It depends. I use k8s a lot, and annoyingly enough we still happen to use cronjobs and bash scripts to āautomateā certain tasks. Maybe itās inertia, but bash is certainly easy to fall back toā¦
Yeah I am deep in the kube world as well. Since this industry-wide shift started happening, I feel like I write essentially no code anymore outside of bash scripts to glue things together. Itās essential but itās not a replacement.
This cartoon seemed to me to be suggesting that you could implement the behavior of kube with bash. Thatās obviously absurd.
Totally possible to go overboard in either spectrum of complexity. But yeah, take Prometheus for example. Itās super easy to set up and does a great job of metrics. Reimplementing this in bash would requireā¦ a lot of work.
A friendās neighbor just fell for this. She received a call from the ānicestā Microsoft tech and decided sheād let them into her PC. Within 10 minutes after hanging up she received a call from her bank asking if an $800 debit was valid. It took her weeks to clean up the mess.
I have a very similar use case so here is my opinion.
HARDWARE
-No dGPU unless this is your PRIMARY gaming computer. (Reason: better battery life, lighter laptop, with recent AMD iGPU you have decent performance for non-VR/not massive openworld AAA games.)
-recent AMD CPU. (Reason: better performance to watt ratio than Intel which makes a big difference for most of your use cases. Better multi-core performance which makes compiling code much faster. Massively better iGPU for light-medium duty gaming.)
-atleast 16GB ram if not expandable but as much as you can reasonably budget.
-16:10 or taller aspect ratio screen (16:9 sucks on laptop size devices, the extra height makes a big difference for school, coding, browsing, pretty much everything but watching 16:9 movies)
-Resolution: personal preference. IMO 1080p or 1920*1200 for 16:10 is ideal for 14" and below laptops. Lower resolution means better battery and on a small screen the PPI is high enough. If you are OK with a trade off of battery life and want a super crisp display then 2K is the highest I would go. 4K is retarded on laptop sized screens unless you are plugged in 90% of the time and youāll have to fuck with scaling then.
-metal body for stiffness and durability
-decent key travel (usually longer travel means better IME)
If you want to do machine learning/AI work professionally I use and recommend investing in a dedicated desktop with a large memory nvidia (cuda cores) GPU and installing the cuda drivers. Trying to cram commercially viable ai hardware into a laptop is a losing battle and youāll end up with a worse experience for both use cases, wont be able to fit large models in the memory anyways, and end up buying a desktop for AI while being stuck with a laptop that is worse for laptop use)
SOFTWARE
#1 Nobara OS KDE - best OOB experience for gaming IMO. Easy transition from windows. Has kernel fixes and many laptop specific fixes (asusctrl for example) by default which means you have a good chance of extra features like LEDs, fingerprint, etc working without tinkering). Fedora based.
#2 Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE6) - best non-gaming distro to learn and grow into IMO. Access to deb packages. Stable. (nobara has been stable for me as well, but it is LMDEās bread and butter). Ease of transition from windows. Can game just as well if you are capable of following simple instructions to configure the stuff done by default on nobara and pop (may need to manually change kernels, drivers, etc to get the best performance on new hardware)
#3 Pop_OS - used it for years, but I prefer Nobara after comparing. Ubuntu based so you have access deb packages without ubuntuās bullshit. Setup out of the box for gaming. I got fed up with failed updates, broken packages, and sluggishness so I swapped to nobara which has been a treat.
EDIT: you can snag some good deals on amazon warehouse deals (used-like new) laptops. These are usually just open box returns and if there is anything wrong you have 30 days to return it.
I recently upgraded to an Asus vivobook S 14x OLED (M5402R) for $780 CAD ($580USD) with a ryzen 7 6800H, 16GB DDR5, a 1TB gen 4 nvme, and it has zero signs of use, slight coil whine under load that I can only hear if I put my ear next to the keyboard and donāt have any sound or music on (I suspect this was the reason for the return on mine since its a common complaint for this model. Thatās what I was hoping for since Iām not that picky and its worth the steep discount IMO.) Everything works oob on Nobara. I believe lenovo also regularly heavily discounts their previous gen thinkpads which are a great option, although the AMD configs are rare. Good luck!
I just received a 2010 MacBook pro, but donāt like macos and the 2010 canāt support modern Mac. So, Linux. I installed budgie completely forgetting it was snap. I was planning to install LMDE. Iāve never heard Nobara OS, so will give it a shot first. Thanks!
I was reading their site after I posted, and saw that. I do love Fedora! Itās going on the MacBook. Hopefully the antiquated hardware can handle it smoothly. Iāve always got antiX lol.
I can only argue with metal body here: thatād vary on model-to-model basis. Iāve had a few thinkpads made of plastic, and theyāre fine after a few drops here and there, and hinges are alive and well, also Iāve seen some (mostly new-ish) laptops made of literal aluminum foil that are bent AF; whatās even worse, one wasnāt even what they call unibody, i.e. the frame was sandwiched of aluminum shell and a piece of crappy plastic with heat inserts for screws ā after like a year of normal usage those inserts literally broke off with the surrounding plastic.
The latter one was some ultrabook by HP. Namedropping here 'cause I have some personal issues with their products, so, frankly speaking, fuck them in particular :)
HP products are just always shit. I have a HP pavilion which was made of plastic, and it is basically unusable after 2 years of normal use. The plastic is the lowest quality crap Iāve ever seen.
HP products are just always shit. I have a HP pavilion which was made of plastic, and it is basically unusable after 2 years of normal use. The plastic is the lowest quality crap Iāve ever seen.
If youāre talking about what heās accused of saying, he did not say that. People kept repeating a badly garbled version of what he said that makes him sound awful, even though his actual words are easy to find and completely disprove the accusations.
Yeah I read this article, or his comment about how itās only natural for adult to be attracted to adolescents. I was more interested by @lolcatnip answer. But as a billionaire, he could buy tons of feet cheese.
āThe nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, āprostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophiliaā also would be. He is probably mistaken, legallyābut that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.ā
RMS on June 28th, 2003
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which arenāt voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing. "
RMS on June 5th, 2006
"There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.
Granted, children may not dare say no to an older relative, or may not realize they could say no; in that case, even if they do not overtly object, the relationship may still feel imposed to them. Thatās not willing participation, itās imposed participation, a different issue. "
Iād just like to interject for a moment. What youāre refering to as Linux, is in fact, BusyBox/Linux, or as Iāve recently taken to calling it, BusyBox plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning BusyBox system made useful by the BusyBox corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIXā¦
I had a case where fingerprint sensor was working out of the box fortunately. Although I had a problem where cryptfs would stop authenticating successfully with fingerprint sensor after distro update
Absolutely not outdated. I had a horrible time getting my hands on a working driver for the WiFi card in my brand new laptop last year. Horrible enough to resort to Ubuntu and even that gave me the finger. When I finally had it working I had to manually rebuild the damned thing each kernel update because I couldnāt convince DKMS to do it automatically. Had to wait two or three kernel releases for the card to be supported āout of the boxā.
So no, fuck WiFI drivers in Linux. If it is not in the kernel and the manufacturer doesnāt provide one, donāt expect fun times.
Outdated for Linux Intel, still valid for Broadcom, probably not so bad for somewhat recent Realtek and AMD/Mediatek (last Iāve read is that Mediatek WiFi hardware sucks in general and disconnects happen on Windows, so the same happening on Linux would be the fault of the Linux driver).
I installed linux on a new pc 2 days ago, had no problem with the wifi drivers. I donāt know if itās the fact that the wifi is integrated on the motherboard, but it was up and running without any tweeking from me (unlike windows)
But was the cause the Linux driver or the hardware? If the fault is the hardware and the experience on Linux is the same as on Windows, itās feature parity.
If in doubt, get an Intel WiFi card. Even in otherwise not upgradeable notebooks those are usually not soldered on. Also whatever is in a Steam Deck OLED looks like a good pick.
Does Intel sell wifi cards that use USB rather than PCI slots? My motherboard doesnāt have the slot for a wifi PCIe card, and Iāve only seen Intel sell those :/
I can absolutely confirm itās still valid for Realtek. I had one using the RTL8812AU chipset that basically no kernel version nor distro provided out of the box, so I constantly had to download a third-party driver from Github and manually patch it via dkms, or use a third-party repository containing the driver packageā¦ and then the driver broke so badly that it wouldnāt let me update at all unless I uninstalled it, which left me without the internet I needed to actually update, effectively leaving me unable to update until I could buy another one from Mediatek thatās compatible.
And said Mediatek wifi is really slow, so I just went from the frying pan into the fireā¦
I can absolutely confirm itās still valid for Realtek. I had one using the RTL8812AU chipset
Yeah, and I was explicitly writing about recent chips. RTL8812AU isnāt recent. The very latest Windows driver is from 2018, so the chip itself was released a good while before that.
I know exactly what you had to go through because I had to do the same with mine a couple of years ago but since then for newer chips Realtek started contributing to Linux itself:
Ahh I see, thanks for clarifying. It seems that where I live mostly only has the older Realtek chips for sale, so I likely mostly had bad luck.
I tried USB tethering, but it wouldnāt work for some reasonā¦ I donāt remember exactly what happened, but I think either the phone or my computer couldnāt detect each other.
I do occasionally fall for just buying shtuff without a quick google search to see if my kernel would be cool with it, but I have an even greater number of stories about good experiences with Windows shtuff driving me bonkers.
For example, the Brother ADS-1200 under WIndows beats anything SANE supported scanners can do hands down. Scan to PDF with excellent compression and top of the line OCR. The spousal unit needed a scanner and I found a good deal on an ADS-2100. Under Linux, scan results are totally comparable to the ADS-1200, so the hardware is fine. But the Windows software for this scanner is crap. JPEG and TIFF are identical to the Linux scans, but OCR and PDF compression are atrocious. Iām 100% sure that if I were to edit a table in the ADS-1200 software, it would happily apply the same excellent results to the ADS-2100. But Iāve had it with hacking Windows goop, been there, done that, got the t-shirt, so onto Craigās list the 2100 goesā¦ Built in obsolescence, welcome to the Windows world.
With Linux, once the kernel accepts it, itās smooth sailign without too many vendor introduced hickups.
And even on Windows, if you need to use third party scan software like VueScan because your scanner happens to be older than your Windows. itāll work but it wonāt outperform SANE supported scanners.
Situations like that arenāt very common these days. It usually happens when your hardware is very much new and drivers arenāt yet in the Linux kernel, or they are in the newest mainline, but your distro wont ship it for some more time. For that matter, itās always bad when the kernel doesnāt have the drivers built in and it always requires dealing with DKMS or akmod whether itās wifi, webcam, bluetooth or GPU (thatās why NVIDIA tends to be problematic on some systems).
That being said, the meme only works for anecdotal cases.
If it is not in the kernel and the manufacturer doesnāt provide one, donāt expect fun times.
This could be shorted to if your device has no driver it wont work which is obviously true.
If you have very recent hardware and you find it doesnāt work out of the box on stable options the easiest thing to do is install a more recent kernel. Even current Ubuntu non-LTS is 2-4 releases behind.
Itās even easier in arch/void where the latest kernel is already available.
Respectfully if DKMS wasnāt automatically kicking in then you configured it incorrectly. Itās a lot easier to just rely on a package that sets this up for you properly. If for some reason this canāt be done the logical thing to do is script the process so that all operations are completed in the appropriate order that way you neednāt remember to do one then the other.
This could be shorted to if your device has no driver it wont work which is obviously true.
What I tried to tell is that if you have to rely on community driver projects, donāt expect fun times, at least not when it comes to Realtek in my recent experience.
If you have very recent hardware and you find it doesnāt work out of the box on stable options the easiest thing to do is install a more recent kernel.
I already had the latest available kernel at the time, as in: the very latest officially released kernel by kernel.org. Ubuntu was just a last-ditch effort as it will sometimes have drivers included that other distros might not have, normally I wouldnāt touch it with a ten-feet pole and go either Arch or Manjaro. The driver simply wasnāt included in the kernel. How do I know? Because I stumbled upon some discussions that mentioned the lack of support and 3 kernel releases later support for my card was specifically mentioned in the changelog.
Respectfully if DKMS wasnāt automatically kicking in then you configured it incorrectly. Itās a lot easier to just rely on a package that sets this up for you properly.
Yes, like a Realtek-XXXX-dkms package, which simply didnāt work. Iāve configured stuff for DKMS before, scripting stuff for Linux is part of my daily workload, so yeah, you donāt need to tell me scripting beats doing stuff manually.
The fact that getting an f*cking wifi card to work takes this much effort is what I meant with ānot fun timesā and for me validates the meme, anecdotal as it might be.
Resorting to other distros, configuring additional repos so you can install a different kernel version, having to try different community projects to see which gives you a working driver, having to deal with getting DKMS to work, this is all stuff which hampers Linux adoptment. And without more adoptment we wonāt have to expect more support from manufacturers for desktop related consumer hardware. So yeah, that does make me cry a bit. Itās a catch-22 unfortunately.
Ughhh! Filthy casuals like you using the screen on a multimeter! I bet you donāt even staple the electrodes to your nipples! Probably use clamps instead š
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