service announcement: postmarketOS now has a binary repo for loongarch64
...but it is not usable at the moment because Alpine's repo is broken :(
Once that's resolved, you can now install pmOS on any* loongarch64 device by selecting the generic-loongarch64 device with e.g. the os-installer interface, flashing it to a USB stick, selecting it in the UEFI and you should be booting right into the installer :)

* Loongson-3 series with new-world compatible firmware

Heads up for edge users: alpine edge repositories are temporarily broken due to the ICU upgrade:

https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/13/icu-upgrades/

@elly generate excel formulas

@fossdd @domi Hopefully I won't have to deal with this nonsense anymore once I get myself an mnt reform

@fossdd @domi I'm in this exact situation :P card too old for anything, even nouveau doesn't support it very well because most work (understandably, these folks typically do this in their freetime or something) moved to the newer cards

@domi Yeah same, that very same computer I use also came in an AMD FirePro variant... I wonder why I didn't get that one instead

@domi I can't even use the integrated intel GPU (it's a laptop), because hp thought it would be a very cool idea to just disable it electrically. So I have an intel GPU in theory, but it's hardwired to off for dear life. And everything display is hardwired to the nvidia gpu

@domi In general anything that dares use that GPU either ends up not launching at all or it's unusable and has a whole bunch of graphic artifacts

@domi well I can't even use them because alpine doesn't support them and even if they did the one for my card hasn't been updated in years

@domi Ohhhh, that's a very cool one :D

BTW: Your blender is crashing from time to time? I have even better, mine doesn't even launch at all and generates tons of nouveau errors in its output and in dmesg :P

my #39c3 art project is done! I took a VHS-C camcorder to the event and did my best to capture the vibe and art installations without violating the photopolicy.

It’s my first highly-edited video in over 5 years, so please excuse the roughness around some edges. Hope you enjoy it!

• https://youtu.be/I7fRj4pxOkQ
• http://tv.ol-worldwi.de/The%2039C3%20Supercut.mp4

@domi What video editor did you use, BTW?

@ainmosni Sadly I've seen that already happen to many people I know :(

@ainmosni LLMs literally can mess up your brain so you feel like you can't do anything without them anymore, even basic tasks... and you also lose your critical thinking in the process.
Pretty destructive if I do say so myself.

@ainmosni LLMs literally can mess up your brain so you feel like you can't do anything without them anymore, even basic tasks... and you also lose your critical thinking in the process.
Pretty destructive if I do say so myself.

Don't forget, LLMs are an attempt to rent-seek on things that are just basic cognitive abilities, providing you keep using those abilities.

Even ignoring all the other ethical problems with it (and you really shouldn't), do you really want to offload things like "writing", "reading", "drawing", etc, to the same kind of companies that have brought you great innovations like surveillance capitalism and the gig economy?

@WeAreFairphone That's unfortunate :(

ICE training session exposed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/how-ice-training-works/

live life to the fullest. write code that will make others go "well that shit (derogatory) couldn't have been written by an LLM".