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If I'm understanding correctly, each calls to a LLM makes a 3000W GPU run at full speed during the time of inference (let's say from 5 to 60 sec) while Google searches are historically mostly cached so very inexpensive for most searches.

Isn't the environmental impact 10 to 100 times what we were used to?

Honestly with the likes of Opencode / pi / hermes I don't really find the "Claude Code agent loop" part particularly interesting.

The edge Anthropic has on others lies on its models performance. CLI tooling (and obviously pricing) is definitely not better than others.

This should be higher, as this dates from 5 days ago I wonder why OP didn't bother to mention this follow-up

The cool thing about open-weights model is that you are free to use alternative providers that won't phone home to the original model creators.

I see 6 alternative providers listed on Openrouter for DeepSeek V4 Pro for example.

Another vote on niri being just great software. While itss idea (scrolling tiling windows manager) is novel, the software in itself is very polished with a very mature API that doesn't change at every version (looking at you hyprland).

Not sure about mid-life, he is still in his early twenties. He was a gifted programmer with very popular open source projects early on.

Thanks Dylan for all your work over the years. It has been very influential from Neofetch, Wal/Pywal, KISS Linux, to your own Bible, the Pure Bash one!

Wishing you all the best for the future, may the Greek weather keep you happy!

I use LineageOS on all my devices (it's actually my main criteria when buying a phone) to mainly install apps from F-Droid without relying on the Google Play Store.

It has the same familiar look and feel on all devices and by experience is way snappier than the original ROM.

> Maru is built on the latest Android Oreo.

Yeah this is abandonware, idk why it's being posted and upvoted now.

Something similar to real mobile/desktop convergence is still technically possible today with Phosh on PostMarketOS (or Mobian, Mobile NixOS or Arch ARM) and a compatible device with USB-C video out (like the PinePhone).

Interesting I assume it's with all drives off, how many Watts with some disk usage?

The hardware is basically the same as self-hosted NAS, the motherboard could even be of a lower quality. The software though is closed source and most consumer NAS only get support for 4-5 years which is outrageous.

- https://github.com/dbeley/fdroid-insights: just a simple website to help me find popular and well-maintained F-Droid apps

- https://github.com/dbeley/lastfm_cg: a scriptable lastfm collage generator (it has been active on my Mastodon account https://mamot.fr/@dbeley for years now)

And on the same model as F-Droid Insights but with different data sources:

- https://github.com/dbeley/firefox-addons-table: to discover Firefox addons available on NUR repository

- https://github.com/dbeley/lpa-table: to discover Linux apps tracked on LinuxPhoneApps.org

I created a small website to display F-Droid apps with their repository information (from github, gitlab, etc), it's not perfect but it can give more insights on a project popularity.

It's available here: https://dbeley.github.io/fdroid-insights/

On top of Qobuz (which is great) there is also Ototoy (mostly for japanese indie music).

ChatGPT is not "someone", it's a black box that will ingest everything at his disposal and can't tell you where he gets the information from.

The moral thing to do would be to use opt-in training data.

> systemd

"It removes fragmentation, could be deadly for the ecosystem"

> wayland

"It adds fragmentation, could be deadly for the ecosystem"

Both are now the standard on the most of the biggest linux distributions, so maybe it's not that big of a deal?

Not a success? It's now the default on most biggest Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora.

The tiling WM ecosystem in particular is thriving on Wayland with sway and hyprland, and I personally haven't had any issues with screen recording with OBS (I use hyprland).

Most of the stuff said in the list you linked is "said-X11-only software is not compatible with Wayland" but nothing is said about alternatives : for example instead of redshift I use gammastep.

You can specify as many profiles as you want, you have a property called firefox.profiles that can be an array and you would declare as many settings you would want in it. They still need to be names though (either through a variable like an username or a name you would set yourself).

Yeah AMD has the edge on efficiency it's odd it's kind of an "underrated" feature nowadays.

Using less power (thus less W to dissipate that will end up heating your room) for the same computing power? Who wouldn't want that?

No they're not

Just as difficult? AMD GPUs are plug-and-play on linux (if you have latest gen you should run a recent enough kernel but that's basically it), whereas Nvidia GPUs need their proprietary drivers which adds much more complexity for beginner users.

NixOS is overriding the profile name by using your username so the name is not auto-generated anymore (NixOS hates that) so it knows the user profile will always be at ~/.mozilla/firefox/USERNAME. It automatically creates a ~ /.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini with a custom profile.

How do you install the userChrome.CSS automatically? As far as I know it needs to be placed in a folder containing a hash that's only generated at firefox first launch.

At some point if you want to configure everything with your own shell script it will be a nightmare to maintain, NixOS is easy to learn in comparison.

It's just impossible to have the same level of configuration with your own custom script, NixOS goes way beyond: its configuration capabilities goes from your bootloader to user-level Firefox add-ons, and you have niceties like reproductability and rollbacks.

Every CEO of the top tech companies would be fired for the kind of controversy Musk has monthly.

Musk gets away with it because he's the owner but most social media and tech companies aren't led by this awful people.

The link rot resulting from this will be pretty bad all over the internet.

Sad they didn't manage to be sustainable.

I also started working on a similar website several weeks ago. It's called tuberank, feel free to check it out!

https://tuberank.org/en

Great write-up! I feel those stories of open source developers are really lacking in the space given the importance of their work.

Clicked for a new Mini-ITX case in the shape of a cute door(?), stayed for the kind message <3