Notices by Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz), page 10

@ohyran You could also try out Sway: https://swaywm.org/

(It looks interesting, and I've heard good things. A lot of it has been split into wlroots, which is used by a lot of other Wayland WMs and things.)

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@sil @directhex Are the vegetarian/vegan alternatives to the election sausages?

@ohyran Sad thing is that they don't always work well enough to prevent all ENT doc ear cleaning visits. But preventing *some* is definitely better than having to go every year or so. 👍

@ohyran The bulb things are blue here in Germany, and I remember them being blue in the USA too. I wonder if that's regional or just the ones I happened to get.

@theoutrider Oof. Sending happy thoughts and wishing luck! 👍🍀

@theoutrider BUUUUT I wish everything would magically work for you. 🧙♂️ Enough with complications. 😖

@ted People cared about the clock in the left quite a bit on the Internet. This happened a year ago, though. It was due to phones adopting notches.

As it's not possible to move the clock around without root, people stopped making a fuss over the course of a year.

Those who could root (and/or install a custom ROM) to change it, did. Those would couldn't move it went on to complaining about other things.

@theoutrider If it isn't fixed upstream in the kernel anytime soon (UGH!), you may need to start thinking about LTS distros for the laptop at some point, with the latest browsers on top.

https://linuxlifecycle.com/

A trick is finding one that is free, has desktop support (especially for browsers, like Firefox), will last more than a year or two, and has a new enough kernel — yet not too new.

Of course, it's sucky, but not as bad as using what will become an old, unsupported distro? *sigh*

@theoutrider Apparently, there were TWO models of the MacBook Air at the same time you got yours, and the more common variant doesn't use NVME, but yours does... and everyone with your particular one is stuck with 4.15 and there has been no fix. 😱

(Summary of https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/9o46v5/is_anyone_successfully_running_fedora_on_a/ )

@theoutrider The solution is, obviously, to burn all tech to the ground and throw the remains off the top a very tall building. 🤪

@theoutrider It's obviously between 4.15 (Jan 28, 2018) and 4.16 (Apr 1, 2018), and I think it's in this file: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c

Considering it's related to disconnection issues, I think it _might_ be this commit:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4244140d7b8f406b7edfd01c050dea783aa1efc5#diff-bc4c090f021c046a7d256a3fcf86b7da

and its sibling commit

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ad70062cdb4002c74db4fbed4e2b34daffccacc2

But IANAKH (I am not a Kernel Hacker)

@theoutrider I've been trying to track this down as best I can.

Kernel.org bug @ https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201463

Red Hat bug @ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1601196

Arch forum post @ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=242971

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Original Kernel.org bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105621 (where they came up with the original fix; this was what made it work in the first place)

@theoutrider Can you do "lspci" in the Linux terminal on 4.14.x? (Perhaps searching for exact NVMe version might help?)