No, I agree, there is huge potential to get back on the curve or even blow right through it, but currently and over roughly the last decade, moores law has been dead. At some point in future compute will grow massively. Humans have only been around for 10,000 years, and silicon tech isn’t even a blim in that history. Give it another 10, 100, 1000 years, we will be able to brute force anything we currently think is out of scope. But in the short term, the here and now, it’s worth exploring more elegant solutions that don’t require compute beyond our current availability

One of the reasons people keep making the same “mistake” is because moores law isn’t actually a law, and just an observation that was true from the 1960s to 2010s, so rightly assumed moores law wouldn’t go on forever so relying on ever increasing availability of compute wasn’t the best strategy.

Moores law has been dead for years now and the growth in compute is gradually slowing further. Yes, compute will continue to increase, but the pace is slowing and there is potential for it to stagnate.

No mate. I wrote it all by myself pressing every key on my phone. Entirely my own opinion too.

I enjoyed your post and glad you have a balanced view of llm use. I totally agree llm’s are a useful tool and will inevitably be used in all and every field they can be

However I feel like it will go down like a lead balloon in this community as there is a lot of hate for llm’s, and I even expect my comment to be slatted by “them”.

Mine isn’t there as an option, the internet was designed and built to be a free and open decentralised place. power, data, and control over the internet shouldnt be concentrated in a small number of corporations or governments. Instead, infrastructure, identity, content, and money should be spread across many independent nodes that no single entity controls. The fediverse is the return to what the internet always has been and always will be, just there was a small blip over the last decade or so where we lost our way.

How would this compare to hyperliquid Dex? It sounds fairly similar?

Unfortunately, you do what everybody else does. You use your reading, patience and time to research test and try various options over the course of weeks, months and years until you get experienced and knowledgeable about Linux and the ever changing options and configurations. There is no ultimate manual that tells you everything there is to know about Linux.

The only questions you really need to ask when picking a distro are which one aligns best with your effort, skill and preferences. To begin with prior to using any distro, those are very low and basic, so you want to start with a low effort quick and easy introduction to Linux. Start with a live distro to play around with. Then decide how much hand holding you need from there to choose which distro you actually want to commit to at the start. Then after weeks or months on that first distro, you will figure out what you like and dislike, which will guide your choices to move to the next distro. To begin with is all about learning and experimenting.

Can’t help you with river specifically, but I went from running x11 with openbox, to Wayland with sway. Sway has a really good ecosystem of tools like swaybg for wallpaper. I use waybar, pcmanfm, and rofi.

After 15 years on arch, last year I looked at Gentoo, artix and void. I chose void and have no complaints. It’s a very unopinionated distro, uses runit, rolling release, nice package manager, and works well with just compiling packages you want from source. My arch was heavily optimised and clean, but runit is so simple to use and boot times are insane. After post, my boot is around 3 seconds. Shutdown is about 1-2 seconds.

I don’t think it’s British. I have lived here my whole life, and I still haven’t heard of any UK based coffee plantations! Need a few more years of global warming before that happens.

I have 2x it hdd’s in software raid with mdadm which I use as my backup storage. My server mounts the array, writes the backup, unmounts the array, spins down the disks and puts them to sleep completely automatically every night at 1am. They never wake or spin up at all during the day.

Interesting 👍 thanks for the link. So it does work, just only in very specific situations.

We wljust went from 1 petrol and 1 diesel car and swapped the petrol, so we have 1 EV and 1 diesel. Been like this for 4 months now. Will be swapping the diesel for an EV in 6 to 12 months when funds allow as well! The EV is such a nicer way of motoring.

You missed 1 critical part in the process. Hot stuff heats you up, that increased heat makes you sweat harder, the sweat evaporates, which cools you back down to where you were before you drank the hot drink, you briefly feel like you cooled down, which you did, just only from the increase caused by the hot drink. Kind of a win?

If you say so. But I disagree.

No, the opposite. The only thing that matters is your personal taste and preferences. It’s purely and entirely about your perception. They include if you trust the maintainers, the logo, the package manager, the website, the distro name and everything else. You just choose what is important to you based on your taste and preference and choose the distro that aligns with that taste. Which distro you choose doesn’t matter at all, just pick the one you want to. If the most important thing to you is the colour pink, pick one that uses pink.

No, I think you’re missing the point. Distro really and truly doesn’t matter at all. They all can do the same stuff as each other. It’s entirely all about taste and personal preference, and nothing else. Each flavour has a different starting point, and those staying points make it quicker and easier to achieve different end goals, but they can all achieve the same end goals but with varying amounts of effort. But to stay with, just pick one and give it a try, learn how it works and what it does, then either stick or twist, but have fun learning and exploring.

Totally agree with you! It’s not flashy or modern looking, but everything is where it should be and it all just works exactly as I want it to. I keep others installed on my phone to just to look at if an update improves them, but nothing has yet. Currently installed are ultrasonic, tempo and substream. Non are as good, but all looks better than dsub2000.

You can mitigate the aur issue and retain everything else offered by not using aur. You will have the most arch like system compared to all other distros, without the risk of aur. Those packages in aur are mostly not included in other distros, so you won’t lose anything.

Personally, I left arch nearly a year ago due to it being too popular making it a target for malicious activity, it only offered bloated and over weight systemd, and after running arch for nearly 20 years, I just got bored and wanted something new, so I moved to void Linux. Very happy with my choice. Boot time is 3 seconds, shutdown is 5 seconds. runit is a nice light and simple init system. It’s rolling release but not bleeding edge, so updates never break anything.