Got a used ThinkPad to continue my Linux journey. It’s a P-series, so it’s a big heavy beast of laptop. Spent the weekend moving files and things over from my Mac.
My external monitor wouldn’t wake from sleep. Apparently, ThinkPads speak DisplayPort natively, but translate to HDMI. Switching the other connector at the end of my USC-C out from HDMI to DisplayPort fixed it. Luckily my monitor supports both. Confirmed the Mac can use the same cable, so ordered a new KVM switch with DisplayPort.
Bill Premo from Newgrounds is building a new Flash. From the description he provides, the feature set is quite comprehensive: .fla/XFL import, drawing engine, shape tweening, scripting, even embedded sound editor and more.
https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118
#Flash #Newgrounds #AdobeAnimate #AdobeFlash #MacromediaFlash #FlashAnimation #FLA #XFL #ActionScript #CSharp #Avalonia #SkiaSharp
AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.
What a time to be alive.
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
As a big fan of the #Muppets, I absolutely loved the new special with Sabrina Carpenter. To me, it felt like they captured the vibe of the original Muppet Show in every way that matters.
A nice mix of sketches, musical numbers, and backstage shenanigans. Jokes for the adults watching too. In my opinion, they absolutely nailed it. I really hope that it does well enough to convince Disney to create a full series. I need more episodes!
#MuppetShow #TheMuppetShow
I also couldn't successfully run Affinity on Wine with Asahi Linux, since the M1 CPU is ARM64, but now I have another chance to try it again with Fedora on x86_64. I might eventually try other open source image editors, but I'd prefer to stick with a tool that I know.
However, I was happy enough with Asahi's Fedora base, so now I'm trying regular Fedora on a different machine with x86_64 architecture that I had lying around. So far, it wakes properly on mouse/keyboard, and the test suite that caused the system freeze passes successfully!
I discovered that a couple of other Linux devices, including a much less powerful Raspberry Pi, could finish that test suite successfully, so I think that it's a bug in an Asahi driver or something. Some kind of memory leak, as best I can tell. Possibly GPU memory for all the windows the test suite opens and immediately closes. So I guess Asahi isn't ready for my needs yet. It was great otherwise, though!
My attempt to use Fedora Asahi Remix (Linux for ARM64 Mac) earlier this week included some issues. In particular, using the mouse/keyboard to wake the computer didn't work. A particular test suite I need to run would cause the whole system to completely freeze, requiring a power cycle.
A few times in the last couple of days when I've been trying out Linux on my M1 Mac Mini, I've had the system kill some processes automatically when I'm actively using them because of low memory. That's jarring! Just tried doubling the swap file size. Hopefully, it helps!
Forgot to mention the distro: Using Fedora Asahi Remix with KDE on an M1 Mac Mini.
Vint Prox
Anders Eknert