Posts by mmstick@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #APuWaohuY7x3vKnwkS by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2022-11-23T23:34:02Z
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@killyourfm Unfortunately, many physical releases of games today require online updates or connectivity to function, and often with updates required on day one.There was a lot of complaints over a Limited Run Games / Best Buy release of the Doom Classics Collection for Switch that required signing in to a Bethesda account and having an active online connection to play the game.
(DIR) Post #AS8jtwIJCpaTVeQ2vQ by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2023-01-29T15:53:35Z
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@moffintosh The last release was 6 years ago, so it seems to be unmaintained.
(DIR) Post #AX7wNqaSrunX4TAldI by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2023-06-27T14:41:47Z
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The display preview in cosmic-setting's wallpaper settings page will now show how the wallpaper will look like with the scaling mode selected. There's currently "Fit to Screen", "Stretch", and "Zoom".#PopOS #COSMIC #CosmicDesktop #CosmicSettings
(DIR) Post #AZ6G4eTtxwD4R3PbSS by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2023-08-25T14:49:41Z
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@lx @jgamble @soller This is not a normal code review by any means. If this is normal for you, then perhaps you need a career change.These comments in particular are really telling:> Ok, whatever your explanation for this is: I am not going to accept it, period.>> And, no, I am not going to dig through all your replies tryingto figure out your rationale for doing thisSo in effect, they don't understand what the device is or how it works, and don't care about supporting it.
(DIR) Post #AZ6HG8cyK4Yp4WhB7w by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2023-08-25T20:21:44Z
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@shironeko @jgamble @soller @lx I think you missed the point of a code review. That is not the issue. The person submitting the driver also designed the board in question, and works for the company that uses it in their Linux desktops. So the responsibility to maintain the driver is mainly with us.
(DIR) Post #AZ6QH3gh4ekBczwxTE by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2023-08-25T20:41:47Z
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@shironeko That's not really relevant to this. As I said to someone else, if the issue was merely that of wanting code comments, they could have simply requested a change to add detailed code comments.
(DIR) Post #AZ6d6CM1oHogj4R4Ay by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2023-08-25T22:16:08Z
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@shironeko That's how the mailing list works.
(DIR) Post #AafILsnSf7bOxH8Zpg by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2023-10-11T14:57:27Z
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@matthew @soller They were already using those tools. There's a handful of universities and companies that run their automated vulnerability suites across open source code bases. None of them caught this.
(DIR) Post #AdYdkhbo6E3ERmaGLg by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2024-01-06T00:05:31Z
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@5cupsofcoffee@freeatlantis.com @boilingsteam You're misinterpreting the data. It's not the number of users, but the percent of posts to ProtonDB. An arbitrary metric which only applies to PC gamers.This is akin to survivorship bias. A high number of posts from Arch Linux users doesn't necessarily mean that there are more Arch Linux users. It may be that they spend more time configuring their system than actually playing games, or that they are particularly vocal about sharing their configurations.
(DIR) Post #AdYdkjD49BRtPd1X3w by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2024-01-06T00:09:10Z
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Our QA team tests a wide variety of hardware configurations, which will generally apply to most x86 hardware that shares similar components. We may not be able to test all hardware, but I believe the support to be of a very high caliber due to the testing.There are always a few systems with regressions from kernel, driver, and firmware updates; but those won't be issues specific to Pop!_OS, but any system shipping that particular kernel, driver, or firmware.
(DIR) Post #Aj8xUyxrJrd9cBYNnc by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2024-06-20T10:13:50Z
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@katzenberger> From the actually-what-you’re-referring-to-as-ableism-is-GNU/ableism departmentQuoted the blanket statement.Not only that, but the post complains that a Fedora maintainer said that patches are welcome, and yet the first instinct in response to that is to want to block them? Not a productive attitude.If you care about the problem, then instead of calling people abliest, go help the people who are working on this problem. GNOME is backing AccessKit, which will be in COSMIC.
(DIR) Post #AjfhDnrS9LhUEkJvdY by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2024-07-06T23:12:41Z
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@ruenoak @thelinuxcast Well now you do. That would be describing @COSMIC_desktop
(DIR) Post #AjfrQJNxlfZX1a87DU by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2024-07-07T01:34:45Z
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@thelinuxcast @BrodieOnLinux @ruenoak @COSMIC_desktop There are 30 issues remaining on the project board before we're ready to produce a Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha image. Most of which are now smaller issues compared to those closed out in the last month. https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1
(DIR) Post #AqpAWLk2PjrPyE35G4 by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2025-02-05T15:34:16Z
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PSA to #rustlang and #linux developers: there is a long-standing 20y bug in the system allocator (glibc malloc) which causes it to hoard large sbrk buffers in arenas. By default, it uses heuristics to dynamically increase the mmap threshold—the point where it switches from using sbrk to mmap—which causes a memory "leak". Some #libcosmic apps were affected by this bug, causing them to use 10-30x more memory than they need. See the PR below for how to tame malloc in Rust:https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-bg/pull/73
(DIR) Post #AqpAWPgHldEgBkK8xs by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2025-02-05T15:35:00Z
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Alternatively, if you experience this bug in your application, you can switch the global allocator from glibc to jemalloc or mimalloc.
(DIR) Post #AqpCzwAAHMZ7EfVOy0 by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2025-02-06T00:27:51Z
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@BrodieOnLinux There are a handful of related bug reports on their tracker.https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14827https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26969https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30769https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15321You'll find a lot of blog articles on the subject, too.https://www.algolia.com/blog/engineering/when-allocators-are-hoarding-your-precious-memoryhttps://blog.cloudflare.com/the-effect-of-switching-to-tcmalloc-on-rocksdb-memory-use/https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/infrastructure/taming-memory-fragmentation-in-venice-with-jemallochttps://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/run-python-servers-more-efficientlyhttps://codearcana.com/posts/2016/07/11/arena-leak-in-glibc.htmlMany simply result to switching to jemalloc since it handles allocations across multiple threads more efficiently.
(DIR) Post #AzwDPaGExsqLCwlAau by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2025-11-05T14:24:22Z
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@musicmatze We have cargo-generate templates for apps and applets here:- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-app-template- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-applet-template
(DIR) Post #B0FPE9jkH1LEeIzZc9 by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2025-11-14T17:51:45Z
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@zen That's not what that is. It is the ru-UA locale for Russian language spoken in Ukraine. Like all other locales, it is automatically filled by what the system supports and has installed. en_US is the system default, which will be listed as "English (United States of America)".
(DIR) Post #B1LUEiWyYGrUOo7PiC by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2025-12-17T01:18:25Z
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@RootMoose COSMIC does not require systemd. There are some non-systemd distributions packaging it. It lacks some of the niceties that systemd integrations enable though.
(DIR) Post #B1yyw1c2KBvEI1FE5w by mmstick@fosstodon.org
2026-01-05T18:00:23Z
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@mkljczk You can use GitHub's tag compare feature: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/compare/epoch-1.0.0...epoch-1.0.1. This meta repository contains submodules that are also updated to their tagged releases so that you can see the commits for each submodule that you click on. Clicking on the files in cosmic-comp will show https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/compare/fa88002ba41d2edec25dd7ffdee9719fbb928fc0...8a5d78dbb0eef579bc6afab5315363e872a15185.