Well, someone did exactly that with Sonic Unleashed (XBox 360) IIRC. And a few select N64 titles.

The produced code is complete garbage, it’s basically the machine code disassembled, but instead of assembly it’s some technically valid C that can be forcefully shoved back up a compiler. Due to register sizes and calling conventions being different across architectures, there was zero chance of making the giant blob cooperate with native builds of the libraries it used, so some poor people had to pick out everything machine specific in the giant pile of shit that came out of the disassembler and fake it. That took forever.

The PS3 runs on an ancient fork of the FreeBSD kernel. We don’t even know which version. No compatibility even on syscall level.

Now, I remember that some random person added Nintendo Switch syscalls to Linux aarch64 then took GPU emulation from Yuzu. They stopped when it ran some Tetris. Now, that was relatively easy given the Switch doesn’t have too much of special hardware. Also, the CPU there only has the base instruction set + md5 extension, basically every aarch64 chip has that.

Now, the PS3 is full of random DSPs (basically coprocessors that are shit at everything except some specific tasks). And even if you get a PowerPC machine powerful enough (like some decommissioned server), it still probably won’t match all of the instructions. Catching SIGILL to emulate them… meh, you are basically writing an emulator. Which I bet would be slower than just emulating the whole thing at once.

mb, updated

• Write down GUID for sda6
• copy sda5 contents somewhere
• dd sda6 to sda2
• delete sda6
• change the GUID for sda2 to the one written down
• fsck sda6 to fix size
• make sda1’s type EFI
• copy sda5 contents to sda1
• delete sda5
• you can now resize whatever is left (if your partition tool doesn’t have resize, just delete and recreate with the same starting sector, again you have to keep GUID for root and fsck it to fix size)

I love how little of the projects mentioned here are truly Linux specific.

“Firefox” lol.

Anyways, MUSL.

Wow, I have croscore fonts on my web browser because web fingerprinting and shit but like dayum, I and l are literally rendered the same pixel by pixel. Unless I zoom in 500%, then the L is 2 pixels taller. Good thing I have a copy of OpenDyslexic that I can turn on for shit like this. I am not dyslexic but still.

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That’s exactly why I don’t like Linux that damn CIA project. Once I leave parents’ crib, imma sell my best laptop (with no parents looking at me like an absolute moron) then get a ThinkPad T450p from a crackhead and then get someone else to buy that one MacBook CPU with an adapter board from Aliexpress and give that to me so that I can finally compute in peace with some BSD.

There’s another repo with a Docker file and that was all written with Claude too for some reason. Though I don’t see why in the ever living fuck this would need Docker.

Also, why are we even getting excited over a vacuum cleaner existing as a pile of markdown files talking about it? There are lots of these, actually.

github
A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.
look inside
claude
click insights
Top 3 committers is: some org account, another org account but with “.ai” in it, claude

EDIT: they are not only the top 3 committers, they are the only 3 committers

EDIT0: repo is all screenshots and markdown files, another one has a trivial amount of code also written with ai

nuh uh

Corporate wants to pay because “huh missing spend? this guy must be stealing then”

Here’s this masterpiece I wrote for Python class.

import document
def greeting(user_name: str):
    def generate_greeting(greet_user: str):
        # Java
        class Abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryClass:
            def __init__(self):
                def abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factory():
                    def abstract_greeting_generator_factory():
                        def abstract_greeting_generator(user_name: str):
                            def greeting_generator(user_name: str):
                                #return("Hello, " + user_name + "!")
                                # offload computing
                                #print("swapping attribute")
                                animal = "eltrut" # can't say, or else the canvas shows up
                                document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").setAttribute("greet_name", user_name)
                                #print("inserting script")
                                document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").innerHTML = "<input type=image src=1 onerror=\"document.getElementById('python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas').setAttribute('greet_name', 'Hello, ' + document.getElementById('python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas').getAttribute('greet_name') + '!')\">"
                                #print("waiting for response")
                                while document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").getAttribute("greet_name") == user_name:
                                    pass # CPU waste inator 3000
                                #print("hiding crimes")
                                # id=xss doesn't w*rk, I tried
                                document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").innerHTML = ""
                                #print("returning")
                                return(document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").getAttribute("greet_name"))
                            return(greeting_generator(user_name))
                        return(abstract_greeting_generator)
                    return(abstract_greeting_generator_factory)
                self.abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factory = abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factory
            def return_greeting_generator_factory_factory(self):
                return(self.abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factory)
        Abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryClassInstance = Abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryClass()
        abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryInstance = Abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryClassInstance.return_greeting_generator_factory_factory()
        abstract_greeting_generator_factoryInstance = abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryInstance()
        abstract_greeting_generatorInstance = abstract_greeting_generator_factoryInstance()
        return(abstract_greeting_generatorInstance(greet_user))
    return(generate_greeting(user_name))
print(greeting(input("Name: ")))

I also have one somewhere that runs Minecraft

I don’t know how your monitor is this efficient, mine consumes around that exact amount (40 watts) according to “displayspecifications.com”.

Anyways, with my laptop eDP panel instead (driven by sway), external keyboard, external mouse, I have running:

• systemd, glibc, NetworkManager, all that evil ass background crap
• mpv playing a .ogg to headphones
• Firefox with this website, typing rn
• weechat connected to 3 servers
• toxic
• claws mail
• Tor daemon
• Wi-Fi through 2 walls

Let’s look at upower -d:

energy:              35,926 Wh
energy-empty:        0 Wh
energy-full:         35,926 Wh
energy-full-design:  53,049 Wh
(...)
energy-rate:         5,64 W
time to empty:       6,3 hours
(...)
capacity:            67,7223%
technology:          lithium-ion

roflmao (no, I don’t know why my battery is already this dead, or at least is counted as such)

EDIT: before anyone mentions how a laptop is cheating, mini PCs all have laptop CPUs/APUs anyway

Yes, but the user doesn’t want it. To quote them:

I have a capable desktop, and I mean to push it

Also, Raspberry are greedy bastards, shit’s overpriced. May as well use another SBC for a much smaller price. Or one of the Chromebooks that would otherwise be e-waste.

Interpreting arguments as being negative; no thank you.

I was writing a really long answer but it disappeared, fuck me.

Anyways, I guess I am going to skip the scientific explanation, but CachyOS’s optimizations most of the time mean energy efficiency. Most of the time. It’s not a hard guarantee, could make things much worse depending on what’s running.

Now, as for distributions. Load one of the following with a copy of sway-git or hyprland (or if your box is old enough to have 2D acceleration, better use TWM, DWM…).

If you want a “traditional” distribution, like when you can just run some random binary from the interwebs and meet most of it’s assumptions to let it “just run”, I suggest Arch Linux (yes, really) with a thing called “ALHP.go” (basically repos that provide optimized packages just like CachyOS, except that this is the original). I don’t know of anything like CachyOS and ALHP elsewhere anywhere, so this may be the most performing option.

If you are fine with having to run a container for the unity shovelware friends send you, look into Adelie Linux and Alpine. They are energy efficient, but for the wrong reasons: lighter weight component alternatives just means less work to do. In Alpine, the packages are also optimized for storage rather than performance, which has a side effect that your CPU can load whole chunks of programs into cache and use RAM less. If you are fine with a virtual machine on non-Linux, you probably wouldn’t need this advice, but there’s midnightBSD and OpenBSD and such. OpenBSD is meant for security and not performance (even blocks multi threading by default), but it comes with the side effect of being very small and thus energy efficient.

Technically, a source distribution like T2 or Gentoo would be the most performant AND energy efficient, but you need to burn quite a lot of electricity to get there first and to install updates. Using clang instead of GCC makes this a bit less painful but still. UNLESS you just rent a server and offload everything there with something like distcc.

Now, a few little remarks:

• What the other person said about the web is true, the modern web sucks balls. You could use browsers like Chawan, Netsurf (git since last release is old) and Dillo (git), then play videos with mpv + yt-dlp and stuff. However, you will eventually run into one of the abominations of websites that have 3 language translations on top of each other and require the latest of technologies. Also, you would be locked out of most Lemmy instances (some have JSless old.{domain} but not mine :/). Now, ALHP has optimized Firefox, but most of the most important routines have been turned into hand crafted assembly for each generation of CPU (yes, really), so the performance (and energy) impact isn’t as good as you would expect. Your web browser will be using the most power regardless. Although you can make it slightly better with UBlock Origin and decentraleyes (both included in Arch repos)… I’ve heard the Firefox people are starting to upstream a native adblock engine which means it will be faster, though it’s not quite there yet.
• Sometimes, the Linux kernel will set the minimum CPU frequency above the actual minimum and I couldn’t find a proper reason for it. My workaround is running this script in a few places on startup as root: echo "1" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq.
• Avoid running flatpak, snapd…
• Disable daemons you don’t need (like Avahi).
• Avoid running web browser wrappers (Element, Discord, Jitsi meet…), just use your default browser. When you need them (Steam, Signal), stop them after you are done.
• You may have luck turning off devices physically with “acpi_call”.

You can also make scripts like this (example is for Arch):

#!/bin/sh
sudo systemctl stop snowflake-proxy
sudo systemctl stop i2pd
sudo systemctl stop [email protected]
sudo systemctl stop zerotier-one
sudo systemctl stop gnunet
sudo systemctl stop tor
akonadictl stop
pkill -9 akonadi
pkill -9 Telegram
pkill -9 signal-desktop
pkill -9 steam

#!/bin/sh
. ./minimize_network_services.sh
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager
sudo rfkill block wlan
sudo systemctl stop ntpd

#!/bin/sh
sudo rfkill unblock wlan
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start ntpd

#!/bin/sh
. ./min_network_services.sh
sudo systemctl start snowflake-proxy
sudo systemctl start i2pd
sudo systemctl start gnunet
systemctl --user start ipfs

Depends on which governor

Default one.

Android

That’s also bad, but there’s a difference: developers on Android know about this and do workarounds like keeping a notification open. Because Android is Android, it always has this. No existing program elsewhere is designed around this.

Turn down the frequency

Kernel already does.

Clean up unused programs

??? So it would close my IRC client when I look away? Fuck that.

For some, functional calls are most important, for others completely cutting power to the modem is important. The cell network fundamentally incompatible with the freedoms, and people may just want a pocket computer (those aren’t made anymore and the easiest way is basically just reuse a smartphone).