rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: August 15th, 2023
  • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.ml•framework 13 AMD... yay or nay?English
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    6 days ago

    I ran into some minor issues with mine running Fedora 41, all had workarounds.

    1. Sometimes the ports stop working properly, I have to pull out either the USB-C or USB-A expansion card and plug it back in and its fine. Scared me the first time it happened before and a reboot didn’t fix it.
    2. I ran into full-system stutters that were actually related to PSR. I had to add amdgpu.dcdebug_mask=0x410 (remove the underscore, the word filter got a little overzealous) to my kernel command line since I couldn’t listen to music without stuttering. Fascinating that the display having PSR problems caused audio stutters, but here we are. It’s weird that others aren’t running into this, but whatever. My battery life is worse with it off but at least the computer doesn’t stutter anymore.
    3. Obviously only some of the ports support USB4 so I run USB-C on both back ports and USB-A on both frontlier ports.

    edit: can i just say that there are fewer more negative places than Phoronix comments, in general. I wouldn’t take them too seriously.

  • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.ml•Windows 11 vs Linux supported HWEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have some crazy theories about “why” this is happening, I’m not an expert though.

    1. I think that enforcing TPM is part of the end-to-end attestation plans for the Internet: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/ . TPM allows for a full stack, end-to-end, of hardware->operating system->browser trust chain to make sure you’re not rooting your own system to get around DRM.
    2. This sells hardware as “never-linuxers” are forced to upgrade, and people who have been scraping by with old hardware are given an “excuse” to upgrade. I guess that results in profits for partners and also MS?

    Maybe I sound crazy. At any rate, I’m really glad for places like Lemmy (and operating systems like Linux) existing, because I don’t trust any for-profit tech company not to ban Firefox/Linux users/Ad block/video streaming/etc.