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jlekstrand.net is a personal blog at jlekstrand.net about systems and programming. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “In Defense of NIR”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- In Defense of NIR5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-28
What Hacker News says?
Well, yes, I'm still using Xorg too :-) Middle click paste is not yet supported in KDE with Wayland [1], and it seems that KDE and Wayland don't like suspend / resume on my machine, and recently (after a bios update ?), adding a screen have made the system crash. Besides, as far as I know, it is not possible to run Wayland apps on Android (yet, but it seems that it is a hard problem [2]). [1] https://bugs.kde.org/sh…
Comment linking /jason/projects/wayland/wayland-android/
on “Xfce 4.14”Submitted Descriptors Are Hard as a story · 73 points
HN discussionMy guess it, it's a sign of Mesa reaching the point where developing Vulkan driver leveraging SPIR-V to NIR translation gives hardware vendors benefits they don't get trying to invent their own approaches. They focus on NIR to their machine code compiler part and Mesa does the rest of heavy lifting for them. Plus OpenGL support comes basically as a free bonus through zink. Likely, it's not that they suddenly started…
Comment linking /jason/blog/2022/01/in-defense-of-nir/
on “What the new PowerVR driver means for mobile”Submitted In Defense of NIR as a story · 30 points
HN discussionWhen I joined the Mesa team at Intel in 2012, Mesa had just gained support for OpenGL 3.0, many years behind the latest. Only a few companies (Intel, VMware, Red Hat) contributed to Mesa in significant ways. Proprietary drivers were still the norm and even Intel pushed to drop Mesa. The massive changes since then that have taken place around Mesa have been incredible to watch and to play a small part in. Mesa is now…
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on “Valve's tweaking Linux drivers to squeeze more battery life out of Steam Deck”Submitted In Defense of NIR as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting the most out of your Intel integrated GPU on Linux as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of NIR as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of NIR as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello, Collabora as a story · 1 points
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