The_Decryptor

We’ve got shovels and we are in a big hole … which way are we going to dig?

It’s a shame you’re getting downvoted since you’re actually right, and distros are in the process of moving to “kmscon”, a userspace console, rather than the old kernel console (Which iirc isn’t actually intended to be a general purpose console, it’s meant for boot messages)

That said, the fonts the kernel uses are old style bitmap fonts, extremely limited “attack surface” as they’re not doing stuff like opentype/font shaping, it’s just setting pixel values directly.

Pretty sure that’s just high-frequency trading.

This behavior is actually in line with what I’d expect, as Unicode support in Windows predates UTF-16, so Windows generally does not handle surrogate pairs and instead operates almost exclusively on WTF-16 code units directly.

So it’s just straight UCS-2, and the software does enforce that, pretty much the opposite of “WTF-16”.

Edit: Pretty sure “modern” (XP+ I think) Windows actually does enforce UTF-16 validity in the system, but there’s always legacy stuff from the NT4/2K era that might turn up.

Landrun as well, takes the restrictions on the command line. Can look messy, but does make it entirely standalone, so you can e.g. drop it into a service file as the readme shows easily enough.

Webp is a smaller file size than jpeg for the same image quality in almost all circumstances

For lower quality images sure, for high quality ones JPEG will beat it (WebP, being an old video format, only supports a quarter of the colour resolution than JPEG does, etc.) JPEG is actually so good that it still comes out ahead in a bunch of benchmarks, it’s just it’s now starting to show it’s age technology wise (like WebP, it’s limited to 8bpc in most cases)

It also doesn’t hurt that Google ranked sites using WebP/AVIF higher than ones that aren’t (via lighthouse).

Edit: I should clarify, this is the lossy mode. The lossless mode gives better compression than PNG, but is still limited to 8bpc, so can’t store high bit depth, or HDR images, like PNG can.

Edit 2: s/bpp/bpc/

Well, all websites are written in JS (on the frontend)

Not true anymore unfortunately, some sites are using frameworks compiled to WASM instead.

e.g. X is apparently using Yew now.

Edit: Ok the “apparently” is doing heavy lifting, since now I can’t find the original source I read about it. Turns out “X” is a garbage name with no searchability, only an idiot would use it.

That’d at least make sense, this is a (literal) black box. Seriously, my monitor takes long enough to wake that it’s at the boot loader screen by the time it’s ready.

I found a post on Reddit claiming it’s a RAM thing, and I should enable XMP to avoid it. But I’ve already got XMP enabled so I need to poke around it again.

And also disable the 5 second delay in the bootloader, not like I’m ever using that fallback option.

❯ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 14.565s (firmware) + 5.778s (loader) + 2.920s (kernel) + 3.307s (initrd) + 3.972s (userspace) = 30.544s
graphical.target reached after 3.926s in userspace.

You’re letting me down firmware!

Yeah, the Python equivalent would be something like this.

try:
    config = get_config()
catch:
    sys.exit(1)

It’s possible to handle these things, but if you explicitly don’t then you’ll discover them at runtime.

Yeah, but that’s still not a lot of data, like LTR/RTL shouldn’t be varying within a given script so the values will be shared over an entire range of characters.

Going by the store page, the frame is using UFS, aka a hardwired SSD.

Yeah, it’s got 256GB or 1TB of internal storage, so you can just use the microSD card to move the game from i.e. the deck to the frame.

I feel like English needs a spelling reform, but that’s never going to happen.

I like what Americans did with -ise/-ize, but they can take the ‘u’ from colour from my cold dead hands.

Valve uses SDL for their own games, so this stuff would have been worked on internally and developed alongside the hardware itself.

But that’s the benefit of open source in the end, when done well everybody wins. Valve gets to ensure that any game using SDL can function perfectly with their hardware (Deck, Controller and Frame), any devs using SDL in their games knows they get first-party hardware support, and gamers get the benefit of both.

These days a steam console would be much more attractive.

And you’re right, I want one.

I’m still annoyed that “OPAQUE” never seemed to catch on. Uses a username/password combo as normal, but never actually sends the password to the server, only a proof of knowledge. Even if the server is hacked and the DB leaked the attackers can’t actually recover anything resembling a password from it, since the server simply never possesses it.

Passkeys are superior (No password at all), if only the UX around them was better.

Windows doesn’t even have basic package management like every Unix-like OS does so you don’t have to individually update applications and go find them on the Internet

Funny thing is that it does (winget), but it’s a terminal app. Windows users who look down on Linux users for “needing” to use a terminal don’t want to bring it up, so Linux users also aren’t aware of it and never point to it as a counter example.

They had the “Steam Machine”, but effectively nobody bought it. Maybe now with the Deck people would be more open to it, who knows.

The keys are right next to each other.