The Doctor

I use Mate on my laptop; before that I used Cinnamon.

To be honest, DEs are basically terminal window managers for me. If I didn’t need a graphical web browser for everything I do (because that’s basically what software is these days - shit you log into from a web browser) I’d probably be using GNU Screen or possibly Twin to manage multiple shells instead.

If the drag-and-drop functionality of modern DEs wasn’t so helpful I’d probably still be using twm because I like stuff that does what I need, and otherwise stays out of my way.

The purpose of a company is to make money.

By selling out they stand to make even more money.

Sure there is: Don’t store everything in a database.

AI acceleration ASICs are already in a lot of hardware these days. It doesn’t take a whole lot anymore for it to be both cheap and feasible.

It would be pretty easy to test, too.

Get a pre-paid phone. Set up a brand-new Google or Apple account. Activate phone using the new account. Put it through its paces for a few hours and note the ads you get.

Shoot the shit with your friends and family with the phone on the table for a few hours.

Put the phone through its paces again and note the ads you get.

It’s not like any of us will ever be able to afford products made with those advances.

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For starts, read the wiki. Specifically, read the installation guide at least twice to get a feel for how it works and what the Arch vibe is like. This is also your chance to figure out just what you want to do. Do you want to use GRUB or UEFI? Which sounds like a better fit? What filesystem? What do you want to run? mdadm or not? A little bit of planning and reading is better than reinstalling half a dozen times (ask me how I know…)

Must-have applications? Screen or tmux. SSH. Whatever shell you’re comfortable with (bash is how I roll, but you might be a fan of fish).

One of the Muskrat’s kits will undoubtedly tell him sooner or later. Then Github’ll get a takedown order.

The firmware blobs for that chipset might be in a package you don’t have installed. You’re running Arch, so install the package upd72020x-fw from the AUR.

Waah.

And you can run it over SSH on servers.

They admitted it back then, too.

Everybody uses computers for different things.

At last, a fellow sysadmin! Nice work.

I was wondering that, too. I’ve got a pair of GTX 1660 Supers in Leandra running a simulation, and they’ve been crunching away for nine days now.

Because they’re processing data all the time? They’re doing work?

My work laptop has been up for 26 days, 17:24. My primary server at home has been online for 42 days, 21:27. Personal laptop - 45 days, 20:51. The primary server of my exocortex has been online and crunching away for 278 days, 19:48.

It probably means that more people are hacking on it and getting their PRs accepted than are working on SquashFS. What constitutes software that is still alive these days is pretty badly skewed toward “if you don’t release four x.y.z releases every day your software is dead” these days.

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