today's leftovers
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Intel Drivers Delivers Up To 15% Performance Boost To Arc GPUs In Linux
The new set of i915 Linux kernel graphics driver patches released back in April revealed Intel's change in RPS thresholds. Before this, RPS values were set at a default trend but now the updated drivers bring in the option for consumers to dynamically change the values. This new change was initially revealed by Google's engineer Syed Faaiz Hussain & it was disclosed the RPS tuning brought in noticeable performance improvements.
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Apart from RPS tuning changes, the new patch in Linux 6.6 brings "a fix to avoid infinite GPU waits and various Meteor Lake updates." The changes made in the driver for the upcoming Meteor Lake also indicate that Team Blue is working on complete support at launch, by starting work much earlier. With that said, Intel's Arc driver division is working really hard to extract every bit of juice out of the Alchemist architecture.
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Ask Slashdot: What's the Best (Encrypted) Password Manager?
My wife is not a Linux geek like I am, so she's using [free and open-source] KeePass. It's relatively simple to install and use, but I seem to recall it used to be even much simpler... Does anybody know of a really simple password manager or encrypting notepad?
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Blog about what you want
I have had Rubenerd's "What is the worst advice you have received?" blog post in the list of tabs on my phone for a few days, about which I have been meaning to write. (Side note: If you have enough tabs open, Firefox on mobile shows an infinity icon instead of the tab count. Did I break physics by having too many tabs open?)
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2023-08-04 [Older] GNSS Combo Breakout & SIK v4.1.2
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2023-08-02 [Older] TinkerMill's Electronic Access System
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Jon 'maddog' Hall Defends Red Hat's Re-Licensing of RHEL
In February of 1994 Jon "maddog" Hall interviewed a young Linus Torvalds (then just 24). Nearly three decades later — as Hall approaches his 73rd birthday — he's shared a long essay looking back, but also assessing today's controversy about Red Hat's licensing of RHEL.