• 1 Post
  • 337 Comments
Joined 5 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 21st, 2021

help-circle











  • Windows was trash, BeOS didn’t take off, and all the good network diagnostic tools were exclusively on *nixes in the early 2000s. Later, the *nixes are better for application development and deployment. They’re just built to serve data.

    Windows has kind of caught up in the tooling department largely thanks to a VM, but it’s still trash. LOL

    Idealogically, I can own my tools and modify them if needed. I don’t modify them, but hypothetically I could.




  • The distro doesn’t really matter. Buying more efficient hardware and running efficient software matters.

    A 65w proc is going to use less electricity then a 240w proc. Native software is more efficient then running lots of web browsers.

    If you really want to know how much power the desktop is using, measure. Measure the power coming out of the wall. Measure how much time the system is active, and feed that into a time series database with a something like Grafana for visualizations.






  • Nvidia wants to be the equal to Intel and AMD. They want to be the 3rd major hardware house.

    In ~2009, Intel didn’t renew a contract which allowed Nvidia to produce chipsets for Intel processors, and since then Nvidia has wanted a CPU of their own to keep from getting locked out again.

    Nvidia tried to buy Arm when SoftBank was trying to sell, but that got scuttled. They had Tegra in the past which was a phone processor and successful in the Nintendo Switch. They can’t buy Intel because of poison pills in the x86 licensing between AMD and Intel which would kick in.