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Linux and BSD Leftovers
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Desktop/Laptop
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Make Use Of ☛ I gave my Linux gaming PC the Steam Machine trick everyone wants
When Valve announced the Steam Machine, there was a lot of dismay (and rightfully so) over its price, and it was possible to even assemble a more powerful PC for roughly the same budget. But specs only tell half of the story.
The Steam Machine also has a bunch of other tricks up its sleeve, something which many will find expensive (or in some cases, outright impossible) to implement. Whether it's the custom, tiny Mini-ITX form factor or the whisper-quiet, low-power internals, the Steam Machine still excels in a few areas.
One of these areas would be HDMI-CEC support — which comes fully baked in and integrated right into SteamOS. Since SteamOS runs on x86 hardware, this should be easy to implement, right? I wish it were that easy. I spent weeks in this rabbit hole, trying to make it work, and I believe I have a (mostly) foolproof workaround.
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 384: OCR MOD Records, Magical PCBs, And The Gravity Of Space Stations
What did Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams read in Hackaday last week? Probably everything, but you can tune in and hear about their favorites on this week’s podcast. They heard from lots of listeners this week, and also saw DIY projects running from a 3D-printed Stirling engine, to clogs, to LEDs.
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Pivot to AI ☛ Ketan Joshi: AI versus the climate
The rough transcript is on YouTube, the cleaned-up transcript is on the Patreon.
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Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
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Christian Hofstede-Kuhn ☛ bhyve Inside a Jail: The FreeBSD Feature Nobody Uses
I have written about jails on this blog often enough that the position is not in doubt. Jails are cheap, they are fast, they are the right default, and the vast majority of what people run in virtual machines would be happier in a jail. That is still what I believe.
It is also, occasionally, wrong. A jail shares the host kernel. That single sentence is the whole boundary of the technology. The moment your workload needs a kernel that is not the host’s kernel, no amount of enthusiasm for jails will help you, and you need a hypervisor.
I hit that wall four times in the last year, and every one of them has already shown up on this blog in passing: [...]
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Graphics Stack
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GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA Recommended Driver version 595.99.02 out now for Linux | GamingOnLinux
NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux have a brand new Recommended Driver version 595.99.02 out now with some bug fixes. Hopefully this will make the experience better on certain GPUs.
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