A few notable ones?
https://engineering.fb.com/2018/10/30/open-source/linux/
Btrfs
https://itsfoss.com/news/react-foundation-launch/
React
PyTorch (if you’re into the AI thing)
I suspect, without evidence, that you’d probably find some Meta engineers contributing to the Linux kernel to some degree, so you may have to rip that out of your system.
Yeah a 1000% YoY increase in CVEs is absolutely a change in detection methodology. Like when cancer rates spike after a cheap test comes on the market.
The slop programming doesn’t help, and frantically patching those CVEs with slop code is probably the cause of some of the instability, but the CVEs themselves have likely been there for years, just until now the only folks that knew about them have top secret clearances.
I haven’t fucked around with tearing and ultra-low latency, but I have bounced around a few wayland gaming builds and I’ve gotta say Gnome has been the most consistently stable DE of the bunch.
Others may be prettier, more easily customized, or have single-digit frame rate gains in the right settings, but they all suffered from more crashes, stuttering, or other bugs across the board.
3% higher frame rate is meaningless if the game freezes for 0.25s when it counts.
I can’t promise it’ll solve your problems, but I can recommend PikaOS+Gnome if youre looking for a rock solid gaming distro. Otherwise youre looking at starting down the Arch path and spending months to tweak it to perfection only to have an update roll back those tweaks.
it just sucks for everyone not Rock Star
Those Fable devs got a 4 month stay of execution from MicroSlop™ layoffs. This is great for them. Maybe bad for an executive’s Christmas bonus, but let’s be real, they’re still getting one anyways.
I downloaded MicrosoftSettings.exe and ran it on my test PC. The installer is 22.2MB. I have Chrome and Brave set up with their own defaults, and searching from either pulled up Google and Brave Search respectively.
The first screen is titled “Welcome to Microsoft Recommended Search Settings,” with a toggle already switched to “Yes” for setting Bing as your search engine. Small text underneath says the change applies to Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.
Installing Firefox takes like 3 minutes, you couldn’t spin up one more browser for science?
Knowing Microslop™, they’ll fix it by loading every document on your computer into memory at boot and call it “Quick Launch”
Those help a little bit, but memory management in windows is just utter trash. My old surface could barely run a browser and fucking notepad at the same time because it kept trying to kill the browser.
Now it all runs great under Mint so life is good.
Strange, I wonder what’s different here.
I recognize it’s not the answer to your question, but the ZigBee ones I have run on AAA batteries and last about a year on a charge.
With Eneloops, even after a decade they still keep over half their charge capacity. Could probably go 15-20 years per battery in regular trickled use with at most quarterly swaps - I think that’s kinda ideal operation for these guys.
One battery every 15 years, and an annual swap when it drops off my HA is a small price to pay for the flexibility of being able to deploy anywhere with zero infrastructure. I have a dozen sensors and would not want to have to wire each one.
FYI - Stock white charger that came with eneloops did not like how low the voltage gets when they run low in the temperature sensors, so I swapped for the “super pro” charger and it’s significantly better at managing the batteries: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0B2WXJH43
Also a good time to bring up our lord and savior, Linux.
Ubuntu (like 100 years ago) > Debian > Mint (for several years) > a bunch of things > Kubuntu > PikaOS (GNOME)
Cinnamon Mint is almost perfect as a daily driver, but had hangups in gaming (frame stutter, controller disconnects, etc…)
Tried PopOS! for a hot minute, Cosmic is pretty but very clearly still WIP
Rode the plasma train for a little while on Kubuntu, but everything felt a little half-baked and games crashed pretty regularly.
I’ve settled on PikaOS GNOME for now as my daily driver. Things seem generally solid, but I’ve only been using it for a few weeks, TBD on the long-term stability, but I’ll probably hang here at least until whenever Mint reaches stable Wayland support, at which point I’ll give that a go.
This should not be the fix, but noting here for posterity that this can be disabled in the Group policy Editor:
To stop Windows from auto-installing it again, or to block similar apps from other brands, open Group Policy Editor with gpedit.msc, then go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, Device Installation. Enable “Prevent automatic download of applications associated with device metadata,” and click Apply.
Assuming the graphics drivers baked into the installer work in the first go - ask me how my weekend went.
I use SEMs, BTW.
Ehh, they’re meh. Give me a Stardew Valley or a Minecraft any day over something like Valorant or Call of Black Dutyfield 12
While you’re searching for batteries (or any other potentially smart appliance), check if they are supported by just searching for “device home assistant”
Those that have official support will have a page on home-assistant.io and scrolling the description will tell you if it’s controlled locally (preferred) or via cloud polling/API (less preferred)
Some devices may have custom integrations you can setup from Github via HACS, where the quality and support can vary more significantly than official integrations.
Do y’all not reboot after kernel/firmware updates?
People throw a lot of shade at the Pi but I love having dedicated hardware for some more critical projects.
Impressive, building your own kernel without Btrfs. I admit, you’re better than me.