https://lemmy.world/u/Jeffool posted on Feb 20, 2026 17:33
Yaay Sway! This person has great taste! :)
Excellent guide! I’ll have to look at this more intentionally when I’m at my Linux machine.
Yes the genocide of Palestinians is bad but I have only so much energy to care deeply about things in the world. I can’t change anything about what is happening there, it’s not in my power to do so.
I know people who work all the time and have energy. You have probably a mixture of privilege and exhaustion. We’re talking about scanning some barcodes so you can help avoid preventing fellow human beings, including children, from being massacred.
Am I privileged as a trans woman? There are many easy things that add up and take up mental space and lead to exhaustion and empathy/compassion fatigue.
I am a vegan lol
You know what I mean. Vegans are the vast minority among people.
More privileged than a Palestinian, hell yeah. So it’s still your duty.
Share your Shave of the Day for Thursday!
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First time using this new synth from Stirling. Soft tips and good backbone, this should serve well as my new travel brush.
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A lovely Friday shave. Almost to the weekend!
Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel’s staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. The Realtek RTL8723BS is an 802.11 b/g/ SDIO WLAN adapter with Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity too. In the nearly decade since this driver was added to the staging area, it’s continued to be cleaned up and with the Linux 7.0 merge window there is yet again a lot of work on cleaning up this WiFi driver for the old Realtek hardware.
It’s not over the finish line and still in the kernel’s staging area, but the Realtek RTL8723BS driver continues seeing more clean-ups. This driver started out as based on Realtek downstream vendor driver code and cleaned up in the year since by various kernel developers. As for its popularity, the RTL8723BS did appear in the original Intel Compute Stick as well as various Intel Atom and ARM devices.
We should just outlaw realtek. The world would be a better place.
So I would like to know from experts working on Realtek or those who are following closely enough to understand the details what exactly does the “Big HAL layer” entail interms of so much refactoring?
From what I can understand it looks like most of the vendor released stuff is not inline to the design of the kernel and thus it works in a different manner than the rest of the kernel.
But then, why wouldn’t experts try to clean room implement the driver by mimicking the official driver?
Is it possible to view files in the root of the vault?
Also, is it possible to show non .md files?
My use case for the second question is that I have .pdf and .xml that acompanies my notes. Having HelixEditor showing them as well (or opening them in system default editor) would be nice.
Not ideal since you can’t easily sort by folder hierarchy but you can see your root files in All Notes.
“Slaughtering civilians and shielding behind the people victim of genocide is what I call resistance against genocide”. Most enlightened extremist
Zionist scum
Don’t forget all the rape.
Bought a secondhand laptop to take some of the wear and tear off of my daily driver, and spent the better part of the afternoon and most of the evening trying to get the sound working. Sound card was detected, the headphones worked, and it acted like sound was playing but the speakers weren’t making a peep.
Messed around with every Pipewire setting I could find, tried re-mapping the internal “pins” with some obscure JACK utility, tried several kernel flags, and went down several more rabbit holes that looked promising all to no avail.
Finally took the thing apart, and the speakers were just disconnected from the motherboard 🤦♂️ Apparently the refurbishing company forgot to re-attach them.
All in all, not bad for a $150 “beater” laptop.
I usually do that, too, but didn’t bother this time since it’s a slightly different model but uses the same motherboard as my old work-issue laptop, and I already knew everything worked in Linux except the fingerprint sensor. Only fired up the W11 install it came with to make sure it wasn’t DOA and wiped it immediately after – I just forgot to check the speakers lol.
I was joking it was a beating off computer, a beater computer.
So you’ve never been to their website?
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f10cc825-4c46-482b-a863-31dda91a5205.png
According to the wayback machine that’s been their tagline for at least 15 years
Feb 19 2011
I guess I just never paid attention to it. My usage of debian goes back thirty years.
