Notices by Josh Simmons (dotstdy@mastodon.social)

@skinnylatte that is how it works here funnily enough :')

@slightlyoff process also impacts the caches, not just frequency directly. caches are large and power hungry. (cost probably still bigger issue, but yeah, and well, process is also just a cost. one does not simply steal tsmc allocation from apple)

@sinbad @gpakosz right I mean ultimately there's just a lot of small things, I don't really have any trouble navigating that stuff so the amount of energy I spend on my Linux machines is significantly less than the amount I spend on my often a pita windows work machine. But if you don't have the broad knowledge it's hard to get yourself into that happy place. I think it's pretty much there in general, but it needs somebody to constantly work on filling the gaps. That used to be Ubuntu.

Maybe a more productive way of thinking about it is - what would you actually need to add to arch to make it recommendable by default, given that post-install it's basically the only distro which actually works.

@skinnylatte you don't need to replace it anyway, the core issue there is an imbalance of power. So the trivial fix is to ensure all workers have the same protections (and then enforce this, and make sure they're made aware of their rights). Voila!

@d6 @mcc *so long as all your hardware is old enough that geriatric software will actually run on it, and so long as your software is all old enough to be happy running on geriatric platform software. If that's not the case then you get flipped around and a stable distro is the opposite of stable.

@d6 @mcc e.g. if you buy a new laptop you likely want to be running the latest or near the latest kernel just so it actually like, works. There's usually some number of small functionality enablement that needs to happen. Then if you want to run new software (like e.g. steam games) you need graphics drivers that aren't from the middle ages. And any applications you want to use, you likely want the latest version of those too. (Debian stable has blender 3.4, for example, current upstream is 4.3)

@NewtonMark @futurebird @cstross feels like the correct answer here is to invent a whole new system of measurement to put those woke euros in their place

@skinnylatte there's a really nasty trap where people see "real americans" being treated poorly e.g. paying absurd tuition costs, and then rather than thinking about that, they just accept it, and switch to "well of course we can't afford to give cheap tuition to foreigners, we can't even afford to give cheap tuition to Americans". But obviously it's a real failure of imagination to think those problems are innate or unsolvable and it's a deliberate ploy to recenter everything around immigration

@gsuberland @cstross yeah it's particularly annoying too because people seem to struggle with the idea that different places have different issues with water supply. you can even use the rejected heat for good, potentially, so while i'm extremely not excited in general about the whole thing, just directly taking the big numbers and write a headline is really harmful.

@sinbad probably because having two fans in push+pull makes it look more like a more serious cooler despite largely being pointless :')

@slightlyoff one downside of the persistent myth that programmers are inherently smart and thus immune to soft issues like feelings and marketing is that there's basically no industry-wide defense against completely meaningless terminology like "modern" being used as a substitute for figuring out whether something is fit for purpose.

the smart move is to just use quiche, but quiche makes my build time go from 3 seconds to 10 seconds which is a significant impact on one of the most important KPIs for my personal game engine

one annoying thing about quic is that it's slightly more protocol than seems sensible to just implement casually. http is straightforward enough that writing your own little server or even implementation is well within reason (if not good sense), but there's a small amount of immediate dread when you sit down and look at the quic specification

@sinbad @Doomed_Daniel of course being totally impenetrable gibberish is basically the core marketing approach of the PC space, so in that way ai and this botched copilot+ bs fits perfectly.

@sinbad @Doomed_Daniel right but the definition used in that article is "ai enabled" which is unrelated to the dumb microsoft thing which literally nobody supports. so everyone's branding their shit as ai enabled right now, and microsoft are still trying to make "copilot+" a thing

@Doomed_Daniel @sinbad there's no reason to avoid them anyway, all that's happening is that the new chipsets are being rebranded with an extra ai on the sticker. there's no functional change.

the linkedin posts are coming from inside the house

@leobm @feld @lain @Datenegassie @nikitonsky Taking that value as an example, it would mean that your home is drawing a bit under 50W continuously for electronics in standby mode. A Mac mini drawing 0.5W (this is the actual specs of the device, turning it off reduces this to 0.1W) in sleep mode isn't going to impact that. Multiplying the other way, the yearly power draw of a Mac Mini always on in sleep mode is approximately 4.4kWh / year.

@ManniCalavera @leobm @feld @lain @Datenegassie @nikitonsky why?