linux

1. The fullscreen photo that froze a laptop It was Sunday morning, I had a fever, and my plans extended no further than tea and feeling sorry for myself; troubleshooting a GPU failure was not on the list. I opened a photo from Telegram Web in Brave and switched it to fullscreen. The display froze. After failed attempts to recover it, I forced the Framework Laptop to restart. A TTY later showed Vulkan selecting my AMD Radeon 780M, followed by two warnings about dynamic-buffer limits whose timestamp placed them more than ten minutes after the next boot began....

Two years ago more or less I started my journey in Linux. I was scared at first and I didn’t know where to start from. But then I decided to buy a book - and what a book! - in order to follow a path. Along the way, I integrated the material with up-to-date documentation from kernel.org and source code. In the meantime, I started to learn C a bit so that I also could have played with what I was learning, step by step....