Working on GNOME stuff at Red Hat. GNOME OS developer. GNOME Release Team member. Previously GNOME STF contractor
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Last Notes npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Seems like this is manufacturers cheaping out npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Nature decided to help out my alarm clock this morning by exploding a meteor over my house npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Some of these mice are also keyboards, from a USB perspective. Stuff like this ensues npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Looks cool! I think the scaling factor is a bit low though, no? I think it would make sense to turn on 2x scaling for the screenshot, so that it's more visible npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk 👀 (still very unfinished though!) #gnome npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk You'll be happy to hear that this all will be gone in GNOME 49 and things will work much better. Also, this can only ever happen on X11 - try the Wayland session npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk A successful example of this kind of approach, IMO, is Ubuntu. Their name basically means something along the lines of "humanity towards others", and their logo is a ring of people holding hands. In short, the branding quite literally represents community npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk So I was thinking about the #gnome logo. Perhaps it's a simplified representation of a human footprint. What might it mean then? How about: "An independent computing platform built for humans, not shareholders" npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Take a look at a Rust crate called Iroh. It does a lot of magic for you already. No fleshed out peer discovery, or directory of devices that you own, but you give it a 32 byte "node ID" and it'll give you a UDP (actually: QUIC) tunnel to the other device. Punching through NAT and whatever npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Very cool stuff. npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk https://www.howtogeek.com/why-i-want-to-see-an-official-gnome-only-os/ npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Are you aware of https://gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-ideas? npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk The law makes no distinction between employees of banned companies working on their own time versus on company time. That's the legal basis of the move. npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Time to make it official! I want to turn #GNOME OS, GNOME's home-grown distro for testing and development of the GNOME Desktop, into a real production-ready general purpose OS. I finally blogged about it: https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-all/ npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Fedi moderation idea: UEFI Secure Boot. npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk (removed extra pings for the tangent). npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk For that short period of time, I wonder if it can just log straight onto EFIFB without any formatting or anything. No ~~VT~~ TTY emulation. Just text on framebuffer. Doesn't have to be pretty, just enough to get the data out. Then stop doing that when SinpleDRM is init'd npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Is the intent to let distros customize the appearance of DRM panic? npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk on kernel panic the entire OS is considered a lost cause, kernel included. DRM Panic is likely safe enough because ultimately it just dumps data onto a buffer in memory. Launching a userspace process, however, is infinitely more dangerous: it goes through the VFS layer, does arbitrary IO, can call arbitrary syscalls, etc... disk corruption is a lot worse than not telling the user about a panic npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk re: kernel panics. I think running processes would be deemed too unsafe. Anyway, there's already a DRM panic handler being worked on in the kernel. systemd-bsod needs a functional VT, btw. Eventually it can be integrated into Plymouth too. npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Finally, the FHS probably isn't as relevant today as it once was. npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk As you said. The FHS seems somewhat defunct. npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk it's the ultimate test npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk IDK, to me it looks like the foundation listed her notable achievements, including the 5 year plan. What else do you think they should have listed? npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk Nothing happens automatically here... It's a command you have to run. Yeah it was poorly documented that it's essentially a factory reset and that has since been corrected. npub1qehhquj5c86s7juhwa3km9mcx749zy2nx3y6qh8uu3ud2fdtzjjs8pye8a Adrian Vovk tmpfiles just needs to be renamed. It hasn't been just for temporary files for a very long time. Yes this is a foot gun
