I’m not that certain to be honest. But the following is my best understanding:

• Most drivers are included directly in the kernel source.

• They can be compiled built-in directly to the kernel binary, or they can be compiled as loadable kernel modules. I don’t know how the proportions between the two options look, but at least the essential drivers (chipsets, filesystems, etc) should be compiled in to allow the boot to progress enough that module loading works.

• There are some, like the Nvidia proprietary GPU driver, that are provided only in binary form as loadable kernel modules.

• I also understand that a lot of smartphone drivers are developed out-of-tree against older branches of the Linux kernel. Even those that are made public / open sourced, end up living outside the mainline kernel, and the devs of third party android builds have to cherry pick them into their kernel source.

I think at least the last group should count as an example of a reason of the type for what OP was looking for.

Is that also a form of negging? Seems to go in that direction anyway.

She needs to remember she’s the lucky one…? And her paying her half is constructed to be a negative?

Primarily if you want some functionality that isn’t mainlined, or isn’t released as stable yet.

Like hibernate in lockdown mode, or out of tree drivers, or maybe something new coming up in the emulation support world like NTSync, though I think that last example was mainlined by now.

I wonder what changed. AMD was previously not allowed to publish the open source driver for HDMI 2.1 support, blocked by the HDMI forum.

And it might cost the spammers money, so that’s nice too

It is 240 W actually. Seems Techpowerup was wrong. See my first comment: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/59511400/25528592

The source of law here is Directive 2022/2380 (which amends Directive 2014/53), in Article 2 a grace period until 2026-04-28 is defined for the category of laptops. This has now expired, which explains the renewed wave of articles being published.

The directive itself is not that interesting to read, as a lot of it is just empowering the Commission to make a decision on the specifics. The result is in the Commission Delegated Regulation 2023/1717. Although it seems to me like something is missing. I can’t find more though.

A very interesting Q&A from their Commission Notice – Guidance document:

16. Are laptops and other radio equipment that require more than 240 W of charging power exempted from the ‘common charger’ rules?

No. They are not exempted. Radio equipment which is subject to the ‘common charger’ rules must incorporate the harmonised charging solution.

The Commission has updated (in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1717), the references to the standards cited in Annex Ia to the latest version of the European standards. Therefore, due to the amendments introduced by this delegated regulation, radio equipment subject to the ‘common charger’ rules must incorporate the harmonised charging solution up to their maximum charging power or up to 240W if their maximum charging power is above 240W (as opposed to 100W in the previous versions of the standards concerned).

The Commission will continue to update the technical specifications set out in Annex Ia, in order to reflect scientific and technological progress or market developments provided that such developments meet the objectives of the common charging solution.

But then also

20. Are proprietary charging receptacles allowed in addition to a USB-C receptacle?

Yes. The RED only requires radio equipment subject to the ‘common charger’ rules to be equipped with the USB-C receptacle. The use of other receptacles is therefore not prohibited as long as the covered radio equipment is also equipped with a harmonised charging (USB-C) receptacle.

That means those hefty laptops going up to 350 W or whatever, now need to accept 240 W over USB PD, but they may still include additional proprietary charging solutions that are rated higher.

Also I don’t think the 100 W limit that some outlets report is actually in force since 2023/1717 has replaced the references to ‘EN IEC 62680-1-3:2021’ by those to ‘EN IEC 62680-1-3:2022’

Reading on, yes they make that explicit further down:

27. Is a radio equipment allowed to charge above 240 W when using an additional charging protocol?

Yes. If the radio equipment proprietary charging solution requires more than 240 W (e.g. 300 W), the concerned radio equipment must also support USB PD up to 240W.

The Commission has updated, via Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1717, the references to the standards cited in Annex Ia to the latest version of the European standards. The updated version of the standards will apply as of the date of applicability of the relevant rules introduced to the RED by the Common Charger Directive, i.e. for handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, handheld videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems and earbuds, as of 28 December 2024 and, for laptops, as of 28 April 2026. This means that as from those dates a radio equipment, if it listed in Annex Ia and is capable to be recharged by means of wired charging at power above 240 W, must incorporate the harmonised charging solution up to 240 W.

The Commission will continue to update the technical specifications set out in Annex Ia, in order to reflect scientific and technological progress or market developments provided that they meet the objectives of the common charging solution.

I wish we had Habeck still. He was the only one in the German executive who genuinely seemed intelligent and like he was working for the public good in recent memory.

Haha nice!

There is the Mint version that is based directly on Debian, instead of Ubuntu: LMDE

I haven’t used it myself, maybe someone with actual experience can comment on it.

There is actually no reason for those two percentages to be the same, they derive from different concepts.

The price balances at the point where demand and supply are equal. If the market was balanced before, and supply shrinks by 20%, that means the price rises until 20% of demand is priced out of the market.

You can think of it as a bidding war among the 100% of previous demand for the remaining 80% of supply. The 20% poorest, or more precisely the 20% most price-sensitive, on the demand side, loose this bidding war and don’t get any of the remaining supply.

If 95% of the demand can afford a 20% increase in price, then the bidding war just continues.

If 90% of the demand can afford a 35% increase in price, then the bidding war just continues.

If 85% of the demand can afford a 50% increase in price, then the bidding war just continues.

If 80% of the demand can afford a 60% increase in price, then that’s the new balance of the market.

Link to where that sentence appears: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/force-all-app-traffic-into-the-tunnel

So if you say they are a lucky couple, are you offering to be their third?

DNS blocking, like with a Pihole, famously does not remove Youtube ads. So no, the mechanism is totally different.

That’s not what I read unfortunately. When booted in secureboot, the kernel enters lockdown mode which disables all hibernation, regardless of the swap being encrypted or plain text.

It seems there are two kernel patches available to enable hibernation in lockdown mode, but not in mainline.

This one is more of an admin override, where you take the risk of root replacing the swap contents

https://gist.github.com/kelvie/917d456cb572325aae8e3bd94a9c1350

And this one is complicated but uses the TPM to ensure only the kernel, not root, can write the hibernation image in a way that causes it to be trusted on waking, so there is no reduction in assurance compared to clean booting a signed kernel with secureboot:

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/55845.html

But that’s all too much for me, I intend to turn it off again.

Depends on the country. Some have communist parties, like the PCF in France or the PCE in Spain. They aren’t big though.

I recently learned that the option to hibernate goes away when Fedora is booted with SecureBoot. It was surprising to me, and might be good to know for you, that’s why I’m mentioning it.

[…] an America under siege in multiple media spheres by pro-Iranian actors that are exceptionally agile in the digital space.

What the fuck are they talking about?

This is hardly about who is better at propaganda, it’s about who’s doing what.

True most motherboards, even the normal ones, now come with 2.5G included. But upgrading to 2.5 G feels like a wasted middle step if the next tier of external connectivity is at 10G, so I’ve not done that either haha

It’s only more profitable if there isn’t competition. He lays it out quite well in his blog post. It’s not like the Swiss ISPs are all publicly owned.