waigl

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waigl,

Which one is that on the pick set? I don’t recognize the logo…

waigl,

Anyone know what he’s alluding to with his repeated “catching fish in my backyard with a net nudgenudgewinkwink” remarks?

waigl,

It’s odysee, a frontend to lbry, a sort-of decentralized alternative to Youtube. Which seems very enticing, because an alternative to Youtube is badly needed.

Unfortunately, at the moment it is completely overrun by religious nutjobs, Nazis and other assorted scum. It is not by its nature an alt-right service, but it does attract all those who would be banned anywhere else.

waigl,

The English word for the fish is “sturgeon”.

waigl,

OP said it happened around the year 2000. Linux was at maybe 2.4.something back then. The kernel was much smaller then than it is today.

waigl,

Trees don’t actually produce a lot of oxygen, at least not in aggregate. That’s because for every ton of biomass the worlds forests gain through trees growing, you get an equal or larger amount of biomass disappearing through rotting or burning, which… releases CO2 and consumes O2. Only if tree cover as a whole grows can trees in aggregate actually increase atmospheric oxygen and decrease atmospheric CO2.

Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened in centuries, maybe millenia if you discard some minor short-lived recovery periods after major reductions in human population after, for example, Gengis Khan’s conquests in the 13th century, the black plague in Europe in the 14th century or the extinction 90+% of North America’s native population by Eurasian diseases in the 16th century.

waigl,

Bogs, specifically peat bogs, are indeed an exception, but that has very little to do with the trees.

waigl,

Congrats, your girlfriend is imaginary.

waigl,

The title is highly misleading — which should be obvious enough to anybody who has been using Linux in the last 15 years. Of course Linux has been able to use more than 8 cores this entire time. Many of us would have noticed a long time ago if it didn’t

The article is talking about a minor optimization of scheduler granularity to make better use of multi-core machines. It would increase the size of the scheduler’s time slice to make use of the fact that in a highly multi-cored system, you would very likely have some core available to react to user inputs fast, even if processes are running, thereby saving on some context switches. Apparently, this optimization didn’t not go as far as originally planned for CPUs with more than eight cores.

Personally, I don’t expect it would have made a major difference of it had.

The headline here is frankly going past a simplified summary and well into dishonest territory. I would take everything this author says with a huge helping of salt, including his claims that all the documentation and even code comments about that mechanism are wrong.

waigl, (edited )

Nothing is affected. The headline is largely bullshit. A minor optimization for high core-count systems did not go as far as originally planned, and that may or may not have made a barely noticable difference.

waigl,

Some of those Cons sound pretty bad, especially the graphics problems. A lot of those I figure I could live with, but some, like the constant noise on the graphics or a low-quality touchpad would be just too much to tolerate.

I am currently awaiting my (pretty damn expensive) Framework 16 at this time, and I can only hope my experience will be a bit better than yours…

waigl,

cygwin hangs during installation at libzstd1-1.5.5-1

This bug report must mean that someone, somewhere, for some reason was running cygwin under wine and cared enough about that that they would create a bug report when it failed…

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