Posts by GraXXoR 290 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2020
That interesting. I’m daily driving Haiku on my 4770 based Thinkcentre Micro M93 (?) with 16GB RAM and an SSD replacement for the HDD and it has been fine for what I use it for. It runs EDSM star map and EDAstro web apps while I play Elite Dangerous and plays my network shared music.
It’s fine for casual use.
It’s have also installed it on
Atom 160. Atom 330(?) thin clients with built in touch monitors.
Ion graphics based AMD thin client
Dell based SIS chipset (!!!) Celeron thin client.
Intel 3770 based Thinkcentre micro
4970k Intel X97 chipset(?) mobo PC from 2012.
8th gen intel Thinkcentre micro.
Fujitsu i3 9th gen laptop.
I love the UI because it’s perfect for mini monitors such as 800x640 and 1200x1024… and low power machines.
Only bug I notice with mine that iceweasel has a distracting square around the cursor when you move it.
Haiku Beta 5 has really started to push the stability and usability as well as decent improvements in network speed over Beta 4.
I really hope Haiku dev work continues!
And when they focus on specific regions, you people then say "But you're disregarding the rest of the data" or "You're just cherry picking the hottest places."
There's no way to have an actual scientific discussion with people who abandon science the first moment they see Trump's glistening rod.
And yet somehow drilling for oil and fracking making a whole group of influential billionaires much wealthier as an impetus for saying climate change being fake is somehow a non issue..
but no, it's the scientists who'll apprently lose their jobs just because... or if they somehow disagree with.... who exactly.... that are the real liars.
Pretty pathetic argument...
I have had it running on my old 4770k ex gaming rig as a side monitor to my main gaming rig for viewing web pages etc. since B5 came out.
I also have a copy running on an old i3 8th gen intel CPU laptop with a SSD and it’s startlingly fast to boot up and get to the desktop. Like really, really fast.
I finally also have an 8 inch Atom based industrial touch screen AIO pc with an 8GB Compact Flash card and 1GB of RAM from a lab where it used to be an autoclave control panel which is actually finally usable. And it’s also really funny to see just how little system resources it uses in the background.
Haiku is now properly in use daily by me at least and I can’t wait for at least intel drivers for video playback or 3D
I still remember my university days when the photographer was trying to make the new website images of our lab and told us in no uncertain terms that we had to hire several people of colour (he did not use this as words exactly), two wheelchairs (“for a couple of actors”) and a “bunch of girls” from the art department to wear white coats and try not to look like a fool holding random pieces of equipment and wearing safety goggles.
Back in the early 90s our undergrad engineering department almost entirely comprised white males.
Yeah. I’m the same. I’m pretty agnostic when it comes to distribution. But I assume it’s because I’m one of those more casual users who doesn’t know enough about Linux to really appreciate the subtleties and has to do a “google +reddit” search for most solutions anyway.
I currently have Linux on a dozen bare metal machines (from two full workstations to half a dozen thinkstation Tinys to brace of RPis in a mix of Mint, Debian, ELive and Suse Tumbleweed) but still know very little about, say, the difference between snap and flatpak.
Was that 49” a Samsung “Oddity” G9 by any chance?
Mine’s been generally a good boy over the past two years apart from 1px checkboard grids occasionally triggering the display to dim noticeably.
But online Reddit post horror stories tell many sordid tales of light leaks, dot marching, dead backlight zones and signal compatibility problems and bad firmware updates.
This! 100%.
I run a school classroom with iMacs for the students.
It runs everything I need. Vs code arduino IDE, Creative Suite etc.
Homebrew for python etc.
But Gaming? You need Windows or Console.
That’s why I have gaming machine with a 49” ultrawidescreen and a 4090 in the corner of the lab as well.
To put the education edition Mac Mini inter pespective:
Mac mini with 16gb RAM 256gb SSD : $500
Double the RAM and SSD : $1100
You could buy TWO MACHINES for cheaper than doubling the RAM and SSD.
It is 25% more expensive to add 16GB RAM and 256GB of SSD alone than it is to buy an ENTIRE MACHINE with 16Gb RAM and a 256GB SSD.
I can’t help but feel this “AI” boom is turning just a wee bit bubbly.
What is all this money actually doing? Is it generating real profits and driving efficiencies?
I guess I’m just too old to really understand why MMLs a.k.a. AI is absolutely dominating the entire marketing landscape right now.
That bug has existed since well before sequoia. I noticed it as far back as Catalina at least where certain USB drives of mine ( not all of them, strangely) would just disconnect randomly on my main Mac or transfer data at some ridiculously low speed, throw random errors or just lock the machine up.
You could argue that there’s a problem with the affected USB cases’ interface, but none of my High Sierra Macs or even my Windows PCs have any problems.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with the article so not entirely sure why you brought it up.
I have a 2015 Macbook Air that I bought last month. It has a dual core i5 and a pokey graphics card that is somehow enough to run Stellaris until late game.
Is it NVIDIA? No, but it's fine for casual gaming and office tasks. Not sure where you're getting your dodgy drivers opinion from, it's really not true.
Surely it's absolutely clear that mergers have NEVER had the customers' best interests at heart. They are purely shareholder driven and very very occasionally a technical need arrises and buying the tech is the quickest way.
But buying a direct competitor in a market with only a single digit number of peer players should be an absolute no-no in today's cutthroat, fuck-the-customer marketplace.
There are still libertarians out there who think the free market knows best, but it has been shown recently that it only knows what's best for shareholders which has been shown to be short-term greed-driven.
I’m not entirely sure what happened to me. I used to be a 365 family account owner but quit about a year ago. Yet my office install hasn’t even made a complaint yet. My windows 365 login icon disappeared from top right but that’s the only change I have noticed.
I moved my windows machine to a local account and forewalled it. The office install hasn’t even there just says. “Your account has expired” with an OK button. But nothing. Has changed functionally speaking.
Not entirely sure what’s going on but I’m reminded of that Friends episode called “the one with the free porn cable channel”
The only thing keeping me from using Linux are my VR devices. I have a Pimax 5K+ and an Oculus Rift OG.
I don’t know if Linux can support either of those.
I’ve found my stream deck is usable and I think I can get RGB on my Corsair keyboard customized.
I’d hate to have to dump VR for Linux but if windows keeps on keeping on the way it has been then I’ll have to say good bye to one of my favorite toys.
While I love Linux, I find that I’m having to constantly relearn things and that a large sum of material on the internet is actually obsolete or just doesn’t apply to the particular variant of Linux and subvariant of UI I’m using. Wayland being one such thing I found myself battling with far too often.
I actually believe that the sheer variety of linuxes is working against adoption since it’s splintering the bathtub of the knowledge base into finer and finer buckets and then mere cups or even in some obscure cases, thimbles.
These sorts of shenanigans are totally fine for average users, me included. Rufus got W11 onto my GOD Pocket 2 of all things! But of course it’s not gonna fly when it comes to corporate installs which need to be guaranteed or at least accountable to a predictable future compatibility.
Back in the 90s, I always used to fly to my gf's place in Hokkaido via Chitose Airport with a bag of Laserdisks of cheesy 80s films for a popcorn weekend.
I always wondered why I didn't have to check them in and they weren't ever inspected.. Those thick, heavy disks turn into a pair of 12 inch scimitars when you snap one in half and the raedge can cut clean through leather.
I know because I tried to dispose of one by snapping it to throw out with the rubbish and nearly lost a finger! Those things could do far more damage than a pair of scissors.
They’re basically trying to have their cake and eat it.
They leave their source open hoping that customers will offer improvements or fix bugs.
And then they alone will profit from their customers’ efforts presumably while couching the whole thing in suitably innocuous language: “This will create a synergistic ecosystem in which our clients can emphasise their own needs by influencing the direction and development of the platform for a mutually prosperous Future.”
Typical trickle down economics… ie. evaporation of the previously enjoyed lakes followed only by a constant drizzle of bollocks.
So Meta are saying they did nothing wrong and yet they had to pay $1.4B ? How do they square that? It makes no sense.
The whole political and business world is coated with a hundred layers of “spin” with something entirely malevolent lurking below.
TBH, I’m finding it hard to put into words the precise feeling of vague dread I have that nothing seems entirely real any more, everything is just a veneer and the illusion is about to burst.
Everything feels like it’s being held together by sparkly duck tape that is straining at the seams.
Is this what existential dread feels like?
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