Linux has extended quite a few system calls. Not really a problem as they mostly support the POSIX ways.

But there are a few corner cases around threading and file locks that do break on mainline Linux.

Not too big to overcome, as there are exceptions like EulerOS that are both compliant and certified.

Pros:

• I have the source. I don’t have to wait for fixes or features. I just do it myself and send a patch or PR upstream.
• I can run it on just about anything, and well.
• Sane defaults and handling of user permissions - by design
• Modern filesystems that don’t silently rot your data
• Full control
• No forced updates
• No telemetry

Cons:

• Not a priority for pro applications
• Not fully POSIX compliant

I haven’t used windows in almost 30 years, but… I probably missed some games at first that DOSBox couldn’t run well (yet). Not a problem any more.

I got my first car 24 years ago. A hand-me-down that my grandpa bought with 87kkm on it, that my brother crashed. It took a lot of welding to get that car to pass inspection.

Four cars later I still have never owned a new car. I aim to buy 10yo without a loan. My current one no longer gets updated maps for its built-in infotainment system.

If I buy a 10yo EV it’ll definitely need a new battery pack. That changes the economy completely. I guess it’s cheaper to drive so I’d shell out for 10yo of driving in advance.

How about not rounding up hundreds of highly intelligent beings and their families to murder them for no reason.

If they’re so intelligent, why do they let themselves be rounded up to be murdered year after year?

Remember, Mario has a brother who wears green.

The fuck is Starmer, prime minister of the UK supposed to do about it?!

I read it as he hadn’t issued a statement about the British citizens on the flotilla who were also abducted. That seems like a PM thing to do.

zram makes sense if you do not have swap.

zswap is probably enabled by default in most distros. It compresses cold pages on the fly so that they’re ready to quickly get swapped in and out.

I do hit the swap partition occasionally on my 32GB systems.

It doesn’t really kick in until you have proper pressure. I want my swap partition for hibernation, anyway.

I wouldn’t it mind it if I was on a free tier. I’d think some of my subscription moneys would go to the creators.

Well, spotify. I did a run with spot-dl before ending my subscription.

I self-host with navidrome and stream/sync to my phone with Tempus.

But 97% of my listening nowadays is just streaming HYPR demoscene radio.

Millennial here.

I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.

Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.

Netflix’ catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.

I wasn’t really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I’d listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).

Only if it’s double-layered.

Single-layered are 4.7GB.

My first distro shipped with pico, so I often choose nano for an edit. Micro is fine, too, but I won’t go out of my way to install it.

I challenged myself to write a couple of projects in neovim over a month or so. I finished my projects, but it still felt like the tool was getting in my way. Muscle memory is to break. Current job requires a bigger IDE, but I still do my commit messages with neovim.

I’ll bring two theories to the table.

a) they got caught distilling for their own models b) they re-sold their $200/mo plans as APIs

Six-seven

I have an idea of how they could reduce the fish requirements.

How about using shared libraries instead of bundling everything in every snap all the times?

Amazingly it reduces RAM usage as well.

I’m developing an app as a side project, but testing can only happen meaningfully out in the field. I found a breaking bug yesterday, asked Claude to fix and deploy over remote session. I installed the update and continued ny testing session.

I sure wouldn’t want that to go away.

Iran has a professional army with a ground force of 300k.

That’s about the same number of boots the US has. It’ll be no small logistic feat to get that operation a chance.

Are you looking on truth social?

Actually…

I got married seven years ago. We could bring our own music to the ceremony, but it had to be on audio CD.

None of our modern computers have any optical drive, but we have an USB DVD burner. We just couldn’t get any modern system to complete a burn, it just kept failing halfway through.

After many hours I installed OS X on my MorphOS PowerBook G4 from 2005 to use the built-in drive and burn through iTunes.

It used to be a cakewalk. Now not so much.

Auto-cpufreq only changes the CPU governor based on your preference for load and power source. In my experience you need to disable the intel_pstate driver to see real gains in the powersave/conservative governors. That’s true for all three options.

Tlp can also manage power to radios, ports, devices. Gains are small over auto-cpufreq, and it can be a bit finicky not to lose some part you actually wanted to keep powered on.

I’m not very familiar with power-profiles-daemon, but I think it sets governor and rules for screen/sleep timeout. You’ll probably see better gains without intel_pstate there, too.