Then you also have to count in the S-Bahn

There was a recent proposal to make use of ACPI on ARM

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DT-ACPI-Hybrid-Mode-Linux

This is actually misinformed, the discussion on the mailing list made it clear: there is NO full ACPI on these Windows ARM devices; they only use ACPI marginally and still require and provide device tree.

Phoronix should have revised that article, it's completely misleading.

One option would be to implement the custom non-standard Qualcomm drivers that technically it needs to implement anyway, but with support for the UEFI/ACPI interface.

On Windows, Qualcomm ships custom drivers that override normal ACPI platform logic in various places, IIRC

Not an easily feasible option notably because the firmware ACPI tables are in part stubs - but work on hybrid ACPI/DT instead is possible.

One of the reasons is that Qualcomm uses supplemental ACPI tables (think device tree overlays) shipped inside of the driver packages. Look at the .bin in plenty of the drivers carefully and you'll see that they're supplemental ACPI tables.

Windows doesn't have such a notion and it's implemented via having an ACPI table loader statically linked in to individual drivers.

_On top_ of that, Qualcomm uses PEP to intercept plenty of ACPI functions and implement them in native code instead.

I was thinking essentially about Linux equivalent of PEP.

Of course my preferred setup would be for systems to actually ship compliant UEFI instead of Qualcomm shitshow

There is also ARM SystemReady which is an existing spec for this mainly intended for servers. But it’s not being followed well.

It’s crazy to need a million device trees on server or laptop class devices.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086346

The tax is only on electric cars, vehicles with a combustion engine are excempt - that's why you see all those ads for BYD Hybrids now.

Elsewhere in the thread you claim there are no BYD cars in the EU, yet here you're an expert on the taxes BYD pays in the EU.

They are in the EU. The tariff is 27% so they aren't as numerous as they would be without it but there are still plenty.

There will probably be a lot more starting next year since they are building a factory in the EU which is scheduled to start production at the end of this year. That bypasses tariffs.

"BYD faces a 17% tariff on imported electric vehicles in EU, in addition to the standard 10% base rate."

"BYD has sold 19,241 fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in Europe last month, a 255% soar from the same period a year ago."

Small numbers, but I am pretty sure they're in Europe. https://eletric-vehicles.com/byd/byd-sales-in-europe-more-th...

Edited: Tariffs vary across Europe, particularly in non EU nations.

There is no fixed tariff in Europe like you are quoting. It varies.

Apologies, I was looking at European Union. I see Norway is not imposing tariffs and there may be variance in other non EU countries as well. Thank you for pointing out the issue.

It’s so annoying that the EU is artificially hampering EV adoption to protect their outdated fossil fuel car manufacturers.

There are also fleet emmission fines for ICEs so it's not so bad (and very expensive fuel too). Otoh you need buy-in from the population, so making domestic EVs more attractive than foreign ones is one of the better ways to do that.

Tariffs can’t stop “technology” and “manufacturing.”

I see many in my part of the eu.

You can't let Reddit guide your technical decisions.

The FS was marked experimental, so there is no urgency in fixing bugs or providing features in a certain cycle. Everyone using it knows what they got themselves into. You can still provide the DKMS module for faster fixes and features for anyone who wants to use BCacheFS more seriously for the time that the upstreaming process takes, but eventually it would have all been on mainline.

Asahi is taking a similar approach where they have their downstream kernel and push things upstream once they are mature.

That means the upstream kernel is not useful for running on that hardware now, but things are moving there eventually.

No urgency over fixing bugs? What do you think this is, btrfs? :)

All this has been discussed to death, we don't need people armchair quarterbacking a year later. It's over, it's time to move on.

And thee weeks later there is Interfug in Chemnitz. Even smaller, but the intimate atmosphere can be quite cozy.

https://interfug.de/

This year will be the first time I go to Interfug. I found it while browsing the CCC event calendar 2 weeks ago. I have no idea what to expect, especially because the program preview currently up only lists a few talks (but it clearly says it is still not the full program).

Still, even if there aren't many talks, I like the spirit of these conferences and very interesting conversations you get to have with very interesting people who go there.

Plus, it's only a 90 min train ride away from Dresden, so if I don't like it, I will just go home.

It's called the "hallway track" when you spend your time talking to people around, instead of going to one of the conference rooms to watch the talks at any conference.

Only if you don't count alcohol

Ahh, that one time the Belarussian delegation tried importing so much alcohol into [host country] to give away for free to everyone at the artist party, that it was all seized at the [host country] border and caused a minor diplomatic incident. The free chocolate branded with the artist's face made it in though. Fun times.

And that wasn't the year that Belarus sent "I Love Belarus" as their Eurovision song.

I think this is more about the licence, the Rust rewrite just makes it easier to swallow/gain contributors.

It removes a GPLv3 dependency that might stop some companies from adopting Ubuntu Core.

Even more reason not to use it. Its clear that user freedom is under greater threat than it ever has been.