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Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by justin66 »

mathisfun123 wrote: post #28
qbasic_forever wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? For desktop use it doesn't matter. If you're not paging out of ram you will never ever notice. I'm not sitting here running disk benchmarks all day... I'm browsing some web pages and using a text editor.

> 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.

> recommended booting off SSD which is demonstrably specious advice

Booting the Pi 4 off a quality USB-connected SSD to address stability and performance concerns is really good - and normally not controversial - advice. You're betraying a lack of familiarity with the subject matter here. The Raspberry Pi people provide a whole forum where people can discuss this, and other, stuff and educate one another.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

nixcraft wrote: post #55
jchw wrote: post #6

Raspbian* apparently. That's really interesting; even the highest tier Raspberry Pi still feels pretty sluggish as a desktop thanks to the limitations of SD card throughput/latency/queue depth/etc. I wonder what his usage looks like.

s/Raspberry/Raspbian/ Sorry about that :(

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Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by outside1234 »

justinzollars wrote: post #40
kjhughes wrote: post #30

For 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.

Which is really weird because they clearly CAN do it for mobile phones with Android, so why hasn’t that trickled down to laptops?

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by chongli »

burntalmonds wrote: post #75
kjhughes wrote: post #30

For 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…

"..what Apple is doing to something which should allow you to work is just atrocious.." Anyone know what his specific issues are?

If I had to guess, it would be Gatekeeper and SIP. These technologies can really get in your way if you’re used to having full access to your own machine.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by dkjaudyeqooe »

burntalmonds wrote: post #75
kjhughes wrote: post #30

For 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…

"..what Apple is doing to something which should allow you to work is just atrocious.." Anyone know what his specific issues are?

I don't think there are specific issues. The problem is that with each release of macOS usability, reliability and performance regress. If you're interested in these things and not so much in "bling" and questionable new features, then you'd share probably Ken's "atrocious" opinion.

An example is the latest System Preferences. It's virtually unusable.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by acomjean »

justinzollars wrote: post #40
kjhughes wrote: post #30

For 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.

i switched. I have the previous gen AMD powered (Ryzen 5700U) system 76 and the battery life is decent (6-7 hours).

I have one 4 year old system 76 notebook with the NVIDIA gpu and that thing when running the 3d graphics mode is terrible (I really like software development on Linux much better than mac. There are a few things I miss from the apple side, but generally its been great.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by andybak »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #79
kjhughes wrote: post #30

For 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 feel the same way, but I know that moving to Linux isn't for me. My approach has been to run a Hackintosh, which provides excellent compatibility, reliability and parts availability, and resist upgrading macOS at every major update. I'm currently still on 10.14 and haven't been forced off it yet, and maybe never will. Generally, if something requires a more recent version, I just reject it. There tends to be a posi…

That's odd - I'd prefer the opposite tradeoff. Apple hardware is excellent but for me their software design choices are usually the problem.

Even the much-lauded excellence in UX doesn't really hold up any more.

But at least you can close the lid on a Macbook, put it in your bag and be secure in the knowledge it won't decide to switch on and probably cause permanent heat damage to itself. (looking at you windows...)

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