They are only open sourcing the spaghetti that sticks to the wall.
Carefully curated and redacted/obscured/replaced where appropriate.
Probably removing hard coded rules like “always show musk tweets” and stuff like that

What I’d recommend is setting up a few testing systems with 2-3GB of swap or more, and monitoring what happens over the course of a week or so under varying (memory) load conditions. As long as you haven’t encountered severe memory starvation during that week – in which case the test will not have been very useful – you will probably end up with some number of MB of swap occupied.

And

[… On Linux Kernel > 4.0] having a swap size of a few GB keeps your options open on modern kernels.

And finally

For laptop/desktop users who want to hibernate to swap, this also needs to be taken into account – in this case your swap file should be at least your physical RAM size.

I’ve been using EndeavourOS for 12 months now.
Very light steam gaming. Office stuff is basically web browsers (occasionally I have to swap to windows boot for silly excel spreadsheets that don’t work online). Programming is delightful.
It’s been solid, and the installer was great.
The major issues have been from dual booting windows (disable fast boot!) and from not updating frequently enough (keychain issues, tho endeavouros has plenty of “newb needs to update” helpers).

I love it. It’s mine, I own that laptop, and endeavouros works for me. I feel so much more in control than I ever did on windows.
I do have some basic experience running Debian servers (VMs for single service, or docker stuff), and I do programming.

I did this my my new pixel 8 pro. I loved it.
It was so easy, it worked, I was in control of my device.

Contactless payment didn’t work.
Which is a deal breaker for me.

I looked at some fin-tech solutions, I even bought a pixel watch (which didnt work because I have a workspace account). None of them let me work around the issue. Contactless just wouldn’t work.

Had to go back to stock android.
I’m constantly checking in on their attribution/verification/whatever status that would allow them to offer contactless payment (currently offered by android/apple/banks, but no open source software).
I want grapheneos and contactless so badly!

Yeh, ventoy takes an extra step (but ventoy is itself an extra step): find the iso from a legit source instead of using the media creation tool, install software to edit iso, add unattended.xml to the iso, plop iso on ventoy drive.

Anyone playing around with or working with Linux/windows:
Check out ventoy. I think they’ve solved their issues of binary blobs and it is so useful.
Create a Ventoy usb drive. Drag any and all OS ISOs onto the USB stick. Boot from the USB, choose which ISO to actually boot.
Want to switch flavours of live Linux (or try another installer)? Boot from usb, choose different ISO.
Absolutely fantastic software

Yeh, the 16/32 in the screenshot and that 2 sticks are dead suggests they have 4x 8gb sticks, and lends credence that one channel is being messed with.
They said they tested the ram on multiple systems, but they might have just thrown both “dead” sticks in there at the same time - leading to a similar failure mode as they are both on the same channel.

I bet 1 stick is dead, and they could probably get away with 24gb of ram in a 3/2 channel distribution

Maybe 1 is causing the other to fail?
Could try the sticks individually.

It is strange that 2 sticks fail at the same time. It smells like a symptom instead of the root issue.

FCKGW?

It’s not that difficult, is it?

I mean, it’s not like running a program on an already installed windows, or using the windows 11 installer to install from windows.
Otherwise, it’s the basic steps for installing any OS except for creating the unattended.xml file.

Use the media creation tool to create install media on a USB drive, work through the generator (Google what you need to), drop the resulting XML onto the drive, reboot from USB and install as normal.

Use an answer file with W11 Pro.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

I haven’t noticed any AI bullshit, but I might be being protected by EU laws at the moment.

Writing reports is hard? Fuck paper work? Policing used to be easier?
Great, the reports are written for you and the paper work is done for you.
You are still fucking liable for their contents, as you are (or should be) for your actions.

Recorded and written reports are the backbone of accountability.

Don’t want to get fucked by the legal system because you have neglected your duties? Don’t neglect your duties. Do the reporting, do the paper work.

Using LLM in such reports should be equivalent of perjury. Use LLMs to create bullet points, turn that into a draft (or just submit the bullet points, because someone is likely to feed the report back into an LLM to turn it into bullet points).
But know that you are (or should be) accountable for every last word on that report!

Battle Royale.
Pretty sure it was the first foreign language film I’ve watched.

Omg, even the thing that is enshittifying everything is now being enshittified itself.

And here’s me with my yay

In my experience, a Scheduler is something that schedules time on the CPU for processes (threads).

So 10 processes (threads) say “I need to do something”:
2 of those threads are “ready to continue” because they were previously waiting on some Disk IO (and responsibly released thread control while data was fetched).
1 of the threads says “this is critical for GPU operations”.
1 of those threads self declares it is elevated priority.

The scheduler decides which of those threads actually gets time on an available CPU core to be processed.

Oh, actual horses.
I was thinking the title was wrong. Or maybe that cavalry is a modern warfare term for something.
The thumbnail is a bit hard to see.

Nope.
Clicked through, and there it is. A picture of a soldier riding a horse. Like, full on galloping.
And the picture is clearly from a drone that is very very close.

In simple terms, this means that the image is now built so that it produces exactly the same result every time. If the image is rebuilt later using the same source, it will be identical down to the last bit.

And then OneDrive comes along, someone accidentally saved “to the cloud” (IE the default windows location of OneDrive). And of course someone (you) has to fix all the desync bullshit.
Fuck excel, fuck Microsoft, fuck OneDrive!

Thank god my company is transitioning to a decent no code solution (nocobase plus literally anything that can interact with postgres - currently n8n but not yet limited to that. It’s a transition from excel, literally anything is better! (Tho, nocobase is awesome, non has it’s perks)).
Many parentheses, soz.
Fuck excel, use a database!

Something about porn leading the way, something about DVDs winning, something about VHS winning.

All of that doesn’t matter.
Because Linux desktop (in my experience, KDE Plasma and Wayland) along with distros that do sensible things (I use EndeavourOS btw) are just SO much better that Windows.
I only boot windows for software I have to run windows with fullscreen or GPU based software that doesn’t exist on linux

Professionals do seem to use excel.
Holy fuck is it painful for anyone that knows what they are doing.