I’ve never really gotten on with the trackpads although they do feel nice and tactile. I’ve now got a dock setup so I can switch my primary monitor across to the steam deck along with the audio and a usb switch for my keyboard and mouse. I’m finally catching up with the RTS and strategy games in my unplayed queue.
Alex
FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
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Alex@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•With all this ghostty talk. Am I out of touch for still using terminator all these years?
1·1 year agoI use foot which is Wayland aware and renders Unicode fonts. Honestly I don’t need much from the terminal itself as I’m usually in tmux to deal with all the “tabs” and scrollback.
I wonder how much of the core has been changed to prevent rebasing onto a more recent QEMU? We’ve done a bunch of cleanups and additions too the x86 emulation since 7.2.
Alex@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What opinions about the tech industry do you feel comfortable expressing here, but not in public/at work?
6·1 year agoIt’s one of the reasons I enjoy working on open source. Sure the companies that pay the bills for that maintenance might not be the ones you would work for directly but I satisfy myself that we are improving a commons that everyone can take advantage of.
Alex@lemmy.mlto
Games@lemmy.world•It Takes Two developer's next project name and release date leaksEnglish
2·1 year agoMore passion, more energy…
It was a nice couch co-op game to play with my wife and kids.
Alex@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Only about 720,000 Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops sold since launch — under 0.8% of the total number of PCs shipped in Q3, or less than 1 out of every 125 devicesEnglish
8·1 year agoNow you can install uboot and get a property uefi implementation it shouldn’t take too long: https://social.treehouse.systems/@cas/113539953511804908
I need to check the driver situation but I don’t think there was anything particularly windows only on the SoC.
Alex@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-DriveEnglish
40·2 years agoI think car automation peaked at adaptive cruise control. It’s a simple tractable problem that’s generally well confined and improves the drivers ability to concentrate on other road risks.
He has certainly been weirdly selective in the data he quotes while trying not to come across as complete loon.
Alex@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What kind of special knowledge or equipment do piracy groups have?
2·2 years agoIn all DRM devices there are private signed certificates that can be used to establish a secure authenticated connection. To get at them you need to crack/hack/file the top of the chip to exfiltrate the certificate. More modern “Trusted Computing” like platforms include verified boot chains so even if you extract the certificate you couldn’t use it because you also need to sign the boot chain to ensure no code has been altered.
Alex@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What kind of special knowledge or equipment do piracy groups have?
15·2 years agoAbsolutely - modern pirates are extracting the digital streams with the DRM removed. However they closely guard the methods of operation because once the exploits or compromised keys are known they can be revoked and they have to start cracking again. They likely have hardware with reverse engineered firmware which won’t honour key revocation but still needs to be kept upto date with recent-ish keys.
For example the Blu-Ray encryption protocols are well enough known you can get things working if you have the volume keys. However getting hold of them is tricky and you have to be careful your Blu-Ray doesn’t read a disk that revokes the old keys.
For streaming things are a little easier because if you get the right side of the DRM you can simply copy the stream. However things like HDCP and moving DRM into secure enclaves are trying to ensure that the decryption process cannot be watched from the outside. I’m sure their are compromised HDCP devices but again once their keys get leaked they will no longer be able to accept a digital stream of data (or may negotiate down to a sub-HD rate).
Lemmy really needs to support post combining somehow so you can see the story once (and maybe even combine the threads in the UI?).
Alex@lemmy.mlto
science@lemmy.world•Does spanking harm child development? Major study challenges common beliefs
275·2 years agoI’m not sure how assaulting children is ever going to build an effective relationship between kids and their parents. Parents should represent safety and unconditional love because then the educational message will have an easier time being accepted by the kids.
Alex@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel?
25·2 years agoAs I understand it is to operate the defensive missile battery they have just shipped.
They are pretty focused on reducing the cost of launches by aggressively re-using components that would normally crash into the sea. Previous launches landed on floating sea platforms but yesterday’s heavy was so big it needed a more stable landing zone. So after boosting the Star Liner the rocket returned down the trajectory it had followed up and then hovered briefly before being caught by two pincers on the very launch pad it had left five minutes before. That’s pretty cool.
Is it worth raising an issue with the project? Also enable logging to see if there are any clues as to why a rescan is being done?
Syncthing should have inotify support which allows it to watch for changes rather than polling. Does that help?
Alex@lemmy.mlto
Games@lemmy.world•Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple SiliconEnglish
5·2 years agoFEX redirects graphics library calls to their native equivalents. This substantially reduces the amount of translated code you need to execute.
slp did a nice demo at KVM Forum last month. https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2024/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.pdf and https://youtu.be/10Ztv0UI5I0?si=19KPcA6wGbXM3IsS
Alex@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judgeEnglish
2·2 years agoHow can Google vet an app store without vetting everything it could serve?
What do people expect? Those servers aren’t free to run and they’re is only so much VC money to burn. That said I wouldn’t pay the various subscription levels that are currently being asked for. I pay for API use which is basically pay as you go. It also makes you think “does this task really need the non-free tier to complete?”.






My UK rates are about £0.26/kWh for the day rate, £0.07/kWh for the night rate which is when things like car charging is done. Excess solar generation makes me £0.15/kWh I send back to the grid although not much of that going on in the winter ;-)
We also pay a daily standing charge for the grid connection.