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Tuesday, 3 November 2026 00:00 UTC – Wednesday, 4 November 2026 06:00 UTC
Stable templates for Apple Silicon merged into quattro
A Mac on Apple Silicon could not switch to stable with only edge and rc pacman templates, and the stable pair merged into quattro and v4-5-0. Tests on an Arch host accept stable, and the run was not on a Mac.
Read the story →An M1 Max on Omarchy beat macOS on GPU memory bandwidth
Joshua Warren measured 368 GB/s of GPU memory bandwidth on an M1 Max running Omarchy, against 361 GB/s on macOS and 241 GB/s before, in his post. He said one bit fixed it.
A Yoga Slim 7x camera is in PipeWire right after login with the drop-in
On a Snapdragon laptop the camera is missing from PipeWire after every boot, until WirePlumber restarts. A drop-in merged into quattro waits at most five seconds, and on a Yoga Slim 7x the camera is in PipeWire right after login with the drop-in.
Kernel updates on linux-omarchy install a prebuilt NVIDIA driver
A kernel update on linux-omarchy had been compiling the NVIDIA driver. A change merged into quattro installs the prebuilt linux-omarchy-nvidia-open package instead of nvidia-open-dkms, so the update does not compile that driver.
An update from a remote herdr stopped with no visible error
An Omarchy update from a remote herdr stopped on the Superwhisper migration, with no visible error, because the shell had no Hyprland signature. A helper merged into quattro reloads with hyprctl --instance 0.
The Quake console opens on the agent picker
The Quake console opened empty and explained nothing, because Omarchy ships without a default agent. A change merged into quattro seeds it with the agent picker, and opens the last local model started when one is running.
Battle.net opens at the focused monitor's scale
On a HiDPI monitor the Battle.net launcher opens at 100% and looks half-size. A change merged into quattro and into v4-5-0 sets the DPI from the focused monitor's scale before each launch.
Ctrl and the display brightness keys bind to the keyboard backlight
A MacBook Air M1 (J313) from 2020 sends no keyboard-backlight keys. ludagoo's change merged into quattro, and the same bindings into v4-5-0, bind Ctrl and the display brightness keys to the keyboard backlight, and this pass has not booted it as a new kernel.
First boot draws a traced icon instead of a 34-cell bar
First boot on v4-5-0 draws a traced icon instead of the old 34-cell bar, and the grey half under the green tip stays visible. It was not run on a real first boot, nor DjDeveloperr's change on a real console or a real first boot.
Amp Desktop is named under Install > AI
A menu entry merged into quattro names Amp Desktop under Install > AI, with a matching remove entry. The package is not published yet, the live menu was not clicked through, and David Heinemeier Hansson wrote that he added it to the Omarchy Dev version.
The 2017 iMac Retina 5K is listed with its known gaps
The 2017 27-inch iMac Retina 5K, which has no T2 chip, is on the Mac support page after a change merged into quattro. The display does not run at 5120×2880, sound is not functioning, brightness has no effect, and sleep hangs until a power cycle.
In brief
A Thunderbolt RTX 5060 Ti decodes Qwen3.8-27B at 24 tokens/s on an M1 Max MacBook Pro running Linux
Joshua Warren plugged an RTX 5060 Ti, in a Thunderbolt box, into an M1 Max MacBook Pro running Linux, and in his post “Qwen3.8-27B” decodes at 24 tokens/s, 2.6x faster than the laptop's own GPU.
Superwhisper is said to be shipping as the default dictation setup in Omarchy 4.5
David Heinemeier Hansson said “Superwhisper is shipping as the default dictation setup in Omarchy 4.5.” The free 10k word cloud option means someone can start without downloading a model and can switch to local-model dictation later, in his post.