LaggyKar

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[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago

Lossless WebP is still gets way better compression than PNG though, this doesn't change that. Although they mention they're looking to improve it in the next version, so we'll see then.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This article really needs some illustration of what the new UI looks like, and what the old one looks like for comparison

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

And now AMDGPU-PRO has dropped the proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers and AMF, so the only thing you would get from it that's different from the open stack is the OpenCL driver and maybe AMDVLK. https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-AMDGPU-UNIFIED-LINUX-25-10-1.html

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If you're running Wine on a case-sensitive file system, and you it tries to open a file, it would first try to open a file whose case matches exactly. But if it doesn't find one, it would then need to list all the files in the directory, normalize their case, and go through them all to see if there is a file with the given name but in a different case. That can take some time if there is a lot of files in the directory.

But if you're on a case-insensitive filesystem, the FS can keep case-normalized names of all files on disk, so you can do a case-insensitive open just as fast as you can do a case-sensitive open.

BTW, another application that can benefit from this is Samba, since SMB is case-insensitive.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It does, but having case insensitivity in the file system can get you better performance.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It isn't normally, but it, like e.g. Ext4, allows case insensitivity mostly for the sake of Wine.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Kobo store, Google Play Books, and various other places (here in Sweden for example we have Bokus and Adlibris) have Epub downloads. Usually with Adobe Digital Editions DRM (which you can get rid of pretty easily with DeDRM, or alternatively Kobo tablets support Digital Editions), but some books are sold DRM free, or with LCP DRM which I don't have experience with. Something I've noticed at least on Bokus is that many books in Swedish are sold as DRM free Epubs with watermarks, even if they're translated from an English version which is sold with DRM on the same store, though that's probably not relevant for people in other regions.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

It's not a daemon

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We've been without a lot of things for millennia

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

No, they just include libarchive in Windows

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've only gotten that when I've mistyped the encryption password. They really should improve the handling of that.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 44 points 3 months ago (10 children)

This is something that Rust is specifically designed to prevent.

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