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Oh geez, I really need to pay better attention. That was the only thread I saw on it also but skimmed through the (short) post so fast that I missed the...

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Sorta off topic but does anyone know how to change the cursor blink rate in Firefox? It's pathetic. I don't see a setting in about:config for "caret"...

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Nice! RC6 fixed the issue I mentioned I was having in RC5 where D9VK games wouldn't launch when using Steam Play/Proton with ACO enabled.

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Linuxxx I really can't thank you enough, acpi-cpufreq performance is most definitely faster than both intel_pstate performance and intel-cpufreq performance....

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Whoa, you led me down a good rabbit hole thanks.

I was previously experimenting with acpi-cpufreq schedutil vs intel_pstate's performance...

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For anyone having trouble with Steam games using D9VK, I'm on 19.3-RC5 at the moment (kisak ppa shout out, great ppa), I had to comment out:
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Thank you to the commenters. I was also setting nir via ~/.drirc and didn't realize it wasn't being turned on.

In addition to the ~/.pam_environment...

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1. Visit his site to grab the patches (either the all-in-one patch, or the patches broken up into individual patches)
2. Assuming the all-in-one,...

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Heh, and once you update your kernel to 5.3.11 or newer, your bug list will have to scooch over to make room for a new guy:

bugs : cpu_meltdown...

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Ffs, they're massacring our boy. Alternative headline: "Linux kernel under attack by Intel mitigations."

Linus do something!!

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Ah I see what happened, should read: "It is recommended to disable Hyper Threading while they ultimately f*ck us and recommend running trusted/untrusted...

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(Popular) unpopular opinion but these mitigations are not meant for you and I, they are for Linux servers that the entire world relies on, as they have...

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Big yikes. Thanks for ringing the alarm.

The other day I was curious on the ctx_clock test and ran it without mitigations=off on my i5-4670K,...

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Typo in title, should read: Michael Is Still Bringing Many Interesting Linux Benchmarks / Milestones

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I agree with those above and still marvel at it. It's actually quite incredible what's happened (so quickly I'll add) with Linux gaming as a result of...

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Hey Michael, I noticed v9 of the patchset was released on Oct. 4. Not sure if you want to cover it now as it is a month old and likely v10 will be coming...

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Found the thread on lkml also which makes it easier to read and grab the patches.

Hopefully this makes it in by tomorrow for 5.4-rc7, as...