As many of us observed the lockdown patchset introduced in 6.2.1 had some serious issues (impossible to load any externally signed modules) and will be reverted in the 6.2.2 Tumbleweed kernel release.

Unfortunately sometimes it takes releasing something into the wild to really discover whether it works, it seems :/ Hopefully the kernel upstream / Secure Boot cabal / Microsoft rethink their approach.

Posting this here so tha

EDIT3: These changes are being reverted in the Tumbleweed 6.2.2 kernel release.

EDIT2: It is confirmed there is currently a bug with loading signed external modules at all. Currently investigating. As such the only way to load nvidia proprietary drivers into Tumbleweed kernel 6.2.1 right now is with Secure Boot off.

EDIT: see https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers#Secureboot for the steps to accept the key, once the driver is signed.

Tumbleweed kernel 6.2.1 (included in snapshot 20230302) enables lockdown mode on Secure Boot-enabled systems.

This restricts hibernation, loading

I have for the last few months been maintaining a build of the nvidia-vaapi-driver in my OBS home repo. With this library and some configuration effort it is possible to get hardware-accelerated video decoding in Firefox with an NVIDIA GPU.

Installation instructions:

1. Have proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed and working.

2. Add my repo (obs://home:MasterPatricko) and install or download the binary package libva-nvidia-driver (https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/MasterPatricko/) and install (available for Leap 15.4 and TW) https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:MasterPatricko/libva-nvidia-driver . You should remove

As some of you will have noticed I included an entry in the FAQ document I just wrote about Leap future, ALP etc. since that has been a topic of much discussion lately. There was a lot of concern after the initial messaging, and sadly quite a bit of incomplete or wrong information circulating so this is my attempt to help.

This is what I decided to write in the FAQ, I'm reposting it here to have a discussion (keeping the FAQ thread clear).

The Leap release manager [recently announced](https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/SHINA373OTC7M4CVICCKXDUXN5C

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What's the difference between Leap, Tumbleweed, and MicroOS? Which should I choose?

The openSUSE community maintains several Linux-based distributions (distros) -- collections of useful software and configuration to make them all work togeth

As many of you know through bad experience the online package search interface software.opensuse.org is not in good shape, with no maintainers stepping up to fix it for some time now (in part because of the old ruby2.5 code base, it is hard to even start hacking on).

With that the decision has been made to decommission the current s.o.o and instead try to write a new replacement. As such if you have experience writing web frontends (in any language) and would like to contribute there is now an opportunity to make a big difference -- please join in the discussions.

https://hackweek.opensuse.org/21/projects/software-dot-opensuse-dot-org-replacement

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/f

Recently released Tumbleweed snapshot 20211107 includes MozillaFirefox-93.0-3.3 which is built against a new rust1.55 package. This includes a workaround for the miscompilations which were causing somewhat random crashes and issues with media streams in Firefox 93.0-3.2 and before (since approximately 20211003).

If you implemented any workarounds (switching to the obs://mozilla repo, switching to flatpak, MOZ_DISABLE_SOCKET_PROCESS_SANDBOX=1, or switching to a different browser) it should be safe now to undo those.

Update your system fully to install the new version and if you still have any issues, please report a new bug.

If you used the obs://mozilla repo Firefox 94.0 as a workaround,

tl;dr:

1. Even in the dosha system people are individuals, take care about generalizations
2. The scientific evidence for ayurveda has not reached the standard of being accepted by most scientists
3. Ayurvedic treatments are not well regulated and you should be very careful, especially about medicines many of which have toxic heavy metals

Dr K is generally pretty good about distinguishing between science, anecdotes, hypothesis, and opinion. But when it comes to ayurveda, I get the feeling at least some members of this community are getting misinformed or are moving down a worrisome path. The topic has a high visibility right now so I think we need to discuss it sooner rather than late

I'm a research physicist by training and occupation, and I'm also interested in physics education and outreach. Dr K is usually careful when speaking about his fields of expertise to distinguish between what is scientifically tested and generally accepted, what is his personal experience, and what is speculation or a hypothesis without evidence. I'd love it if the community held to the same standard when discussing physics.

More generally as a scientist and a skeptic (in the traditional, not the internet sense), I agree with Dr K that there is an important discussion to be had about how one can maintain a rational and evidence-based worldview while also fairly evaluating philosophy and spir

The Jet Charge combat feat requires three ranks in Piloting, but everything else to do with flying and jetpacks is Acrobatics. Any one got a reason for this besides making the feat a little less OP?

In season 2 episode 4 it was confirmed that M.M. "has OCD", and in the interviews afterwards Laz Alonso says he does too in real life. But the discussion mostly revolved around being a neat freak and detail oriented, which is not really what OCD means clinically.

Is there any confirmation that either Laz or M.M. actually have diagnosed OCD? If Laz really does have OCD, it would be interesting to hear about how he deals with that as an actor, always moving between messy sets and even shooting on-location sometimes.