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  • You can mitigate that issue to some extent by making the videos short. As long as the user count remains relatively small, the storage and bandwidth costs aren’t going to spiral out of control. Eventually you’ll have so many millions of active users that you’ll also need to figure out a way to get a steady source of revenue. I wonder how Loops will tackle that issues. Some mastodon instances already have a small yearly fee, so I guess video instances could do that as well.


  • That means your CPU should be just fine, though single thread performance could still be an issue.

    If the overlay can’t show you all the cores separately, you would need to alt+tab to check the proper CPU graph from time to time. If single thread performance is a bottle neck, you should see a single core staying at 100% for a long period of time or multiple cores taking turns to briefly visit 100% load.


  • Check how much CPU is being used during normal activities (task manager, process explorer whatever). If individual cores visit 100% usage briefly, that’s perfectly fine. If all cores go 100% for a while, that’s probably fine as well. If you see that the entire CPU maxes out for long periods of time, that could be a bottle neck. If you see that sort of thing happening when doing something exotic, that’s perfectly fine. You don’t need to upgrade your CPU just so that some once-a-year thing runs better. If you see that every day, you might want to consider upgrading.

    BTW you can also use the same method to figure out if your GPU, RAM or disk is a bottleneck.


  • According to Microsoft, you can safely send your work related stuff to Copilot. Besides, most companies already use a lot of their software and cloud services, so LLM queries don’t really add very much. If you happen to be working for one of those companies, MS probably already knows what you do for a living, hosts your meeting notes, knows your calendar etc.

    If you’re working for Purism, RedHat or some other company like that, you might want to host your own LLM instead.


  • What kinds of professional applications are you thinking of? Like something meant for health care, finance, construction, education, energy, telecommunication, real estate, manufacturing and other sectors?

    It makes more financial sense to write software for the most popular OS, not a minority OS. When a company makes software like that, they expect to sell it to only very few customers who are willing to pay hefty sums for it. Targeting a market segment with 100 potential customers sounds more appealing than targeting a market with only 1.

    However, in a market already dominated by Linux, such as servers, clusters and mainframes, the tables are turned. When most of your clients already use Linux, it makes more sense to write professional applications for it.






  • That’s roughly how open pit mining works. In some mines, you start with a pit, but later make a mine shaft if you need to go even deeper.

    A pit is relatively cheap to start with, but it becomes more expensive as you go deeper. Eventually, a traditional mine shaft becomes cheaper than continuing with a pit.

    If you have a ridiculously deep mine shaft, you begin to run into various problems like walls collapsing and the temperature increasing. There can also be lots of water you need to pump out constantly.

    Eventually, the shaft becomes so deep and the problem so large, that continuing becomes a nightmare. That’s why even the deepest mines aren’t really that deep considering how thick the tectonic plates are.


  • I’ve had Fedora on several computers, and everything worked for quite a while while. Eventually though, things just began to break randomly - probably a sign of me not doing much maintenance.

    The most common issue was Gnome Software center failing to update anything. I just ignored that app, and continued to upgrade through the CLI for a while. Eventually, I just got tired of that, and installed Debian on my HTPC.

    Now I can finally treat that computer the way I want. Just install, watch videos, update when needed, and ignore the rest. I have another computer for satisfying my tinkering desires, so this one is just for the videos and very light browsing, but not much else. Therefore, Debian is the perfect distro for this kind of use.





  • As someone who is severely allergic to ads, I really don’t like this transition, but I understand why they’re doing it.

    Mozilla seems to be facing a tough problem. How do you make money when your core audience isn’t enough to support the company, but you can’t realistically pivot to a new audience without kicking out all of the old users. Would it be better if Mozilla just faded into irrelevancy and focussed on developing Thunderbird instead? The FOSS community would have to continue to support Firefox, which would slow down development to such an extent that it probably wouldn’t be able to keep up with the rest of the web.





  • Not that many people use real computers any more. At work, you may need to use a computer, but you probably can’t change the browser. At home, you have the PCMR folks who use a computer and probably also care about browsers. Everyone else just uses a tablet or a phone for browsing the web.

    Speaking of the web, most people interact with specific websites through an app and an API, so they don’t even launch the mobile browser until they have to visit a site that doesn’t have an app. The world has changed and browsers aren’t as relevant as they used to be.