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News - Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
By mindedie, 18 Feb 2026 at 2:01 pm UTC

Quoting: Cley_Faye
Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything. Is it optimal? No, but practical and likely the only reasonable option if Godot wants to remain open to new contributors. These AI slop "contributions" aren't contributing to anything positive.
I'm tempted to agree, but this is both impractical and would throw the small percentage of valid cases.
Ban is simple and simple things are practical.
So we need to rid or not put in place some systems, because it (may) hurts small percentage... I agree, first come to mind... vaccination... is both impractical and hurts percentages /s

News - Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
By Jarmer, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:43 pm UTC

I'm so glad that all these garbage llm's are eating up all the cpus and rams and hdds and etc so they can generate this super great stuff! YAY! I AM SO GLAD DID I MENTION THAT. SOOOOOO. GLAD.

😡

News - Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
By syylk, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:39 pm UTC

Thanks for the enlightening answers!

(Yup, didn't think of TV gaming. 😁)

News - Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
By Mohandevir, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:37 pm UTC

Quoting: Arehandoro
Quoting: rcrit
Quoting: fenglengshunSigh.

I don't even have the energy to care anymore.
Energy is in short supply and increasing in price as well.
AWS, Google and Microsoft, once there is no supply of CPUs, RAM, GPUs, and SSDs/HDDs for the rest, consumer or business, will increase the cost on their offerings too.
Filled with ads! Enshitification at its best!

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By Adutchman, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:35 pm UTC

Quoting: Pyrate
Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.
Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.
In theory I agree, but installing Nvidia drivers on Fedora (especially with secure boot) is poorly documented and a pain in the ass.

News - Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
By Arehandoro, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:35 pm UTC

Quoting: rcrit
Quoting: fenglengshunSigh.

I don't even have the energy to care anymore.
Energy is in short supply and increasing in price as well.
AWS, Google and Microsoft, once there is no supply of CPUs, RAM, GPUs, and SSDs/HDDs for the rest, consumer or business, will increase the cost on their offerings too.

News - Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
By grigi, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:31 pm UTC

I can't stop you using LLM as a tool, but I still expect you to know what it is you're doing.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask people to understand what it is they are submitting, because they are asking me to maintain it going forward.

Personally I feel that LLM's as how they are pushed to have superficial value. I honestly feel that if it never happened the whole world would be in a better place and as a society we would be more productive.
Not that the tech is bad, just the politics of the tech.

News - Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
By Lofty, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:23 pm UTC

Quoting: ShabbyXMy question is why HDMI is being such an ass?
you asked the wrong question. The question is when is it Not being an ass.

News - Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
By rcrit, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:22 pm UTC

Quoting: fenglengshunSigh.

I don't even have the energy to care anymore.
Energy is in short supply and increasing in price as well.

News - Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
By Lofty, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:18 pm UTC

Looks like going outside is back on the menu.

News - Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
By Cley_Faye, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:16 pm UTC

Quoting: syylkDunno, but once you have DP or USB-C, why you'd want HDMI? Legacy? Enlighten me, LinuxHiveMind!
Some people have existing hardware with HDMI input but no DP or USB-C, and very much would like to use it instead of trashing a thousand-dollar equipment because of "cable protocol forum is angry at this one dev".

Kinda the same reason people that moved to linux and uses nvidia hardware won't throw away their working card to get an AMD just because "it's the good way to do things".

News - Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
By tmtvl, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:14 pm UTC

Back to e-mail workflow, auto-close GH PRs. Might as well switch to SourceHut while they're at it.

News - Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
By tuubi, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:13 pm UTC

Quoting: syylkDunno, but once you have DP or USB-C, why you'd want HDMI? Legacy? Enlighten me, LinuxHiveMind!
If you use a TV screen as your gaming display (like I do, an LG OLED), DisplayPort or USB-C is rarely an option. Most of them only include HDMI inputs, which is a shame.

There are active DP1.4/USB-C -> HDMI 2.1 adapters that support the necessary features and transfer speeds, but I have no experience with them.

PS: In my experience, if you ask any Linux community about anything at all, you'll get at least two conflicting opinions, likely more. If there's a "LinuxHiveMind", it's got dissociative identity disorder or something.

News - Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
By libgradev, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:10 pm UTC

I would type a reply but it's just going to be a sting of expletives at this point...

News - Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
By Tevur, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:07 pm UTC

Quoting: syylkEnlighten me, LinuxHiveMind!
Because you want to play Death Stranding 2, sitting on your couch in front of your 75" 4k 120Hz OLED Screen with HDR.
Sure, you could do this on a PlayStation 5, but this is GamingOnLinux, not GamingOnPlaystation...

News - Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
By tmtvl, 18 Feb 2026 at 1:05 pm UTC

Eh, I'd be happier just switching to DP. The 7600 I've got now has 3 DPs and 1 HDMI so I have to use DP anyway.

News - Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
By Linas, 18 Feb 2026 at 12:59 pm UTC

We will have to go back to tape drives and floppy disks soon.

News - Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
By fenglengshun, 18 Feb 2026 at 12:56 pm UTC

Sigh.

I don't even have the energy to care anymore.

News - Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
By Cley_Faye, 18 Feb 2026 at 12:45 pm UTC

Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything. Is it optimal? No, but practical and likely the only reasonable option if Godot wants to remain open to new contributors. These AI slop "contributions" aren't contributing to anything positive.
I'm tempted to agree, but this is both impractical and would throw the small percentage of valid cases.

A better approach would to be require all PR to be hand-reviewed *before* submission, and vetted by a human. It's equally impractical, but if we look at the cURL project as an example, it is possible for competent devs to use LLM and similar as tools to raise appropriate issues, fixes, and formulate them properly. Key element is, a human used a tool vs. a tool used a human.

News - Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
By syylk, 18 Feb 2026 at 12:45 pm UTC

Dunno, but once you have DP or USB-C, why you'd want HDMI? Legacy? Enlighten me, LinuxHiveMind!

News - Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
By nadrolinux, 18 Feb 2026 at 12:42 pm UTC

In theory AI should help for most of us, however in practice it helps just for few people (mainly from big corporations) in the world and is a problem for 95% population. At current situation whole AI is just a horrible waste of resources. I think that in near future we'll see a lot of changes and limitations at how AI is used, because current use cases are jokes.

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By rustynail, 18 Feb 2026 at 12:28 pm UTC

Quoting: mr-victory
Quoting: rustynailIf you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.
So I can just layer the package? That's it, have you done it? Afaik you cannot layer kernel modules on universal blue, they must be bundled with the system image. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
In the meantime, I did actually try it in a VM and it worked. I installed Aurora, then added rpmfusion using their official command for Silverblue, then rebooted and layered broadcom-wl package and rebooted again and then "wl" kernel module is actually available

News - Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
By Pyrate, 18 Feb 2026 at 12:09 pm UTC

but that hasn't stopped one developer.
Sisyphus-ass dev. What a chad.

News - Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
By hardpenguin, 18 Feb 2026 at 12:03 pm UTC

Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything.
Amen

News - Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
By dpanter, 18 Feb 2026 at 11:57 am UTC

Ban AI-generated everything. Is it optimal? No, but practical and likely the only reasonable option if Godot wants to remain open to new contributors. These AI slop "contributions" aren't contributing to anything positive.

News - NVIDIA recommended driver 580.126.18 released for Linux
By princec, 18 Feb 2026 at 11:48 am UTC

The latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off. Attempting to drop back down to the (known working) 570 drivers left me in "broken computer hell", booting to a black screen, which took a couple of days to fix. Grr. I am loathe to try the new 580 drivers as it's probably still the case that XFCE is broken.

I will probably have to accept that Mint really wants me to use Cinnamon instead, which I suppose is no great hardship.