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xcircleon Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

This weekend I finally freed my pc from Windows10 and installed cachyOS. It all worked better and easier than expected.

I would like to host my photos in Immich as mentioned here in the thread. I currently have my photos in the Apple Cloud. Does anyone have any tips on how I can download the photos in original quality without a Mac?

xcircleon Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own

I use an old thinkpad with Linux. There you can set a charging stop at e.g. 85%. Then you don’t have a need to unplug the battery

xcircleon Ask HN: Any MacBook Alternative?

My go to Linux Laptops are refurbished thinkpads.

xcircleon Ditching Obsidian and building my own

I use Joplin (https://joplinapp.org) on mobile and pc(windows and Linux). Joplin has a free encrypted sync via OneDrive.

xcircleon Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?

I‘m looking for Liberux. This is an european (Spain) development. They got actually their first dev board.

https://liberux.net

xcircleon Manjaro Linux: Making Arch Linux More Accessible

I prefer https://endeavouros.com as an arch distribution

xcircleon Moving away from US cloud services

+1 for Codeberg. I switched also to them. Theo habe also an alternative for GitHub Pages

xcircleon Ask HN: What do you use for analytics for a statically generated website?

I also use GoatCounter for my Hugo page

xcircleon MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small.

In our C++ project, we use the nlohmann library for handling JSON data. When sending JSON over MQTT, we leverage a built-in function of nlohmann to serialize our JSON objects into the MessagePack format. You can simply call jsonObj.to_msgpack(). Similarly, the data can be decoded back easily.

xcircleon German Naming Convention

But in Germany we are also very good at finding funny abbreviations. For example, the state's tax software is called ELSTER. ELSTER stands for „ELektronische STeuerERklärung“, which, funnily enough, is a thieving bird. The english bird name is magpie.

xcircleon Ask HN: Go-to Linux distro for general use and development?

I‘m using arch for server and desktop

xcircleon How do I become a Golang Pro? Best resource to improve at lightspeed

Advent of Code

I do the same this month: github.com/xovbd/advent-of-code

xcircleon Bare-metal Rust in Android

There is TinyGo for microcontrollers

xcircleon Ask HN: What is 2023 layout for Go project?

How to start a Go project in 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36046662

xcircleon Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

I use netcup.eu , a German Provider. They have cheap hour based plans so that you can cancel your plan everytime.

xcircleon Ask HN: Who has the best personal website/blog?

Without Reading anything ... This Site is a bloat for my smartphone

xcircleon AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review

Yeah it will be for gaming ;)

And what is with the diff between 2600 and non x? I think I need an aftermarket cooler for both variants .. and the 2600 (non x) are cheaper in Power consumption and the clock losses are acceptable, or not?

And a b450 Mainboard will also be good enough? Im using a Nvidia 1060 6gb graphic Card.

xcircleon AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review

Im looking for an Upgrade for my PC at the moment and can't decide between ryzen 5 2600(x) and 7 2700(x).

Now if i know that AMD is Planning to release the zen2 in May(?) I think I have to buy the 5 2600 because of the price fall at release.

I also need any Tips for a good Mainboard :)