ozymandias117 @ ozymandias117 @lemmy.world

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Every RFP/RFQ/RFI I’ve seen had no basis to what the customer actually wanted or what the firm could actually provide

Automating that part of the response seems trivial, since it’s already rushed with half answers

Both vehicles started moving after traffic lights turned green

How was either vehicle going so fast that “breaking aggressively” wasn’t enough to stop them immediately after accelerating from a red light….?

This makes no sense without a video

It has security fixes, so it’s probably a bad idea to skip it

It’s what proprietary software tends to target, so for someone just coming from Windows, it’s a decent first choice.

OpenSUSE/Fedora don’t support media codecs without knowing you need to add Packman/RPMFusion

Debian just released Bookworm, so it might be an okay recommendation for now, but as a general rule it’s probably not the best first distro

For someone used to Windows staying the same for years, jumping straight to a rolling release like Arch or its derivatives is a massive change

NixOS is too much configuration for a first time user

Linux Mint is maybe a better first recommendation, but it’s still downstream of Ubuntu (I wouldn’t recommend LMDE for a first time Linux user)

Your response is exactly why people find it so difficult to pick a distro to start. Ubuntu may not be the perfect distro for you or I, but there’s a decent reason it’s one of the biggest, and it has conservative defaults

Until that user knows what things bother them about it or what more they need, we’d just go back and forth all day about upsides and downsides of each distro

Ignore all the “this distro is the best”

Just use Ubuntu to start until you know what you wish was different

That implies a problem with Apple’s scheduler and/or thermal management

The kernel should never allow a user space processes to overheat the hardware

Yeah… Google also wrote toybox to get away from the GPL’d busybox, uses a libc based off BSD, and is trying hard to get their own kernel written in the Fuschia project that isn’t GPL…

The primary init manager for Linux is removing support for separating them later this year

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-September/048352.html

The alternatives kind of need to support ACPI, or some similar standard

DeviceTree works for embedded devices, but it’s not great for end users who are trying to get interoperability between suppliers

One of the selling points Jason had for WireGuard is that it’s less likely to be misconfigured

I’d probably argue WireGuard is security first, and can be used for privacy

IIRC the saving of IP addresses in memory is part of the design to allow you to keep connected to the VPN even if your network connection changes, e.g. when switching from WiFi to 5G

Not to say there aren’t any downsides, just that you already need to implicitly trust your VPN provider either way

The UDP only issue is really unfortunate for networks that try to block anything not HTTP

Yeah 😂

I was specifically thinking about pentium 4 when I said long pipelines aren’t always better 😂

Speculative execution has wound up having security implications as well

This is also why we use speculative execution and various length pipelines per core for single threaded execution

A long pipeline creates big delays when an instruction wasn’t the correct one, but on average it saves time

The only way nVidia works well with Wayland is with nouveau

Their proprietary drivers still don’t work. They announced plans to make them work better, but they haven’t put in the work to merge them yet

Kodi on a raspberry pi supports “CEC” so your TV remote “just works” to go through the menus

I didn’t mean inhospitable lightly - there are lots of beach houses that are literally unsafe to live in outside of beach season

With global warming and hurricanes and lack of basic utilities, it’s probably not worth trying to move people there

You lost track of the conversation. That was about ALSA

Vacation homes in places that are inhospitable for over half the year still make some sense, making “2” a fairly reasonable limit per family

Let’s get to 2 per person, then worry about discussing whether that’s too high

That’s another nice thing about PipeWire.

It supports configuring JACK for you if you need low latency

There’s still a fine line to draw between usability and performance

ALSA is too low level for musicians to reasonably understand

Having something like PipeWire to make it easier to configure isn’t a bad thing

I’m assuming it’s a complaint about how low level ALSA is compared to the, E.G. Audio HAL in Android