It really is! I think last year Fedora proposed dropping 32-bit and things almost got heated between them and Bazzite because of Steam still needed it. I forget why the Flatpak version of Steam didn’t suite their needs, but I remember they had very good reasons why it wouldn’t be an option to switch to.

I think with the option of running Steam on top/within of the new runtime would mean that they could drop multilib since the runtime can now provide it for the Steam Client (but dont quote me on that, the discussion i read is a little hazy).

Im really excited for the runtime change too, as a NixOS user, theres a bunch of weird issues that pop up due to the PATH thats a pain and time consuming to troubleshoot, rebuild, and test again. Everything is ironed out for normal stuff, but some of the things with 3rd party launchers or mods are messy.

Someone probably wanted Frankenstein’s penis. Sorry, Frankenstein’s MONSTER penis.

Ballots finally stepped up their game this mid-term.

Im on mobile, but I’ll try to circle back later and provide more details and links. Also I use NixOS, Niri, and DMS, but also was on KDE before switching over, so a similar setup but not the same.

Problems 1 and 3 are related. Basically there should be some configuration file for polkit/pam, and in there you have to configure to allow fprintd (or try and see if theres a setting for howdy, I know theres extra config you have to do for fido2 and it should be similar if possible) to unlock greetd. Should should also be something about unlocking kwallet on login, but with kwallet you have to do some weird settings on top of it to enable to login password to work, or setup a blank password wallet and set thag to default. I switched to gnome-keyring and seahorse (gui) when making the change to niri for the reason you mentioned, its better supported and needed less tinkering.

Problem 2. Kde keeps like a cache of its “.desktop” apps somewhere, and you probably have to blow it way and update xdg on where to find the “app launchers”.

For extensions or extras. Honestly I would try to stick with anything noctalia has in its plugins store, and let it handle any “enhancements”. The only other things id recommend is when youre looking for replacements for KDE apps, like dolphin, Kate, etc, is to look for all the lightweight wayland native ones that people typically install when they are building their own “DE” on top of niri (instead of installing noctalia or DMS), aka look for post where people are showing off their waybar setups. I switched to whatever the popular image view is, among other tools, and even though they seem like they’d lack features or be more geared towards terminal users, they’ve been great. Replacing dolphin has been the only hurdle, i cant find anything that’s as clean and powerful yet, but have high hopes for Cosmic to mature so i can start stealing from thag instead.

Again, apologies for the vagueness, I dont have my config in front of me, hopefully its enough to get you on the right track.

Its most likely illegal, but depends on where you live (some country might have more flexible copyright laws that have that situation as an exception).

But I would consider that ethical and moral. When HBO deleted a bunch of their cartoons for the tax ride off, one of the creators of the cartoons tweeted that they themselves had to pirate their own show just so their kid could still watch it.

I pre-ordered so I read about it in their updates/blog, but they have been actively working on getting everything mainlined.

Search for “Suspend-and-Wakeup on i.MX8MP” and they mention it briefly, they went more in detail about it in previous blogs though: https://mecha.so/blog/mecha-monsoon-update

On top of working with the chip manufacturer to get the cpu side mainlined, they’ve also been working with the contractor firm “Igalia” (who’ve been hired to work on mainlining and upstreaming a bunch of open source projects the past few years) on getting the gpu drivers cleaned up and “mainlined” as well.

Honestly a lot of the work they’ve been doing will benefit other linux on arm projects, especially mobile. I agree with you though, if a project isn’t putting the work in to get everything mainlined, then its not worth considering (atleast to me). I wish Ubuntu touch and sailfish all the luck in the world, and respect the work their doing, but for me its not a option.

Exactly.

It makes sense when the people who got into programming because it was a well paying job with lots of benefits start going into the deep end with AI. Because they never actually wanted to write code or engineer anything in the first place, it was a means to an end.

But when the people who cared about their craft, and got into because they loved programing, when they completely drop all their high standards and give up writing or architecture anything, thats where I start feeling lost.

I really dont know what else I would do for a living. But im not sure how much longer I can stay professional dealing with all the slop PRs and short story length READMEs that dont actually tell you anything.

I completely agree, my point was more about decisions impacting the end user (the the one OP referenced) are typically out of their control.

I’ve definitely experienced overcomplicated implementations like that (wfh is a life saver when I can turn off the camera so my face doesnt get me fired when some dev suggests something like that). I’ve also experienced a bunch where the engineer just isn’t managed and roped in, and comes up with something just because that thought it was interesting or to see if they could.

AI has been such a bizarre experience, I figured managers and people who dont actually write code anymore would love it, they boss the agents around just like their workers, but seeing some of these truly amazing engineers who use to block my PRs previously for the littlest hypothetical gold plated criticism now just spamming these 100+ change PRa that they literally cant defend because they didn’t even look at the code…its just disorientating.

The example you provides is because managers/executives/shareholders demanded it, not because of software developers wanted it.

If it was easy and simple, then you wouldn’t pay for Apples genius bar to do it for you.

Even team leads and department heads have limited input on decisions that impact usability from and end users perspective.

I wont say software engineers never make things needlessly complicated, they do build things that are easy to understand from their perspective sometimes. Its also dramatically harder to make something complicated simple, and easy to make something simple complicated.

Tldr: people who do the actual work dont get a say. You’re getting mad at the McDonald’s employee for only giving you 2 sauce packets, instead of corporate for creating that policy.

Im glad to hear that! Whenever I have changes for nvidia, I always need to “rebuild boot” and reboot, but that might be because I use “open = true” or because how I have home-manager setup.

No problem! I’ve been in a similar situation if you couldn’t tell lol, I hope the changes work out!

You are 100% right about thr wiki, and it doesnt help that there’s an unofficial wiki that pops up in search results too. And the wiki it especially out of date and confusing for nvidia. Its a known problem, and a bunch of “high level” contributers complain about it in discorse threads all the time.

You linked “nixos-hardware” repo, so you’ve obviously done your homework. If youre not importing that as a flake, and importing the “common-gpu-nvidia” (or whatever the module is actually exposed as, thats just the pathing) modules, and instead grabbing the values manually, then you also need to grab the ones from here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/common/gpu/nvidia/default.nix

Your gpu is too old to be includes in the cuttoff that nvidia did when starting to open source their drivers, but i wouldn’t say its too old to be usable or anything.

The wiki is out of date when they say power Management is experimental and unstable, I recommend setting that to true.

I think the main problem is using nouveau drivers, and setting the option provided in the link above should switch that to their closed source drivers. If you make that change, definitely do a rebuild boot instead of switch, and then reboot into the new Gen.

Its so annoying thag theres open (nouveau), open (nvidia - but only newer gpus), and closed (nvidia). There’s been a lot of talk about making major changes to the nixos nvidia configuration settings, but there’s a lot of conflicting ideas about how to improve them so it hasn’t made much progress.

And apologizes for any weird formatting, especially around option names, on my phone.

Also are you intentionally using “novaveu” instead of their “open” version? If so, not “judgement” or anything, just wanting to confirm. Also what gen nvidia gpu? Alot of the settings have different defaults depending on whether your over or under a certain gen.

I wouldn’t jump to your gpu going bad. There’s been quite a few issues in the past with nvidia + sleep + power management.

I would recommend trying to comment out those values you shared, the generally recommendation is to use to the defaults when it comes to nvidia, unless youre positive you need to override them for some reason you feel very confident about.

A lot of them aren’t named clearly and dont always do what you expect, at least from what ive read and from my personal experience.

It also completes things a bit because gnome and kde like to automatically decide what gpu to use for what, its a little opaque, and sometimes causes issues.

No matter what I said it wouldn’t stop people rationalizing that I actually double super secret meant that its OK to genocide and starve children within (most likely) a few years, so id probably just have fun with it and sing the opening to “backstreet back”, including the bass line in accoplelo.

Its for when lesbians try to beat the period level on co-op, so they know which side of the screen they get. “S” is for single player.

So right now im kind of doing option 1, but .local (I’ll switch to .internal) and not using * ( which I will change and see if it let’s me use the subdomains I configured in caddy that werent working before)

Option 2 it what I considered switching too, I have adguard running on my router, but was testing option 1 when I decided that I might want to skip ahead to something more advanced. I really dont want to have to install certs on each device to get past the warning for https.

Option 3 is on my backlog, I have a vps I planned on setting up pangolin on later down the road after I got some of my services spun up, but maybe I should take care of that now instead.

Option 4 is something I briefly looked into before realizing its way over my head, and im also pretty risk adverse.

Sumarry: so maybe option 3, and possible option 2 if its still needed when on my local network without having a client running.

Also about relationships (any kind) you shouldn’t mask, because its wrong to lie and manipulate people who care about you and they deserve more than that. But also because masking is exhausting, and one day you’ll either run out of energy and drop it (and freak them out), or slowly push them away because you dont have the energy, and both lead to you wasting both of yours times, energy, heart, and trust.

Most people prefer a pretty lie to an ugly truth. Masking is lying. Completely making something up is an obvious aka ugly lie, the worst of both. The best way to lie to to base it on a kernel of truth.

So the best way to mask it to take some real aspect of yourself, and slightly exaggerate it to stretch it into an acceptable shape that the other person likes. This requires people watching, being present in the conversation, etc. Over time you’ll pick up trends or categories of people. You’ll mess up and put on the wrong mask for the wrong person sometimes, but you’ll get better with experience. Like the other comment said, small talk is great practice and low stakes. Some people will start liking you way more than you feel that should, and some people will dislike you and you’ll wonder why. Its because they felt your mask fell into the “uncanny valley”, and even though your intentions werent bad, they are justified at feeling uneasy around you because you are in fact acting fake around them.

If this all sounds psychotic, its because it is, masking isn’t something you should ever have to do, but the world we live in is fucked so sometimes in bullshit situations you have to be bullshit yourself.

Specific to interviews, they expect you to follow social customs and exaggerate, if youre being honest then even if that shows youre a virtuous person (and they may even like you more because of it) it also means that you either cant follow social normals because you dont know how, or you refuse to (which might show issues with authority) and either way it will lead to problems in the workplace. Passing qualifications is a minimum bar (most of the time), the real test in an interview is proving to them that they would like working with you. So in a round about way, it does make sense logically.

Donnie Darko and Final Fantasy 14. The Shadowbringers expansion would kind of fit the mood.

Why is it USB 2.0? This would have been a great chance to undo the downgrade when they released the base version.