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Val Packett 🧉

valpackett@social.treehouse.systems

<p>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 general, but I have a lot less influence there.</p><p>Professionally: Linux Graphics Plumbing for Qubes OS. Unprofessionally: aarch64laptops, postmarketOS, lots of random projects, local activism/politics.</p>

Posts

  • Post #4128492

    Ah yes the USB modes we know and love,

  • Post #3272082

    Today in &quot;the cyberpunk future we got&quot;: at a little local awards ceremony for partners of a cooperative bank, one neighborhood org was gifted —no joke— some RAM sticks, an SSD, and a bunch of food. Absolutely last place I expected to encounter the DRAM&amp;NAND crisis at but here we go

  • Post #3170980

    Ha. You can now buy USB C-to-C dongles that add the 5.1K resistors on the CC lines that the manufacturers of whatever cheap noncompliant legacy device were too ignorant/lazy/stupid/greedy to include. Amazing.

  • Post #2599003

    no 🅱️oisons

  • Post #2599002

    lmao

  • Post #2519719

    my bank is literally discriminating against me by requiring that an operation be executed between 09:00 and 15:00. incredibly night owl phobic

  • Post #1730468

    i heard you like firefox so we put a firefox in your firefox so you can fire when you fox #gtk #gnome #casilda #wayland

  • Post #1128915

    Absolutely hilarious, can&#39;t believe it actually happened… I went to read @expede &#39;s great article about a deadlock prevention library and it uhhhhhhhh deadlocked my Firefox?? Clearly Mozilla should look into adopting surelock 🙃 (Well idk if it&#39;s specifically a deadlock but it freezes. One time it actually crashed and I sent a report to Mozilla.)

  • Post #849882

    C++ Now? ngl I&#39;d rather C++ Never

  • Post #849881

    ah yes love too live and breathe water

  • Post #849880

    Halftone (the dithering app) makes mobile linux photos look so good. This is like the early days of mobile apps again, except built to last and without any ads #postmarketOS #shotonpmos

  • Post #688909

    Participating in the Hydra workshop at #FLISoL CABA from #postmarketOS :blobcat3c:

  • Post #670175

    @marlies @bodil @cwebber none of the current systemd maintainers work at IBM/RedHat. Also the slop machine access was apparently donated by someone from Zuckbook.

  • Post #670174

    Hahahaha turns out the I/O errors seen with SD cards in UHS mode on Snapdragon laptops were because the device tree was set up to effectively overclock the SD host controller… to double the frequency!! because the &quot;original&quot; clock source was used instead of the &quot;divided by 2&quot; one. It still mostly worked, I only needed to reinsert microSD cards a few times to get past the initial errors! :D

  • Post #670173

    Now we&#39;re cooking!! with 144Hz 🔥️ this will be the daily driving trial run device #postmarketOS

  • Post #596648

    I guess #Servo is now the only serious browser engine taking a stand against slop, even mentioning ethical issues? (Despite one bronze sponsor listed on the homepage being &quot;somethingsomething AI&quot; heh) We really need to get servo-gtk to a more serious state where epiphany could use it…

  • Post #443201

    servers suck infra sucks ops sucks sysadmin sucks the world needs actually good p2p like yesterday the @modal @p2panda developments are really good, the contacts mockup from fosdem looks super neat. also I think one of the related presentations mentioned the need for a distinction between nodes and clients which I&#39;m really happy to see. we really need p2p systems that don&#39;t reveal your IP address directly to everyone by default. we need p2p systems based on explicit consent for everyth...

  • Post #335453

    Let&#39;s gooo, got working DSI before going to sleep and officially declaring the weekend to be over :) :) :) so this is sm6115-motorola-guamp also known to normal people as the Moto G9 Play. Coming to actual upstream Linux (and U-Boot) soon! Amazingly, just like river this one has a PMI632 (so battery % and charging do still need WIP drivers and the fuel gauge one is very funny right now). And just like on the SC7180 mini-PC, the missing MDSS reset was causing trouble again! (Except while the...