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dman commented on KDE onboarding is good now rabbitictranslator.com/kd... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

KDE has come a long way but I still find it just too buggy to be usable as a daily driver…which is unfortunate because I don’t really like Gnome either but it’s the least worst of all the real options at the moment. Plasma will crash on me 2-3 times per day just doing regular things but I can’t even remember the last time Gnome crashed on me. The ghost of KDE4 still haunts me.

dman · 2 months ago

What distro, what distro version and what hardware (ie gpu, ram etc)?

dman commented on Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024) daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2... · Posted by u/andsoitis

cromka · 3 months ago

Qualcomm _does_ upstream all their firmware, but vendors usually require a firmware binary to be signed with their keys, which are burned into the SoC. As a result you cannot use Qualcomm's vanilla firmware and need to extract the original firmware as provided by the vendor, otherwise it won't load. This is an actual security feature, believe it or not. Besides, chances are it wasn't even Qualcomm's firmware, but rather Cirrus for sound or display firmware, etc.

I get the hate on Qualcomm, but you're really one LLM question away from understanding why they do this. I should know, I was also getting frustrated before I read up on this.

dman · 3 months ago

I get where youre coming from but I think the job of a company pushing a platform is to make it "boring". ie it should work out of the box on debian/fedora/arch/ubuntu. The platform vendor (Qualcomm) is the only one with enough sway to push the different laptop manufacturers do the right thing. This is the reason why both Intel / Windows push compliance suites which have a long list of requirmements before anyone can put the Windows / Intel logo on their device. If Qualcomm is going to let Acer / Lenovo decide if things work out of the box on linux then its never going to happen.

dman commented on Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024) daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2... · Posted by u/andsoitis

cromka · 3 months ago

Facts are Linux support has heavily accelerated from both Qualcomm and Linaro on their behalf. Anyone who watches Linux ARM mailing lists can attest that.

Things have definitely changed, a lot.

dman · 3 months ago

Hardware has already been out for a year. Outside a custom spin by the ubuntu folks, even last years notebooks arent well supported out of the box on linux. I have a Yoga Slim 7x and I tried the Ubuntu spin out at some point - it required me to first extract the firmware from the Windows partition because Qualcomm had not upstreamed it into linux-firmware. Hard to take Qualcomm seriously when the situation is like this.

dman commented on Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation · Posted by u/cschlaepfer

cschlaepfer · 3 months ago

It's a typescript/react application, bundled in electron.

dman · 3 months ago

thank you!

dman commented on Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation · Posted by u/cschlaepfer

cschlaepfer · 3 months ago

Thanks! Yep, linux is coming soon - now that we have the first version of the IDE out the door we're going to get cross-platform going shortly.

dman · 3 months ago

What UI framework are you using to build the app?

dman commented on AMD GPU Debugger thegeeko.me/blog/amd-gpu-... · Posted by u/ibobev

thegeeko · 3 months ago

amdkfd

dman · 3 months ago

Thank you!

dman commented on AMD GPU Debugger thegeeko.me/blog/amd-gpu-... · Posted by u/ibobev

thegeeko · 3 months ago

there's 2 AMD KMD(kernel mode drivers) in linux: amdkfd and amdgpu .. the graphics applications use the amdgpu which is not supported by amdgdb .. amdgdb also has the limitation of requiring dwarf and and mesa/amd UMDs doesn't generate that ..

dman · 3 months ago

Do you know which one rocm uses?

dman commented on Jolla Phone Pre-Order commerce.jolla.com/produc... · Posted by u/jhoho

aapoalas · 3 months ago

Hmm, I at least received a refund on the tablet; I think half of it was paid out and half of it I opted to use as payment for Sailfish X.

An email I have stored from July 4th 2017 mentions "the tablet refund tool", so there seems to have been a concrete system for this refunding process as well. I abstractly remember something like that, though I must say my memory is shoddy and should not be trusted.

dman · 3 months ago

This is the last response I have from them in my inbox (Sep 24, 2015, 8:56 AM). Never heard back from them after this inspite of repeated subsequent queries

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Hi,

thank you for your message.

We are sending the invites out to contributors in groups according to the chronological order of contributions. Please also note that we are slowly ramping up the deliveries, starting with a smaller group to ensure that everything works as it should, but anticipate future groups to be bigger in size. This means that we are currently unable to estimate your exact order number in the queue.

To read all the latest on the Tablet campaign, please stay tuned to the Jolla Blog. For some commonly asked questions and answers, please see our Jolla Tablet Campaign FAQs.

Thank you again for your contribution!

Sincerely, Jolla Customer Care

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dman commented on Jolla Phone Pre-Order commerce.jolla.com/produc... · Posted by u/jhoho

mariusor · 3 months ago

They did offer refunds in the form of vouchers for their shop. I can understand if that's not something everyone is interested in, but it's not nothing. I made use of that successfully.

dman · 3 months ago

It wasnt offered to everyone. They did the whole thing by trickling out information based on batches based on when you ordered. And for the record I wasnt shipped a tablet, given a refund or offered a voucher and based on comments at the time I wasnt the only one. It was a total writeoff.

dman commented on Jolla Phone Pre-Order commerce.jolla.com/produc... · Posted by u/jhoho

abnercoimbre · 3 months ago

> Entering other markets, such as the U.S. and Canada are to be decided due course based on potential interest from the areas.

As an American, I will order this phone as soon as it’s available to me!

I’m not aware of any similar option for us at the moment so I’m a little sad.

dman · 3 months ago

They have a history of not shipping. They took my money for a tablet pre-order but never shipped anything. Didnt offer refunds either.