Posts by RAMChYLD 902 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2010
> Also remember that when you stop paying all your previously tagged music will now 404 and not play.
Didn't that happen to Apple Music users sometimes back? Suddenly their ripped music was replaced with DRMed copies that would no longer play once they terminated their Apple Music subscription?
The problem with Japanese CDs is how xenophobic some of the companies are.
The Initial D anime aired in Malaysia. However Avex vetos the export of the soundtrack (mostly rave/Eurodance tracks by West European performers like Dave Rodgers). Johnny and Associates' bands is even worse. Heck even some Sony Music/Columbia CDs are blocked from export.
This.
Cinelerra has the UI issues plaguing Gimp taken up to 11.
I strongly want Sony/Magix Vegas on Linux. But I can't have it, Magix GmbH has time and time again said no.
DaVinci Resolve sucks, no MPEG-4+AAC support which rules out recordings made using my cellphones and my workhorse Sony camcorder. It only exists to sell Blackmagic Designs' uber expensive RAW cameras. The only other camera it works with are the Chinese yamcha-brand MJPEG+MP2 toy cameras that capture at 8fps.
KDenlive is broken (apparently there are bugs in it's VAAPI support) and the last time I used it, it was more like Windows Movie Maker- dumbed down and only allows you to use two video and audio tracks.
The only thing PiTiVi is giving me are segfaults.
Also, the ever changing driver interface is ridiculous. It only exists to piss off people who somehow bought hardware with closed source drivers (like Nvidia GPUs) and now have to live with it. My GeForce 650 TI Boost that I'm still hanging on to as last ditch backup (if I have to send a GPU off for RMA, I have at least something to fall back on) are not going to work with Kernel 6.18 because the last drivers put out for it won't compile against the everchanging API. And every time a new kernel comes out I am guaranteed to be locked out of my home directory because my home volume is a ZFS array (BCacheFS? HAH! That thing doesn't even exist in tree anymore. And just 6 versions of the kernel ago it was touted as the filesystem that will make ZFS irrelevant).
Don't get me wrong. I love Linux and I advocate it strongly. However eve I have to admit that it sucks because the ever changing driver API ties in nicely to Nvidia's forced obsolescence tactics and also gives users of any drivers the Linux devs do not like (including superior filesystems like ZFS) the finger.
Not only that, they have the gall to buy up 40% of the world's DRAM silicon wafers just to sit on it with the intention to stifle competition, nevermind that they are also screwing over anyone else who currently needs anything that uses DRAM.
Screw OpenAI, I wish they'd crash and burn.
It's the same issue in Asia. Allegedly Malaysia has allocated the n257 band to the monopoly SWN that is DNB. However there is exactly ZERO phones in the market that can use it.
Apparently, the Samsung Galaxy S25 series can use it but only the USA models. The version released to the rest of the world has the mmWave radio neutered off. The listed Google Plxel phones listed aren't even sold in Malaysia, the first Google Pixel phone available to Malaysia is the Pixel 10 series which does not have mmWave support.
Mobile telcos should not be handed the upper 6G spectrum.
This is a ploy to cripple 6GHz rollout on wifi so they can force more people to take cell plans for data. Because think about it, landline ISPs are usually unlimited in quota while mobile would just love it that you fork out more money on quota extensions. And you're more likely to become frustrated and turn off phone wifi and use data from your mobile provider because there's not enough bandwidth on the spectrum so everyone's brand new 6E and 7 routers end up fighting for a slice of the frequency, and nobody wins.
I suspect that's why Alpacas are banned.
They've become the butt of the worst "your mom" insult that the Chinese can muster, which in turn caused AI to associate alpacas with the insult and thus accuse anyone of posting an alpaca of being rude.
I assume the system will also ban images of crabs.
Troll. Because this ban is caused by Chinese trolling.
Except that monitoring from the server side doesn't work either. EA actually tried that and their anticheat banned great players more often than cheaters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKRdsHBef0&t=216s
I'm not speaking for KLAC, just saying that server-side isn't perfect either.
I think the only thing that works is good old fashioned game logging and community reports. But then that will take EA hundreds of man hours and cost them a few thousand dollars a month to hire someone to go through replays of reported players. So of course they'd rather have some tentacle-laden monster fondle your kernel instead of making their shareholder see that they're not making as much money as they'd like...
Slackware isn't for everyone tho. For example, it's kernel is old so it's support for newer hardware made within the last year is non-existant (and the version of MESA is equally old that you'll have a hell of a time getting the newest GPUs supported). The older version of Libreoffice is almost certainly not going to include the recent improvements that improves Word document formatting tremendously. And god help you if you want Wine to be a version that was made this year.
Iirc Peertube also requires you to host your videos yourself either using a VPS or your own PC in background. Unless you have superfast internet (a problem in many second and third world countries) the latter is not practical since you're most likely going to have constrained upload speeds. But I'm certainly not going to buy a VPS subscription (or crawl to Amazon or worse, back to M$ for Azure) just to host my videos...
> This means an IP-based security system may inadvertently block or throttle large groups of users as a result of a single user behind the CGNAT engaging in malicious activity
It's worse than that. Hands up if you visited a news site and it tells you you've used up your quota of free news for the day and now wants you to pay. And this is your first time visiting the site in a week.
One specific Riverbed Steelhead kit my previous company used comes to mind. The box has this strange LAN splitter connected to it, one end going into a switch and another into WAN, and the box itself has a second LAN cable going into the switch. If the box received power then the splitter would switch data to go into the box and cut off the link directly going into the switch, which will then do it's job. If the box is powered down however the splitter would somehow pass data onto the LAN cable instead and allow for a data path direct to the switch.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say the box that they unplugged was a Steelhead or similar caching device.
Latest SystemD broke DNS support, uinput.
Users suddenly no longer able to use controllers in games.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/39043
Additionally users of ResolveD suddenly cannot get DNS resolution because of premature enabling of buggy DNSSEC support.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=308364
Both these issues combined gave me a frustrating few weeks that culminated in both my Arch and CachyOS machines getting reformatted.
The big one is tiered drive caching. You can buy a 64TB hard drive, a 2TB SSD, and the system will intelligently swap data between the HDD and SDD to give an appearance of speed. Highly useful if you edit videos and then archive your footage to the same drive, or if you have a huge game library- the games that you play frequently will always load at SSD speeds, while the games you buy on Steam sales will be readily archived until you're ready to play them, in which then after an initial slow start they will speed up as data is being cached onto the SSD. All this without needing user intervention.
Also bcachefs makes it trivial to do RAID like ZFS does. Where before you need to fiddle around with LVM or {dm,md}raid and then build your ext4 on the resulting volume, which is tiresome. Bcachefs like ZFS ties it into the same layer as it is running so there's less to no overhead.
And you can combine the RAID feature and tiered storage feature together to get a blistering fast storage solution.
I think the issue with BTRFS is clear- the devs put too much trust into their work, that it became too big to fail.
The BTRFS mantra I've seen time and time again is that "file checking isn't needed, because the filesystem is self-healing". Until it isn't.
BTRFS is fine for single volume disks (never experienced a single fault in the 15 years I've been using it) but its RAID code is extremely unusable even to this day, and using btrfs RAID is a quick way to ensure you lose your data.
That said I'm sad to see bcachefs go. The Linux kernel devs are extremely hostile to ZFS even when the version of ZFS the ZoL team are are working with is an old version forked from before Oracle took over to the point of not wanting the kernel in-tree and even working against the ZFS team by changing symbols with every Linux release just because they fear Oracle's lawyers (over what, the version forked from before Oracle closed the source? Pretty sure license changes are not retroactive and Oracle will get laughed of the courtroom by the EFF and FSF. Hell they could even threaten to revoke Oralce's membership from the Linux Foundation).
Name and shame. No point hiding the name. If that bastard of a boss has sleazy lawyers who can do something as illegal as manipulating the numbers that Ivan won't get a bonus at all, who knows what else they're doing. People need to know to avoid that shithole.
Flame. Because I've had enough of the injustice of this world.
That and Virtualbox is supposed to be FOSS software. Sun released it as such.
Guess that's one more FOSS project Oracle is killing just like OpenSolaris, Java and OpenOffice and MariaDB before it.
Maybe someone can fork the last actual GPL version of Virtualbox one day. One can dream...
The issue tho is VMWare Workstation is practically discontinued at this point. It may receive the rare security fix but aside from that no new features.
Guess I have to learn how to use Qemu+KVM then. Shame it doesn't have a nice shiny frontend like Virtualbox or VMWare Workstation. The few frontend for it is unintuitive. But I'll live.
Accidentally did just that at my second job when I was still a greenhorn. didn't notice which database I was on and assumed I was on the test database (my first mistake), and executed a mass purge of grades of the university exam database.
Thankfully we had backups, but yeah, my contract was not renewed at the end of the term. It was for the best tho, since my relationship with one of the deans soured after he made me stay back and do unpaid overtime on a weekend when I already had plans a few months later.
Or as it's known in English-speaking countries, the APC-III. I somehow ended up in possession of a box of APC-III software including a MS-DOS 3.3 boot disk. Now, my PC clone (a Sharp PC-7000A) only had MS-DOS 2.11 which certain newer MS-DOS games would refuse to run on, so having a DOS 3.3 disk would be a total upgrade (mind, this was back in the days where having a hard drive meant you were stinking rich in this region, so us plebs made do with floppies, with the added advantage that they could be copied and swapped with your cousins).
Except that the disk wouldn't boot proper, it would just bootloop, showing the Sharp BIOS screen, the Starting MS-DOS message, and then reboot a second later. All the programs in the box also rebooted the system when run. I wrote it off as the box of disks being faulty and threw them aside.
I later found out that NEC had injected extra code into their version of MS-DOS for APC-III/PC-98, as well as their pack-in software, to look for a "Copyright NEC" string in the BIOS, and not finding it, reboot continuously until the machine is shut off.
Cheeky.
I later found a copy of MS-DOS 4.02 from an Epson machine and that one isn't sabotaged in that way. Sure it was widely considered the worst version of MS-DOS ever created, but it offer me reprieve in that games that previously refused to run with a "Requires MS-DOS 3.3 or Later" error could at least now make it to the title screen before locking up.
> So, what does Wayland give you that's actually BETTER...?
Closer to hardware.
X11 is built for a networked environment. You can SSH into another machine, run an X program, and if you have a local X Server, that program will then appear on your system as if it's running locally.
However, the networked environments adaptation also means inherently higher latency. Your program must still talk to the X server through a port. This also potentially means data has to at least go to the network stack and then back to the CPU, inherently introducing more delays.
Nah, I don't buy Nvidia cards on the grounds that they cost 5 digits cash at where I used to live.
I use AMD almost exclusively now. The only Nvidia things I have is my Nintendo Switch which is only ever explicitly used for Animal Crossing, and an old Shield Pro which I use to put on live youtube and twitch streams as background noise when I sleep.
I have one: Magix Vegas 19. I have tried to wrap my head around Cinelerra but it's difficult (you complain about GIMP's UI being illogical? How quaint. Becase Cinelerra is windowing hell and needs at least two monitors to be even remotely usable) and has many missing features. KDenLive doesn't cut it either (it's not as powerful, and the latest version has broken hardware encoding and acceleration), and the Linux version of DaVinci Resolve is hopeless in all caps (can't support H.264 and derivatives like AVC, or AAC audio. Meaning videos made by 95% of devices in the market can't be opened). And Magix doesn't seem to want to do anything to make it compatible with Wine.
PS: The article says Steam is a subscription service. This is blatantly wrong. You don't pay a monthly fee to use Steam. It's a storefront.
> I thought most VM solutions had native GPU pass through
Not all. The usual suspects like Virtualbox and VMWare doesn't. The ones that do - Qemu via KVM - requires you to sacrifice the GPU to the VM in entirety even if the VM isn't running if I understand the Looking Glass project documentation right. This isn't an acceptable solution to folks who want to dynamically repurpose the GPU as needed, say maybe use the GPU in Linux if no VM is running. Maybe in the future Linux (and BSD and illumos) would gain the ability to "lease" hardware out to VMs and reclaim them as needed. But that functionality doesn't exist at the moment.
Must be a Brother.
I had a Brother fax machine that used Thermal Transfer. You need to load it with a roll of thermal transfer carbon. After which you could load normal A4 paper into a tray on the top and it would print onto that. The advantage is that those don't fade like regular thermal paper. Yes, it's more expensive to use in the long run, but indispensable if you archive the faxes you receive for paper trail purposes!
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