If by “WRECK” you mean “improve” yes.

Meanwhile I’m here on Wayland because it does things that x11 doesn’t.

My OS came with an officially packed (by Mozilla) non LTS version of Firefox that gets regular version upgrades.

They don’t in general, but things that do heavily detailed graphics work (like your compositor or browser) or lots of cryptography work on the CPU can get a bit more out of those newer instructions than many other programs.

Very approximately, things that Gentoo offers prebuilt versions of because compiling them is so resource intensive are often the things that can get the best benefit out of your architecture variant. (Not singling out Gentoo here as an example of “doing it badly” - they do the sensible thing by providing these prebuilt binaries, but in some ways it defeats the purpose of optimised source distributions.)

It’s a Hard Problem™ to solve.

Services I know that have both HTTPS and SSH access have seen all sorts of weird stuff seemingly related to LLM bot scraping over the past few months. Enough to bring down some git servers.

I solved this by using Linux anyway and being way more productive than other folks.

Look I don’t have heat in the winter so I compile Firefox for various processors to keep my bedroom warm okay?

The irony is that big things like Firefox can get the most advantages from building for your specific CPU variant, especially if you use them frequently.

For fun.

I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that nobody at Microsoft registered that short URL for the lulz or the resulting destination for short URLs that don’t get found.

Maybe something like OpenStack?

Everything on the system, including the desktop, kernel, and CUPS, can be installed by snap.

Turns out hosting a bunch of files is very cheap.

Yummy!

I love Lemmy.

I was wondering whether I was going to have to explain that rule to a crowd of angry zealots, furious that I could possibly oppose the Great and Mighty Apple like that.

I’m not opposed to having macs in my collection (though as it so happens right now I don’t have any), because it’s not about hating Apple and entirely about whether I can do something useful with the hardware.

A majority of the ARM hardware I have is old Android phones booting a pretty standard Linux distro with custom kernels. Most of them have drivers missing for various pieces of hardware, but as long as they can boot, connect to my homelab network over USB and run containers, they make excellent build/test devices.

Discourse, not Discord. The accounts are managed through the same SSO that manages Launchpad accounts, so the devs who will use this already have an account.

Yeah this is basically what I do. People like giving me their stuff because I’m transparent about the deal:

1. If at all possible, I will wipe it for you.
2. If it’s usable, I will either add it to my TrashCloud™ or (especially for laptops) set it up for a kid.
3. Parts/devices that I cannot get working I will take to electronics recycling.
4. No iPhones/iPads.

Another win for Linux!

I don’t care if they’re selling computers to fascist psychos.

I do care that they’re using their soapbox to promote those fascist psychos.

This is essentially Google moving to do what I always thought was Apple’s malicious compliance on the DMA, but which European courts seem to have accepted as just fine. I’m pretty miffed at Google for sinking to Apple’s level on this.