Maybe if ReactOS on RISCV becomes a reality

Do you mean RedoxOS by chance? AFAIK ReactOS is a clean room implementation of Windows/NT

Funny thing is that the same issue was resolved for me by switching the other way around - from HDMI to DisplayPort. So there’s something weirder going on than a bug in DP implementation

Drawing over the PDF is not a digital signature. I haven’t seen a browser that can sign a PDF.

People might also assume that the quote in the post is from the article, and not just your rant

The biggest drawback of not providing any SSDs even as a fallback is obviously… what if the app just doesn’t draw CSDs?

Wayland requires apps to be able to draw CSDs, so that’s just a broken app. SSDs are optional extension. So the app should either use X11 (and rely on Xwayland to provide the decorations), or implement Wayland properly.

Charles university uses and develops something called ReCodex, and it is available on GitHub. As a student, it was very nice to use.

https://github.com/ReCodEx/wiki/wiki

In fact, I think you’d be better off writing a deep dive into what/how environment variables work at build time, and also invoking commands on the CLI.

But LD_PRELOAD doesn’t really have much to do with build time behavior (unless you’re talking about replacing parts of the compiler) - it allows you to force a shared library to be loaded with higher priority than anything else, so it overrides symbols from other libraries.

It is recognized and used by Linux’s dynamic linker, which is run-time, not build-time.

Aren’t most newer games just using in-engine cutscenes nowadays?

Don’t know about the UK, but in central Europe it’s common for houses to get three phase power that can then be used on 400V three phase circuits and gets split (ideally evenly) into 240V circuits. And the fact that the phases have effectively zero coupling means that you also need to just try the adapter to find out if it’s going to work or not unless you happen to know how exactly your house is wired up, just like with split phase power.

Apartments usually get a single phase though, but IMHO it’s also less likely that WiFi won’t be enough there, so it’s questionable if that’s even a point for powerline.

You don’t need any swap space for suspend to work

The download will simply fail if the version pacman wants to download isn’t available on the mirror. The version is part of the download URL.

OK, what exactly does an average person need a computer for that cannot be adequately done on a phone? Because I do have a few relatives with computers that just gather dust permanently returned off, and they don’t seem to mind.

“Oh, you didn’t spend at least a few hundred dollars on a device that you aren’t going to use for anything except flashing a custom ROM once? What a moron!”

Right, but the commenter above me seems to suggest that GrapheneOS removed the battery management in order to bring the charging limit back, which is why I asked.

Wait, did Android 16 QPR 1 remove the charging limit for newer Pixels? My 7a has both the Battery health assistance option and the original optimization modes (off, adaptive charging and 80%).

Wayland does force clients to be able to cope with a compositor that doesn’t do SSD - CSD support is mandatory, SSD optional.

It’s a crappy clickbait title, I don’t see why it shouldn’t get downvoted

I guess how much people care also depends on whether they tend to use laptops in ways and places that are prone to causing damage to the ports. I’ve never damaged any port on any laptop I’ve ever owned, and it’s unlikely I ever will because I like to keep the cables organized and out of the way (so it would require conscious effort to tug on them), and when I want to pick my laptop up, I always quickly run my hand around its perimeter to make sure everything is disconnected.

I do not claim that this is the correct way to use a laptop or that others should do the same, it is a tool that should be used the way its user needs, I just want to point out that for some usecases, this is simply a non-issue in the same way a non-replaceable CPU is - nothing’s going to happen to it.

Also, my current laptop does have both a barrel jack (probably works, I’ve never used it) and a USB-C charging connector, so it’s not necessarily an either-or proposition.

Also, Google is no longer releasing the Pixel-specific source code, meaning you can no longer just build AOSP for new Pixels and have all the hardware just work - this makes it harder for custom ROM developers and might eventually lead to some hardware being simply unsupported unless you use the stock ROM.

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