Val Packett 🧉
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Purple is my natural hair color. I have strong opinions about software and sometime I even get to make them reality. Same for the state of the world in […]
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Welp. Finally had to subscribe to @mullvadnet.. not for any privacy reasons, not for geoblocks nor censorship, not even because my home IP address was flagged for too-many-requests by GitHub anymore, but just because my home ISP has fucked up their routes so much that the @postmarketOS website […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
December 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Welp. Finally had to subscribe to @mullvadnet.. not for any privacy reasons, not for geoblocks nor censorship, not even because my home IP address was flagged for too-many-requests by GitHub anymore, but just because my home ISP has fucked up their routes so much that the @postmarketOS website […]
i found it. found where ALSA in linux comes from physically
December 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
i found it. found where ALSA in linux comes from physically
uh oh, looks like the json-c library might be a disaster. found a tool that uses it to parse files from a directory, it didn't expect any non-json files so it'd crash on them, I added a check for `json_object_from_fd` returning NULL and it got through a _couple_ non-json files and then on […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
December 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
uh oh, looks like the json-c library might be a disaster. found a tool that uses it to parse files from a directory, it didn't expect any non-json files so it'd crash on them, I added a check for `json_object_from_fd` returning NULL and it got through a _couple_ non-json files and then on […]
huh. apparently some of the legendary APM X-Gene systems still are in use at some dedicated server providers? wow
December 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
huh. apparently some of the legendary APM X-Gene systems still are in use at some dedicated server providers? wow
ughhh I thought I actually had a laptop with thunderbolt but turns out the intel surface laptop just fooled me… Its regular USB controller shows up as "Intel Thunderbolt 4 USB something" in `lspci` but that doesn't mean the actual board supports thunderbolt x_x
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
ughhh I thought I actually had a laptop with thunderbolt but turns out the intel surface laptop just fooled me… Its regular USB controller shows up as "Intel Thunderbolt 4 USB something" in `lspci` but that doesn't mean the actual board supports thunderbolt x_x
BUBBLEWRAP UNWRAPPED:
You have launched #flatpak apps 4403 times this year. Your favorite command override was `--command=bash` with 202 invocations. Your most frequently added environment variable was `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland`. You only launched Steam games 59 times, what's up, no time to […]
You have launched #flatpak apps 4403 times this year. Your favorite command override was `--command=bash` with 202 invocations. Your most frequently added environment variable was `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland`. You only launched Steam games 59 times, what's up, no time to […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
BUBBLEWRAP UNWRAPPED:
You have launched #flatpak apps 4403 times this year. Your favorite command override was `--command=bash` with 202 invocations. Your most frequently added environment variable was `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland`. You only launched Steam games 59 times, what's up, no time to […]
You have launched #flatpak apps 4403 times this year. Your favorite command override was `--command=bash` with 202 invocations. Your most frequently added environment variable was `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland`. You only launched Steam games 59 times, what's up, no time to […]
now that's some fuzzy search results lol
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
now that's some fuzzy search results lol
Also finally got around to building gfxreconstruct for flatpak (..not in a publishable way yet xD) (for adhd reasons i could do whatever else but Not This for the last N weeks) \o/
now submitted captures for the Turnip issues I know of: RPCS3 flakes and the DOOM 2016 launch fault… not the […]
now submitted captures for the Turnip issues I know of: RPCS3 flakes and the DOOM 2016 launch fault… not the […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Also finally got around to building gfxreconstruct for flatpak (..not in a publishable way yet xD) (for adhd reasons i could do whatever else but Not This for the last N weeks) \o/
now submitted captures for the Turnip issues I know of: RPCS3 flakes and the DOOM 2016 launch fault… not the […]
now submitted captures for the Turnip issues I know of: RPCS3 flakes and the DOOM 2016 launch fault… not the […]
In other linux-next news, this month a deadlock/reentrancy bug was developed for FUSE that e.g. made xdg-document-portal hang all the flatpak apps. Good thing I'm running -next on my main dev machine and doing the QA for everyone, heh.
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In other linux-next news, this month a deadlock/reentrancy bug was developed for FUSE that e.g. made xdg-document-portal hang all the flatpak apps. Good thing I'm running -next on my main dev machine and doing the QA for everyone, heh.
#linux on #snapdragon news: just debugged why the 3840×2160@120Hz display mode was not working (despite having 4 lanes of HBR3), for someone else on IRC… only took a few minutes to find out that the calculated CRTC clock requirement exceeded the actual provided core clock by just a tiiiiny bit […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
#linux on #snapdragon news: just debugged why the 3840×2160@120Hz display mode was not working (despite having 4 lanes of HBR3), for someone else on IRC… only took a few minutes to find out that the calculated CRTC clock requirement exceeded the actual provided core clock by just a tiiiiny bit […]
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boy have I got a nightmare screenshot for the Unix Conservatives out there,
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
boy have I got a nightmare screenshot for the Unix Conservatives out there,
This is what ubuntu.com looks like currently. Holy shit. Apparently this isn't even _that_ new.. Just a couple years ago their main offering on display was a whitepaper on autonomous cars. Two more years back, a webinar on 5G and whatever the heck […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
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November 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is what ubuntu.com looks like currently. Holy shit. Apparently this isn't even _that_ new.. Just a couple years ago their main offering on display was a whitepaper on autonomous cars. Two more years back, a webinar on 5G and whatever the heck […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
This has got to be one of the strangest decisions in 3D printing. This Biqu BX ships with..
5 motors (dual Z) ✅
5 motor drivers ✅
each motor wired to its own- ❌❌❌
No, the Z axis ones are connected in parallel to a single Z driver, and the 5th […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
5 motors (dual Z) ✅
5 motor drivers ✅
each motor wired to its own- ❌❌❌
No, the Z axis ones are connected in parallel to a single Z driver, and the 5th […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This has got to be one of the strangest decisions in 3D printing. This Biqu BX ships with..
5 motors (dual Z) ✅
5 motor drivers ✅
each motor wired to its own- ❌❌❌
No, the Z axis ones are connected in parallel to a single Z driver, and the 5th […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
5 motors (dual Z) ✅
5 motor drivers ✅
each motor wired to its own- ❌❌❌
No, the Z axis ones are connected in parallel to a single Z driver, and the 5th […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
Reposted by Val Packett 🧉
apple, google, & microsoft have bolted some annoying surveillance and social-control shit onto the side of their solutions to these problems. those solutions are complex and their merits are absolutely debatable. in some cases the medicine may in fact be worse than the disease. but if your […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
apple, google, & microsoft have bolted some annoying surveillance and social-control shit onto the side of their solutions to these problems. those solutions are complex and their merits are absolutely debatable. in some cases the medicine may in fact be worse than the disease. but if your […]
OH: If it aims like a footgun and shoots like a footgun, it's probably a footgun…
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
OH: If it aims like a footgun and shoots like a footgun, it's probably a footgun…
Reposted by Val Packett 🧉
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
Reposted by Val Packett 🧉
I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The real downside of being a massive night owl is that moment when you've already turned the lights off, some time has passed, you get up to go to bed and instinctively touch the light switch (as if to turn the sun off lol) and you end up turning the lights back _on_.
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The real downside of being a massive night owl is that moment when you've already turned the lights off, some time has passed, you get up to go to bed and instinctively touch the light switch (as if to turn the sun off lol) and you end up turning the lights back _on_.
huh, youtube (on firefox) does its own "h264ify" now somehow? how does it know which codec I have hw decode for?
(literally with hwdec on, it _refuses_ to pick higher resolutions it doesn't have h264 for, when i only have an h264 hw codec working)
(literally with hwdec on, it _refuses_ to pick higher resolutions it doesn't have h264 for, when i only have an h264 hw codec working)
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
huh, youtube (on firefox) does its own "h264ify" now somehow? how does it know which codec I have hw decode for?
(literally with hwdec on, it _refuses_ to pick higher resolutions it doesn't have h264 for, when i only have an h264 hw codec working)
(literally with hwdec on, it _refuses_ to pick higher resolutions it doesn't have h264 for, when i only have an h264 hw codec working)
Wow apparently it's hard to find a working #openscad lol?? I just wanted to render specifically this file..
Flatpak: first "Failed to create `wl_display` (No such file or directory)". Okay, allow socket- "Using the 'ivi-shell' shell integration" u wot??? Okay, `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` -- crashes […]
Flatpak: first "Failed to create `wl_display` (No such file or directory)". Okay, allow socket- "Using the 'ivi-shell' shell integration" u wot??? Okay, `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` -- crashes […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Wow apparently it's hard to find a working #openscad lol?? I just wanted to render specifically this file..
Flatpak: first "Failed to create `wl_display` (No such file or directory)". Okay, allow socket- "Using the 'ivi-shell' shell integration" u wot??? Okay, `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` -- crashes […]
Flatpak: first "Failed to create `wl_display` (No such file or directory)". Okay, allow socket- "Using the 'ivi-shell' shell integration" u wot??? Okay, `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` -- crashes […]
The real efficiency gain of "AI" is that it produces real physical (err, chemical?) pollution at the same time as it's working on informational pollution. That's highly efficient!
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The real efficiency gain of "AI" is that it produces real physical (err, chemical?) pollution at the same time as it's working on informational pollution. That's highly efficient!
Wow, early AMD Ryzen laptops (Zen/Zen+, the ones predating CPPC and EPP) have _atrocious_ power management. Do not buy pre-Zen3 generations for anyone who would take their laptop outside.
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Wow, early AMD Ryzen laptops (Zen/Zen+, the ones predating CPPC and EPP) have _atrocious_ power management. Do not buy pre-Zen3 generations for anyone who would take their laptop outside.
Turns out the real two genders are Outline and Fill
(spotted at Pride, which yes is today)
(spotted at Pride, which yes is today)
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Turns out the real two genders are Outline and Fill
(spotted at Pride, which yes is today)
(spotted at Pride, which yes is today)