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> Is virtually every single company and developer wrong? Virtually every company and developer opts for simpler development and worse runtimes. Is that "wrong"? I'm not sure how to answer that. You could probably make a case either way.
Yeah, if you're needlessly burning dinosaurs in a warming planet it's wrong.
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I have a hard time believing that companies like Discord are using Electron simply because they do not know what they are doing.
Question is, if you want to do cross platform UI what choice do you have?
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If something happens to TSMC there will be a global effort to lift all that knowledge back into stable, developed countries to continue production as fast as humanly possible. Just like the lifting of Nazi rocket scientists, it's a technology that is directly intertwined with the existence of contemporary advanced economies/societies, if TSMC ceases to exist there will be a concerted effort from major economies to re…
> 3-5 years until production restarts somewhere else. If you're talking about production of modern chips here, it will take a lot longer than 3-5 years.
If you are happy not surfing most of the Web, any computer is good enough. It's usually browsers and web pages that brings these older PCs down.
Isn't like 99% of the reason/bloat on today's computers due to the massive amount of surveillance, telemetry, and phoning home with analytics of everything we do to a huge list of companies? I should imagine that removing simply that would make a lot more possible on older hardware, especially when it comes to base operating systems. Removing much of the unnecessary visuals that the web has today by using something l…
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I tried to get into Gemini for a while - it’s like Gopher but reimagined with some more modern ideas. However I quickly figured out there is not much to actually do there. The way modern web works is horrible (I don’t want to click just another cookie banner thanks), but at least it’s easy for all people to contribute.
"It's a brave new world! Everyone can publish! No need for gatekeepers!" (a few months later) "Why is everything such unmitigated crap?"
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Avoid brave. It' s spyware. If any, Chromium-Ungoogle with the settings from: git clone git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters Copy the file in the chromium subdir to /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh. Chmod +x it. Change CHROMIUM_FLAGS to UNGOOGLED_CHROMIUM_FLAGS or whatever flag shows up in /usr/bin/ungoogled-chromium script. That and UBlock Origin with the country specific ad blocking rules will cut down a good bunch of crap.
Bullshit, it's not spyware. It seems it's no longer possible to discuss it here without the trolls coming out.
Whatever.
The GitHub repo I posted has sane defaults for both Chromium based browsers (adapt the environment variable for the custom fork, you have it at /usr/bin/chrom file) and Mozilla under *Nix. If something "clean" as Mozilla has a good chunk to be tweaked, just imagine the amount of telemetry Brave has.
I lived the 90's and 00's in computing. I pretty surely know the spyware and adware terms. And Brave it's spyware, period.
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Qt is actually not that good. I used to work for a large, well-known software company that distributed an app using Qt; every day that I worked on the native client was a nightmare of framework bugs, quirks, and limitations. For all of CSS' quirks and limitations, it's still an order of magnitude less frustrating to develop with a TypeScript/React/HTML/CSS stack than it is to use Qt. TypeScript is also a vastly bette…
Qt has QML. I think that "well-known software company" was not as productive as it was.
For colour, I'll add: it was a fairly old application first developed before QML/Qt Quick. It was also a multiplatform desktop application; then and now it's unclear to me as to whether or not Qt Quick is especially suitable for desktop applications.
We'd been in the process of moving chunks of it into an HTML/JS web view for several years - I think when that decision was first made it was well before QtQuick would've been sufficient for desktop usage. Other reasons we were doing it, besides the aforementioned bugs/quirks/limitations were that it's easier (and cheaper) to hire web devs than native devs, and that it allowed for code/infrastructure/design reuse with our web frontend. QML doesn't address either of those issues.
Admittedly, I haven't tried QML in anger, but I also feel like...given the quality of the rest of the framework, which is comparatively mature, it'd be pretty shocking to me if it didn't have its own slew of bugs/quirks/limitations.
You're only using 61 MB of your 512 MB RAM. Megabyte. I love it. Megabyte. I distinctly remember the happiness of attaching a 512KB RAM expansion card to my Amiga, bringing total RAM to 1MB. You have 512 of those!
I still think it's wild how much data can fit on a microSD nowadays. People would think you were crazy if you told them just a few decades ago.
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Ohh.. I've always wondered how to get my hands on this "garbage". The machine I use every day is from like 2013... the fastest PC I own has a processor that was launched in 2014. It's partly because I'm frugal and partly because I don't believe in constantly replacing hardware that works just fine. But it sounds like by this point companies are throwing away stuff far newer than what I use! haha
Depending on where you are, there'll either be local auctions of surplus tech, or eBay / refurbishing stores selling these kinds of things. I always went for Dell Optiplex, but there are HP and Lenovo equivalents too
Still, my intent is moreso, well, companies are literally throwing these systems into the trash, so paying for them feels like I am getting ripped off. I'm always hoping for the opportunity to snag a system or two that is being tossed. It has happened before, or I've paid like $5-10 for something that is destined for the dumpster. It definitely seems like a "have to be in the right place at the right time" kind of thing, though.
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We do have basically latest Firefox on OpenBSD. But yeah, to be fair, I have to restart Firefox frequently on my X230's running OpenBSD. It either just stops rendering altogether (literally even application UI fails to render) or eats up so much memory and CPU the cooling fan is just always running at a kinda high level. Otherwise, it's super solid and a great OS for older machines IMO.
Man login.conf . Also, if you dare, sysctl hw.smt=1 Add hw.smt=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf if you waqnt that setting persistent. Also, install and enable obsdfreqd and read the docs at /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/.
As for login.conf, yeah, I already raised those limits (especially to debug firefox with gdb lol), haven't enabled SMT though. Not sure it will help much with pages bogging down the CPU though, considering, waves broadly at the state of the web today >_>