I wonder if this has something to do with the EU mandating most consumer electronics to have replaceable batteries from next year onwards.

Getting the hottest new Linux reporting from *checks address bar* PC Gamer?

If Red Dead Redemption is anything to go by, there’s a sizeable and very dedicated audience for immersive multiplayer western games.

Yes, it’s basically faster than disk swap but uses some CPU cycles. The compression algorithms involved are very fast on modern CPUs so in some sense it’s “free RAM”.

I set mine to almost 1:1 my physical RAM, because the way it works is that the zram disk size (62.6G there) is the amount of uncompressed data allowed on it, and the compression on real-world data is almost always at least 50% – so if the zram device fills up, it’ll be using something like 32G of physical memory. I’m yet to hit real-world usecases that would have tested these limits though, and the defaults are much more conservative.

$ zramctl
NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE  DATA COMPR   TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lzo-rle      62.6G  2.8G  972M 1011.4M         [SWAP]

Already did

Phoronix forums are full of some of the most miserable human beings around.

fwiw it doesn’t say this on my Fedora system when I run FreeCAD via Flatpak.

Inspired by this post I spent a couple of hours today trying to set this up on my toy server, only to immediately run into what seems to be a bug where <video> tags loading a simple WebM video from right next to index.html broke because the media response got Anubis’s HTML bot check instead of media.

I suppose my use-case was just too complicated.

Thank you Mr ChatGPT

The only real issue I’ve had was that the btrfs partition sometimes shits itself and requires some CLI commands in emergency mode to fix it.

At the risk of stating the obvious, this shouldn’t happen. You haven’t said enough to know what the issue could be, but most of the time when btrfs spontaneously stops booting on you, it’s because it has dropped to read-only mode because it detected a problem with your drive.

To be fair to the internet discussion, Linus’s (and the other maintainers’) communication on this could have been better. Still, it should’ve been pretty obvious from the start that this is a sanctions thing, and people and companies don’t end up on sanctions lists for no reason – though it is easy to end up on the list if you have even indirect ties to the Russian state.

The discussion around this has been physically painful to read. From what I gather, the delisted maintainers are people on sanction lists, i.e. somehow connected to the Russian state, and they have been given the opportunity to prove their innocence by providing some (admittedly unspecified) documents to Linus and the Linux Foundation.

Judging by Linus’s updated comment in that article there are legal concerns involved, as the Linux Foundation is a US-based organization. Though even if they weren’t, it is the morally correct thing to do to give Russian state actors the boot.

No, but I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers.

I’m also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.

Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🤷

As someone who’s used Podman for a while, though possibly not as extensively as you, what was it you hit that needed Docker? So far I’ve gotten everything to work with Podman, though sometimes I’ve had to RTFM and specify some extra command line parameters.