If by “WRECK” you mean “improve” yes.

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

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.

Finally, Donald Trump doing something good by protecting Americans from the hell that is LAX!

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 use my debuggers multiple times a week so they’re almost always right at my desk.

Scissors and tape measures, on the other hand… Well now that I have a thousand of each I’m normally able to find one within an hour or two.

While I’m sitting there eating my Kewpie mayonnaise I always find it so amusing how obsessed (some) Americans are with Japanese mayonnaise. It tastes just like the mayonnaise I’m used to from… well, everywhere else in the world except the US.

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?

I grew up calling it “sticky tape.” Because we also had tape measures, various forms of magnetic tapes and plumbing tape.

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.

My very specific niche in programming.

If you ask me about some very common things, I have no clue. JavaScript? More like JavaShit amirite? But if someone can explain OCI layers, describe the boot process of a RISC-V device as it leads U-boot and a Linux kernel, and talk about performance optimisations in modern Python… Well, my team is looking for more developers and this combination of skills seems impossible to find.

I much prefer some of the QR code restaurants we have in my city. I don’t want a waiter hassling me throughout my meal.

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.

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.

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