LWDW 238: My friend Haiku

Htop 3.0 is ready for production! OBS releases a hot new beta, Microsoft has a problem with plain-text email, and leaving Mac for Linux.

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Timestamps:
03:32 Using the Linux kernel’s Case-insensitive feature
08:07 Nvidia 30 series recap
13:42 Blender 2.90 with NV Link
16:12 Htop 3.0
18:37 OBS 26.0 RC1
21:52 PinePhone updates
25:22 From Macbook to Thinkpad
29:42 ACM510 Compressor
33:07 Microsoft takes issue with plain text
38:14 Shameless self promotion
39:09 Mini gaming Pi
42:24 Trash can Pi

nOpE

In all fairness you have to explicitly format your ext4 partition for it to support case-insensitive files.
I’m sure, if you start from a fresh install with it enabled, you probably will appreciate it.
It may be a bit more difficult to adjust if you change, say your game drive to CI ext4.
- It’s going to be really difficult since there is no way I’m using that.
The hardest part will be having to remember NOT to use case sensitivity.
And feel like I’m using DOS ;-)

Nvidia 30 Somethings

We restreamed the live event yesterday.
The 3090, 80, and 70 were on show.
Only the 90 and 80 get the new moon cooler.
The 3070 at $599 is going to make AMDs life difficult.
Wished it had at least 10 gigs of memory RAM.
Sooo is Ampere using the same Turing NVENC chips?

Blender 2.90 (mfoxdogg)

NVLink support for CUDA and OptiX.
- Just in time for that 3090 announcement
Blender 2.90 is a big release and builds on the polish of 2.80, with lots of improvements.
Updates to the EEVEE and Cycles renderers, modeling, animation and modifiers.
Faster motion blur rendering with Intel’s Embree CPU enhanced ray tracing.
There is a new Denoising panel to enable the Intel denoiser in the 3D viewports in this release.
Thank you mfoxdogg for letting us know about this new release!

Htop 3.0

Wonderful! It was time for an update :-)
There is a new display option to show CPU frequency in CPU meters.
vim key mapping mode!
From the outside it looks like nothing has changed, this is good.
This is from the new group of maintiners.

OBS 26 RC1

New RNnoise hotness is enabled if you build the bits.
Can’t make much use of it on this end since a non-insignificant range of my voice is inhuman and RNnoise registers it as silence.
sRGB.
I think the browser should be included in this one?
I’ll wait for the PPA release
- Second link, brad.
Made a hot little video showing off the RNnoise plugin.

PinePhone Manjaro (RTheren)

In July Pine64 released the Community Edition of the PinePhone postmarketOS phone and Convergence Package, and now we have the same phone models and kit, but with Manjaro Linux preinstalled.
This really has been a beautiful approach by Pine64 for testing software on their hardware.
Just ship with the distro the user wants already installed!
And then they can easily play with other Linux distros by booting another image from an SD card.
Seeing how Manjaro didn’t last a week on my Pinebook Pro, I hope their phone implementation is a bit better.

1 Year of Thinkpad

The beloved Thinkpads are the mobile toolkit for the Linux community.
I have recommended them to developers switching from Macs.
Once you find the great open source alternatives to proprietary software on Linux, there is no going back!
Not everything has an open-source alternative / equivalent.
Battery life is still an issue, but then again I’m pretty sure that thinkpad is not overheating as much as Macs do.
Can’t debug Safari or do iOS/macOS development, given.
Touchpad is not close to the Mac.
Hey, it doesn’t spin like a dustbuster.

ACM510

- Oh look, a flexible, console-grade channel compressor with analogue warmth and character.
- And it’s only for Linux.
- It’s an enhancement on his OverTone plug-in.
- The developer got my money because of
“There aren’t any plans for cross-platform at the moment (with Ardour6 and increasingly solid Linux support now available from some commercial DAW developers, I’m really hoping that Linux can – finally – begin to take its rightful place for pro-audio). So in a way this is my bet on that happening.”
Well that, it has a good sound, and it lacks a photo-realistic skeuomorphic UI.

The plain text barrier

Yeah, you know what… good.
Step 1. MS cocks up their plaintext support in Outlook.
Step 2. MS claims the plaintext workflow is too difficult to use, as it requires using a different email client than Outlook.
Old ASCII email looks the same on everyone’s monitor and is very robust.
As well as being more secure.
How hard is it really to use Thunderbird or Squirrelmail? ;-)
Also having that barrier to entry demonstrates technical prowess.
It’s a lot like why here at LGC Venn had us using IRC to communicate.
This looks like an attempt at “Extending” after fully Embracing the kernel.
Also, trying to shove your own way of thinking down another project will not exactly ingratiate you to those people.
Moral of the story, MS of all companies should not be handing out advice when it comes to software development.

Slice of Pi

iPi

Beautiful! We have talked about how cool it would be if there was a mini version of an ATX case for the Pi.
Now it just has to be a bit bigger to accommodate Pedro’s RasPi 4 ICE Tower Cooler ;-)
- Yeah, I’mma need that scaled up to full Pi size and maybe like a miniature Lian Li O11 Dynamic.

Trashy Pi