It’s the deficient market hypothesis in action: If someone has money, he must be right. Therefore, give him more money.

For me the X11 era continues for now (until the next version of xfce I expect) and the era of GNOME ended 23 years ago.

Linux loads the “firmware” into the GPU on boot. It does need to be updated from time to time, separately from the driver and everything else. On my system it’s kept in /usr/lib/firmware/amdgpu. And bios updates can often fix weird bugs, usually worth doing.

I don’t know, but one possibility to consider is that running amdgpu-pro (or its non-pro counterpart) might’ve done something that stops mesa from working if you didn’t completely undo everything it did.

amdgpu fails to load

If you’re referring to the old “amdgpu pro” software, you probably don’t want to be using that. It isn’t necessary for the stuff you want to do, and I’m surprised to learn that it still exists at all — it’s still talked about as if it’s current on the arch wiki. Get rid of that, update the firmware package, run a recent kernel, and then figure out whatever specific thing you actually need for the AI stuff you’re trying to do such as rocm-related things.

Elon cares deeply about the truth and seems as if he has boundless energy to devote to suppressing it.

date -r reports current date instead of date specified by reference file

Seems like it was not simply a “difference compared to GNU coreutils” — it was just giving completely the wrong date.

Reading more carefully I see that the real reason is "the /run directory is created as a tmpfs filesystem specifically for run-time files by systemd-tmpfiles.

I forgot that systemd had been allowed to take over /tmp and /run.

Why on earth would the permissions on /var/lock be something for systemd to decide?

Sure they’re utterly boring and stupid now, but just wait until next year when Sirius Cybernetics finally launches its Genuine People Personalities models.

Generate Random Numbers

I prefer to generate random words (mostly for generating passwords):

alias randword='head -$[$SRANDOM % `wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | cut -f1 -d" "`] /usr/share/dict/words | tail -1'

Not bad considering it’s only been around for a couple of years.

This looks a lot like they’re just trying to squeeze a bit more public relations juice out of last year’s news.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=copyright

I got to install Mint for a couple of people, which was fun. Haven’t done much of that since the heyday of the Linux User Group circa 2002.

https://fedia.io/media/7a/1a/7a1a6e904a4945e28cc81e76f8913aba3a84538bf9169cd0ef7ff39fa4a58957.jpg

Well I dunno, I just watched their demo video and otherwise know nothing about it, but it looks like an interesting experiment. Maybe some day — if they keep throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at it for another decade or two — it’ll get good enough to justify however much it costs to run.

That one is not at all unclear to regular readers of phoronix. Would you expect them to spell out what a “GPU” is as well? No harm in explaining it for others, but don’t blame the author.

One could make it technically somewhat difficult to shut down, but better yet would be to get some timely government intervention, on the side of defending our rights to do such things on the same kind of principle as the well-established doctrine of first sale.

I’m not a lawyer, but I suspect that you may be overestimating the extent to which every piece of bullshit inserted into a TOS document that nobody reads is universally enforceable.