ajvs's comments

On: Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California

[ajvs]

The way Kindles are being forcibly deprecated lately is another good example.

[account42 → ajvs]

Yes, cases where the service deprecation causes physical e-waste are particularly egregious but we should also not underestimate the societal cost to breaking peoples workflow just because some company can't be arsed to responsibly sunset a service in a way that gives users options to continue it themselves.

On: Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months

[ajvs]

Valve's Lepton (Waydroid fork) might solve this when it gets released.

On: Yggdrasil Network

[ajvs]

Was evaluating this recently, the lack of NAT busting was a dealbreaker.

[Karrot_Kream → ajvs]

You can make outbound connections to peers to avoid NAT.

[rubatuga → ajvs]

yggdrasil-jumper aims to help with this

On: Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

[ajvs]

They know their software and update story sucks, so partnering with a company which promises to handle all that and they have an existing audience means they'll sell a lot more of that model.

On: Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC

[ajvs]

Do you do that for Android?

On: Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC

[ajvs]

It's likely just a codename for now.

On: Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC

[ajvs]

Just think about how few Android devices have an open bootloader right now, there's no reason to think it'd be any different on larger hardware.

[nolist_policy → ajvs]

On the flip side, every Chromebook and Chromebox has a unlockable and open-spurce coreboot bootloader.

[WorldPeas → nolist_policy]

I love their mechanism where one opens the device and removes a screw to unlock it. Very novel and honestly kind of fun.

On: Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC

[ajvs]

A big part of it is chipmakers deprecating S3 sleep in favour of Modern Standby.

[fragmede → ajvs]

if Windows and Mac and androids and iOS can achieve great battery life then isn’t the problem Linux?

[pjmlp → fragmede]

More like FOSS religion, because those get the capabilities via NDAs or binary drivers.

[ginko → pjmlp]

Surely it's IP religion that keeps this information locked away.

[pjmlp → ginko]

IP religion supports the housing and family, FOSS one unfortunately mostly not, hence the usual licensing changes news every other week.

On: Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable

[ajvs]

> Unfortunately it seems supporting Linux natively is pretty quickly moving target

With the container-based approach of the Steam Linux Runtime this should no longer be a problem. Games can just target a particular version and Steam will be able to run it forevermore.

On: I don’t need a Steam Machine

[ajvs]

And this is due to Valve's big investments in Proton, Steam Deck and the new Steam hardware to get game compatibility working from both the Linux/Wine side as well as making game developers aim for compatibility.

[gf000 → ajvs]

One part of it. The other (and arguably bigger in some way) part are drivers (Nvidia, amd, Intel) that improved a great deal over the years.

[giancarlostoro → gf000]

Kind of helps that most AI work happens on Linux too. ;)

[MegaDeKay → ajvs]

They've been supporting KDE as well for years now.