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benjojo posted 01 Jan 2025 15:38 +0000

hot damn the linux-firmware package is 498 MB, the chips thinking way too much these days

benjojo replied 01 Jan 2025 15:38 +0000
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what the chance that the linux-firmware package contains at least 1 other linux kernel image inside of it (I think almost certainly)

benjojo replied 18 Feb 2025 22:04 +0000
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JUST ONE MORE FIRMWARE BLOB BRO,
JUST ONE MORE FIRMWARE BLOB BRO,
JUST ONE MORE FIRMWARE BLOB BRO,
JUST ONE MORE FIRMWARE BLOB BRO,
I SWEAR BRO JUST ONE MORE,
I SWEAR

The Ubuntu updater with the linux-firmware package selected, it is 509 MB

artemist@social.mild.. replied 18 Feb 2025 22:21 +0000
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@benjojo at least it's compressed or subset somewhat, the full linux-firmware is 1.1GiB.

biggest parts of that are qualcomm (232MiB), intel wifi (205MiB), and netronome (103MiB). I suspect your intel laptop will not need qualcomm or netronome firmware.

benjojo replied 18 Feb 2025 22:43 +0000
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@artemist yes haha uhh, my laptop

Neofectch output, showing a Super Server 0123456789 with 128G RAM, 64 CPU cores on AMD EYPC, GTX 1080, Desktop manager Cinnamon

artemist@social.mild.. replied 18 Feb 2025 22:45 +0000
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@benjojo brb making a 4u rack with a ups and rack server in it and a screen/keyboard on top so you can turn any server into a laptop

benjojo replied 18 Feb 2025 22:46 +0000
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@artemist It's all about the thermal mass!

benjojo replied 18 Feb 2025 22:44 +0000
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@artemist netronome! That is another linux kernel for sure

benjojo replied 18 Feb 2025 22:05 +0000
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going to become one of those "no proprietary blobs" guys, not for the software freedom's or whatever, literally just for the size of the update packages to go down

mark@mastodon.fixerm.. replied 18 Feb 2025 22:09 +0000
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@benjojo My 1.2GB .pyenv directory would like to subscribe to your newsletter. 😉

FenTiger@mastodon.so.. replied 01 Jan 2025 20:56 +0000
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@benjojo Maybe 2025 will finally be the year of Linux in the Linux!

cks@mastodon.social replied 01 Jan 2025 23:25 +0000
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@benjojo Now I'm wondering if the firmware in the linux-firmware package contains any copies of SQLite (and how many). Surely some firmware author must have been in want of a database and decided to go for the obvious one.