Someone started working on a Vulkan driver for TeraScale GPUs a few years ago:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/Triang3l/mesa/-/tree/Terakan

I believe it can run some demos add even works on windows.

I tried to relate the limited niche where having closer together gearing makes a noticeable difference

You appear to be misunderstanding. This isn’t about making gearing be closer together, this is about increasing the range of the gearing by making the low end lower and only reducing the high end by a little.

If anything, the configurations I wrote about would make gear spacing less even as the default is quite nicely spaced.

What I need to know is whether the change in the low end is actually noticeable in an uphill scenario and by how much.

So I prefer to have as wide as my drivetrain supports. If I have any choice, I prefer a tighter set of low gears and a bailout final cassette cog.

It’s the same for me I think. I’d prefer some variety of low gears for uphills and some variety for relatively flat ground. I don’t very much care what’s in between as long as it’s not too far apart.

When I start riding, I usually use one of the lower gears for half a turn and then immediately switch the hub from 64% to 100% (skipping the gear in between) which is a jump from 2.64m to 4.14m or 3.25m to 5.10m and then usually up to 5th gear (6.49m) for a bit and then the 6th gear when conditions allow.

I wouldn’t worry about the total, and would start with the widest cassette that will work with your current setup. Then I would only change the front chainring if you still feel a lack of top speed.

This again appears to be a misunderstanding: This is a 6-speed Brompton.

6-speed here means 6 gears total, including the hub.

The gearing is as follows:

• Hub with 3 fixed ratios (64%, 100%, 157%)
• Derailleur between two sprockets that can be equipped with a maximum of 17 teeth due to size constraints
• One chainring (no derailleur)

I get to choose the two sprockets and the chainring. That’s it; there is no wider cassette that physically fits this frame.

The reason for changing the chainring is merely to shift the gearing down which isn’t possible by changing the sprockets because a sprocket larger than about 17T will physically not fit. Again, this is a Brompton with tiny 16" wheels that folds down to suitcase size.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s a good idea to say that fediverse == activitypub in the first place.

IMHO all services that work in an open federated manner based on open federation standards are part of the Fediverse. Whether that protocol is AP, Matrix, XMPP or, yes, even Email; it’s all open standards where instances openly federate with other instances that implement the same standard.
Hell, we could even bridge between protocols. Not saying it should but if Lemmy had a mailing list bridge, would you consider someone replying to Lemmy emails from their self-hosted email server as not being part of the fediverse?

For the same reason I don’t consider AT to be part of the fediverse because it doesn’t operate in a federated manner as control is entirely centralised.

Right but I do like to ride fast when possible. It’s not for competitive edge or anything; it’s just comfortable.

The main thing I want answered is whether the difference in metres of development in the low end actually makes a difference and how significant they are in practice.

Specifically this section:

Why is Magic Earth free? What is the business model?

Magic Earth is free for all our end-users but we also have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners. For instance Selectric.de (a supplier for navigation solutions for ambulances and fire trucks), Smarter AI (developing ADAS systems) or Absolute Cycling (using the platform on bicycles). For more info on the SDK, you can check magiclane.com.

Oh great, shitty bing search results with tree NFTs.

That’s just an ACK and Elizabeth replied that she’ll resend again with further changes.

Nothing is in any tree that is going to Linus yet AFAICT.

We could be reasonably sure that it’ll go to Linus if it’s in char-misc but that hasn’t happened yet. I’m also actually not sure whether Greg’s or Arnd’s tree is the canonical one there.

Fake news. It’s merely a re-send of the patches; nothing landed yet.

The Phoronix article and their title makes that clear; you editorialised it to state differently. (Also, that’s…cringe.)

Note that the clients being FOSS is of little relevance because all they do is forward a recording to a blackbox proprietary service run by a for-profit company.

The code that has access to your audio and does the actual task at hand is not FOSS in the slightest.

I ever would work outside Germany, I will bring my own QWERTZ keyboard and require them to install the German Keyboard.

The computer doesn’t know which labels are printed onto the key caps. You can type any layout you want, no matter the physical layout.

meaning every step of building the kernel, including the steps taken to build the C compiler toolchain, are produced by code that is simple enough to check for correctness and safety.

Full-source bootstrap isn’t about just the kernel, it affects every piece of software. With GUIX and Nix, every single package can be fully traced back to the bootstrap seed.

Though it should be noted that you do require a running Linux kernel on an x86 machine in order to bootstrap.

it is not quite to the point where it /just works/ on a lot of the computer hardware that I own.

Unless we get some serious money, effort and/or regulation w.r.t. OSS firmware, that will likely never be the case.
That has nothing to do with its technology though, that’s a political issue. GUIX is a GNU project and acts like proprietary software does not exist/is not a basic necessity in 2023.