[2025-10-10T01:56:05Z] <midfavila> time to update slackware yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
[2025-10-10T01:57:10Z] <midfavila> what if you wanted to play video games but dmesg said "Failed to copy vbios to system memory!"
[2025-10-10T01:57:40Z] <midfavila> nvidia drivers are fun
[2025-10-10T02:33:20Z] <dery> nvidia :sob:
[2025-10-10T02:33:48Z] <dery> I recall trying to run them with gcompat before stumbling super hard on weird proprietary local thread memory crap
[2025-10-10T02:34:19Z] <dery> that's like the reason I still have arch on my desktop despite a radeon, although it's nice to have a "normal" distro running on bare metal, for testing and super weird software
[2025-10-10T02:34:31Z] <dery> despite having now a radeon*
[2025-10-10T02:36:29Z] <midfavila> i just wish there was some super stupid straightforward open-source hardware GPU for PCIe
[2025-10-10T02:36:46Z] <midfavila> it can be expensive and crappy and i would still buy it, just to save myself the headache
[2025-10-10T02:43:05Z] <dery> I mean radeon takes firmware and all but like its drivers are good at least
[2025-10-10T02:43:18Z] <midfavila> firmware is still a pain 
[2025-10-10T02:43:28Z] <midfavila> plus isn't amdgpu like a fifth of the entire kernel source code or something
[2025-10-10T02:43:29Z] <midfavila> lmfao
[2025-10-10T02:43:43Z] <dery> that's actually because they decided to dump all their public code there
[2025-10-10T02:43:50Z] <dery> there are a crapload of definitions and stuff literally unused
[2025-10-10T02:44:24Z] <dery> and with every single new IP block and stuff they just auto-generate from some internal design file those huge headers with all registers exposed or something
[2025-10-10T02:44:54Z] * midfavila wrinkles his nose
[2025-10-10T02:44:59Z] <dery> that said, if it works, it works. Firmware loading is kernel-side, literally no userspace involvement
[2025-10-10T02:45:14Z] <midfavila> yeah but i don't WANT it
[2025-10-10T02:45:14Z] <midfavila> >:C
[2025-10-10T02:45:23Z] <dery> neither do i
[2025-10-10T02:45:32Z] <dery> but hey, it's the least crappy choice between vendors
[2025-10-10T02:45:41Z] <dery> and one that actually tries to be open about its stuff, look at OpenSIL
[2025-10-10T02:45:53Z] <midfavila> i'm just going to get one with reverse-engineered firmware 
[2025-10-10T02:45:59Z] <dery> do they even exist
[2025-10-10T02:46:07Z] <midfavila> i think nouveau works sans proprietary junk with pre-maxwell 2.0 cards
[2025-10-10T02:46:19Z] <midfavila> of course, that's also ancient by today's standards
[2025-10-10T02:46:39Z] <midfavila> but that also works just fine for me
[2025-10-10T02:47:35Z] <midfavila> rebooting
[2025-10-10T02:47:38Z] <dery> aight
[2025-10-10T02:59:36Z] <dery> welp, going to bed
[2025-10-10T02:59:46Z] <dery> eepy
[2025-10-10T02:59:49Z] <dery> gn yall
[2025-10-10T15:55:01Z] <midfavila> gm
[2025-10-10T15:59:29Z] <sad_plan> gm midfavila 
[2025-10-10T20:39:24Z] <midfavila> fuckin hell it's supposed to be something like 22C in my area tomorrow
[2025-10-10T20:39:29Z] <midfavila> almost the middle of october 
[2025-10-10T20:39:46Z] <midfavila> we've been 20C+ during the day pretty reliably thus far this month
[2025-10-10T20:39:52Z] <midfavila> way hotter than it should be
[2025-10-10T21:06:09Z] <dery> fuck global warming
[2025-10-10T21:13:40Z] <midfavila> did i tell you that the alberta government passed legislation declaring CO2 an "essential nutrient" and emissions controls a threat to life
[2025-10-10T21:21:08Z] <midfavila> https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-ucp-to-vote-on-celebrating-co2-abandoning-net-zero-targets/
[2025-10-10T21:21:11Z] <midfavila> https://www.desmog.com/2024/11/02/alberta-conservatives-pass-climate-denial-resolution-12-to-celebrate-co2-pollution/
[2025-10-10T21:21:26Z] <midfavila> sorry, merely the governing party's internal resolution to pass legislation to do so
[2025-10-10T21:21:26Z] <midfavila> ...when they have a majority
[2025-10-10T21:22:41Z] <dery> I'll say it forever, we've all got isekai'd into the onion's universe
[2025-10-10T21:23:27Z] <dery> I swear all the latest stuff from the onion is just like... real news at this point, I remember when crazy far-fetched news about america were still a thing
[2025-10-10T21:23:38Z] <dery> crazy far-fetched satirical news*
[2025-10-10T21:26:18Z] <midfavila> did you see the onion's investigation into the epstein files
[2025-10-10T21:26:23Z] <midfavila> that they just put out yesterday
[2025-10-10T21:26:23Z] <midfavila> lmao
[2025-10-10T21:27:26Z] <midfavila> they're literally just a regular news outlet at this point
[2025-10-10T21:29:27Z] <dery> saw two minutes before putting it into the to-watch list
[2025-10-10T21:29:34Z] <dery> absolutely hilarious
[2025-10-10T21:29:51Z] <dery> yea indeed I can't find the satire anymore
[2025-10-10T21:30:14Z] <dery> I swear the US governement feels like a fever dream, like some sort of extremely elaborate troll
[2025-10-10T21:30:52Z] <midfavila> that's just what freedom looks like
[2025-10-10T21:30:58Z] <midfavila> eagle.jpeg