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Dread First said:
Back to what I wanted to whinge about, I've been seeing this kitsune neko loli DDOS mitigation attack thing on all things remotely Linux-related from the official Fedora bookmarks on Firefox to the WineHQ's AppDB. I don't like this at all, I hate weebshit when I don't consent to it, and may Allah bring dark hours and disaster upon whoever conceived this and proliferated it throughout vaguely Linux-related websites.
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Plastic Bag said:
My problem isn't necessarily just the attention thing or that it's anime, whatever; it's the distastefulness and getting me involved in your hobby that is so played out and has nothing to do with the thing that I want to use.
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I just want to remind you this is a competition of who is more retarded. At least the depiction of Anubis' skincolor wise is accurate to the historical god and the program is named after him (ofc the anime is genderswapped...).
What do I get when I get Dtrace? A fucking MLP pony.
Darkholme's Dungeon said:
I wake up in the morning and gentoo devs once again prove that autism and degeneracy are positively correlated.

dev challenge to not be a degenerate, impossible:
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Even ftrace themselves aren't that retarded to use this as their official mascot...
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On less retarded news, OSU's OSL was going to be kill and begging for donos (archive):

Future of OSL in Jeopardy​

by Lance Albertson on Wed, Apr 30 2025

I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive situation facing the Open Source Lab (OSL). Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations. While the Oregon State College of Engineering (CoE) has generously filled this gap, recent changes in university funding makes our current funding model no longer sustainable. As a result, our current funding model is no longer sustainable.

Unless we secure $250,000 in committed funds, the OSL will shut down later this year. I have reached out to our largest corporate sponsor and they are working to increase their support as we update our contract, but that still may not be enough.

For transparency, the $250,000 is broken down into the following roughly:

  • Staff pay $150k (60%) (1 staff)
  • Student pay $65k (26%) (8 students)
  • Other expenses $35k (14%)
Other expenses include items such as hardware, travel, subscription services and other miscellaneous expenses needed to run the OSL day to day.

If any of you can assist or connect me with potential supporters, please reach out as soon as possible. I need to provide leadership with an update on any funding changes by Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Please reach out directly via donations@osuosl.org if you’re able to help us make it through this difficult time.

The OSU Foundation is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, which provides many donors a tax advantage. Please contact the OSU Foundation directly if you have questions about your eligibility. You can donate directly to us by visiting our donation page.

OSL provides hosting for over 500 Free and Open Source Projects from all over the world. Over the course of its 22-year existence, the OSL has mentored over 130 students, many of whom have gone on to create their own companies and work throughout the larger tech ecosystem.

Some notable milestones over the years include:

  • Provided hosting for Mozilla Firefox when they needed help in the early days and hosted the release of 1.0
  • Was the home of the Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, Kernel.org, Mozilla for many years
  • Offers fast and reliable software mirroring for projects
  • Currently provides infrastructure hosting for projects such as Drupal, Gentoo Linux, Debian, Fedora, phpBB, OpenID, Buildroot/Busybox, Inkscape, Cinc and many more!
  • Virtual machines for x86, aarch64 and ppc64le are used by many projects for CI and other hosted services
Your commitment is crucial for us to move forward. I am available to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you for your continued support!

Lance Albertson, Director
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Yes, you read that right. They want 250k to keep going. Over half is to the 1 permanent employee tht runs this project and the eight student slave labors. I'm not against the work they do, but have they ever considered downsizing?

Well they got the money, and now they beg for more (archive)...

Forging Our Future: OSL's Path to Sustainability – A Call for Smart Solutions and Enduring Support​

by Lance Albertson on Fri, May 09 2025

Following our OSL Future post, the community response has been incredible! Thanks to your amazing support, our team is funded for the next year. This is a huge relief and lets us focus on building a truly self-sustaining OSL.

To get there, we’re tackling two big interconnected goals:

  1. Finding a new, cost-effective physical home for our core infrastructure, ideally with more modern hardware.
  2. Securing multi-year funding commitments to cover all our operations, including potential new infrastructure costs and hardware refreshes.

Pillar 1: The Data Center & Hardware Challenge​

Our current data center is over 20 years old and needs to be replaced soon. With Oregon State University evaluating the future of this facility, it’s very likely we’ll need to relocate in the near future. While migrating to the State of Oregon’s data center is one option, it comes with significant new costs. This makes finding free or very low-cost hosting (ideally between Eugene and Portland for ~13-20 racks) a huge opportunity for our long-term sustainability. More power-efficient hardware would also help us shrink our footprint.

Speaking of hardware, refreshing some of our older gear during a move would be a game-changer. We don’t need brand new, but even a few-generations-old refurbished systems would boost performance and efficiency. (Huge thanks to the Yocto Project and Intel for a recent hardware donation that showed just how impactful this is!) The dream? A data center partner donating space and cycled-out hardware.

Our overall infrastructure strategy is flexible. We’re enhancing our OpenStack/Ceph platforms and exploring public cloud credits and other donated compute capacity. But whatever the resource, it needs to fit our goals and come with multi-year commitments for stability. And, a physical space still offers unique value, especially the invaluable hands-on data center experience for our students.

Pillar 2: Building Lasting Financial Resilience​

The recent support was amazing for our immediate team needs. But for the OSL to thrive long-term, we need a sustainable financial foundation. This is crucial, as the university expects units like ours to become self-sufficient beyond this current year.

So, our big focus this next year is locking in ongoing support – think annualized pledges, different kinds of regular income, and other recurring help. This is vital, especially with potential new data center costs and hardware needs. Getting this right means we can stop worrying about short-term funding and plan for the future: investing in our tech and people, growing our awesome student programs, and serving the FOSS community. We’re looking for partners, big and small, who get why foundational open source infrastructure matters and want to help us build this sustainable future together.

An Evolving OSL: Still Critical, Still Growing​

The OSL is actively evolving to meet new FOSS needs:

  • POWER and ARM (aarch64) OpenStack clusters with IBM and Ampere Computing.
  • Expanded x86 OpenStack and a robust Ceph cluster (now with S3 storage used by projects like OpenVox).
  • GitLab CI runners across all architectures, with plans for GitHub Actions and more.
  • Managed hosting for projects like PostmarketOS, including their recent GitLab migration.
Yes, the OSL is absolutely still needed! A cost-effective new data center, refreshed hardware, and stable funding are key to our mission.

How You Can Help Build Our Self-Sustaining Future​

We need your help with these two pillars:

  1. Finding Our New, Cost-Effective Data Center Home & Hardware:
    • Leads on Free/Low-Cost Space: Know of data center capacity (~13-20 racks) between Eugene and Portland?
    • Hardware Donations/Leads: Can your org donate retired servers? Know data centers or refurbishers who might help?
    • Connections & Spreading the Word: Introduce us to decision-makers and share our need!
  2. Securing Multi-Year Funding:
    • Corporate Partnerships: Consider a multi-year sponsorship, especially if your company benefits from open source.
    • Introductions & Advocacy: Connect us with CSR/OSPO contacts and champion sustainable funding for foundational infra.
Reach out to donations@osuosl.org for any discussions on these fronts.

Our Vision: Unlocked by Smart Solutions​

With a secure, cost-effective data center (and updated hardware!) plus predictable multi-year funding, we can:

  • Expand our student program.
  • Broaden managed services for projects (GitLab, Discourse, Matrix, etc.).
  • Introduce modern tooling like Terraform and Kubernetes for learning and efficiency.
  • Engage more community volunteers.
Finding economical solutions is key to making this vision a reality.

Join Us in Building OSL’s Next Chapter​

The recent encouragement has been fantastic. Now, help us build a truly sustainable foundation. Securing a cost-effective data center and robust multi-year financial partnerships are the critical next steps for the OSL’s future.

Thank you for your continued belief in the OSL!
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Darkholme's Dungeon said:
Yes, you read that right. They want 250k to keep going. Over half is to the 1 permanent employee
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That shit pisses me off, it's like seeing a charity where the CEO earns 500k a year. The obvious solution is to keep it student-led, but pay less to each one and have more students do the work of the 150K EMPLOYEE. It's cool that they do open-source hosting, but there are thousands of Colleges that offer the same to their own students, and they can always scale back some of their services without demanding that much money or else shut down. I get hosting isn't as easy as people think but damn, a College having a permanent employee on that level of wages seems insane.
Almost every single one of them is the same phenotype, kinda interesting:
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No one will care but my issue with not being able to have Mullvad and Wireguard enabled simultaneously was in the Mullvad client. After an update they fixed it, and after tweaking Wireguard to only route my local subnets to not cause a WAN address clash, I get both Mullvad WAN IP and access to my LAN networks. At least now I know what the "AllowedIPs" configuration part of Wireguard does and that yes, you can set it to LAN addresses only so that all of your web traffic goes unfiltered, or routed via a different VPN, so I now have a good mobile connectivity solution on my laptop. Too bad that you can't enable two VPN tunnels on Android simultaneously.
 
xXthrowawayaccountXx said:
God, that's funny. I got it confused because I have no idea what KDE stands for, and it could have just meant Kernal Dolphin Emulator or something. It's about as sensical as Wine Is Not an Emulator. But the thing is, I know that I'm not fluent enough in computers that I am probably not understanding something and I should look it up. If I followed what everyone else was saying I would have downloaded outdated software.
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If you don't even know what KDE is then what are you doing in the Linux thread?
 
Anybody's cursor freezes on kernel 6.12,29 and above or 6.14.8 with amdgpu? Some retard decided to backport broken driver to LTS kernel. Good job.
For now I will revert to 6.12.27 because it was working perfectly fine on that one.
Code: 
  [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data
I saw some others experience it on Arch and Manjaro, so I will wait for someone else to report it for me, not in a mood getting my hands dirty.

Edit. Looks like that one

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How about no? I like my freesync.
 
Sake Ojone said:
May I suggest using pre-installed games like on steamrip? It's not really a fix but at least the games will run
Also i remember there was a setting in wine which you needed to change to make fitgirl repacks work properly, but i can't seem to find it
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I Used lutris for a fitgirl repack the other day. They work but you have to like change the install path and tell it not to install prerequisites like visual studio and shit.

Edit: I also had to go into lutris after and manually tell it where the exe is at. Lutris on my machine can not I find exe files for things it installs for some reason
 
The Saltening said:
I Used lutris for a fitgirl repack the other day. They work but you have to like change the install path and tell it not to install prerequisites like visual studio and shit.

Edit: I also had to go into lutris after and manually tell it where the exe is at. Lutris on my machine can not I find exe files for things it installs for some reason
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I've had to do the same thing. Is it supposed to switch the executable from the installer to the game automatically? It's never been annoying enough to prompt me to look into it.
 
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jeff7989 said:
Anybody's cursor freezes on kernel 6.12,29 and above or 6.14.8 with amdgpu? Some retard decided to backport broken driver to LTS kernel. Good job.
For now I will revert to 6.12.27 because it was working perfectly fine on that one.
Code: 
  [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data
I saw some others experience it on Arch and Manjaro, so I will wait for someone else to report it for me, not in a mood getting my hands dirty.

Edit. Looks like that one

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How about no? I like my freesync.
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My cursor has always frozen with my amd gpu. The only fix I found was to enable software cursor. Software cursor also seems to have lower latency for whatever reason, even lower than on windows.
 
Friedrich Hayek's Ghost said:
I've had to do the same thing. Is it supposed to switch the executable from the installer to the game automatically? It's never been annoying enough to prompt me to look into it.
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I just assume that it should do that. It says install success but then doesn't work and requires more work. Maybe it's functioning as intended and I'm wrong idk
 
dec05eba said:
My cursor has always frozen with my amd gpu. The only fix I found was to enable software cursor. Software cursor also seems to have lower latency for whatever reason, even lower than on windows.
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jeff7989 said:
Anybody's cursor freezes on kernel 6.12,29 and above or 6.14.8 with amdgpu? Some retard decided to backport broken driver to LTS kernel. Good job.
For now I will revert to 6.12.27 because it was working perfectly fine on that one.
Code: 
  [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data
I saw some others experience it on Arch and Manjaro, so I will wait for someone else to report it for me, not in a mood getting my hands dirty.

Edit. Looks like that one

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How about no? I like my freesync.
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FWIW: Fedora 42, using GNOME 48, X11 session, and tracking the most recent kernels. GNOME Shell chugs ever so slightly but it’s highly noticeable, there’s a disconnect between when I click something vs when the window pops up. I am an AMDGPU user too; what logs, greps, or full dmesg outputs do I need to see if it is indeed this regression?
 
Hellwalker said:
That may be true but xxthrowaway's problem was exceptionally retarded so it can't be used as an example.
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It doesn't matter.

Others who are having problems see that shit, and since they don't know enough to know it was a retard asking for help for his own retardation, the hostility in the response is what will drive them off.

I've seen way too many Linux users who, out of one side of their mouth, wonder why Linux isn't growing, then turn around and give that kind of hostility to new users out of the other side, and never seem to get that that attitude is the biggest problem.
 
Herman Throwaway said:
It doesn't matter.

Others who are having problems see that shit, and since they don't know enough to know it was a retard asking for help for his own retardation, the hostility in the response is what will drive them off.

I've seen way too many Linux users who, out of one side of their mouth, wonder why Linux isn't growing, then turn around and give that kind of hostility to new users out of the other side, and never seem to get that that attitude is the biggest problem.
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:story:
Shut up you stupid nigger.
 
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