My understanding is previously the kernel would crash on systems with more RAM than the address space, so there’s now a patch to ignore the anything above the max address supported (e.g. 32bit without PAE, 36bit with PAE). More RAM was never supported, so I think the author of the article has misunderstood or oversimplified what’s been done.

Epic!

You should be able to add options it87 force_id=0x8688 ignore_resource_conflict=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/it87.conf (or whatever filename) and it87 to /etc/modules. To get it to run at startup.

You can try ignore_resource_conflict which is it87 specific, rather than a system wide acpi_enforce_resources.

modprobe it87 force_id=0x8628 ignore_resource_conflict=1

The reason why this is needed is ACPI claims the I/O ports required to talk to the it87, and Linux doesn’t want to override that.

The master branch works well with Intel ARC, I contributed a lot of the ARC changes. I don’t think they’ve made it into a release yet though.

Edit: 3.2.0 has them: https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop/releases/tag/3.2.0

I got through University running Debian testing. It was mostly fine, some Linux based subjects were way easier without dealing with a VM (they recommended against WSL for some reason).

However there were a couple units that absolutely required you to use Visual Studio (non-code), I occasionally used a VM, the Uni IT also provided me with a remote VM (there’s a form to fill and and it’s all automated). But I mostly used Rider, which for one unit it confused their CI and I got marked down for (otherwise got top marks so it’s fine).

For office, it didn’t matter. Group projects mostly used Google Docs, occasionally Microsoft Office where the online version worked fine. All my units wanted PDFs at the end anyway, so it does not matter that you used LibreOffice or whatever. Some units provided you with DOCX templates, I had no issues opening them with LibreOffice.

Edit: People are mentioning online exams, my Uni did ‘online quizzes’ which worked fine, and some had to be done in class on their PCs anyway. Final exams where always done on paper.

It can, but it requires creating your own signing key, registering it with secure boot, and signing your nvidia driver.

There’s a guide here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1049479

But if you’re running any out of tree drivers (e.g. the nvidia driver), I’d recommend just leaving secure boot off.

I’ve never tried it, but there’s Waypipe.

I’ve seen an S3 option in Smokeless_UMAF, so maybe you can enable real suspend, but I haven’t tried on my Framework 13 AMD.

It seems like it’s fixed now, but if possible use one of the mirrors, so everyone’s not hitting that one server all that hard, it’s usually faster too.

Or even better, use the torrent.

Yes, but it doesn’t look like KPROBES_ON_FTRACE is supported on arm64. I did find this patch though which implements it: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20191218140622.57bbaca5@xhacker.debian/

If you don’t know how to apply a patch, you can either paste the link into b4, or download the mbox and apply it with git am.

It’s part of GNU Gzip, and zcat is basically just a shell script that runs exec gzip -cd "$@" meaning you can actually just do cat /usr/bin/zcat to get the source.

The options that start with HAVE_ usually depend on the arch or compiler. I don’t believe it’s possible to enable manually without modifying the source itself.

firmware drivers

This sounds like you’re talking about firmware blobs that the kernel drivers load, which are usually in a package called linux-firmware. It should be updated automatically, but I’ll check in the morning with Fedora Silverblue.

Otherwise if you’re talking about device firmware, than that’s all fwupd, rpm-ostree has nothing to do with that.

Idk about the UK, but in Australia if you’re only sending a small amount of data, some carriers offer IoT plans starting at ~$1/month. So maybe some carriers do the same in the UK?

If you’re wondering what this is:

• Add a power quirk for Framework systems

It’s to do with the fact that Framework laptops report themselves as discharging when they’re actually fully charged, and BIOS updates aren’t allowed when discharging.

But to answer your question, I’ve been using it with my Framework 13 AMD, and haven’t had any issues. Fwupd is officially supported by Framework themselves, and is mentioned on the BIOS upgrade guides.

Pretty useless unless you use KDE, but I really like KDE’s widgets.

Not to defend them, but he did follow up with this:

This is referring to the technology we just released into BETA for premium subscribers, which delivers one of the lowest latencies for livestreaming (significantly better than YouTube’s latency).

This does not refer to encoding

https://xcancel.com/chrispavlovski/status/1856090182275215803

Although quality != latency, so idk.

Probably because there’s also permission to use the X11 socket.

I think you’d have to modify the edid, since you’re setting a custom refresh rate, not a hidden one.

I’ve use wxEDID to force enable VRR before.

Well, aren’t you glad they’re removing go-git then!