merthyr1831

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/welcoming-shopify-as-a-ladybird-sponsor not sure about the other anonymous donation he received.

ngl this looks pretty slick. Good stuff!

I use a Lenovo 14APH8 (Ideapad Pro 5) which is essentially the same system specification. Pretty brilliant laptop but the drivers have been struggling until this year, finally! Especially with high DPI, high refresh rate screens where memory corruption is easier to run into.

Brilliant post by the way. I've just spotted that Smokeless UMAF which might help alleviate the issue I've noticed on my laptop which is Lenovo giving me 28GB of RAM but only 1GB of DMA Buffer. Absolutely bullshit when my Steamdeck runs fine with 4GB and barely touches the swapfile. I wonder if this'll let me get the true 780M performance I yearn for!

EDIT: Hell yeah UMA buffer override lets fuckin GOOOOO

The comments here really prove how totally acidic the American definition of "democracy" is. The point of the comic is to show you that your government is inherently not democratic! If so it would extend into your places of work! But because the American definition is so dogmatic and concrete in opposing workplace democracy, the very notion that capitalist representative government is undemocratic suggests to these commenters that democracy is being attacked; when it is in fact being supported against insurmountable odds!

Your work, the thing that at least under capitalism is the only source of income for the vast majority of us, is the most impactful thing to your direct day-to-day life after the wider government. Most of us spend a third of our week, if not more, at work. Despite this, it is where we generally exert the least of our political power!

Let's not even discuss how lobbying allows these unelected despots that we call "bosses" and "businessmen" exert almost total political control over the people we vote for! There's a reason we're allowed to vote for representatives in a government, but this very government will almost always do all it can to frustrate the movements that draw political power within our economic sphere.

This comic isn't "anti democracy". It is pro democracy. It simply attacks the common misrepresentation of representative government as "democracy" when it is wholly controlled by a force that we cannot exert power over democratically.

Only advice: Don't install on the same hard drive.

I dont care how many people say "oh it works for me" it works for everyone until it doesnt, and then you spend days fucking about with utilities that you shouldnt be fucking with, and at best it works until it stops working again.

There's likely little risk that any attack goes after a potential linux partition, but there's much more risk that either your linux or Windows partition bricks the other.

Good spot! I've been putting [feature request] in the title lmao. Good to know this is a feature

16GB DDR5 sounds pretty overkill for the performance envelope of these RISC boards. But still exciting to see more RV products for devs to use!

This is very cool. Im a fan of Nix from a tech perspective but im still not sold because of its poor UX, among many other complaints. IMO it's the future of the Linux distro, but now that might be closer than before!

Serenity does have donors, but most of the donations are for Ladybird, their libre browser stack separate from Mozilla/Safari/Chromium. Most of the money came specifically from donors looking for improved support for their own websites on Ladybird.

Cost for commercial, free for personal may not always be open source. Redis for example.

1. Premium support channels - This is basically how RedHat and Canonical make their money, while offering FOSS for individuals.

2. Donations - KDE and GNOME are largely donor-backed, both by individuals and corporate entities.

3. Commissions on features - Collabora for example is commissioned by Valve to improve KDE and SteamOS.

4. Software licenses - Certain FOSS licenses may permit paid access to software as long as the source is open i think? There are also source-available eg. Asperite that are open source, but only offer binaries for customers.

5. Add on services - Your FOSS web app can offer paid hosting and management for clients. Your distro can offer ISOs with extra pre-downloaded software for a fee (Zorin). You can partner with hardware to distribute your software (Manjaro, KDE).

6. Hired by a company to work on your project and integrate with their own stack. This is what Linus Torvalds did with Linux when he was first hired by Transmeta - part of his time was spent working on Linux to work better with the technology Transmeta used.