"8GB ought to be enough for anybody" , I guess? Also, he said "Raspbian", rather than the "Raspberry Linux" in the title...which I don't think is a thing.
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Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
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#43Exact fragment: 57:49 [1]
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#44Boy didn't he use plan 9 or something?
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#45I feel the swing of the pendulum here.
I own mostly but Apple gear right now but I’m being pulled back towards more open and extensible hardware and software.
The GPU is a big one. Nvidia hardware unlocks a lot of gaming, graphics, video and machine learning stuff.
Open vs closed is another one. Android development unlocks so much more hardware and software and peripheral and protocol support.
For the first time in a decade do have an Android device I develop on, and am very close to building a PC with a GPU and am considering a Steam Deck.
Open and hackable and extensible for the win.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
With the pi 4 you can boot off a USB3 drive like a SSD. I setup a 4gb memory model with SSD boot and it's a flawless little desktop--it runs full gnome and Ubuntu just fine. If you can get a 8gb memory model it would be perfect. I love it.
You literally lost perf by moving to ssd through USB https://alexellisuk.medium.com/upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-w... >Interestingly, the SD card gave a seemingly better buffered disk read than the M2 SATA SSD at 43.35 MB/sec
When it comes to how sluggish a system feels due to its disk, it's much more useful to measure the read latency and throughput of random reads because that's what the system is doing: you read a lot of sectors randomly when you boot or start chromium.
https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-usb-vs-sd/ says their SD card latency was 1.15x the USB disk.
Note that the sample size is just 1, so I wouldn't place value on any single benchmark (it could just be that they chose their USB disk and SD card poorly or it was too cloudy that day). This is evident in my URL's hdparm result being wildly different from yours.
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I doubt there's a software engineer that doesn't know of Ken.
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#48I feel the swing of the pendulum here. I own mostly but Apple gear right now but I’m being pulled back towards more open and extensible hardware and software. The GPU is a big one. Nvidia hardware unlocks a lot of gaming, graphics, video and machine learning stuff. Open vs closed is another one. Android development unlocks so much more hardware and software and peripheral and protocol support. For the first time in a…
Jeez, if nvidia hardware is "open and extensible" by your standards, they must have been really lowered by Apple's shenanigans.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you're not paging out of ram you will never ever notice. What you say is true but you didn't respond to someone complaining about ram latencies, you responded to someone lamenting poor disk access perf. And you recommended booting off SSD which is demonstrably specious advice.
Again I will tell you--it doesn't matter to me and I suspect 99% of users. Unless you are like a Linus tech tips fanatic and eeking out every percent of performance for your Good Gaming Rig then it's fine. Yes the storage performance isn't perfect. It's fine.
I couldn’t stream YouTube videos on 1080p without terrible stutters when I tried the Pi4 a few years ago. Has that been fixed?
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#50For those who might prefer text over video: Q: What's your operating system of choice, today? A: I have for most of my life, because I was sort of born into it, run Apple. Right now, recently, meaning within the last five years, I’ve become more and more and more depressed and [Laughter] what Apple is doing to something which should allow you to work is just atrocious, but they are taking a lot of space and time to d…
I have to admit, I tried and failed to switch away from Apple. I bought a Linux Laptop - an System 76. I was surprised at how terrible the battery management of linux was compared with my mac. And that particular issue broke me.
It requires lots of manual control but from my experience I can match or exceed battery life in comparison to running windows, with some tweaking. Out of the box it was terrible as well.