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I don't get it. This technology has almost reached the point where they don't need you anymore, and you're joyful about it for some reason?

You think 2-8% is a problem? There's a large world outside the US. "Hundreds of dollars" per month is most of my salary, I can afford that only by going hungry half the time.

Probably going to if I want to keep my job, since I'll be making about the same amount of money moving boxes or cleaning toilets, only in much less comfortable conditions.

On Windows you do. If you have to suffer it for some reason.

One time? lscpu on my system lists two dozen CPU vulnerabilities known to the kernel. I stopped tracking them a long time ago when it felt like every week brought another information leak or bypass.

Oh come on, stop felling sorry for yourself. I'm from one of those countries compared to which even Eastern Europe you offload hardware to is a paradise.

None of what you're describing is available here at all. I sometimes see Europeans willing to ship here (already very few) offer heavily used and scratched ThinkPads and Dells for money they weren't worth when they were new. Add at least $80 on top for shipping, and no warranty, you get what you get.

On the local market, you will find those Core 2 Duo with precisely the attitude you're describing, but at 2-4 times the cost.

So I buy everything new, which is expensive with our salaries, but we have no choice. At least new hardware is available now thanks to selling over the internet and improved logistics.

10 years ago you could only buy what was offered by local shops, which was always at least two generations behind, and at least twice as expensive as it was in the EU (forget the US).

For example, if things continued like this to this day, I'd estimate the newest CPU you could buy right now would be something like Ryzen 3600, at twice the cost it was in your country when it just came out. If we're lucky, maybe 7600 would already appear at a similar overprice.

I'm sure many parts of the planet are even in a worse position than we are.

This sounds like FUD, do you have any references? Genuinely asking. I follow LWN reporting religiously, which in turn follows Fedora development (and associated drama) closely, and haven't seen anything said in this direction. Just had a quick look on LWN and Fedora development resources, and nothing came up.

Other things: since no companies sponsoring its development had any interest in raid 5/6, which is mostly a home enthusiast thing.

Western Digital picked up this work last year and is slowly getting through the new design without the write hole, I think we'll see working raid 5/6 in the next year or two.

What was meant is probably opencode. It's free there, along with several other models. You have to use their harness to access it. It's alright.

https://opencode.ai/docs/zen/#pricing

I've been using .NET almost exclusively on Linux since it was called .NET Core 2.0, and development platforms other than Windows do feel like second class citizens. Any time you venture into anything remotely advanced, the tooling is usually Windows only.

"Everything" expects you to use MSSQL, even if today there's ok official support for PostgreSQL and SQLite. Most "thought leaders" of various sorts are on Windows and expect you to use it. This pervades throughout the ecosystem.

Can't see this ever changing as it's not in MS' interest to turn other operating systems into good .NET development platforms.

Probably this enabled by some accessibility setting or power save mode.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

Depends on your location. While I have a decent internet connection at home, the mobile one is trash. Good for IM and not much else.

Most of the people I know only have the mobile connection, pay a lot for the privilege, and while speeds are generally good (LTE and up), the monthly cap for almost all of them is 10-20 GB.

On Android, Vivaldi supports dark more out of the box. It's actually just a toggle for the dark mode present on any chromium-based browser, and you can enable it globally in any of them in chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

Dark Reader, often recommended, is very slow, especially on old hardware. This built-in mode is much more efficient and works well on vast majority of pages.

I know the editors visit these discussions: please, next time use a more descriptive title! I nearly had a fit when I saw that, really thought LWN is going down like it almost did 20 years ago.

Happy to pay the new price, even though I can only afford the cheapest tier.

They're one of the few remaining air photography providers for OpenStreetMap editors with worldwide coverage (much of it high quality and regularly updated), so they have their uses.

LWN tends to be the best bet for these things, but you have to follow their reporting long term, or at least look for specific things you're interested in.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1081557/

https://lwn.net/Articles/1039623/

The author explains it well in the last few paragraphs if you don't want to bother with the rest. The point isn't in the "funny" apps at all.

It's a verb, "to rice" means to deeply customize your system to suite your needs and/or preferences. Install a desktop environment, setup it however you like it, add panels with system information, etc etc.

The more h4xx0r-like and minimalistic, the more street cred you get.

See https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn (or https://reddit.com/r/unixporn without an account).

Not sure imagemagick supports lossless transcoding. This old discussion from 2021 mentions that it didn't (in 2021):

https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/discussions/872

cjxl / djxl do lossless transcode reliably when called with all defaults (no arguments). Just re-checked:

  $ cjxl src.jpg out.jxl
  (some output)

  $ djxl out.jxl rev.jpg
  (more output)

  $ cmp src.jpg rev.jpg 
  (no output: files identical)

avif also supports lossless, but it's so inefficient it might as well not exist.

Lossless webp is a completely different image format compared to lossy webp, even though they come under the same file extension. Unlike lossy webp, it's a good image format that has excellent compression ratio compared to png. I've often been using it for screenshots to avoid damaging text clarity and still maintain acceptable file size.

jxl has excellent support for both lossy and lossless cases, and can replace both lossy avif (even if somewhat less efficient at low file sizes), and lossless webp.

Note also that converting jpeg to jxl is 100% reversible, you can convert it back to exactly the same image (byte for byte identical) if you need to.

Depends on where you live, it's a decent chunk of income for every developer I know, and a significant one for those less experienced. If you have other priorities (family, mortgage, so not a hermit like myself), you won't be able to pay that here.

The "Uncle Bob" school of thought follows this pattern. Look at his projects, I personally find them unreadable.

https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse

Sure. I can live for a day on those five bucks. You wouldn't believe what people in low income countries go through to save a bit of money: I've seen people I know (but couldn't stop in time) send copies of their ID to some shady company to get a five percent discount on gasoline.

They used to give 5-10 bucks of credit to new users a few years ago. Real credits, I very carefully compared prices from different IPs.

So I would register a new account for each order -- 10 USD is quite a lot of money in my country -- and saved at least a hundred on buying dev boards and other components.

Because your motherboard only supports HDMI. The last three I used had HDMI, and sometimes VGA.

They're already busy doing precisely that: https://lwn.net/Articles/1078942

I don't care about either X, but that guy's name is in this release, and judging purely by the number of commits (since I lack X expertise to judge any other way), he seems to be the top contributor.

Looks like there's no way you can avoid "conspiracy theorists" if you want to use X, including Xwayland, eh?

As a long time desktop and server user, why do I look at changelogs...

New filesystems and major changes to existing ones (large performance improvements, new features like adding better compression standards which I now know I can use, fixes to long-standing bugs which open new use cases).

New protocols like wireguard when it was new and exciting (still is now that I think of it). When that was mainlined, I knew I had some network rearchitecting to do.

New device drivers like amdgpu when it was massive news. Less so these days since most hardware is well supported, and I don't buy the absolute latest.

New kernel APIs which I can use in my programs — like landlock, when it was merged I knew it was time to improve sandboxing in some of my stuff.

Though LWN and kernel newbies do it best, already linked by others.

Recent MySQL comes with a rewritten optimizer (which they call "hypergraph") that will soon become the default, but you can already use if you want to.

One application I'm working on (CRUD, but with fairly complicated business logic) is seeing large performance improvements, especially on reports which join many rows from 10+ tables.

I regularly test the same dataset on both PostgreSQL and MySQL -- we support both, and this new optimizer puts them pretty close.

The current default optimizer has some pathological cases where reports run 8-10 times slower on MySQL compared to PostgreSQL. Not with this one.

https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/the-hypergraph-optimizer-is-n...