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2 days agoWut? It’s an industry bigger than football and TV and film combined! Somebody’s getting all those games and they have to be played on something too.
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What’s a “hot deploy”? Seems like something Java-specific.
4·7 days agoI am I’m favor of an “open” source license minus profiting off of your forks, which I understand makes the resulting license not open source. In a capitalist system, the capitalist class will take every opportunity to parasitically take where ever possible. Nothing free in a capitalist system, including living. Free development comes at a cost, even iif made purely out of passion.
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I don’t get why people still believe they have to gatekeep the open source definition or how to prevent capitalists from exploiting free labour.
Life and circumstances aren’t static. They are constantly evolving. Just because capitalists treated open source as a threat, back when it was created, doesn’t mean they didn’t learn how to exploit it and those who work on it. They do now and it’s only natural to evolve and try to find a way to protect from such exploitation.
To stand still and point fingers at others trying to move forward is conservative, the exact opposite of progress.
11·7 days agoThat’s great if it’s your experience.
I’m just saying me and others have consistently had different experiences, and OP can get a better experience at half the price, with the same (or better) energy consumption, all while supporting the Linux ecosystem directly.
That may be, but buying a Mac Mini is like buying a device made from the ground up for Windows, where any other operating system has to reverse engineer 100% of the things to work well, or you have to emulate another OS on it (which comes with its own pitfalls), and it’s 200+€ more expensive than its nearest equivalent.
Every single company I’ve worked at which introduced Apple Silicon to its developers has had headaches with compatibility. The worst I’ve seen was it taking a developer a month to get up and running because the specific component we used didn’t have a build for the specific ARM architecture. Multipass, UTM, podman, docker desktop, all didn’t work until colima and forcing the VM to emulate x86 + forcing docker in the VM to use the x86 image worked. There was a persistent problem with disk IO since it used 9p or whatever. Installing dependencies from scratch meant waiting 30 minutes on the M2.
Why pay a premium for less compatibility and worse specs? Just get yourself something that works, which is cheaper, maybe even supports a company that invests in Linux and its ecosystem, and be able to ask an existing developer community instead of asking the subsection of linux users that run your specific app on however you’re running linux on Appe hardware.
The problem with Mac hardware is that it’s ARM and vertically integrated with everything Apple. Not all hardware is supported by Linux because Apple won’t write any linux drivers and everything is reverse engineered. You’re better off buying something non-Apple which linux properly supports.
If power consumption is an issue for you get, a R9 7950X consumes as much and at times less power than an M1/M2 (I think even M3). Check out GamerNexus’s charts. IINM AMD in W/Ghz performs better than Intel across the board.
No idea where you are, but you can get a small factor PC from one of the vendors that preload linux, or configure a small form factor PC of your liking for cheap and put linux on it. You’ll get more out of your money for the same or better performance with about the same energy consumption (or a bit more).
Somebody I know who happens to live in Hungary got himself this cheap beauty. They deliver all over Europe, but if you live elsewhere on this planet, there probably is something similar like this out there.
A single folder and power consumption is important --> syncthing. It doesn’t have great power consumption, but since the devices aren’t constantly on, you can just start syncthing up on the portable devices when needed. You can configure syncthing to sync when connecting to a specific Wifi, when power saving mode is turned off, I think even specific times.
It’ll run fine on a server and can be configured .
1·20 days agoDo I need to know much about you? You’re judging Snowden as if you’d had fared better in his situation. You portray the situation as if his life were not on the line and he were on vacation in Russia.
Thanks for the article. I think the operating word here is “can”. They can be much faster than existing transistors. The article seems to indicate it isn’t there yet, so by extension this recent development might not be.
But there is hope!
“What are TOPS” introduced me to what the hell they are. 160 is not bad. NVIDIA’s mobile GPUs reach 1000 TOPS, while AMD, Intel, Snapdragon and M3s top out at 40 TOPS.
Not sure how this photonic chiplets will fit into the equation, maybe a separate chip for laptops without discrete GPUs?
How can these be compared to existing chips? Photonic, yes, but how fast can they switch and make calculations? What does a photonic transistor even look like / work?
Your comments completely lack empathy, wow. If you were in Snowden!s shoes, I bet you’d have folded to Russia at their first threat. “Visa or plane to Washington” and that would’ve been the and of it.
But because you are the big tough guy on the internet, Snowden is weak willed. You, the Alpha Moonchild would’ve resisted Russia in their prison and died like Navalni, with your head held high after they tortured your girlfriend in front of you. A true martyr baths in the glory and knowledge that their cause is just and true.
Your death would’ve driven all Americans and Europeans onto the streets! It would’ve been the flint to light the fire of a generation ♨️ like a true Scotsman, a patriot, a fearless defender of truth, morals, and internet tough guys!🫡
We all respect your hypothetical sacrifice and moral superiority. Long may it live in our memories.
47·21 days agoC and C++ are way worse than mid. Had rust been invented at the same time, C and C++ would’ve disappeared in obscurity and only been taught at university to explain pointers.
They are nearly on the same level of bilge as COBOL.
Probably a minimal environment that streams the desktop to you. Must be the smallest windows install on a local PC ever.
Linux (TuxedoComputers, slimbook, starlabsystems, …), Nextcloud/Owncloud, LibreOffice, GCompris, etc.
inb4 “impossible”: wrong, Kerala is a great example of how that works
inb4 “not western”: a German secondary school is another example.
Schools need to stop buying Microshit stuff. They help create a new generation of M$ drones.
First check out what alternatives there are to the stuff she’s running on Windows. Then install them and check if she’s willing to test them for a comparison. Ultimately, she’s the customer and she has to be convinced to use the new stuff.
What happened in Nov 2023?
OSX and Windows move in opposite directions at the same time? Seems a little weird.
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