PDF writing isn’t too bad IMO, since you don’t need to understand the whole spec. I’ve written a PDF writer for maps from scratch and it was fairly easy and not too much code.

PDF reading though… Yeah I’m happy to leave that to people with more time and use their libraries.

A modern format would be nice, but I don’t think it would be anywhere near nice enough to give up how universal PDF is.

Eh, it practice it works extremely well. I can’t remember a single instance where a PDF document rendered incorrectly.

The format is very old so it’s not surprising it has picked up a few WTFs. I’m happy to keep those hidden below the abstraction.

Is there any reason to use this now that Krita exists, sane name and all?

I agree, those are fantastic icons. Very clear.

There’s a “proper” version of this hack called early oom. I haven’t used it though and now that I look at it it seems like it uses the same completely broken “guess which process to kill, who cares if it’s init” system that the normal oom killer uses so your solution sounds better.

Is it so hard to just pause the system and ask the user which app to kill?

Interesting, so that’s sort of customising the image somehow? Does it use an overlay FS or something?

Hmmm I guess this kind of makes sense - most distros push Gnome above KDE (probably because it doesn’t look like this - where’s Tantacrul when you need him?). On the other hand, there’s already Kubuntu…

I’m a bit skeptical about immutable distros too. What if I want to install a package that isn’t already installed and isn’t available as a Flatpak/Snap? Seems like it’s going to run in similar issues to everything else that tries to wade upstream against the bad decisions of the existing Linux packaging zeitgeist, e.g. how Nix has to install everything in one root-owned directory because nobody cares about portable installation.

That’s cool, but in my experience if you get to the OOM killer then 80% of the time it’s too late and your system is basically dead. My laptop hard reboots most of the time when this happens.

Hopefully it works with the early-OOM hacks.

I have 32 GB but it’s not enough. Try opening 8 instances of VSCode, Firefox and Chrome with a few dozen tabs. Unfortunately my laptop doesn’t support 64 GB of RAM.

… in one benchmark.

Yes, but I was talking about Linux in general. I’m pretty sure Gnome at least has commercial backing.

And Linux advocate never say “don’t use Linux; it isn’t a commercial product so it isn’t as good as Windows” do they? They say “you’re an idiot for using Windows; Linux is better”.

GPU reset recovery

Woah catching up to Windows 18 years ago! :D

Tbf I did not think we would ever see this feature. What next, secure login prompts (“press ctrl-alt-del to login in”, which admittedly Windows seems to have dropped)?

This is about Spectre, not about buggy hardware implementations.

Spectre is a fundamental flaw in speculative execution that means it can leak information, so it’s a security vulnerability. Apparently Intel has been imposing draconian requirements on software to work around the issue rather than fixing it in hardware, which is obviously what they should do, but is not at all trivial.

Not the kinds of bugs he is talking about. This is about spectre mitigations.

Screenshots. Print screen. Wayland famously doesn’t have a way to do this very basic task (all of the desktop environments had to add custom extensions).

Seems like they finally did it though really recently. And it only took 12 years!

Yes! On a tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard. Should I not want to for some reason?

Very cool but I hope they give it proper GUI integration, not just a webview or VNC, which is how the alternatives work.

One disagreement is enough to make you a “garbage person”? Are you 12?

Oh cool how do I run VSCode in Termux?

Yeah it’s pretty out of date. You might then “eh that doesn’t matter, I like things to be stable and I’ll just imagine I’m three years in the past”.

That works until some software introduces a bug fix or a new feature that you really need and you can’t use it because of your distro’s weird update policies.

You will very quickly find that you don’t care anywhere near as much about theoretical stability as you do about a concrete feature or bugfix that is available but inaccessible.

I say theoretical because in practice Debian stable isn’t really much more stable than more up-to-date distros. It just has fewer new bugs and more old bugs.

They might try to claim they backport fixes for the old bugs, but in reality they don’t have the manpower to do that for 100k packages or whatever it is. They do it for critical bugs of very important packages but that’s it.