Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. It's not obvious parody, so Popehat's Rule of Goats applies: 1. If you <kiss> a goat 2. And then clarify that you did it "ironically" 3. Then you're still a goat-<kiss>er.
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  2.  @jdecicco91  Yeah, it's all shortcut based. And since the Steam Deck has roughly seven thousand buttons, it allows you to bind each action to a specific input.
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  3.  @SebSenseGreen  💯. A 5V charger is not something I'd ever want to use on a Deck if I have any other choice.
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  4. If you want a wireless option, AndFTP supports rsync over ssh.
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  5. You are not their customer—their shareholders are. You know that old adage, "Either you pay for something or you're the product"? Nadella—really Ballmer long before him—literally pulled a "¿por qué no los dos?"
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  6. First and only time in history that AMD has a majority CPU market share! I'm just laughing that, even combining the dGPU and APU share, they couldn't out-muscle Nvidia for even a plurality of graphics options. Also: I made it! I'm the one and only person who chose Pantheon as their favorite DE/WM. 😆
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  7. ​ @NeftisIsHere Yes, 💯. I updated my comment to clarify.
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  8. I hecking love calver. Every project should consider using it, and especially ones that have no intention of respecting the semver API/ABI compatibility rules.
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  9. Isn't this why the needrestart package exists?
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  10.  @bigpod  You realize they already do, by and large, right? A package's installer isn't going to just call `sudo service sshd restart` because what if the system manages daemons directly using systemctl? Instead, there's going to be a section of the package manifest that says: "Post install, flag these services for restart: [list]"
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  11. Now set your timezone to Melbourne (Sydney? Idk where Brodie lives).
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  12. This 1000%. Especially since every Ubuntu Debian derivative can be turned into any other by just editing the repo lists and running a few (unsafe) commands. Especially when comparing distros that don't use snap, "mint vs. pop vs. elementary vs. zorin vs..." is the spiderman-pointing meme.
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  13. Navi 32 is absolutely supported by ROCm—you just might have to grab builds for ROCm 6.
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  14.  @Roxor128  You actually don't need to limit yourself to VRAM—there's going to be a performance cost, but the HuggingFace API allows you to offload assets to system RAM (or, theoretically, swap).
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  15. It's not wrong, but it's always jarring for me when Brodie says "Windows doesn't support tiling" given my first experience with tiling was Windows 3.1 😂
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  16. Ugh. Building from source on a Pi Zero is a nightmare. I was setting up one for CNC.js, and never have I appreciated as much just how bloated the node-stack is. As I understand it, people like Jeff Geerling—who rebuild the Linux kernel for Raspberry Pis so frequently they have a shirt for it—will do it on another system and then copy the binary over to the target device.
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  17. Yeah, that's a variation of calver. 💯 would recommend for projects that either already have a static ABI or don't care about telegraphing breaks of backwards compatibility.
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  18. Is the UHD situation really that bad? I haven't used Intel graphics—integrated or otherwise—in about seven years, but my understanding was that the mesa drivers were as mature as their AMD counterparts, if not moreso.
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  19. ​ @ethanepperson-jones9952 Frfr, it's honestly boring how well AMD dGPUs and iGPUs work on Linux. I had to do a little bit of fiddling once upon a time with a 6800U to unlock RyzenAdj, but I think when I last reinstalled the system the proper driver was baked into the kernel.
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  20. Mostly the winners today are AWS and Azure who will happily publish the source for their bespoke AMIs knowing that no one could or would want to use them outside their ecosystems.
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  21. Codellama is, what? A 7b model? So, like 14GB of RAM (preferably VRAM) and as much FLOPS as you can throw at it? I mean, I guess that's still lighter weight than VSCode¹ ¹Insert JetBrains or emacs as desired
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  22. Oh thank God. With the way my feed has been lately, I thought for a hot second it was going to come out that the Linux Kernel was heavily invested in Israel.
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  23. Those are the people who might actually switch. But 90% of users don't think of Windows as the reason their computer feels bloated—they worry they have a virus and download the first sketchy "registry cleaner" (or worse—Norton AV) they find.
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  24. ​​ @mindblow7617 The thing you have to remember is that the RedHat of today is not the RedHat who fought Ballmer, tooth and claw. That company was swallowed whole by IBM and has been slowly digested and turned into chyme. Don't simp for the orca that ate your favorite penguin.
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  25. Fwiw, "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them" (coined The Platinum Rule) is better morality than the Golden Rule, at least in my book.
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  26. Saab: "hold our joystick"
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  27.  @stupidbeard3702  Thank you! That's an awesome #TIL
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  28. As I understand it, Microsol is one of the archetypical examples of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.
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  29. Good job reporting on the real culprit here. A lot of your examples of A/B testing, though, I find pretty nefarious, as moving the description box and other UI elements at random is tantamount to gaslighting. I choose GNU/Linux¹ because I want total control over my system—I want to choose which "public betas" I participate in, and the rest I expect to "just work" in a stable, consistent and repeatable way. The ethos of "Web 2.0" and SaaS in general is all about robbing users of freedom, choice and control. Anyway, I realize ¹I'm sounding like Comrade Stallman, so I should probably go touch some grass. Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Amercians!
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  30. I haven't even gotten fractional scaling looking good on X11, and I gave up even trying—much better has been going into my WM/DE configs and theme settings and just upping the default font size across the board.
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  31. 28:05 Weird—OBS Flatpak this morning gave me the option of full-screen or single-window. I recorded single-window with zero problems.
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  32. Counterpoint: AMD GPUs being difficult to use for AI is the only thing keeping them cheap and available for gaming
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  33.  @BrodieRobertson  I assume you've read the xterm README? For a program that ubiquitous, it's hilarious how much the authors absolutely hate it.
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  34. While immutable distros (distinct from atomic ones, where you decide what's included and can roll back to a prior configuration) may work fine for Baby's First Linux, I'm not a fan of the trend overall—if I want kitty instead of Konsole as my terminal emulator I should be able to change that without installing an entire package overlay.
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  35. Here's why Linus' video is making my neckbeard itch—he's setting people up for thinking Linux = SteamOS, with all the limitations of that desktop, the same way Linux became synonymous with Ubuntu's netbook spins in the early 2010s. Now, a lot of those netbooks were great for what they were designed to do! But when people realized that 16GB of storage and a single Atom processor was not going to be enough to replace their computing needs, Linux earned a sour reputation by association that lasted a full decade.
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  36. My guess that whatever country this guy lives him isn't in any rush to arrest or extradite him.
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  37. AMD hardware is more than capable when it comes to AI inference. I've run SDXL and Mistral 7B on my 6700XT, which these days you can pick up for like $200. And yes, getting the ROCm stack running (on Arch, btw) was a pain in the toucans—I still don't have tensorflow quite right, and my PyTorch venv is more unstable than Bing when she's calling herself "Sydney." Still, it's all worth it not to pay for Jensen's jacket tax.
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  38. This comment is what got me to switch on my GPD Win4 (think Steam Deck but more compact and with a keyboard). Followed the Arch guide to replace pulse, and it worked right away. When does that happen?
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  39. lol, Arch doesn't even ship with networking by default—the chance of them ever shipping unattended upgrades pre-configured is precisely zero.
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  40. One additional follow-up: the Minecraft issue is a well-known issue with Minecraft that's been marked as "works as intended" by the developers. The fact that this didn't happen on other DEs / older Alphas was the "bug," and the solution is to employ any of a number of mods that add a "borderless windowed" mode to the game.
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  41. Exciting times. Elementary 8 (with GTK4 and a Wayland-compatible Dock) is apparently out in early access. I might have to spin up a VM to try it out.
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  42. As someone who is not socially inclined, I'd be happy to license a project under the optional condition of "buying Brodie Robertson (of Linux YouTube fame) a cider"
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  43.  @sergeykish  It's usually not quite that simple, otherwise projects like anbox and Waydroid would be far more capable. Mcpelauncher works because the Android app itself is just a launcher for an inner Minecraft executable (a design decision I guess they carried over from Java), and even so, it's prone to frequent breakages, especially where online functionality is concerned.
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  44. Tbf, this isn't his review (and isn't marketed as that). This is literally his unboxing video.
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  45. ​ @excidium666 You don't think there's a single high-seniority Hyprland dev who would be able and willing to abide by FDO's CoC? My motivation is that there should still be an avenue for contributing changes upstream and communicating the Hyprland impact for changes to portals and other protocols.
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  46. How secure is the default-permission sandbox? I know I've found not having access to /usr/bin, for example, to be a pain in the toucans, but making things inconvenient for users is different than making things safer against malicious developers.
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  47. ​ @markh.6687 Excuse me, lattes? What do you take us for, Apple enthusiasts?! We brew only single-origin, ethically sourced light roasts... and then have heated debates about those who choose to drown them in milk and sugar. ☕
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  48. I have a tool called EnderChest that coordinates sharing Minecraft configurations between different instances and computers, and I purposely abstracted the sync interface so I could implement different backends. So far, I have: - file:// (simple file copy) - rsync:// - sftp:// (via paramiko) And I'll probably look at either FTP (samba) or MTP next. The amount I know about each protocol now is 10x what I knew going in.
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  49. I have never seen a KDE-based desktop I've liked (if I'd liked the look and feel of Windows XP, then I would have kept using XP). I'm not a huge fan of modern GNOME either, but GTK-based distros (Pantheon, Budgie, Pantheon, MATE) are great! And as to your whiteboard—yes, Hyprland is bae. 😂
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  50. Tbh, this really shouldn't be a space that Valve needs to enter. Ryzen APUs crammed into ultra-SFFPCs have been delivering good 1080p gaming since the 3400G, and Linux works on them out of the box. I personally just run elementaryOS, but if I cared about having a "Steam-like experience" beyond auto-launching Big Picture, that's what Chimera and Bazzite are for. The fact that Minisforum, ASRock and Geekom haven't been selling their units configured this way is just ridiculous and them leaving money on the table.
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