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ack

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had a productive night so far

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ons #s will be out soon

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ack

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I want to compare those to prior years

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Jan 17 08:29

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seems like good news if idg cans its old sites

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for all i care, can all the old "content" too

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lots of crap in there

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better buried

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my open office (two words) experience was so shit that I promised myself never to do it

Jan 17 09:09

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it's bad for many things inc. health

Jan 17 09:09

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There are countless studies showing that open plan office spaces are dreadful

Jan 17 09:20

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for both morale and for productivity

Jan 17 09:20

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they help create and cement BS jobs

Jan 17 09:20

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and, as you point out, health (through stress and germs)\

Jan 17 09:21

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That's the main reason they are in use still even a little bit.

Jan 17 09:21

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people who insist they are OK "working at the office"

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typially turn out to be foxes in the vineyard

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the grapes are sour anyway

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iow, they're not given a choice

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they must be at the office x days

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perhaps today many at microsoft will be given indefinite "sick leave"

Jan 17 09:25

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no pay, don't bother coming back

Jan 17 09:25

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or unpaid "leave"

Jan 17 09:25

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no kidding, intel ireland did it blatantly and openly months ago

Jan 17 09:26

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HR gettinc "creative"

Jan 17 09:26

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gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/17/rebranding-plagiarism-as-hey-hi/

Jan 17 09:52

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who is the quote in the summary from ?

Jan 17 09:52

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tm-new gallery updated

Jan 17 09:52

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bread crumb links modified this time

Jan 17 09:53

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nft -f /etc/nftables.nft to clear the black list

Jan 17 09:53

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Enquiry Sent to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Regarding 'Missing' Deaths in the United Kingdom https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/17/office-for-national-statistics-enquiry/

Jan 17 10:11

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Enquiry Sent to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Regarding ‘Missing’ Deaths in the United Kingdom

Jan 17 10:11

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fantastic work on tuxgallery

Jan 17 10:13

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so far no errors encountered!

Jan 17 10:13

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the 'tux museum' will be cheaper to keep alive this way

Jan 17 10:13

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In 2023, England and Wales Deaths More Than 22% Higher Than Pre-COVID-19 Levels https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/17/2023-and-pre-covid-19-levels/

Jan 17 10:31

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » In 2023, England and Wales Deaths More Than 22% Higher Than Pre-COVID-19 Levels

Jan 17 10:31

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Week 1 Deaths in England and Wales: In 2023 a 31.2% Increase in Deaths for People Aged 15-44, 27% Increase in Deaths for People Aged 45-64 (Compared to Pre-COVID) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/17/ons-week-1-deaths-england-and-wales-by-age/

Jan 17 10:49

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Week 1 Deaths in England and Wales: In 2023 a 31.2% Increase in Deaths for People Aged 15-44, 27% Increase in Deaths for People Aged 45-64 (Compared to Pre-COVID)

Jan 17 10:49

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twitter needs a a boycott already. let it collapse. ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/covid-19-drugmaker-pushed-twitter-to-censor-activists-demanding-generic-vaccine | Source: Common Dreams

Jan 17 11:29

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | 'Deeply Sinister': Emails Reveal Big Pharma Pushed Twitter to Silence Vaccine Equity Voices

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There are some redundant files to trim from it now but that can be done in

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a while

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just had a discussion about quitting things

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we are now 100% mumble

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rianne 100% veg

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i'm 100% off social control media

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and stopped with football cold turkey

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there are other examples

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but with gulag noise I still check sometimes

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e.g. msft layoffs

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just updated a post of mine

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now I'm 90%+ sure it's happening

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azure might be impacted too

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"eskiko" was shilling azure BS in IRC today

Jan 17 14:10

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I was not happy about gut feeling rather than facts re azure

Jan 17 14:10

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Great, though confirming the layoffs first is important. However they'kk

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do what they can to hide and misdirect and delay.

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they know it damages morale

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so we need to keep at it

psydruid

hence all this PR about HEY HI

Jan 17 14:24

psydruid

to mask the fact that Azure is not doing well

Jan 17 14:25

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and many people are getting fired

Jan 17 14:25

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right

Jan 17 14:27

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It also damages their share prices which they then have to spend/embezzle

Jan 17 14:27

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even more funds to pump up artificially when they do the "share repurchase"

Jan 17 14:27

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The have spare resources for playing with AI through the severely overprovisioned "Azure" hosting which is substa

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ntially devoid of paying clients.

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It's probably costing them more than they can afford to have all that

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dead servers space going to waste so they might as well run ML algorithms on

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it and try to spin that as a positive in the PR and among their shills.

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they already shut down some datacentres

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but the media picked up on this

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and it made azure look like the failure it is

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they also frantically came to our irc chat

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after we had written repeatedly about azure layoffs

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to downplay what's happening

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lewis wrote some articles on the failure that is azure

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based on insiders

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so azure has, in effect, been converted into a plagiarism machine

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pay your subscription fees to do your plagiarism with Microsoft's help

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text... images... code

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plagiarism as a service as I call it

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the new ebuzz video mentions the media bias and omission of class action lawsuiot

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there is now a new lawsuit over copyrights in image "HEY HI"

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basically sites that help create "derivatives" of artists' good work

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The eBuzz video nails the problem, no mainstream media at all has raised any

Jan 17 14:59

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of the key issues.

Jan 17 14:59

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it took me a bit of time to realise all this fake hype is part of a PR campaign

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one mainly one company

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like with "github", they hide behind other brands

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musk said on the recdord that 'open HEY HI had been hijacked by MSFT years ago

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as if "HEY HI" was a nnew thing

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money buys perception

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look up "SCIGEN"

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circa 2004

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now they say things like "Office" will have this HEY HI

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and "Bing"

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"HEY HI"

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try it out!!! HEY HI

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Bing having layoffs

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pixie dust "HEY HI"

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even nadella's head will have HEY HI

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of course schneier had to massively participate in the hype campaign

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maybe without realising he had been taken for a ride by conde nasty [sic] i.e. microsoft

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sam varghese wrote about this fake hype 2 days ago

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Oh. I may have missed Sam's article, since ITWire doesn't get checked so often

Jan 17 15:08

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any more.

Jan 17 15:08

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he barely published anything anymore, like it's "seasonal"

Jan 17 15:08

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sam quoted an aexpert responding to microsoft bullshit that had been relayed by MS Schneier, iirc via

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Conde Nasty

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he links a lot to Conde and "new" Slashdot

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tons of crap

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I sigh a lot when seeing him posting new stuff

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now he's shilling his book that perpetuates myths about "hacker"

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Slashdot turned to crap after the first sale and still managed to go downhill

Jan 17 15:12

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from there.

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I guess it's owned by BIZX last I can tell. Dice and Conde Nast

Jan 17 15:13

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did their damage and kicked it down the road.

Jan 17 15:13

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are you sure conde nasty owned it?

Jan 17 15:14

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Not sure if I recall correctly

Jan 17 15:14

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i think that is not correct

Jan 17 15:15

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but dice i remember, now it's this guy logan

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who came to TR IRC

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to try to coivince us things would improve and wanted to make a good first impression

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i think dice was even worse tbh

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they activbely promoted gates lies

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and even employed microsoft moles

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Conde Nast still owns Ars Technica and what remains of Wired

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and "Reddit"

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At least one m$ shill seems to have been planted in Slashdot prior to the

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sale to Dice, if I recall the timing correctly. It certainly was under

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attack then

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conde used New Yorker to compel 'L'F to put Torvalds in the clinic

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they 'settled' on that

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after crazy scum mjg and his other ilk of crzzied kept libeling the man who wanted

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to keep quality control and goals in check

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RebeccaBlackOS is hardly used by anyone. Larabel uses that to shill crappy Wayland. Hey, RebeccaBlackOS doesn't need to worry about stability and compatibility. It's a JOKE distro. For JOKERS like Phorpnix. https://www.phoronix.com/news/RBOS-January-2023

Jan 17 15:22

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-RBOS Updated As The Linux Live Environment Showcasing The Latest Wayland Code - Phoronix

Jan 17 15:22

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It was the New Yorker article which set off the lynch mob in earnest wasn't it.

Jan 17 15:23

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s people pointed out in LWN, New Yorker demanded action BEFORE publication

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then LF agreed to put aside Torvalds

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hence, the headline at the New Yorker reported the "outcome"

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so it was a work behing the scene

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to get Torvalds "fired"

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familiar?

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dirt digging

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LT became sacrificial lamb for LF

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to "protect" its (Microsoft) brand

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LF does not value the person who made the "L"

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unless he conforms e.g. rust (github/google)

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nwo there is very little resistance to lockdown and palladium inside linux

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don't expect LT to act better than tim bl on DRM

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scape goat actually

Jan 17 15:27

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He remains only as a mascot, if one goes by appearances

Jan 17 15:27

psydruid

Gates is the master and Torvalds the puppet, at last

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we've been getting perl errors, both accounts, when trying to add or update TM

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was anything changed on the system?

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it says it lacks the Capture/Tiny.pm module

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fixed with apk add perl-capture-tiny

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did you change something a few hours ago (around 7pm GMT)?

Jan 17 21:36

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psydruid: MSFT layoffs

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think of that as a treat

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they're hurting

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let's do another round

psydruid

the more layoffs the better

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until there's no Microsoft left or very little

psydruid

until all employees have been laid off

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yeah, more is better

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then, if Microsoft is busted, they cannot spread windows either

psydruid

and the leadership has kicked the curb

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no microsoft crap left to spread to company

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companies, unis, etc.

psydruid

the single most malicious company ever

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no github :-)

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offline

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"BUT ME REPOS!!!"

psydruid

probably even worse than IBM in its reach

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"BUT MY LIKES/STARS!!"

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because there weren't as many computers during IBM's heyday

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"oh noes; azure is shutting down like codeplex"

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and there were more companies that competed with one another

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yeah

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concentration of power is always harmful

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most of them with their own Unix variant

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they don't need to compete as much

Jan 17 22:28

psydruid

Microsoft has really caused a race to the bottom

Jan 17 22:28

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in terms of everything to do with IT and CS

Jan 17 22:28

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exactly

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we've discussed it here in IRC

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that's not to say that no microsoft-> utopia

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we'll still have other perils

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but MSFT being like Novell (defunct) would be a step in the right direction

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esp. for GNU/Linux

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and FOSS

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because only one company attacks those THAT much

psydruid

without Microsoft sabotage and distraction constructive work can be done again

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yes, but there will be other barriers

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the other obstacles may included Gulag

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Gulag also doe snot like GPL

psydruid

Gulag is fortunately peripheral to most end user computing

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either way, today/tomorrow will be a good milestone

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and doesn't own GNU or Linux

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now I want to know what divisions are cut the most

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azure? github?

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no single company does

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windows?

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we'll find out soon

psydruid

hopefully all of them all of the time

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it's a momentum thing

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once you cut it gets worse

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like, fire windows devs

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and Windows Update introduces more bugs

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so people cannot reboot

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or lose file

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and that leds Windows down some death spiral

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if the corrupt media will start covering GNU/Linux

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instead of pretending the choice is about WHICH VERSIOn of Windows

psydruid

what made it clear to me that there is no way back is that the various incarnations of Windows Phone are dead and buried

Jan 17 22:33

psydruid

if it was so easy they could have just recompiled all applications and owned the "smartphone" market too

Jan 17 22:33

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microsoft seldom announes something is dead

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with atom editor they said "sunsetting"

psydruid

but they were greedy and paranoid so they launched several incompatible versions

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silverlight, zune....

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they should have stuck with a pure ARM port of desktop Windows

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msft layoffs bad news for amd and intel

Jan 17 22:35

psydruid

but their stupidity is our gain

Jan 17 22:35

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bad news for larabel

Jan 17 22:35

psydruid

once you have applications running on your operating system it becomes a juggernaut

Jan 17 22:36

psydruid

which is why free software is unstoppable

Jan 17 22:36

psydruid

everything gets updates to work together all the time

Jan 17 22:36

psydruid

larabel will cling to ARM or whatever replaces Intel and AMD

Jan 17 22:37

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anyway, just told rianne

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she is happy about this whole thing

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"good job, lads!"

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let's do another round of demolition at Microsoft

https://illumos.org/docs/contributing/qds/

psydruid

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-illumos.org | Quality Death Spiral - illumos

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psydruid: larabel is already in deep s***

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if you check his appeals for money

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as it's harder to break even with these energy prices

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i need phoronix... for links about kernel dev

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just the links

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as nobody else daoes that

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15 years ago a site called KernelTrap did that

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it requires deepm kernel knowledge

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LWN is not very active

psydruid

if you sell out like he has done and you still can't pay the bills, you may be doing something wrong

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maybe an article per day only

psydruid

I don't really follow LWN or Phoronix for kernel stuff

Jan 17 22:44

psydruid

I read the O'Reilly books about 15 years ago

Jan 17 22:44

psydruid

I need to read modern ones

Jan 17 22:44

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to get an idea of the current state

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linux is... weird

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let me explain

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linux has a "core"

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that is not THAT big

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they cull old code

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but a lot of the code is vendor-specific

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and nobody except one or few companies know it

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so something like schedular evolves

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but a lot of the code is in things like massive drivers for GPUs

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*scheduler

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so you never really know "Linux"

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then you have massive drivers for hypervisors

psydruid

you can only know a part of Linux and then it keeps moving forward (or backward)

Jan 17 22:47

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yes, notice con kolivas is no longer bothering

Jan 17 22:51

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he said it had grown too big

Jan 17 22:51

psydruid

I don't bother, even though I know my way around the code

Jan 17 22:52

psydruid

and I have no plans to take up a Linux kernel developer job

Jan 17 22:52

psydruid

even though ARM offered me one a few years ago to work on Linux/KVM

Jan 17 22:53

psydruid

there is just too much BS going around in that community

Jan 17 22:54

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not sure

Jan 17 22:55

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it can pay well

Jan 17 22:55

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and if you like c, it's not a bad career=

Jan 17 22:55

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linux won't go away any time soon

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I could probably become a linux developers

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because it's in c

psydruid

I'm not interested

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but... steep learning curve

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git mailing lists, structure, APIs

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and even then your patches might be considered "risky"

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and thus not pushed

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so you can spend months working on just a patch ~1000 lines of code

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testing and refining it

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just too much red tape for me to feel productive

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at that point,

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several linux releases were out

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like 6.0, 6.1

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with "rust now available"

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so you're always chasing yesterday's kernel

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and your code becomes obsolete a few years later

Jan 17 22:58

psydruid

but it might be a good job for you, if you are interested

Jan 17 22:58

psydruid

I think you just focus on a specific subsystem

Jan 17 22:58

psydruid

and yes, it will become obsolete and be in need of updating

Jan 17 22:59

psydruid

but that's what you get paid for

Jan 17 22:59

psydruid

I might end up at CapGemini in the short term while working on my plans for the longer term

Jan 17 23:00

schestowitz-TR

arm had MANY layofgs

psydruid

I've finally been seriouslu learning web programming for the past few days on freecodecamp.org

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one third iirc

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*layoffs

psydruid

seriously*

psydruid

that's why I learned ARM assembly and immediately after RISC-V

Jan 17 23:02

psydruid

now anything I write for ARM I port it to RISC-V soon after

Jan 17 23:03

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iirc, that codecamp has microsoft boosters

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if that's the site i removed from rss

psydruid

the biggest burden will be porting things back to x86

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probably

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but I'm concerned about learning stuff, I couldn't care much about the site itself

psydruid

so far I haven't come across anything Microsoft-specific

Jan 17 23:05

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Larabel: AMD is sending me dozens of expensive CPUs (list here is just Ryzen series, not EPYC) https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-i5-13400/2

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Intel Core i5 13400 Linux Performance - Raptor Lake 10 Cores / 16 Threads For $239 Review - Phoronix

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maybe they sent him over 100 by now

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but EPYC is the jewel

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sure, overpriced

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but you can offload them in ebay for 5k apiece

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and I doubt he truly needs that many

psydruid

the jewel of the nile

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AMD reckons it's cheap to send loads of these

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then he starts peddling AMD Pluton

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and clown

psydruid

maybe no one else wants them

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(azure)

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yes, they are overpriced

psydruid

AMD and Intel are caught in between

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maybe they have excess stock now

psydruid

lots of competitors are coming up now

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as a business, I'd not spend $10,000 just for a CPU

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even 120+ cores

psydruid

they're essentially a legacy product for running an obsolete and irrelevant operating system

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i worked with companies that had CPUs like these

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and like 90% of the time nothing runs on them

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overprovisioned to the extreme

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and if they run something they need fast

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it might finish minutes/hours later

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then idling for a day

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so it's uneconomic

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better to have several low powered machines

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you can turn them off when you don't need them

psydruid

people will need fewer and fewer of them

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last year I started to turn off my screens when afk

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due to rising costs of energy

psydruid

that's what I do at home

psydruid

when I don't need much -> ARM

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when I need more compute power -> x86 laptop (up to 3/4)

Jan 17 23:11

psydruid

in the clown they are supposed to run at 90% capacity at all time

Jan 17 23:12

psydruid

they can ask $10,000 due to monopoly rents

Jan 17 23:14

psydruid

as was mentioned earlier here

Jan 17 23:14

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right

psydruid

when they have to compete on equal footing prices will have to drop

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they might say "R&d"

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code for "patents"

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or ripoff

psydruid

GNU/Linux is the big equaliser

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but those dies don't cost much to make

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they overcharge

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and with so many cores I'd struggle to find use

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even video processing

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you finish faster

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and then what???

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I run ffmpeg nice'd

psydruid

I would only ever buy and run one for a private clown

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my PCs are under-utilised already

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atm I use 4 of them

psydruid

to let many developers and users access it at the same time

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with 8 screens

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with two raspi working in the background

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one does almost nothing

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shows weather and recipes

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Phoronix is an Apple site today? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M2-Pro-M2-Max relevance to Linux? NOTHING.

Jan 17 23:18

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Apple Launches The M2 Pro & M2 Max + New Mac Mini With M2 / M2 Pro - Phoronix

Jan 17 23:18

psydruid

I bought a cheap used Sun SPARC rack server years ago for testing Linux at about the same time I bought my first ARM SBC and an old Powermac G5

Jan 17 23:19

psydruid

after a few years all that expensive hardware ends up on eBay

Jan 17 23:20

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i no longer use arm on here

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the arm machine I gave to rianne

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she uses two arm machines now

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i used to have 5 laptops here

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now it's done to 4, with 8 screens, not 9 or 10

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it was too much anyway

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I consolidated a bit

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rianne now uses 3 machines, I use 4+1 (pi)

Jan 17 23:23

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and the power bills are not insane at all

Jan 17 23:23

psydruid

power consumption is one of the main criteria now

Jan 17 23:24

psydruid

I optimize for that when the performance is already adequate

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we even pay less than before

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because of the gov. scheme

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66 a month

psydruid

and that will get more important over time

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psydruid: my scarcity is time

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and more screens can save time

psydruid

I want to minimise my bills and get the best performance while doing so

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so I don't need to move between virtual desktops

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CPU power is not the scarcity

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video processing is the only very heavy task here

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takes up maybe 1-2 hours per day on just one machine

Jan 17 23:27

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and next month we should get fibre

Jan 17 23:27

psydruid

if I do need more performance I start one of the fast laptops

Jan 17 23:27

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20 years ago with fedora and suse... wake on lan

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with sleep or hibernationm

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so you can access lab machines overnight

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using nfs

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and then run simulations on whole clusters of computers