This is why I don't like the CPU duopoly...I really hope RISC-V takes off soon! Or at the very least maybe ARM chips from a variety of different brands, I dunno

Oh ok. Thanks for clarifying! I really appreciated your succinct write-up and would likely enjoy seeing more of your opinions in the wild

WTF

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I was expecting worse, but I'm still always surprised just how dumb and brainwashed the slop-bros are (while calling everyone else brainwashed) whenever I run into them.

Damn, i shouldn't have read the comments over there...

I will keep OpenSUSE for now. I expect to see similar layoff at RedHat and Canonical soon enough.

Not sure where the thumbnails come from to be honest, I didn't add, and I don't see it on the article...

Oh god no stop

that is what my laptop uses. Why mine works and yours does not is very complicated. I looked into it a bit. Firstly, my laptop is a Dell Latitude 7400 (non 2 in 1 model). This supports both modes, but mine is configured to use s2idle. One of the huge pluses of this laptop is that is had a stock Ubuntu option when it was sold. You could get it shipped to you with Ubuntu preinstalled. Now, I don't use Ubuntu I use Debian but the Dell firmware is still configured to support Linux out of the box. So Linux isn't being treated as a 2nd class citizen for this laptop. It's getting the VIP treatment just like Windows.

Another thing is my actual configuration. Thermals prior to sleep matter a lot. If you laptop is too hot it will fail to enter the sleep state it needs to. Meaning it stays hot and continues to run and dies fast. I have heavily modified my laptops thermals. I have the CPU capped at 2.5Ghz, I have tlp running, and I have high quality thermal pads added inside the chassis to spread heat around to the magnesium back plate. Because of these mods my laptop does not use its fan, and the CPU hovers around 50C passively while in use. This means I never have a problem with suspend due to thermals.

I also have components, like my SSD, that are modern and support deep sleep states. My SSD is a WD Black SN770 1TB. Which is both pretty power efficient and supports deep sleep states.

Another thing is that the tlp and powertop tweaks are preventing wakeup triggers that would pull it out of suspend. and of course the last big thing is just that I keep my firmware up to date. Dell released firmware specifically to fix modern standy issues and I have that update. Dell ships easy firmware updates to linux users and you can install them with a few clicks and a reboot. Another advantage of the Linux native support.

Really can't reccomend the laptop enough if you want a used business class machine its great and you can find them for 200ish$.

Considering this is a very small lay off, was handled extremely well and provided proper offers for staff to choose to leave instead of just surprising people. I wouldn't call this a cash grab by literally any real means. Companies do lay offs, its normal. The only stated claim here is that AI is fucking the market and they are downsizing.

Which it is. Thats litterally just facts.

Theres nothing to indicate here least i can see, that says they are force rolling out AI to cash in on a quick buck.

The difference is that Linux isn't a company who's firing people for AI

His point is this is the frediverse and blind hatred of ai with zero nuance and no room for context or discussion is easy updoots. So gotta farm em while they are fresh.

To be fair this does suck, but from what im seeing here theres nothing to indicate that it isn't anything more then a bog standard lay off. Ai is teh reason this time but its no different then any other lay off. They suck, but its not like they are axing 50% of their work force on purpose to replace them with ai.

They also seem to be giving out proper compenstation and even offered people the choice first before doing forced lay offs. Which is about as professional as you can expect from a company doing any form of lay offs.

Im sorry for the suffering, pain and massive waste of your free time and sanity you are about to experience. May you come out the other side a stronger person.

10% is fairly conservative & you are not using SEL, but rather the community version. I think it's not worth it. (plus it's not like you can use a non-Linux kernel that does not have Ai contrib)

I'm installing Gentoo this Friday. They're sraight up so based

Now that I had found some stability and peace of mind using Tumbleweed. Oh well, I guess it's time to start distro hopping again, not in the mood thoough.

Wow, that's fast. Crazy. And on the stable branch, no less.

I thought there was recent kernel work to allow the hibernation file to work properly with secure boot?

Edit: Yes

Yeah, the writing style is really weird. Not the traditional "AI voice" though. My instinct is that it's someone with a weird personal style, but I would also believe you if you told me it was AI with a prompt to try to emulate a particular style.

Android is kinda the only OS actually using SELinux and unix users for sandboxing user apps

Newer laptops have a different sleep mechanism called modern suspend (s0ix/s2idle) it doesn't work at all, you can find your laptop hot as hell and almost discharged after a few hours of sleep. Or it will just never go into sleep.

The Linux kernel is doing the same thing. What’s your aggressive point?

Bit offtopic: I don't know where you got the thumbnail, but that beer was probably really good. https://klosterbrauerei-weissenohe.de/ produce a lot of really good stuff for Lidl here in Europe at least, and especially their Hampstead gin.

And on topic, this isn't the best look for SUSE. I looked up how many work at SUSE and it's around 1900, so 10% people fired means ~190 people, almost 200. Rough.

The predicted layoffs are here: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/04/canva-layoffs-job-cuts-restructure