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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • They must know they fucked up somewhere and decided to go this route rather than get exposed for potential shenanigans. From reading comments in other communities I was surprised to see a lot of people expected this outcome, although nobody was particularly specific about why (maybe someone here can give some insight.) For the record I’ve been on team “Fuck Nintendo” after the Gamecube, but I’d take the fact that other emulators haven’t been targeted as possible hint that Nintendo got wind of something wacky going on. Who knows, maybe they’re next?



  • I had a rock solid AMD RX 580 up until the release of kernel version 6.7. Now I’m lucky to get a system that can remain up for longer than thirty minutes. Sticking to 6.6 has worked for me and definitely something you should try as well, but it’s worth noting that any amount of time spent on the issue tracker for AMD GPU stuff will reveal tons of issues from 6.6 as well.


  • I did my first BTRFS setup over the weekend. I followed the Arch wiki to set up what I thought was RAID 1 only to find out nearly a TB of copying later that it was splitting the data between the drives, not mirroring them (only the metadata was in R1.) One command later and I’d converted the filesystem to true RAID 1. I feel like any other system would require a total redo of the entire FS, but BTRFS did it flawlessly.

    I’m still confused, however, as it seems RAID 1 only works with two drives from what I’ve read. Is that true? Why?



  • This is what I’ll try next. I do think memory is the problem now that I’ve had a few more hours of research. Kernel 6.7 has issues with elevated RAM usage, so it’s absolutely doing something funky with memory that might be exposing underlying hardware issues. I also realized my stable kernel was a version or two away from 6.6.13 (6.6.10), so I’m running it now to see if the issue was introduced late in the 6.6 release cycle, which would be easier to bisect than 6.7.


  • Yeah, the qemu idea was brought up earlier in the thread and it’s very interesting. Glad you confirmed you could repro real issues there in the test environment, so it’s at least a little likely I’ll be able to do the same. Makes sense that it would work and is way better than letting the real system crash and burn. My kernel compile time is pretty short so it shouldn’t be too bad to bisect, I’m just not sure how many commits separate my stable kernel from the bugged 6.7. TBH I’m not that familiar with kernel dev., so maybe it’s way simpler than that.