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That is indeed a nice tool.
The default configuration of 13/16T also provides quite even spacing though. The more significant difference is that the 12T in the back require a 44T chainring for similar development as 13T + 50T and that extends the lowest gear from 2.65 to 2.49.
This is all nice and all but my problem is that it doesn't tell me how significant that difference actually is in the real world; I don't know how the 0.25 delta would actually manifest itself in a way where you'd feel an appreciable improvement in climbing hills.
Kagi Search Changelog March 21st, 2025 - Leveling up the Kagi Assistant experience, meet Kagi in Tokyo, and more...
Next chapter in the Kagi Assistant experience
With this release, we're introducing a new sidebar, designed to streamline your workflow and keep everything you need within reach. This is just the beginning - the new sidebar lays the foundation for even more powerful features to come.
We're also rolling out Claude 3.7 Sonnet with extended thinking to
tackle even more complex challenges.
As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts - join the conversation on Discord or share your feedback through our forum at [https://kagifeedback.org/]
And it's also client-side. Kagi filters them server-side AFAICT, so from your POV it's instant and without client-side filtering jank.
There's also the option of just leaving an offline disk at someone's and visiting them regularly to update the backup.
Having an entirely offline copy also protects you/mitigates against a few additional hazards.
If you don't process any user data beyond what is technologically required to make the website work, you don't need to inform the user about it.
None of this puts the user out of control; they're free to add the Flathub repository should they wish to do so.
He
I hate to be that guy but OP gave no indication of their gender. English has the luxury of having a "natural" neutral pronoun; please just use that.
which these suggested Fedora Spins are designed to integrate with as tightly as possible
Could you explain what exactly this "tight integration" pertains? AFAIK these are just regular old global-state distros but with read-only snapshotting for said global state (RPM-ostree, "immutable").
Read-only global system configuration state in pretty much requires usage of Flatpak and the like for user-level package application management because you aren't supposed to modify the global system state to do so but that's about the extent that I know such distros interact with Flatpak etc.
Bazzite is completely the opposite of an OS designed to run one app at once, which means you haven’t tried it before rubbishing it as a suggestion.
That is their one and only stated goal: Run games.
I don't know about you but I typically only run one game at a time and have a hard time imagining how any gaming-focused distro would do it any other way besides running basic utilities in the background (i.e. comms software.).
Obviously you can use it to do non-gaming stuff too but at that point it's just a regular old distro with read-only system state. You can install Flatpak, distrobox etc. on distros that have mutable system state too for that matter.
Could you point out the specific concrete things Bazzite does to improve separation between applications beyond the sandboxing tools that are available to any distribution?
It's true that I haven't used Bazzite; I have no use for imperative global state distributions and am capable of applying modifications useful for gaming on my own. It's not like I haven't done my research though.
"No your honour, we do not offer users any patented software, we merely ship a system which directs users to this other totally unrelated entity that we are fully aware ships patented software." will not hold up in court.
I also imagine RH would simply like control over the repository content they offer to users by default. Flathub acts more like a 3rd party user repository than a "proper" distro.
I don't assume you to be stupid, so lack of information is the most likely explanation for not knowing what "it" refers to here.
Read the linked issue first perhaps.
Offering patented software would open Fedora (a RedHat product mind you) up to legal issues in places that know software patents (primarily the U.S.).
There is no distribution that does what you're looking for. All the ones recommended by others in this thread are just generic distributions that do nothing special to separate user applications and I have no idea why they saw fit to mention them at all.
The best recommendation here is Qubes but that's arguably not a distro but rather its own operating system that can then run some instances of distros inside of it with strong separation between those units.
The only thing that somewhat goes the direction you want is Flatpak but it's not anywhere close to Androids really quite solid app separation scheme.
The reality of it is that most Linux desktop apps are made with the assumption that they are permitted to access every resource the user has access to with no differentiation; your SSH or GPG private keys are in the same category as the app's config file.
Standard APIs to manage permissions in a more fine-grained manner are slowly being worked on (primarily by the flatpak community IME) but it's slow and mostly focused on container stuff which I'm not convinced is the way forward. There does not appear to be any strong effort towards creating a resource access control design that's anywhere near as good as Android's in any case though.
The closest thing we have is systemd hardening for system components but that's obviously not relevant for desktop apps. It's also (IMHO) inherently flawed due to using a blocklist approach rather than an allow-list one. It's also quite rigid in what resources it controls.
I'm not convinced any of the existing technologies we have right now is fit for a modern user-facing system.
Here's what I think we ought to have:
- A method to identify applications at runtime (e.g. to tell apart your browser from your terminal and your editor at runtime)
- A generic extensible way to declare resources to which access should be controlled within a single user context (i.e. some partition of your home filesystem or some device that your user generally has access to such as your camera)
- A user-configurable mapping between resources and applications; enforced by kernel-level generic mechanisms
No need for any containers here for any of this; they're a crutch for poor legacy distro design that relies on global state. I don't see a need for breaking the entire UNIX process model by unsharing all resources and then passing in some of them through by overly complex methods either.
Eventhough they're quite simple and effective, I'm not convinced UNIX users are a good primitive to use for application identification like Android does it because that implies user data file ownership needs to be managed by some separate component rather than the standard IO operations that any Linux apps ever uses for everything.
I think this should instead be achieved using cgroups instead which are the single most important invention in operating systems that you can actually use today since UNIX IMHO.
The missing parts are therefore a standard for resource declaration and a standard and mechanism to assign them to applications (identified via cgroup).
I haven't done much research into whether these exist or how they could me made to exist.
That is not relevant here in any way. That's a distro made to easily run one app at a time without really caring about data security w.r.t. that app.
Note that even with this it'll be quite likely that games don't work. WineD3D is much less compatible than DXVK.
You need a device that can do Vulkan properly. The best for that are AMDGPUs and Nvidia ones but I wouldn't recommend the latter. Newer Xe Intel GPUs should also work but they're quite a bit behind anything AMD has to offer in terms of performance.
The newer of your GPUs meanwhile is a design from ~2015. Vulkan released in 2016. Just to get you an idea.
The issue here is not Linux, it's that neither of your GPUs was made for modern gaming. On windows that might sometimes work, especially with games targetting older graphics APIs that your GPUs were made with in mind but on Linux everything is Vulkan (a very modern graphics API), even games that only use older APIs.
A modern Vulkan-capable card is a requirement for painless gaming on Linux.
It uses the same technology but that's it.
On the one hand yes but on the other hand this would also kind of set wrong incentives: to use Kagi search less because you'd need to pay more.
That's not an incentive they or you would want.
I think what I'd like is how my mobile carrier handles their data limits: It's not an entirely fair comparison because in that case, contrary to Kagi, there is no real cost associated with my degree of usage of the service, making them entirely arbitrary and unnecessary but besides that the unused data rolls over to the next month and that's something Kagi could mirror.
I hover around 600-1000 searches per month but sometimes exceed 1000. If I could pay for 1000/month and accumulate a little buffer in the months where I search less, that would work for me. Though perhaps I'd still want to just simply pay for unlimited usage for peace of mind.
This sounds like FUD. Do you have a source for that?
As a paying member, I know that they started charging (and presumably transferring) VAT last year.
Before that, they claimed they were simply too insignificant to even be eligible for VAT.
I looked it up and there appears to be an exception for such cases where VAT is charged in the company's jurisdiction rather that the customer's (it's usually the other way around) until you reach 10000€ annual turnover. Information on this is extremely intransparent however, so this might be wrong.
They do. The $10/month search plan is unlimited.
The only LLM stuff in their search product is the quick answers which can be turned off and page summaries which you have to explicitly click on in a submenu in any case.
As someone aware of how limited LLMs are, I've actually found both of these features to be useful for gauging whether a site is worth visiting or not at times which is part of the core feature set of a search engine IMHO.
A good while back they claimed that Google search index fees make up the vast majority of their costs, so I doubt any of your money is going towards LLM BS unless you actually pay for their assistant product.
I doubt Google has given them any discounts since then.
I'd expect the development of all of their product to be mostly funded by VC. If they can get VC idiots who fell for the """AI""" hype to subsidise building an actually useful thing (the search product), that's a win in my book, even if they also have to build the AI crap on the side to keep said VC idiots happy.
Even with root it's not anywhere near trivial.
You can't, for instance, make a backup of the userdata partition block device and expect to be able to restore it because it must be decrypted by a key in the phone's security module that gets wiped when you boot a new ROM.
Should have just been a reply.
Someone started working on a Vulkan driver for TeraScale GPUs a few years ago:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/Triang3l/mesa/-/tree/Terakan
I believe it can run some demos add even works on windows.
Experiences with different gearing on a 6-speed Brompton?
So I let the chain wear down too much in the past two years and the rear sprockets appear to be worn out and will need to be replaced. The stock 50T chain ring is also showing signs of wear but appears to still be good for a few years.
I wanted to use this opportunity to see whether I could switch the gearing up a little.
The 13-16 gearing has been surprisingly capable but I need just a little more hill climbing ability; the lowest gear (2.64m) is just barely enough sometimes. I'd like it a tad lower I think.
On the high end, I usually ride in the upper two gears on flat ground. The highest gear (7.98m) feels just a tad too much sometimes though and I then fall back to one lower (6.49m) but that feels a good bit too low. That doesn't bother me a lot but it'd still be nicer to have a gear that's just right.
On a downhill, the highest gear is always sufficient for me; feels pretty much exactly right. I wouldn't mind slightly more metres of development but, honestly, I don't care very
Experiences with different gearing for 6-speed?
So I let the chain wear down too much in the past two years and the rear sprockets appear to be worn out and will need to be replaced. The stock 50T chain ring is also showing signs of wear but appears to still be good for a few years.
I wanted to use this opportunity to see whether I could switch the gearing up a little.
The 13-16 gearing has been surprisingly capable but I need just a little more hill climbing ability; the lowest gear (2.64m) is just barely enough sometimes. I'd like it a tad lower I think.
On the high end, I usually ride in the upper two gears on flat ground. The highest gear (7.98m) feels just a tad too much sometimes though and I then fall back to one lower (6.49m) but that feels a good bit too low. That doesn't bother me a lot but it'd still be nicer to have a gear that's just right.
On a downhill, the highest gear is always sufficient for me; feels pretty much exactly right. I wouldn't mind slightly more metres of development but, honestly, I don't care very
Kobo handwriting troubles with mathematical notation
I recently got my Kobo Elipsa 2E and it's better than I expected, especially the simplicity of OS and how well handwriting generally works were a surprise to me.
Given that its handwritten notes features are surprisingly capable, I've been trying to use it to take notes for learning physics but quite soon ran into an issue in trying to use the advanced notebook:
In physics, there's a notation where you can write dx/dt as an x with a dot above it (ẋ), adding more dots the more often you take the derivative w.r.t. time though you typically only need 2 max. The handwriting recognition for formulas does not know this notation however and therefore converts any attempts to stupid stuff instead.
Additionally, I quite frequently write sentences that also contain some "math symbols" such as δ or θ or even just mathematical expressions such as L(x). Formula fields would recognise these just fine but no such luck with regular text fields; it tries to make normal letters or words out of
Case-folding support might be coming soon
github.com Please add a file attribute or mount option for case insensitivity... · Issue #44 · btrfs/btrfs-todo
Hi! With ext4 there is the file attribute "+F" which adds case insensitivity to a folder and the containing files. BTRFS doesn't have any option like this... For cross platform tasks there are many...
E-reader for manga that isn't enshittified and doesn't spy on me?
I've been gifted a Sony PRS-T3 over a decade ago. I've recently gotten into reading again and used it to read a manhwa/webtoon/web novel (or whatever the Korean ones are called) and most recently a light novel.
It's functional and perhaps even decent (especially given its age) but my main gripes with it are:
- Size: It's much too small to fit an entire manga page with readable text, so you need to use hacks like kcc which is suboptimal. I'd like the display to be the size of a typical manga or slightly larger.
- Lack of customisation: It has this ugly indented paragraph style in books which I don't like and the selection of fonts aswell as font rendering isn't great.
- Artifacts in images: When anything more complex than text is on display (and even with text it's subtly noticeable), you always see ghosts of the previous image. This is perhaps the most critical flaw for the purpose of reading Manga. Image quality in pictures isn't great to begin with either.
- Slow: Page turning is
NixOS 24.11 released
nixos.org NixOS 24.11 released | Blog | Nix & NixOS
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NixOS 24.11 released
nixos.org Blog | Nix & NixOS
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
github.com Release scrcpy v3.0 · Genymobile/scrcpy
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scrcpy v3.0
Changes since v2.7:
- Add virtual display feature (#5370, #5506, #1887, #4528, #5137)
- Launch Android app on start (#5370)
- Add OpenGL filters (#5455)
- Add --capture-orientation to replace --lock-video-orientation (which was broken on Android 14) (#4011, #4426, #5455)
- Fix --crop on Android 14 (#4162, #5387, #5455)
- Handle virtual display rotation (#5428, #5455)
- Add --angle to apply a custom rotation (#4135, #4345, #4658, #5455)
- Add --screen-off-timeout (#5447)
- Adapt "turn screen off" for Android 15 (#3927, #5418)
- Add shortcut Ctrl+Shift+click-and-move for horizontal tilt (#5317)
- Add shortcut MOD+Shift+r to reset video capture/encoding (#5432)
- Forward Alt and Super with SDK Keyboard (#5318, #5322)
- Add more details to --list-encoders output (#5416)
- Add option to disable virtual display system decorations (#5494)
- Fix --time-limit overflow on Windows (#5355)
- Fix "does not match caller's uid 2000" error (#4639, #5476)
- Accept f
github.com Release scrcpy v3.0 · Genymobile/scrcpy
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scrcpy v3.0
Changes since v2.7:
- Add virtual display feature (#5370, #5506, #1887, #4528, #5137)
- Launch Android app on start (#5370)
- Add OpenGL filters (#5455)
- Add --capture-orientation to replace --lock-video-orientation (which was broken on Android 14) (#4011, #4426, #5455)
- Fix --crop on Android 14 (#4162, #5387, #5455)
- Handle virtual display rotation (#5428, #5455)
- Add --angle to apply a custom rotation (#4135, #4345, #4658, #5455)
- Add --screen-off-timeout (#5447)
- Adapt "turn screen off" for Android 15 (#3927, #5418)
- Add shortcut Ctrl+Shift+click-and-move for horizontal tilt (#5317)
- Add shortcut MOD+Shift+r to reset video capture/encoding (#5432)
- Forward Alt and Super with SDK Keyboard (#5318, #5322)
- Add more details to --list-encoders output (#5416)
- Add option to disable virtual display system decorations (#5494)
- Fix --time-limit overflow on Windows (#5355)
- Fix "does not match caller's uid 2000" error (#4639, #5476)
- Accept f
github.com Release scrcpy v3.0 · Genymobile/scrcpy
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scrcpy v3.0
Changes since v2.7:
- Add virtual display feature (#5370, #5506, #1887, #4528, #5137)
- Launch Android app on start (#5370)
- Add OpenGL filters (#5455)
- Add --capture-orientation to replace --lock-video-orientation (which was broken on Android 14) (#4011, #4426, #5455)
- Fix --crop on Android 14 (#4162, #5387, #5455)
- Handle virtual display rotation (#5428, #5455)
- Add --angle to apply a custom rotation (#4135, #4345, #4658, #5455)
- Add --screen-off-timeout (#5447)
- Adapt "turn screen off" for Android 15 (#3927, #5418)
- Add shortcut Ctrl+Shift+click-and-move for horizontal tilt (#5317)
- Add shortcut MOD+Shift+r to reset video capture/encoding (#5432)
- Forward Alt and Super with SDK Keyboard (#5318, #5322)
- Add more details to --list-encoders output (#5416)
- Add option to disable virtual display system decorations (#5494)
- Fix --time-limit overflow on Windows (#5355)
- Fix "does not match caller's uid 2000" error (#4639, #5476)
- Accept f
www.planetside2.com 12th Anniversary and beyond! - Nov. Dev Letter
Celebrate 12 years of PlanetSide 2 with Double XP and learn about new content coming soon!
Welcome back Auraxians!
This year marks the 12th Anniversary of PlanetSide 2 and 2024 has brought unique experiences to the game along with some new learnings.
As we close in on the end of the year and lead into the next, we will continue to strive to be as transparent as possible with our updates, features, and communications. Much of our progress could not have been made possible without your support, so thank you for your feedback and love for the game!
Your feedback during and after each update this year has been tremendously important to us. We continue to work on addressing critical issues, and we’re excited to hear your reactions. We are on track to continue our quest to improve your gaming experience through bug fixes, more anti-cheat measures, m
www.planetside2.com Nov. 6, 2024 - 12th Year Anniversary (PC Update)
PlanetSide 2 turns 12 years old this month! Celebrate with us with a new armor set, weapons and more!
New 12th Anniversary Bundles
In honor of PlanetSide 2's 12th anniversary, we're introducing 3 new bundles. Along with this patch, we have made QOL improvements and bug fixes.
Bundles
Monthly Members Bundle (1 DBC, 10 Certs)
Note: Paying in DBC will grant the following items to player accounts. Paying in soft currency such as Certs, ISO-4 or A7 will grant it to the character it was redeemed on.
November's Bundle Contains:
- NS-11A Frontline
- Gladiator Helmet (NC, TR, VS, NSO)
Anniversary Bundles (Releases November 20, 2024)
Anniversary Bundles for you to dig into, including the all-new Archaeotechnician Bundle featuring the rugged and powerful
github.com Release v0.6.0 · ilya-zlobintsev/LACT
[0.6.0] - 2024-11-14 This is a big release, adding several new major features: Nvidia support! LACT now works with Nvidia GPUs for all of the core functionality (monitoring, clocks configuration, ...
This is a big release, adding several new major features:
- Nvidia support! LACT now works with Nvidia GPUs for all of the core functionality (monitoring, clocks configuration, power limits and fan control). It uses the NVML library, so unlike the Nvidia control panel it doesn't rely on X11 extensions and works under Wayland.
- Multiple profiles for configuration. Currently it is not possible to switch them automatically, but they are configurable through the UI or the unix socket.
- Clocks configuration now works on AMD IGPUs (at least RDNA2). Previously it was not parsed properly due to lack of VRAM settings.
- Zero RPM mode settings on RDNA3. Currently this needs a linux-next to be used, and the functionality is expected to land in kernel 6.13. But this resolves a long-standing issue with RDNA3 that made the fan always disabled below a certain temperature, even if using a custom curve.
There are many other improvements as well, such
github.com Release v0.6.0 · ilya-zlobintsev/LACT
[0.6.0] - 2024-11-14 This is a big release, adding several new major features: Nvidia support! LACT now works with Nvidia GPUs for all of the core functionality (monitoring, clocks configuration, ...
This is a big release, adding several new major features:
- Nvidia support! LACT now works with Nvidia GPUs for all of the core functionality (monitoring, clocks configuration, power limits and fan control). It uses the NVML library, so unlike the Nvidia control panel it doesn't rely on X11 extensions and works under Wayland.
- Multiple profiles for configuration. Currently it is not possible to switch them automatically, but they are configurable through the UI or the unix socket.
- Clocks configuration now works on AMD IGPUs (at least RDNA2). Previously it was not parsed properly due to lack of VRAM settings.
- Zero RPM mode settings on RDNA3. Currently this needs a linux-next to be used, and the functionality is expected to land in kernel 6.13. But this resolves a long-standing issue with RDNA3 that made the fan always disabled below a certain temperature, even if using a custom curve.
There are many other improvements as well, such
DXVK Version 2.5
github.com Release Version 2.5 · doitsujin/dxvk
Memory managment Resource and memory management were completely rewritten in order to use allocated video memory more efficiently: Reduced fragmentation may reduce peak memory usage in games such ...
Memory managment
Resource and memory management were completely rewritten in order to use allocated video memory more efficiently:
- Reduced fragmentation may reduce peak memory usage in games such as God of War by up to 1 GiB in extreme cases.
- Memory defragmentation is now performed periodically to return some unused memory back to the system. The goal is not to reduce VRAM usage at all costs; instead this is done conservatively if the system is under memory pressure, or if a significant amount of allocated memory is unused. Keeping some unused memory is useful to quickly service subsequent allocations.
Note: Defragmentation is currently disabled on Intel's ANV driver, see #4434. The dxvk.enableMemoryDefrag config option can be set to enable or disable this feature via the the Configuration file.
Driver support
While technically not required, the new me
www.planetside2.com The Cobalt and Miller Server Merge
That's right! We are merging both Cobalt and Miller servers this week! Learn more here.
Welcome Auraxians!
In today’s letter we have a very special announcement for you! Server merge! That’s right, we’ve been working on testing this major shift and are excited to share the details with you.
Before we discuss that topic, we want to address the serious matter of cheating in the game. We understand that online cheating has affected your gaming experience, and as we tackle this issue and crack down on hackers, your reports and feedback are immensely valuable.
Our development team is committed to improving the game and providing you with the best possible experience. We are actively addressing these issues and appreciate your patience during this time.
Merging Servers
We are excited to share that we will be merging the Cobalt and Miller servers tomorrow! We believe that this will not only improve gameplay for our EU players by creating larger battles but will also forge new opportunitie
