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i may sound sarcastic but i am not. whatever the root cause is, i've spent probably more than 12 hours chasing down this one issue, and my conclusion? no workaround. can't use mio, can't use tokio, can't use hyper there's one reactor strategy and it's too clever for its own good

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wepoll and async-io seem to be simpler, but the ecosystem can't agree on a single abstraction around fd/handle registration, so they can't interoperate properly

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mio 0.7 claims to implement wepoll, no?

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I meant this one: crates.io/crates/wepoll- which sits under smol's stack (which is also tall, but more approachable (modulo futures themselves)

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i just want to play vr games under wine with wifi streaming. why is this so hard

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if that's where you ended up on that task, i'll buy you a windows license

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that is in fact what happened the problem isn't a windows license (pirating LTSC is a moral imperative) but the fact that in everyday interactions windows these days got less usable than late 2000s linux desktop

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i've watched my roommate--a person whose technical skills i respect--spend several weeks trying to set up a dual booting nixos/win10 system with uefi i believe she's on the fifth reinstall from scratch, and having seen that breakage, i know i won't do much better, either

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Used to be in a tiny IRC channel with someone that used Xen to be able to run Windows for gaming with PCIe passthrough. 90% of their posts in that channel (not really a technical channel) was complaining about PCIe passthrough breaking and asking for help debugging it.

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yeah I've tried it, hit an issue with PAT/MTRR and write combining ranges in graphical memory, tried fixing it, decided KVM it is (I might actually set up KVM with PCIe passthrough if wine doesn't work out)

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I personally prefer having Windows on a totally different machine for gaming. For some reason I still have my better GPU in my workstation from back when I thought dual booting was a good idea but... that'll be fixed when I replace it with a new workstation.

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I have a spare TB nvme waiting for me to drop linux on it in my big workstation, and I've been looking at various distros update behavior in fear. I think systemd-boot is going to be ok, but half the distros hold it wrong

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I have quite literally been considering starting a distro just to get sane updates and reasonable systemd purity recently.

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i have one PC

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I'd have issues if I actually wanted to play a demanding game but I haven't for at least a year. Been planning to make a nice Threadripper workstation and retiring this one into a gaming computer but Canadians don't get to buy nice computer parts anymore thanks to COVID, I guess.