- ihalip parentMaybe you could try a chargeback. Having to pay for a Linux license and not have such a basic feature (because everyone has touchscreens in 2024) is outrageous. I heard they don't even accept code contributions to fix this mess.
- An executable from a nightly build kept crashing and I got tasked with fixing it. I was a novice back then and spent most of the day trying to figure out what was happening, and when looking at the disassembly I saw it was crashing at a 'hlt' instruction, which shouldn't have been there.
Next day, after another nightly build, no more crashes. I did a binary diff between the crashing version and the new one, it was a single bit. A bit flip on the build server.
- In a few words, Cobalt is a de-bloated Chromium designed to run YouTube TV. It's smaller and faster than launching it in the platform's browser.
If you have a smart TV/set-top box/streaming stick/etc bought in the past few years, the YouTube app is most likely running inside Cobalt. You can develop HTML5 applications that can run in Cobalt, but it supports only a subset of html/css/js stuff you'd expect from a browser.
- I fondly remember playing fy_iceworld and minor variations of it in netcafes 20 years ago. What made these maps special was that they 1) removed all game strategy - just walk 2 steps to pick up a gun and go fight the enemy, and 2) there were no hiding spots - so no more campers. For kids who could only afford 1 hour of computer time in a netcafe, fy_iceworld was the obvious choice.
- > billions of devices in the wild which will become e-waste overnight
Not just e-waste, they can also become a huge liability. In a presentation, the authors mention that one of the CPU families which have this vulnerability were used in Tesla cars. Tesla apparently switched to AMD APUs around December 2021.
- I got into motorcycling because a friend of mine had one and posted lots of pictures riding on mountain roads, which I thought was very cool.
I have a 2011 Honda CB600F (Hornet) which I ride around the city becausethese past few months it was either unusually cold, or raining, or just didn't have time. Planned a 1000Km trip next weekend, and now I can't go any more because life happens. No matter, riding around the city with some good music before/after work is bliss.
- From what I've seen, just about every OS has the same issues with updates nowadays.
If you think about it, if an update reaches 1.000.000 users, and 0.1% percent of them have an issue with it, that's 1.000 people who have to waste hours getting their system back up (and potentially recover lost data, if it's even possible).
- In Romania, we have a gov-funded program[1] that subsidizes up to ~9300€ off the price (but not more than 50% of its price) of a new electric/hybrid car, when you trade in an old car. Some conditions apply.
- There are quite a few models listed on AMD's website [1]. Though, when I click on them I'm redirected to what looks like an error page. But you can probably just check the model names on the manufacturers' websites. I myself heard good things about the Lenovo Flex 5 [2].
[1] https://www.amd.com/en/shop/us/Laptops
[2] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-flex-se...
- I only did some small fixes for building the kernel with the clang compiler.
Probably the most confusing thing when getting started is finding something to work on. There's no real centralized issue tracker/TODO list/ideas list - discussion happens mostly in mailing lists [0][1] for specific topics. If you follow the discussion on YOUR_FAVORITE_TOPIC long enough you should be able to find easy work items, people able to help further, reviewers for your changes etc.
In my case specifically, I found the great people at https://clangbuiltlinux.github.io, which is how I got started.
[0] http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lists.html