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> You can't build most web apps' unique visual style in any other platform. Every native UI framework I've ever used allows drawing directly to a canvas, and can have literally any…

> I really miss netbooks. They were an amazing moment for Linux. No surprise Microsoft killed them. As far as cheap, low-spec, disposable laptops go, Chromebooks are the spiritual …

I have user account on my personal Google Workspace domain that is used purely for superuser access (my day-to-day account doesn't have special access). I recently had to log into …

I can't speak for Firefox, but Google Chrome (and presumably anything Chromium-based) has working hardware-accelerated video on AMD and Intel GPUs. It does admittedly take some eff…

From the article: > I work at Red Hat. Mostly on AArch64 support in several projects. So an ARM developer, working for a major Linux distro vendor and trying to dogfood their work,…

> We used to do that too from the late 1930's to the late 1970's, which is why we were the dominant industrial power in the world at that time as well. I think there's another worl…

> Canonical announced that they are no longer using Debian as a base, but the unvetted packages compiled and uploaded by random people on Snap. Citation very much needed for this c…

A lot of professions have terms of art that can be interpreted incorrectly or be viewed as odd by laymen. "Individual contributor" is no different. Maybe it sounds weird to you, bu…

This is a pretty odd take, from my perspective. If one of my direct reports came to me and said they were interested in working on, say... AI observability (replace with whatever i…

Fractal still sells a Serenity workstation[1], but it's essentially an off-the-shelf AMD Ryzen-based system, installed into a Fractal Design Define 7 Mini case, with a Noctua tower…

More recent revisit: https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy... TL;DR: It runs, but not well, and performance has regressed since the last published benchmark.…

I have used Terraform, Puppet, Helm, and Ansible (although that's not strictly declarative), and all of them ran into problems in real-world use cases that needed common imperative…

> Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming. For example the experience on lts with this year's AMD gpus will be extremely poor if it works at all. I'm using…

> Have you ever had to maintain a software project with many dependencies? If you have, then surely you have had the experience where picking up the project after a long period of …

> You are probably using some annoying pedantic definition of unstable. Most people mean it to mean “does stuff crash or break”. English has a specific word for that: reliable. Ped…

> Arch being unstable is a myth. Arch follows a rolling release model. It's inherently unstable, by design.

Debian -- probably not, but Ubuntu has numerous variants whose primary purpose is providing a different desktop experience, and a SteamOS-like variant would fit in perfectly with t…

> the kernel might still be good but the userland is just awful in every way imaginable The Windows kernel is also falling behind. Linux is considerably faster for a wide variety o…

There's nothing about 4K videos that needs an SSD, an OLED display, or any particular video codec, and "large-scale internet infrastructure" is just a different way of saying "lots…

Dial-up modems can transfer a 4K HDR video file, or any other arbitrary data. It obviously wouldn't have the bandwidth to do so in a way that would make a real-time stream feasible…

> Besides, the gaming industry keeps shooting themselves in the foot by only supporting Windows (Mac is a thing too). That is slowly changing, but so many game devs are drinking th…

I have seen no credible explanation on how current or proposed technology can possibly achieve AGI. If you want to hand-wave that away by stating that any company with technology c…

> I still say that x86 must run two FPUs all the time, and that has to cost some power (AMD must run three - it also has 3dNow). Legacy floating-point and SIMD instructions exposed…

Intel has only about half of the server market at this point, and that's with their products priced so low they're nearly selling them at cost. The margins on their desktop product…

If we're comparing incompatible platforms, then the Apple M4 Max's iGPU is weaker than the Playstation 5 Pro's AMD iGPU in everything except for memory capacity. Intel has a compet…