Interestingly enough, my sound card started working better on Linux than it did on Windows. On the latter, any system suspension like sleep mode would render it useless until the reboot. On Linux, it just works and never fails.

I found Kubuntu has the same two problems I detailed but I made slightly more progress this time. The USB DAC would've likely also worked at 100% volume in CashyOS I just didn't think to try it because of my ears. I'm sure some manual config edit can fix that but I expect something basic like sound to work by default and knowing it doesn't makes me assume other basic things will be a pain in the future.

Then I actually tried subsampling in an X11 session this time, but the problem is the Night Light hue becomes green. But 4k120 at ycbcr 4:2:0 does work in principle. And the fact that this is in xorg config rather than a settings GUI, all this config text editing is so slow and sketchy for me.

…so you came straight to the comments based off the headline?

It’s a great article that basically spends the entire time praising Cosmic for all the great things it’s doing. It does contrast Cosmic with KDE because it’s written by a dev who did things like the frosted glass feature and built a bunch of popular themes for KDE, but they really sell you on Cosmic. After reading it I’m considering giving it a second try, and I’m on KDE currently.

Seriously, go read the article. It’s solid.

yeah even dark reader isn't working right on there, it just makes dark on dark

Doubling that. Fedora/OpenSUSE if you expect to mess with system files and do all sorts of obscure stuff, Bazzite if you don't.

If you go Fedora, I also recommend familiarizing yourself with snapper and BTRFS. Use btrfs-assistant to make it easy. You'll thank me later, the hacky one.

OpenSUSE has it out of the box, and Bazzite doesn't need it.

My 2 cents:

Never, under any circumstances, use CachyOS or any other Arch-based distribution if you're a Linux newbie. Arch assumes you know your way around the system, know how to fix this or that, and which package you miss to make the sound work. It is, by all means, "move fast and break stuff".

The newer pixels support communication as a sat phone too, but you need a provider that supports it. Here in Australia, that's Telstra. Not sure about other countries.

But basically ensures there is no offgrid. For most people though, that is useless

Claude Code and other LLM coding frameworks have a habit of inserting themselves into git commits as contributors, so KDE wants to avoid that as well. They deserve as much attribution as your linter; precisely none.

It's not about attribution. It's about this:

This food product is processed in the same tanks, conveyors belts and filters that also process Imperiling Allergen.

Our food industries for example have this because it is necessary to know, the damage (potential and real) otherwise is too great, in our food cases it even involves death, and in the case of AI it might as well do as AI is used in the genocide of Palestinians.

From the email:

Hi Arnd and SoC folks,

New SoC platform, in the future this will be handled by Peter Griffin.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

Either a joke I don't get, or very unfortunate name collision for that guy.

I tried Cosmic 1.9 on NixOS the other day. it's fine. The tiling toggle is very nice (always has been in all honesty) and is probably the key motivation to use it. sure you can tile in KDE or GNOME but it's janky on both regardless of which method you use. And setting up predesignated tiling spaces on KDE for each workspace is annoying but it's understandable.

Cosmic does have a lack of theme options similar to GNOME but in a way that makes sense due to GTK/QT applications. There's really no point in trying to go ham on customizing the look of Cosmic as it's going to look like a mess regardless.

It has the typical Wayland quirks/bugs. Keyboard focus is still a mess on wayland so it's not really the fault of System76 (even though KDE has managed to pretty much solve that issue). the cosmic file manager is decent, the terminal is crap, the text editor there's no point. their app store works fine.

If you want a very simple DE that is fairly stable and has by far the best tiling option on any DE currently available then you can't go wrong with Cosmic. it works. it's simple. it pretty much stays out of your way. it's not flashy it just gets the job done. If you're someone who loves Vim style navigation then you'll adore cosmic as all the keybind defaults are essentially Vim. when I used it I didn't have to change any keybinds which is VERY nice. I like it.

Uh, do go on. What sort of satellite capabilities? How do you use those?

Yeah. I do lots of hiking. So I want satellite phone capabilities mainly, but also need battery efficiency

Most people are fine otherwise

I don't mind lagging a bit behind the newest specs, I just want something that lasts for longer. It's also bad for the planet. That's more important to me than the next shiny thing.

They're literally just here to comb through posts to find people to shit on basically

Pretty pathetic really lol.

Also, I like Lemmy. Why would I go?

Welcome to lemmy don't like it here feel fee to go anywhere else.

It was made in 4 days and has claude as a contrinutor its just slop.

That's not what you're doing.

What you're doing is just going to the project page to check if you can call it slop (and bully devs) based only on the maintainers listed (without doing any actual work).

I'd argue thats no better than vibe coding by people not interested in learning. Both sides aren't interested in doing any real work, but scoring some lazy wins..

I think it's fair to point out slop so that those who care can avoid the projects. If you still think this is bullying, well too bad I guess.

You care enough to check the repos of each post to identify if they're claude to bully them evidently.

Not great for the linux community..

@niccolove@fosstodon.org please for the love of my scorched retinas, bring back dark mode.

1. I dont know, you brought it up?
2. Maybe I have?
3. Code review is code review. Tests are tests, don't conflate the two.
4. Yes he does, that's a mistake and I think the old Linus would scream profanity at you for idolizing him like that.
5. Dude, I don't know if your reading comprehension is lacking but I've never said I code well. I suck, I know it, I own it and don't have to rely on clankers to fuck my code up

And why would I waste my time reviewing a strangers slop? They did not care while writing it, why would I care to read it?

1. What's your point?
2. So you haven't checked their C code either? The bar for bullying is pretty low
3. If your code reviews only take a few minutes, you're not really looking for bugs.. Or your code is very short, or an extremely high level language. When I say code review, it also basically runs full unit / blackbox tests on everything and check it matches contents. Doing that is not normally a fast job.
4. Again, Linus uses AI and specifically allows it in kernel.. His job these days is code review.
5. Well, sounds like their code might be better than yours..

Why not actually explain whats wrong with the persons code..

I never said manual code is bug-free. But all errors in manual code are human-made.

I judge a project based on the apparent judgement of it's owners/maintainers.

A large part of software engineering is using your judgement, whether it comes to overarching design, language choice, algorithmic implementations, but also chosing dependencies, tool, collaborators and documentation. Humans make mistakes, but can learn from them and improve over time. So while a mistake can be embarrassing andor costly, in the long term they are part of the learning process.

When you opt for using LLMs for any of that you are outsourcing your judgement to a box that's incapable of reasoning or learning. You will still get bugs and mistakes will be made but noone except Scam Altman and Wario Amodei will be happier for it.

Studies also indicate that this is actually negatively impacting our cognitive function in the long term.

And then we can add the ethical and environmental concerns on top of that, and suddenly the collective judgement of a project accepting or condoning LLM use is looking pretty damn bad if you ask me. Even before reading a single line of code in the repository.