KDE prepares for Plasma powered fingerprints! Linus blames Intel for killing ECC memory, mounting browser tabs as a filesystem, and Raspberry Pi tally lights. All this and so much more on this week’s LWDW.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
06:33 Faulty Blackmagic products
10:46 KDE updates
14:01 Linus on ECC
19:30 Kernel 5.11rc2 & AMD
24:15 Spotify in Rust.
30:20 Command line Wiki
33:45 Tab file system.
39:15 Raspberry Pi tally lights
44:30 Emails
- I’ve been sitting on this for six months trying to give BM the benefit of doubt.
- I have run out of benefits.
- Second comment on YT was someone with the same problem.
- I don’t typically do videos like this but someone needs to call them out on their nonsense.
- If anyone gets the chance, share the video.
- At best it spurs them into action and at worst it will prevent someone else from making the same mistake.
- Also, rate my clickbait thumbnail.
- I love the new “Milky Way” wallpaper for KDE Plasma 5.21.
- Native fingerprint login/password, something that’s been working in GNOME of all things since at least 2018.
- Might have been earlier, but 2018 is when I tried it on the X230 and it worked really well.
- They fixed the Blueteeth devices getting listed in the bluedevil applet even if they weren’t paired.
- Reverted the slight screwup of not allowing the panel to be resized if it was on the left of the screen.
- What I’d like fixed are the occasional memory leaks with kwin_x11
- Because that’s still happening!
- QT is about to suffer some growing pains.
- Linus is right, and there is a reason why Error-correcting Code memory is used in servers and workstations.
- For stability, mission critical applications and where data corruption can’t be tolerated.
- And ECC memory should be used in consumer desktops, despite it being a bit slower than standard DRAM.
- Back in the day ECC was mainstream, but Intel being Intel phased it out on non Xeon platforms.
- Google’s conclusion from 2009 was straightforward.
- “We found the incidence of memory errors and the range of error rates across different DIMMs (dual in-line memory modules) to be much higher than previously reported… Memory errors are not rare events.”
- AMD support is unofficial and Intel is still limited to Xeon so manufacturers don’t have much of an incentive to crank the stuff out.
- I’m not going to say I’ve never had bad memory but, something…. I forget.
- With Ryzen and the general enthusiast market being more willing to fiddle with memory speed and timings, a lot of those tiny errors are exponentially increased.
- I’d love to get some 3866MT/s ECC memory , but it just doesn’t seem to exist.
- And if it did, it’d be pretty damn expensive.
- ECC for the desktop makes sense if you are overclocking but that’s about it.
- The system I’m on only counts as a desktop if you squint, and I never considered ECC because it’s stock.
- And we mentioned that this was in the works, it includes support for the Guitar Hero controllers and the OUYA Game Console.
- Another huge dump of AMD GPU descriptor header files.
- Proper SD Express card support is very nice to see!
- Now I just need the Pis and laptops of the world to support SDUC UHS-III properly.
- Love it or hate it a lot of people use Spotify.
- Most of the clients I have come across are, you guessed it. Electron.
- This little guy is 99.9% Rust.
- It’s in early development and looking for contributors.
- It’s missing support for podcasts ATM.
- Didn’t want to build on Debian Bullseye.
- It’s nice to have other Spotify apps on Linux other than the official one.
- Also, Psst uses librespot as its core.
- Librespot is the Open Source Spotify client library for Rust.
- And for those of you who prefer a Spotify player that consumes even less memory, there are two new Spotify apps that run in CLI that are also written in Rust:
- ncspot: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
- Spotify TUI: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui
- And Spotify TUI even has a CLI graphic equalizer for us nerds.
- If you really must have an open source client for your proprietary music platform.
- Heck, most people who want to use Spotify are using Spotify.
- Be it the .deb or the snap.
- Unless this blocks ads, then I would very much like this to be a thing yesterday.
- Cool, you can get Wikipedia summaries from the command line with this little app without touching a web browser!
- Examples:
- $ wikit Star Trek
- $ wikit Wicket Ewok, from Star Wars ;-)
- $ wikit linux –link, to print a link to the whole article after the Linux query
- Contribute to Wikipedia if you can, to keep it going, so brilliant projects like this will survive.
- Wikit wikit –wild -k wild -v West.
- Jungle is massive.
- LibrePhotos has all of the convenience of Google Photos without sacrificing your privacy.
- It has AI for face recognition, can generate albums, and has object detection in photos just like Google Photos.
- And it is a great way to backup all your photos and videos that are stored in the Google cloud.
- And screenshots in the Git! YAY!
- TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer, and maps each of your tabs to a folder.
- So now you can browse all the files in a folder and use your existing tools to manipulate them.
- Such as listing the titles of all the tabs you have open in command line using cat.
- Or being able to save text of all your tabs to one file.
- This is a brilliant way to organize many websites in one category in one place.
- For example, all the text from web pages we use in our LWDW show notes!
- Batch saving files, scripts and images for later retrieval from web pages is extremely handy and quick compared to saving web pages one at a time.
- I know I could get up to something malicious with this but I can’t seem to figure out what.
- I can see the use case, and having control of the tabs in your browser like you would a file in a folder is neat.
- But to me it doesn’t make much sense when I can CTRL+U to see the source and CTRL+W to close them.
Slice of Pi
- The few times I worked with multiple proper cameras, they had tiny red LEDs as tally lights.
- I guess this makes it so you don’t need to squint to figure out if you’re looking at the right camera.
- Correct.
- This is handy for preventing the look away while talking to camera effect.
- It’s not really needed outside of live since modern NLEs support multicam editing.
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