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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloudEnglish
18·2 months agoIt doesn’t take 3nm/2nm chips to make a great computer. The Switch 2 is has a Samsung 8nm SoC. Steam Deck is TSMC 7nm. A Steam Deck has a better processor than my Intel N150 NAS. We don’t need the strongest hardware for self hosting. Don’t need it for a good gaming experience. Someday we’ll get second hand server parts salvaged into home equipment. The PS5 had that jailbreak. That can someday be a useful Linux machine. Someday the Xbox Series. Someday there’ll be a wave of RISC-V SBC’s that are better than the most recent raspberry pi
It’s why I favored Unity over Gnome back in the day. The titlebar/basic menu items and close/minimize/expand buttons integrated into the top bar was better. Ya it was probably a copy of MacOS/OSX. Damn good to me in my opinion though. Overall I like Gnome but I’m not sold on it long term. Someday I may try going full time on KDE again. Very likely popos 26.04 with Cosmic I’ll try that out on my primary computer when it releases
I have an old laptop running it since a year ago. It’s getting there. If you use it long enough, you will still regularly stumble on little things that are nicer to use on gnome or kde but it’s getting there. I plan on switching my primary desktop to it for the 26.04 release
commander@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?
3·7 months agoTheir only chance there was the late 90s to early 2000s. MS is one company compared to the totality of mega corporations using Linux and MS also uses a lot of Linux. More money at play in the server market than the general desktop OS market. Linux is the server OS
The US government increasingly uses Linux. Other countries pick up Linux at a faster rate than the US. A higher percentage of people use MacOS today than 20 years ago
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Hardware@lemmy.ml•Lisuan Tech Unveils 7G106—China's First 6 Nanometer Gaming GPU
21·8 months agoThat’s what I’m hyped on. It’s a TSMC 6nm chip so not going to be competitive with 4nm or future 3nm cards but if it’s a lot easier to use with a Windows VM than dealing with 2 GPUs, I’m importing that card
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Hardware@lemmy.ml•Lisuan G100 GPU shows promise, at least in OpenCL — homegrown Chinese chip outguns Arc A770 and RTX 4060 in new benchmark, 10% slower than RTX 5060
2·8 months agoI have an Intel ARC A750. The path to good performance with that was DXVK. On Windows, throw in the DXVK dll. On Linux, always using DXVK/VK3D
The thing would probably be good for custom boutique software to run in data centers, maybe render farms. If they work on a solid Linux driver, DXVK it up
commander@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
20·8 months agoAny bit of user base growth helps get the ball rolling for future MS/USA missteps. Linux has just been getting better and easier year after year. It’s been a 30 year marathon ready for another 30+ years of development
commander@lemmy.worldto
Hardware@lemmy.ml•Tensor G5 exhibits middling performance alongside Pixel 10 Pro Fold on Geekbench
1·8 months agoGoogle’s strategy will never make sense to me. Apple vertically integrates to pursue performance crowns at a price competitors can’t do so without vertical integration like an iPhone. Google doesn’t go for the performance crown or heavily undercut on price not needing to pay Qualcomm prices for the chip, their advertising business, and Google Play and YouTube purchases. I guess maybe balancing act with other Android OEMs and not driving them away because of all the advantages Google could use by being software platform holder and chip designer
I’m happy to use Flatpaks but the annoyances I’ve had are like when one application says to use you’ll need to point to the binary of another application that it depends on but very understandably doesn’t package together, figuring that out to me can be annoying so I’ll switch to a regular installation and it all just works together no fuss, no flatseal, no thinking about it really. Also some applications where it’s really nice to launch from the terminal especially with arguments or just like the current working directory and with Flatpaks instead of just right off the bat it’s application name and hit enter, Flatpak hope you remember the whole package name
org.wilson.spalding.runner.knife.ApplicationName …
Ya alias but got to remember to do that. So far anything I’d ever want to run from terminal, no Flatpak
The whole of Fedora atomic distros are interesting in an exercise in getting good with layering and distrobox. Pop_os 24.04 just to see if a third pillar of Linux frontends with GTK and Qt is viable. People are always pissy about Manjaro but they seem to have an interesting present being pre installed on the Orange Pi Neo handheld
commander@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains?English
48·10 months agoI don’t know if it’s the same law but they’ve already said they’d move countries, anywhere with laws suitable for the service
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Hardware@lemmy.ml•Someone got the Nintendo Switch 2's hardware early and spilled all the beans
10·10 months agoIt’s its fabled secret sauce. Every console has has a secret ingredient inside
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharingEnglish
551·11 months agoThe more users on Jellyfin the better shot it has at getting more developer attention and users willing to contribute financially even if just occasional one off donation. How it goes with any open source application. More users, more developer interest, more feedback from users, subset of users willing to financially support the project
I do really like it now. It has quirks currently compared to gnome and kde but it’s shaping up well. I think it’ll be pretty stable by 26.04 LTS and a good foundation for the future
It’s been a long time since I’ve used 2007 class laptops. In my mind I’d lean towards like Lubuntu or Xubuntu. LXQT or Xfce. It won’t look as modern as GNOME, KDE, Cosmic but they’re good
commander@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop - Last Step Before Beta
5·11 months agoIt’s a lot more stable than September. I switched permanent to it in February and it’s solid. The only reason I’d consider system76 hardware in support of cosmic development
I think Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever mint version around then
Ubuntu at work since it’s well supported and we can expect any IT people to be able to deploy our packages.
Pop 24.04 because I think it’d be cool to see how performant and maintainable and customizable a desktop that isn’t GTK or QT based. Something sparkly without the legacy choices of the past to consider in the codebase. Plus even though I’ve never touched Rust, it’s so hyped that I’m interested to see how it all works out. It’s my gaming desktop that also has a Windows VM for occasional trying something out. Also process RAW photos with Darktable. Every now and then use Alpaca to try out free LLMs, handbrake, ffmpeg, image magick, compile something
Fedora, stable to me and it goes on my minipc. I run Jellyfin on it and occasionally SAMBA or whatever. I like to see how GNOME changes.
On a Legion Go, Bazzite with KDE. Steam and seeing how KDE Plasma progresses over years. Bazzite introduced me to distrobox and boxbuddy which I now use on the gaming pop_os machine too.
An old laptop with Linux Mint on it. I like to see how Cinnamon is. Used to favor it when I first tried Linux from Windows.
It’s been a long time but I also used to really like Budgie but I feel like everything is pretty solid at this point and I no longer care to chase modern GNOME 2 or Windows XP/7 UI design















That’ll be nice to see. I like Collabora but haven’t tried hosting it. Opening that up and LibreOffice up side by side with the tabbed interface, barely any different. Maybe LibreOffice exposes way more buttons in each tab so maybe more intimidating but it looks pretty good compared to what I remember when the tabbed interface was first made available. Looking forward to seeing this progress