nina's little fedi corner

fun new cbuild tooling

for the longest time i wasn't sure how to implement this but we finally have a way to compare locally built packages against repo packages including file listings, size changes, provider/dependency changes, and whatnot

with colors of course

there is cringe and there is tech youtube dudes' video thumbnails

modern linux syscalls and their wrappers be like

oh, you want functionality? you have the choice of the old one which can only do half of what you want or the new one which does useful things but is total garbage to use

til the most produced volkswagen officially designated part is a sausage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst

completing the ppc64le gigachonker workstation again

i thought this time i could get away without a fan on the lsi sas2308 (i still need a few sata ssds) by having nice case airflow and utilize the pcie ports a bit more nicely by also plugging in an extra usb3 controller i had around (the talos is kinda low on them with two back ports and two front ports) but nope, after running it for a couple hours the heatsink would literally burn my hand

so i'm doing without the extra usb and just put a little noctua on it...

in more funny hardware shenanigans i brought out my hifive unmatched riscv64 thing since i haven't booted it in a while

does it work? yes
is it slow? also yes (very)

i put an intel a750 gpu in it (which has little to do because it keeps waiting for the rest of the thing)

it runs xonotic (slowly)

more like hifive mismatched

i posted a writeup on making the nvidia drivers work in chimera: https://chimera-linux.org/news/2026/11/musl-nvidia.html

once again i advise anyone relying on qtwebengine to not because as far as i can tell, its chromium 140-based branch has been mostly untested since september

i've done 5 or 6 bumps in it since then because they pull in secfixes, every bump has so far been a bunch of haphazardly done secfixes where at least one of them should be impossible to build in any configuration because they omitted inclusion of some other upstream part + maybe a fix for the breakage that happened last time

using the tarball is dangerous because it's riddled with vulns, using the branch is better but leaving making sure it builds and works to distros seems kind of bad (even though i'm doing my best to ensure it does work)

an eternity later, fixed chromium on ppc64le (a bunch of missed stuff in seccomp sandbox)

now to try the same thing with qtwebengine

people trying to ssh to servers this afternoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLeAot4Zrxo

upgrading a chimera setup from 2024

just works zero effort

imagine writing a c++ project and being like

so i have nvidia drivers working on musl

obligatory screenshots from GNOME (wayland), KDE (X11) and the cursed setup on my desk

latest chimera, nvidia driver 580.196.07, gtx 980ti

doing some real linux gaming

got a test setup for the gpu drivers

rate my rig

i3-7100, 4GB RAM (one stick), gtx 980ti

it has the ivy bridge era cooler with copper core, spared no expense