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[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sometimes you're working on an IoT device in a tight space, which makes rotating/seeing everything much harder.

Especially if you drop the cable it falls into a crevice somewhere.

You probably won't have trouble plugging it in the first time, but gods forbid you unplug/replug it then the cable rotates 540 degrees and you have no idea how it was plugged in before

As much as I love tactical RPGs with massive maps, there's something magical about the diorama-style maps of FFT

Zen kernel should be fine. I've been running it for 4 years and haven't had any issues specific to zen.

Many years ago when I was still doing my undergrad I had a cyber security prof talk about side channels:

”There's no way to prevent side-channels. As long as two components are sharing the same physical resource there will be side channels. The only problem is that these side channels are leaking way more bits than we expected.”

So the question here is how big does the side channel need to be to leak something sensitive from memory? Turning off mitigations will almost certainly lead to larger side channels. Whether that is worth the risk is up to you.

VMs, containers, and running make -j (yep, that's right, -j without specifying the maximum number of parallel jobs)

And Quic, and Pony express, and GFS...

The year is 5123. We have meticulously deciphered texts from the early 21st century, providing us with a wealth of knowledge. Yet one question still eludes us to this day:

Who the heck is Magic 8. Ball?

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're thinking of the OBS (open build service), which does exist.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

AUR maintainer for a few niche packages here. It's because it lowers the barrier of entry. Remember this is all a volunteer effort.

What do I do when someone running ubuntu reports an error saying the PKGBUILD doesn't work?

What if the program fails due to a different version of the kernel? (True story, only after 2 weeks of debugging I found out that the user was running Manjaro, which used a different naming convention for the kernel)

What do I do if someone reports a missing library dependency on fedora? Should I also package that library for fedora?

If I'm packaging drivers for specific hardware. I'm not going to install a specific distro just to fix your issue (sorry!). Most of my advice is given on a best effort basis. I made these build scripts for myself since I want native installs for all my software, and thought other people may be interested in them as well. If the responsibility of maintaining them becomes too overwhelming (like with your LUR case). I'll probably host these build scripts in a private repo instead.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everything fails except old PATA disks. For some reason they tend to last forever.

Or just any dpdk program, where any gdb caused slowdown causes the code to "behave as expected"

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