Dude, Arch is a rolling release, it has no dist-upgrade equivalent. You’re not even in the right conversation.

Debian, Ubuntu, … and plenty of other distros have. Just upgrading my server from Ubuntu 22 to 24 (both LTS) took an hour or two of fixing things.

Until you do a dist-upgrade and random shit breaks (:

Decent sized for what?

Creative writing and roleplay? Plenty, but I try to fit it into my 16 GB VRAM as otherwise it’s too slow for my liking.

Coding/complex tasks? No, that would need 128GB and upwards and it would still be awfully slow. Except you use a Mac with unified memory.

For image and video generation you’d want to fit it into GPU VRAM again, system RAM would be way too slow.

Maybe it has changed again, but in the past I gave it a try. When 16 GB was a lot. Then when 32 GB was a lot. I always thought “Not filling up the RAM anyway, might as well disable it!”

Yeah, no, Windows is not a fan. Like you get random “running out of memory” errors, even though with 16 GB I still had 3-4 GB free RAM available.

Some apps require the page file, same as crash dumps. So I just set it to a fixed value (like 32 GB min + max) on my 64 GB machine.

Don’t fully disable swap on Windows, it can break things :-/

With 32 and 64 GB systems I’ve never run out of RAM, so the RAM isn’t the issue at all.

Optimization just sucks.

Sent this to my PO, he replied that’s exactly how we’re working 🙃

I guess we can still have small safe heavens for humans though.

Like I have a Discord server I like chatting on. And just being here on Lemmy again for a day I had more interactions than in a month on Reddit.

Hell, even Google is slop nowadays. I always prided myself on my Google skills, being able to quickly find answers to whatever I needed. Now the first results are some slop pages that just spew out false information. Even with an adblocker it’s a pain to use.

So for years now I often added “reddit” to any Google search, but that lost its value too.

Generally I should be less online anyway (:

Reading this announcement felt like an April Fools’ joke.

r/all is still working for now though, but wtf.

Windows 11 finally allows you to simply uninstall OneDrive. Before that you had to do weird registry hacks, that often broke something :-/

I also just got a warning, lol. Fuck them, I really need to come here more often :-/

Gravitated back to Reddit due to lacking content unfortunately…

I really don’t see the issue there, you’re only outputting highly specific data to a website, not dumping half the database.

Do you mean your typical CRUD structure? Like having a User object (AuthId, email, name, phone, …), the user has a Location (Country, zip, street, house number, …), possibly Roles or Permissions, related data and so on?

SQL handles those like a breeze and doesn’t care at all about having to resolve the User object to half a dozen other tables (it’s just a 1…1 relation, on 1…n, but with a foreign key on the user id it’s all indexed anyway). You also don’t just grab all this data, join it and throw it to the website (or rather the enduser API), you map the data to objects again (JSON in the end).

What does it matter there if you fetched the data from a NoSQL document or from a relational database?

The only thing SQL is not good at is if you have constantly changing fields. Then JSON in SQL or NoSQL makes more sense as you work with documents. For example if you offer the option to create user forms and save form entries. The rigid structure of SQL wouldn’t work for a dynamic use-case like that.

I mean in my case it’s for an international company where customers use this structure and the depth can basically be limitless. So trying to find the topmost parent of a child or getting all children and their children anywhere inside this structure becomes a performance bottleneck.

If you have a single level I really don’t understand the problem. SQL joins aren’t slow at all (as long as you don’t do anything stupid, or you start joining a table with a billion entries with another table with a billion entries without filtering it down to a smaller data subset).

If you only join on indexed columns and filter it down to a reasonable number of results it’s easily fast enough.

For true hierarchical structures there’s tricks. Like using an extra Path table, which consists of AncestorId, DescendentId and NumLevel.

If you have this structure:

A -> B -> C

Then you have:

A, A, 0

A, B, 1

A, C, 2

B, B, 0

B, C, 1

C, C, 0

That way you can easily find out all children below a node without any joins in simple queries.

Well, there’s modern C++ and it looks reasonable, so you start to think: This isn’t so bad, I can work with that.

Then you join a company and you find out: They do have modern C++ code, but also half a million lines of older code that’s not in the same style. So there’s 5 different ways to do things and just getting a simple string suddenly has you casting classes and calling functions you have no clue about. And there’s a ton of different ways to shoot your foot off without warning.

After going to C# I haven’t looked back.

Mobile is an entirely different beast. Like sometimes my keyboard doesn’t show up. Or the text select refuses to work. And so on. It’s a mess. Even on a Galaxy S22.

No clue how people can exist without a proper computer at home and still do stuff online.

Ctrl + C literally doesn’t work at times, it drives me crazy. It might be due to some shitty applications and websites overriding it or adding complexity (Like copying not only the text but additional information).

I’m often 100% sure I copied the text, change the window and an old clipboard entry gets pasted.

There’s no Visual Studio for Linux, so yeah… especially as a .NET dev.

Visual Studio Code isn’t the same.

Most of the entries were just funny, the last one is a nuke:

70. I heard that the only real application for that technology was child pornography. How did you hear about it?