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  • It’s on the AUR but you need a patched kernel which you can grab from catchyOS

    Instructions are in the developer’s blog post: https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/

    Q: I use another Arch-based distro! What now?

    The dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster utilities are available in the AUR as well (plasma-foreground-booster carries the package name plasma-foreground-booster-dmemcg), so you can install them from there.

    For the kernel side, you can either use the CachyOS kernel package on a non-CachyOS system by retrieving the package from their repository, or you can compile your own kernel. Installing linux-dmemcg from the AUR will compile the development branch I used to develop this. Being a development branch, this carries the risk of some stuff being broken, so install at your own risk!

    If you want to apply the kernel patches yourself, you need these six .patch files: [links in blog]

    I’m not sure how easily they apply on specific kernel versions, but feel free to leave a comment if you run into issues and I’ll try to help out.


  • Lots of for-profit commercial entities contribute to open source projects.

    The code they’re contributing is covered by the same license as the code contributed by volunteer developers.

    I understand why we should be cautious about these things, but the current situation is that Valve is contributing a lot and their contributions are open source. Yeah, they’re doing it for a profit motive, but not to the point where they’re trying to kill open source projects or hide the updates behind proprietary binaries.

    Valve is, currently, not being evil. GabeN has plenty of yacht money.



  • Just to be clear, because I’ve seen it in a lot of these threads.

    She can’t hide behind the executive from contempt of congress. She may be able to dodge a criminal charge, but congress has the power of inherent contempt.

    Under inherent contempt, either chamber can direct its Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest and detain a person without relying on the courts or executive branch. The individual is brought before the chamber for proceedings and can be held until they comply or the congressional session ends.

    Congress can literally physically force a person to be held in custody until they comply. It hasn’t been used since the 1930s but it is very much a thing that can be done.

    Just like the Judicial branch doesn’t require the executive branch in order to enforce a court order or contempt. It can deputize people to see that its will is done.

    The executive doesn’t have exclusive rights to use force to compel obedience, all branches can but have rarely needed to.








  • What do you need to do?

    This EO has all of the legal weight of a blog post.

    Article 4 Section 1

    Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

    The only groups that have power over elections is the State and Congress.

    Trump can draft an EO declaring himself king of mars. He can write anything in an EO, he’s the E. A state can simply ignore it, it has no chance of surviving a motion for a TRO.



  • We have to go to the polls

    This is the way.

    Some people can’t and so the President’s planned disenfranchisement is going to work to an extent. I don’t believe the split favors them by much in the states that matter to the midterms. If only able bodied people voted I think they will still lose.

    The other part of the disenfranchisement campaign, in the SAVE Act, is the requirement to have a bunch of current legal documents or a passport. This law will more strongly affect poor, young and married women voters… all demographics where Trump and Co. poll poorly.

    I don’t think they’re getting the SAVE Act passed by the midterms so the most major hurdle that could possibly happen will be whatever comes out of the Supreme Court. A worst case scenario is that they craft some ruling that can be read in a way to effectively implement the SAVE Act’s strict documentation requirement and disenfranchise the poor/young/married women demographics without needing to pass a law.