications to solve their problems. Linux has always been bad at software distribution for commercial applications. It all starts with dependency hell, no real standards, a million different packs systems and so on. It simply makes Linux a pain in the butt to develop desktop applications for. Much of the user base is also very hostile towards anything not FOSS and free of charge. Desktop Linux is also fractured into different WMs and DEs, adding more pain. You really don’t want to provide commercial support for that.
Some of those parens could've been replaced with commas and retain their meaning (that's what I do to avoid nesting, so that it doesn't get confusing).
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Not really an English thing so much as a math thing that makes too much sense to not use elsewhere. For instance, in math you might have x[3 - 7{3y + (a * b)}]. I haven't actually seen them go deeper than three sets, though, so I'm not sure what would be next.
The amount of effort I do to try and avoid using double parentesis is trully herculean.
I think that stuff is the product of a completionist/perfectionist mindset - as one is writting, important details/context related to the main train of thought pop-up in one's mind and as one is writting those, important details/context related to the other details/context pop-up in one's mind (and the tendency is to keep going down the rabbit hole of details/context on details/context).
You get this very noticeably with people who during a conversation go out on a tangent and often even end up losing the train of thought of the main conversation (a tendecy I definitelly have) since one doesn't get a chance to go back and re-read, reorganise and correct during a spoken conversation.
Personally I don't think it's an actual quality (sorry to all upvoters) as it indicates a disorganised mind. It is however the kind of thing one overcomes with experience and I bet Mr Torvalds himself is mostly beyond it by now.
BSD licence allowed to work with the AT&T licence which at the end generated all the drama. Unix wars.
Again BSD is great if you don't care about what will happen with your code.
Yeah the Android point doesn't have any sense, that's right.
Apple shares the code of the parts they want. Since it's not a copyleft licence, then they can still ship you a version of Darwin + privative code as your macOs without sharing the entire code. So you end running kind of Frankenstein program with parts you don't know what they do.
AOSP is not a great licence because it allows Google benefit from contributions, but then it has tons of privative software on top. So basically contributing to the AOSP means that you improve the code that later it's used in combination with privative one.
My point is that libre source code should enforce that derivations of it stay libre. Otherwise you are working for free for companies that don't care about the users.
Hey for companies is a good point. The best system for them is open source. It makes sense for them to use it.
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BSD licence allowed to work with the AT&T licence which at the end generated all the drama. Unix wars.
Again BSD is great if you don't care about what will happen with your code.
Yeah the Android point doesn't have any sense, that's right.
Apple shares the code of the parts they want. Since it's not a copyleft licence, then they can still ship you a version of Darwin + privative code as your macOs without sharing the entire code. So you end running kind of Frankenstein program with parts you don't know what they do.
AOSP is not a great licence because it allows Google benefit from contributions, but then it has tons of privative software on top. So basically contributing to the AOSP means that you improve the code that later it's used in combination with privative one.
My point is that libre source code should enforce that derivations of it stay libre. Otherwise you are working for free for companies that don't care about the users.
Hey for companies is a good point. The best system for them is open source. It makes sense for them to use it. And open source is much better than just privative.
From the point of view of the individual user and developer is not that great. It kind of hooks you in because it has open source parts, but you are probably unaware of all the closed source stuff that runs in combination with it.
I get the open source point, but I don't find it fair at the long term for the individual developer and user.
Over the years I've become convinced that the BSD license is great for code you don't care about. I'll use it myself. If there’s a library routine that I just want to say 'hey, this is useful to anybody and I’m not going to maintain this,' I’ll put it under the BSD license.
That post changed my life, gave me a great hobby, which became a career, and still puts food on the table for me and my family to this day. Thank you, Linus.
Even for BSD, there’s an incentive to share your code to upstream. Otherwise you will have to maintain a separate branch or fork and that can take a lot of effort.
I think an "M-Dash (perfectionist mindest— as one is writing,)" would be more appropriate than an "N-Dash" in your statement. No 'nested' parentheses needed (unless you're looking to add non-essential (though insightful) info to your sentence); but the type of... "PAUSE" makes all the difference
Vänsterpartist överfallen av högerextremist. Vänsterpartisten Kristofer Lundberg som är ordförande för Vänsterpartiet i Angered har idag överfallits av en högerextremist. En känd person som anser sig själv vara journalist.
De asiatiska plattformarna och programmen. Vid sidan av den US-amerikanska och europeiska utvecklingen av programvaror för Fediversum finns det också en omfattande asiatisk utveckling i Japan, delar av Kina, Taiwan och Korea.
Det är vanligt att svenskar anser att den som bor i Sverige är svensk. En vanlig åsikt är också att den som pratar svenska är svensk eller att den som är svensk medborgare är svensk. Men förmodligen är det mycket mer komplicerat än så. Så vad innebär det att vara svensk?
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in reply to Sips' • • •Corngood
in reply to Sips' • • •I've had those errors on my system for years. I never thought that they were NixOS specific. I just assumed something to do with a buggy firmware:
I don't notice any ill-effects from them, so it may be a red herring. I have a:
with a 5900X.
I don't usually see as many prints as you have there, but it's quite a few, and the number seems to vary (grow?) over time. I keep meaning to investigate it, but haven't got around to it.
I think you should keep looking in your logs for other problems. If you can share the full log I'd be happy to take a look.
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in reply to Corngood • • •balsoft
in reply to Sips' • • •journalctl | curl -F'file=@-' https://0x0.stand post the link here.Sips'
in reply to balsoft • • •Sips'
in reply to Corngood • • •I have the same motherboard! I also rock the AMD 6700 XT graphics card, which I acquired this year, so it would defo leave a sour taste in my mouth if this was the guilty puzzlepiece in the my stack.
Whilst trying to install other .iso's late last night i kept seeing the ACPI errors over and over again, which has me thinking this is a problem with my hardware setup, as you suggested by others.
Journalctl command results in this if thats to any help;
0x0.st/Xt2e.txt
and this is lsmod;
Corngood
in reply to Sips' • • •Did you grep that log file for 'amdgpu'?
I wonder if the error is related to this: github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issue…
I'm still using x11 on my system. Maybe try that and see if it works?
Sway does not start with Vulkan renderer on AMD GPU · Issue #229108 · NixOS/nixpkgs
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in reply to Corngood • • •Corngood
in reply to Sips' • • •RageAgainstTheRich
in reply to Sips' • • •I had some weird error like this before and after updating my bios it worked.
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in reply to RageAgainstTheRich • • •mvirts
in reply to Sips' • • •Can you try booting with acpi=off boot parameter? (Edit the boot commands in the bootloader before it loads the kernel, it's temporary)
Related: kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/admi…
If that works you can add the option permanently in your configuration.nix
The kernel’s command-line parameters — The Linux Kernel documentation
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in reply to mvirts • • •ChrysanthemumIndica
in reply to Sips' • • •Agreed with others that this is likely a BIOS issue, and it would be good to check for a firmware update first.
In particular, this looks like it might be an issue with the USB port locations described by your BIOS ACPI. Maybe one of the embedded root hubs? You might be able to play with USB settings in the BIOS Config to see if that helps, especially loading default values. I also think it might be possible to blacklist ports from kernel parameters and that could be a good check... but I'm not very familiar with the parameters in recent years and didn't find anything in a quick search.
As a last ditch, you can disable ACPI entirely, but it can/will cause very odd performance and configuration issues along with no power management. (This goes double for portable systems.)
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in reply to ChrysanthemumIndica • • •ChrysanthemumIndica
in reply to Sips' • • •That's definitely a frustrating situation you have, and I very much encourage you to take the path that feels most possible to you!
Before moving on, I would like to point to trying what u/mvirts suggested, disabling ACPI from the grub bootloader. It's easy and great for getting an installer running and working, and sometimes the freshly installed and updated OS whisks the problem away.
But regardless of what you choose, I wish you much luck in your endeavours!
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in reply to ChrysanthemumIndica • • •balsoft
in reply to Sips' • • •boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxKernel.packages.linux_6_1;to your config (make sure to add it before the closing}) andsudo nixos-rebuild switch. You can also try older versions, likelinux_5_19. If it doesn't fix the problem it might be that the ACPI error is a red herring and the problem is something else entirely, in which case it'd be more difficult to diagnose, and I'd recommend just staying on 23.11 for now and only taking the new packages that you need from 24.05. There's a great post on how to do this here: discourse.nixos.org/t/installi… (probably also in the docs somewhere but I couldn't find it easily).Installing multiple packages from unstable channel in configuration.nix
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in reply to Sips' • • •If it errors out but it boots, don't worry about it. BIOS bugs will sometimes do that.
If either a newer or older kernel version is available, try that.
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in reply to umbrella • • •refalo
in reply to Sips' • • •ACPI bugs are common and can typically be ignored, but...
how do you know it's even trying to start one? what happens if you try it yourself manually?
CaptainRipcord
in reply to Sips' • • •configuration.nixfile