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Qualcomm has several full time employees working on Mesa (Freedreno/Turnip). They probably must have access to some documentation now..

Yes. It is on the mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251001-av1_irisdecoder-v1-0-9f... It actually introduces new things into the UAPI because no one else did fully-statef…

Which ones, where? On X1 laptops that shipped with Windows, you can only escape into EL2 via Secure Launch: https://github.com/TravMurav/slbounce

Upstream would accept a patchset that exposed an independent Gunyah-specific UAPI (why not the same one as downstream — crosvm already supports that) instead of pretending to be KV…

X1E laptops have fully working DisplayPort+USB3+USB2+PD over USB-C unlike Asahi Macbooks :p There really aren't that many gaps in X1E laptop support left.

EL2 is coming by default on Glymur (X2E) (yaaaay), can be enabled in config on some IoT platforms, and can be booted into via Secure Launch on previous compute platforms (Hamoa/Pur…

Mesa MR for a8xx is coming. It's just not done yet . But they have full time employees working on Mesa.

From a quick look, the patch doesn't seem to contain references to Metal, but just a lot of random updates—backports from upstream Wine to the CrossOver thing?—including an AMD ADL…

Thinkpad x13s is an okay option, but Qualcomm is IMO more cursed than Apple

Seeing "Sizzle" in that profile made me feel shocked. Uhhh Wikipedia actually still uses an ancient build of jQuery that does not take advantage of native querySelector at all?!?

> Did you know that technologies such as Intel Boot Guard that have existed for the better part of a decade defend well against such attacks that might seek to overwrite flash memo…

Wait so they… they have a hook in the mmap() equivalent that allows AV software to scan new pages mapped as executable? I see the reasoning but damn does that feel cursed.

Mostly laughing rather than offended :D

hi, author here!

And not giving website administrators the ability to GeoIP you.

Another really important aspect everyone is forgetting is the location privacy problem with being "naked" on a residential IP address. The best reason to relay your traffic through…

?? It's entirely identical to the desktop version. Desktop is just an electron wrapper that adds fancy integration like rich presence and in-game overlays and whatever else.

> multifaceted approach is important here Valve is pretty good at this, and they don't even use kernel level anti-tampering as a facet. Trust factor, VACnet (machine learning) and …

All of those are "general purpose". That phrase doesn't mean "perfect official support for whatever alternative OS you like", it usually means something closer to "you are not forb…

You can, why would that be the case? MrChromebox currently publishes only RW_LEGACY firmware (not full ROM, only replacing the stock SeaBIOS) for AMD Picasso/Dali and Intel Tiger L…

arm chromebooks usually run coreboot too; the utility of edk2 there would be questionable, as on none of them ACPI tables can cover all the HW, so u-boot would be good enough.

Put UEFI on the chromebook!! Argh don't write it off, chromebooks are the best x86 platform by far. MrChromebox provides pre-made coreboot+edk2 builds for a ton of chromebooks, but…

(err, tweet is https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1534825580801433600 )

> the M1 Ultra would surpass it by a wide margin Well, in which tasks? Comparing e.g. geekbench results for the M1 Ultra https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14664498 and a decent …

> "finger following" touchpad desktop switching gestures Ha. I'm the author of the vswipe plugin, glad you like it :) > blur behind windows KDE is ahead of everyone in blur tbh, th…