Yeah, I'm a little confused by the doom-and-gloom regarding all this. Meta/etc. can only ruin the Fediverse if we let them. I really doubt most people currently on lemmy/kbin/mastodon are going to abandon the smaller instances in favor of a Big Corp instance, which IMHO is the big way they can ruin it (consolidate users from smaller instances and then pull the plug). I think there is even an opportunity here to really grow the Fediverse --- smaller instances can (and should!) steal users from Big Corp instances.
Of course this may just be wishful thinking. With their track record, who knows what's possible I guess. (For example, I fully expect non-meta users to be 2nd class citizens on a meta instance...)
Keep in mind that there is, in general, a scheduler tradeoff between latency and throughput.
So, if you're doing audio recording and mixing, this is likely to have very different scheduler requirements than something churning through batch jobs. The former wants low latency, the latter high throughput.
The density of air depends on temperature (and humidity, among other things). A huge source of loss at freeway speed is air resistance, so lower density due to higher temps should improve mileage.
This is (sort of...) my gripe with Disney's The Incredibles. The villain is a normal/non-super guy who becomes a phenomenal engineer/mad-scientist-type presumably through hard work and education. And he's the bad guy, while the people who were born special/super are the good guys.
Slack got me through undergrad on an IBM 600e ThinkPad (which was really old even then --- around the time of the early 2.6 series kernels iirc). Great distro, fond memories.
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