I run a home server with an i5-4590 and I haven't seen it use more than 35W. I'm still looking to upgrade to a newer but lower power CPU (ideally one of those super low wattage chips with similar or better performance like an R7 5700U or i7-1260U).
If power usage is a concern and you don't need much raw compute, a Pi (or similar SBC) should serve your needs just fine.
If you need a decent middle ground, take a look at mini PCs, they tend to use efficiency-focused laptop chips which are way more powerful than an SBC but sip power compared to a full-fat system.
Only if it's configurable. It would be trivial for bad actors to find a niche sub, make a copycat of it on another instance, and start posting spam etc.
If I install an operating system from an image built within the last 20 years, it being able to install a single piece of software is a perfectly reasonable expectation.
Yes, it's good practice to check for updates first. You do it, I do it. But Linus here represents something special here. He is a technical user but unfamiliar with Linux. If he can cause a system to completely break by simply asking it to install one piece of software in a standard way, then what hope is there for a layman?
Getting on your high horse and talking about the "right" order to do things makes you seem like an elitist looking down on the poor peons who dare to try and use their OS in any other way than the one you deem correct. That's why people think you're upset.
Oh, and as for blaming Linus, you did literally say it was Linus' user error and that he only has himself to blame. Your words, not mine.
I work for a large company and its the same. They even force-install Chrome despite Edge already being there! Yes, some people will make the privacy argument that Microsoft takes your data, but so will Google, and it's not as if the business cared either way, because if they did they'd install an adblocker or Firefox, which they don't.
That number appears to be very small, all things considered. Out of everyone I know, literally one person cares about privacy. My mother. She will even go as far as to only use her first initial online instead of her name if she can get away with it. However, she uses Chrome all the time because she doesn't understand that your browser also tracks you.
I think that's what it comes down to. A mixture of lack of public interest, and lack of public awareness about tracking/privacy in general. If people can't immediately see how having their data harvested will inconvenience/hurt them, they simply don't care.
Not necessarily my favourite, but they have a similar amount of wackiness to yours:
Giants hiding in the bathroom
Lightning in the living room
As Einstein and Darwin do shots with the Greek god jocks
The apocalypse is kinda cool.
And if you're needing something just ask
Maybe Father Time can try to change your past
Got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram
Yeah, they're worth it if you've got the cash.
There is another lyric later that I find interesting:
Grim Reaper in the hallway
says he's off the clock, as always.
But I don't feel so safe.
I feel like there's some extra meaning behind it, specifically the "as always" bit, but I just haven't figured it out yet.
The song is All Night by Fox Stevenson, by the way.
This may go awry if some prisoners are not remorseful. For example, let's say an extremist murdered some women because he believes them to be inferior. They could use this as a platform it to spout their ideals and to convince others to do it. It would also make it trivial to pass messages from imprisoned gang members outwards to the still-free members. Not exactly things we want to encourage.
I'm a developer by trade, we tend to have relatively accurate hunches about these things haha
Hopefully this is something that can be fixed (or at least toggled per-user) soon.
Strange, I've posted animated WebPs (on another account) and they worked as you'd expect. Perhaps it's a setting or some other kind of version difference between instances?
Correct. Hence I prefaced what I said with "In an ideal world", implying that it is not the world we live in. But even so, that doesn't stop us from striving to make the world we do live in better.
Looks fine for your first website! I would change the colour of the text, though. Black on another dark colour is kinda harder to read. You can catch these problems by opening Firefox Dev Tools (F12), going to the Accessibility tab, and changing "Check for issues" to "Contrast". It'll list all the elements that have too low a contrast ratio.
In an ideal world, if AI did all our jobs then we'd be free to pursue what we actually want in life rather than have our time taken up by things that we have to do in order to get by.
Of course, it probably won't turn out like that without large systemic change, but it's nice to think about.
It seems CoreCtrl doesn't support Nvidia GPUs, which is unfortunate. I did also attempt to set PowerMizer mode to Maximum Performance in nvidia-settings but that didn't help. I suppose I'll need an AMD card to have a good Linux VR experience?
Infinite growth is not a core part of capitalism. You're right there. But do you know what is? Pursuit of profit. And do you know what leaves dollar signs in companies eyes? Pursuing infinite growth. Infinite growth results in infinite capital, in theory. Such growth is not a requirement of capitalism, but it is the logical conclusion when you throw sustainability out of the window. And boy, do we know that corps love doing that!
I've followed the Bluetooth instructions but now SteamVR crashes on launch.
I get a 109 error on the 1.14 Linux branch (no change from before).
On the beta branch it crashes as soon as I launch it (nothing specific, just a message saying SteamVR is disabled because it crashed and a Retry button). Upon retrying my entire system froze and I had to hard reset. Upon rebooting and trying again it broke the window manager so now I have no window chromes (if that's what you call them on Linux? the top bar and title and min/max/close buttons) so I had to reboot again.
On the stable branch it seems to now work but there's a very noticeable delay in my head movements, which is very nauseating. Disabling asynchronous reprojection seemed to slightly improve this, but it's still noticeable.
If I can't find a fix for that, it seems like Linux VR is still a pipe dream for me. But in any case, thanks for your help so far!
I run a home server with an i5-4590 and I haven't seen it use more than 35W. I'm still looking to upgrade to a newer but lower power CPU (ideally one of those super low wattage chips with similar or better performance like an R7 5700U or i7-1260U).
If power usage is a concern and you don't need much raw compute, a Pi (or similar SBC) should serve your needs just fine.
If you need a decent middle ground, take a look at mini PCs, they tend to use efficiency-focused laptop chips which are way more powerful than an SBC but sip power compared to a full-fat system.