Post #3981637
2026-07-21 08:23 UTC
Modern computing be like: the hardware (Wi-Fi, Ethernet, etc) may work perfectly well, but it crashes randomly due to a driver issue and since no engineer from the silicon vendor is willing to look at a subtle race condition in the receive queue during DMA transactions, it's unusable and the only solution is to unplug the adapter for a new one.
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@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be 2026-07-21 08:34
5 years later a random hacker would fix it, and suddenly it becomes a recommended chipset, but only on the latest mainline Linux kernel with linux-firmware from Git, it's still broken on BSDs, Windows, OpenWrt, Xen and Proxmox.