I ran it 2003-2006ish.

Having a package manager that updates online was a game changer for Linux distributions.

I had been using slackware for 6 years prior, and there was no real update path. Best case you’d just get the latest release on CD and install it over your (hopefully) separate root partiton.

Conpiling all your stuff sounded like a good idea in the age of the architecture options at the time. Alpha, Crusoe, PowerPC, SPARC and MIPS were all viable options.

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I wonder if those DevOps cost $72M/h.

Otherwise I have an idea that might save AWS some money.

I have two machines running the latest kernels on EndeavourOS. One with a Radeon RX 7900 XTX has no issues.

The other one has a Radeon 6650 XT, which since a week or two ago starts getting kworker threads stuck while throwing errors about fence queues. Load can go up to the hundreds (while there’s no real load, but just blocked threads), until the machine crashes.

As I recall there was an amdgpu firmware update around the time it started happening, but the changelog on the amdgpu kernel driver hints at solving similar issues.

If you’re coming from a feature phone - it’s great!

If you’re coming from a modern smartphone, you probably won’t be happy with it as a daily driver.

I’m voting with my feet, but carrying two devices.

Maemo on the N900 was close, but MeeGo on the N9 was there. The Ovi store even had the hot apps of the era.

Fuck Microsoft for killing that dream.

What’s next? Soon you won’t be allowed to call it baby oil unless it’s made from real babies.

On a more serious note, I did order a “flexi” burger at Max by mistake. I thought it was a gateway burger with one patty replaced by halloumi. All I got was veg.

I have a Xiaomi Mi A2 that I ran ubuntu touch on. The camera didn’t work, and it was based on ubuntu 16.04. They’ve dropped support for it now. It was not ready to be a daily driver.

I should be getting a poco x3 nfc in the mail tomorrow. It should have excellent support on both postmarketos and ubuntu touch. I don’t expect it to be a daily driver, but I can’t get the idea out of my head. I don’t like where iOS and Android are headed.

GPT has been quite hit and miss for me, but Claude is usually quite solid.

It needs micromanaging, otherwise it will do bad design decisions and go off on unrelated side quests. When micromanaged it’ll get you to that MVP very fast.

The trap is that you need to be able to find the errors it makes, or at least call them out immediately. Trying to have co-pilot fix it’s own mistakes is usually a neverending prompt-cycle.

It can summarise big code bases fast, and find how things fit together a lot faster than me. It’s been very useful when being thrown in head first into a new project.

They do scan and try all ports.

I have a tiny VPS as reverse proxy with SSL termination for my fiddling. That one has a wireguard network to my hardware at home to which it forwards some hosts.

The tiny VPS is definitely the bottleneck in the equation, and if I were to have loads of traffic I’d probably go with cloudflare or -front in front of it.

He’s all Finnish. His mother tongue just happens to be a (official) minority language.

It’s been a while since I meddled with FreeBSD. It shouldn’t be hard - it’s just a web stack with some command line ffmpeg. I think the only thing that might be a challenge is hardware encoding.

There are sweet docker images, but I guess they might require virtualization on FreeBSD.

Plex bad. Jellyfin good.

I had a 4G modem with a web interface many years ago. It was flaky and would often hang. I just had a raspberry pi on my network pinging some known address, if it failed for long enough it’d replay the commands to restart the web interface.

If I’d have the same problem today I’d probably have home assistant power cycle the router with a smart plug.

I set it up during the outage last week.

Easy enough to just pull in the synapse docker container and run it on my home server. I wireguard it to my VPS that acts as a reverse proxy.

Both federation and push notifications work.

OpenSUSE has a 32-bit build.

Running modern web browsers is no fun.

Same here. I had been sticking to Ubuntu flavours for over 15 years.

I live in a 50 year old house. All the breakers are 16A, so 220V x 16A = 3.5kW

The electric sauna does three-phase @ 400V. My energy tracker usually peaks around 9.5kW when it’s heating.

I started 28 years ago with Slackware 3.0, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, took a detour via OS X, then back to Ubuntu, now Arch.

You use the same computer every day? Now that’s unhygienic.