It’s the UK sky news, not the far-right Australian one.

There’s little to no reason to use esync anymore. Use a recent kernel and a recent version of Proton or Wine and you can instead use NTsync which is faster and more reliable.

They mean on the client side most likely. A reverse proxy will be transparent to the user.

Almost as annoying is if they give you a single /64. Here’s an absurd amount of IPs but you only get one subnet. Thankfully, I’ve had nothing smaller than a /56.

So reading a bit more closely these are patches for the mainline kernel, so hopefully this isn’t far off being in a released kernel (provided there isn’t a long back and forth because of issues etc).

They don’t mention it in the description but this is mainly about kernel fixes and some associated utilities which have improved VRAM management on AMD GPUs on Linux. It’s not upstreamed yet AFAICT, but that’s why they used CachyOS which includes the patches and utilities out of the box.

I prefer to use a system with more RAM, but even many of today’s systems are still using that amount (especially since the AI supply chain crisis).

I’d try chucking Linux on it first, which is generally more RAM efficient if configured correctly.

Not the OP but:

• FreshRSS interface is kind of ugly (probably can be tweaked). You can use third party RSS readers, but that ends up being almost as much work as installing readeck and the like.

• FreshRSS doesn’t support OPDS or have any koreader integration, unlike readeck. These are essential features for reading on an e-ink reader, which is my preferred way to read longer articles in particular.

I think country TLDs don’t have WHOIS privacy protection if you care about that.

Gives me another excuse to try Guix at the least.

The risks of auto-updating now include “devs losing their shit” which has become increasingly common.

You can use a custom domain in many cases, which you control (not sure about addy.io though). Still has the dependency on the service, but you can at least quickly transfer if it goes to shit.

I like that matter provisioning requires verification of their certificate, but I don’t like that certificates can expire or the certificate authority can shut down. Although maybe that’s all taken care of by the DCL? In which case that’d be fine.

It’s also pretty obnoxious that it requires an Android phone with Google play services enabled (and even a Google login IIRC) or an iOS phone. There are ways around this, but they are pretty complex and not well documented.

If he follows through it will be a good thing for Europe in the long term as it will drive renewable and EV adoption. Which has already happened to an extent as a consequence of the Ukraine war.

If any ai Ia involved they will dismiss not only it but you and it’s a really irritating habit that is starting to emerge.

It’s perfectly understandable. It used to be that a project that had the appearance of a significant amount of work and polish put into it could be reasonably trusted. With the rise of LLMs, that assumption has gone completely out the window as people can churn out appealing looking slop in record time. In addition, LLMs are dominated by the most transparently evil tech companies in existence, and the fully open models aren’t yet good enough, and are still built on the backs of the absurd amount of energy usage used to train the models.

That all being said, I don’t think the OP is being malicious and I appreciate the disclosure but I’d give this project a year of maintenance before I would reasonably trust it.

Most of this makes sense if you’re keeping the system fully powered on, but doesn’t apply in sleep mode. Energy usage is a rounding error, there’s no heat, it’s not online, there’s no r/w operations. Blackouts and lighting affecting sleep is a possibility, but I’ve reached a point of taping over anything that emits unecessary light.

The main benefit is that not all environments have a session manager, and I personally have a lot of programs open that I want to have instant access to and not have to spend time opening them and potentially creating a distraction during my wakeup routine.

Don’t think so. It’s currently focused on 4:4:4 colour at high bandwidth (4k@120hz), HDR, and VRR.

Just make sure you use XRizer instead of OpenComposite for OpenVR compatibility as it’s much more advanced at this point. You can also use OpenComposite as a secondary if a particular game doesn’t work with XRizer.

For clarity, OpenVR is the historical standard for VR which is still used by some modern games, although more are supporting OpenXR, which WiVRN handles directly.

See also this compatibility list and the Linux VR Adventures wiki.

Not FOSS or open source in any sense. You could still say it’s self-hosted, but I suspect most people self-hosting care about this.

It’s both, although the former more than the latter. Also, part of the hoarding is likely happening precisely because of the uncertainty of the tariff policies.