rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]

I ran into some minor issues with mine running Fedora 41, all had workarounds.

1. Sometimes the ports stop working properly, I have to pull out either the USB-C or USB-A expansion card and plug it back in and its fine. Scared me the first time it happened before and a reboot didn’t fix it.
2. I ran into full-system stutters that were actually related to PSR. I had to add amdgpu.dcdebug_mask=0x410 (remove the underscore, the word filter got a little overzealous) to my kernel command line since I couldn’t listen to music without stuttering. Fascinating that the display having PSR problems caused audio stutters, but here we are. It’s weird that others aren’t running into this, but whatever. My battery life is worse with it off but at least the computer doesn’t stutter anymore.
3. Obviously only some of the ports support USB4 so I run USB-C on both back ports and USB-A on both frontlier ports.

edit: can i just say that there are fewer more negative places than Phoronix comments, in general. I wouldn’t take them too seriously.

So is it a thing that some health nuts drink unpasteurised milk? I’m not sure if I’ve dreamt that or not. And I guess at that point we just need a mutation and we’re right back at 2019 again, right?

Great post, this puts into words things that I’ve been mulling over in my head for about a year now. Also: new fear unlocked, buying a new dishwasher.

this is like a 3D bit I love it

I bought the high end nvidia shield last year and just out of warranty both the bluetooth and wifi chips died. It’s basically a brick now and I am probably never going to buy another. Even more stupid as I have an old tube-shield that is still running just fine from like 2018. I ended up installing https://libreelec.tv/ on an old pi 4 I had lying around. HDR, multi-language subtitles, using existing TV remote over HDMI-CEC, all work. That being said, I only use it for Jellyfin.

I hope anyone use using a shield does not have the same experience I did.

I know this isn’t what you said but I just imagined you flying all the way to Japan from somewhere in NA for the express purpose of having a knife sharpened and it amused me. Sorry, I’ll get back to lurking.

I have some crazy theories about “why” this is happening, I’m not an expert though.

1. I think that enforcing TPM is part of the end-to-end attestation plans for the Internet: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/ . TPM allows for a full stack, end-to-end, of hardware->operating system->browser trust chain to make sure you’re not rooting your own system to get around DRM.
2. This sells hardware as “never-linuxers” are forced to upgrade, and people who have been scraping by with old hardware are given an “excuse” to upgrade. I guess that results in profits for partners and also MS?

Maybe I sound crazy. At any rate, I’m really glad for places like Lemmy (and operating systems like Linux) existing, because I don’t trust any for-profit tech company not to ban Firefox/Linux users/Ad block/video streaming/etc.

I was using NeoChat for a while, but IIRC it doesn’t support encrypted historical messages, so you’d have to get it set up and keep element around for searching history…

NeoChat has the benefit of supporting OIDC which my server uses exclusively, otherwise I would have given Fractal a look as well.