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ARM systems don’t have the whole ACPI thing to describe what hardware is where. Linux has to bodge together its view of the system with a devicetree instead. If you don’t know what device IP blocks are integrated into the SOC (and locked behind an NDA), good luck blindly guessing. You don’t even get EFI booting, you get shit like “the rpi gpu runs its own proprietary bootloader lol”.
Has Qualcomm ever been helpful?
Lobster was an unbelievably buggy distro. I had no end of sleep and compositor problems, and outright system hangs on it. Minotaur was better, but still give me far too much crap.
I would rather run a “crack monkeys with a sourceforce account” nightly distro than go through Ubuntu’s idea of a beta again.
I think “endurance” cards are where you get something reasonably non-self-destructive, for a modest premium.
Ghidra is properly Java, so better luck looking there.
I’m somewhere between Kitty and Ptyxis.
Wait till you see a Mediatek
The PineTab doesn’t even have a wifi/bt radio that’s supported by its own OS. When you’re an OEM and you’re choosing what chips you’re putting in a design, I think you should stick to chips that are usable. Chips where the manufacturer has written specs and maybe even a driver that transforms “a piece of glass with a lead frame” into something with a purpose.
Anyway, that’s just how I feel.
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Flatseal is the tool.
(Another benefit to using the flatpak version of Steam is that Steam leaks rather substantial chunks of /dev/shm memory. The flatpak automatically cleans that up. God knows why Valve hasn’t fixed this yet.)
The simplest way to opt out is to “install any other OS instead”.
Hahahaha NO
The hard part is finding a stable identifier, instead of “this interface is know as sink 48 at this exact instant. It will be a completely different number tomorrow. It might even be a potato emoji, who knows?”
Might as well go for Win11, you’re going to have to deal with it next year anyways.
Windows doesn’t do minimal, it does whatever the hell it wants. There are some OOBE tricks to get a local account working.
I have used the privacy.sexy app to strip down some of the most obnoxious Win11 bits - be warned that you have to disable defender to have it work. Is it doing bad things? Is MS doing incredibly shady shit with their detections? Who’s to say? When I turn on Defender afterwards, everything seems “fine”.
There’s no need to get rid of grub, or play games with different boot drives. Get to know how EFI works. Look at efibootmgr’s output - that’s pretty much all that the firmware knows. The firmware has multiple entries consisting of a drive (magic device number), a program path (EFI\grub\grub_x64.efi), and maybe a string to pass along. There is a priority list (0003,0001,0002) which MS occasionally likes to re-arrange.
Power management on “the most boring Intel chip imaginable” is still touch-and-go at times.
“Except when something breaks after an odd update once or twice per year”
You don’t need snapshots, except for the moments when you do. The point of snapshots is that they’re so cheap that you can let them roll on their own and only care about them the day your system breaks.
It’s not like they’re stuck on some outdated proprietary engine like RPG Maker. Minetest is under active development, with a small list of dependencies that are also under active development. It is under no particular rush to get off of X11/Xwayland.
Do you have pci-e slots? An nvme to pcie card is cheap - it’s pretty much just passing from one connector shape to another.
Instead of having an efficient chip monitoring the power button, they integrate that job into some 10nm chip. That chip doesn’t get to power off, so it just pisses away power on gate leakage all day long.