I’ve had uptimes over 1000 days on some of my air gapped linux and BSD machines. Windows never liked going more than month or two, and now unless you turn off automatic updates you never get close to that wall.
I have recently pared down to 4 screens and yeah, people take seem to get great enjoyment out of giving me shit. I’ve been receiving this very meme image for a good while. Not sure what triggered the re-run of this one in particular.
I agree that a large library will always heavily increase the ram usage, but Quod Libet is just less efficient in this regard than some others. I still use it as I like it best and it has done the best at filling the niche that foobar2000 did for me in Windows (minus the insane UI customization ability). Being in Python also makes it super easy to extend. It isn’t even close to 4th on my system in memory consumption, but my PC does triple duty as it is my dev workstation, media server, and personal PC. I’m actually shocked that RSSHub uses so much! Is that also a case of a large “library” of sorts?
Mine is running at 1.2GB of ram, but I have… a substantial library
Finally a kind of biometric login that I can get behind.
Yeah, I agree with that one. That was actually the first one that caught my eye for the same reason. Something about login with a potato is just hilarious to me for some reason.
Agreed. It is my player of choice, though being it is pure Python, it uses a lot of resources for a music player. If I was tight on ram or using a slower CPU, I’d probably go with something leaner.
I agree, it’s missing so many.
I’m a big fan of “Login with a potato” lol
I got mine from a guy that had pallets of them and was selling them for cheap because he got them from an action. I definitely lucked out.
Yeah, same here. I had three 21" trinitrons with a max res of 2046 × 1536. I did finally move to LCD monitors when I was able to get something close (1920x1200), but I still miss those things. Except for the massive weight, space, power draw, and heat they put out of course.
This is excellent. This reminds me of when I couldn’t get any hard requirements or specs for a back end tool that I was tasked with making, so to spite everyone, and maybe myself, I wrote it in brainfuck. It was rock solid for years, and then I left due to management actively preventing me from furthering my career. I still wonder how long that process kept being used before someone had to look into the source to make changes.
This image triggers me so much, but mostly because it is truer than I want to admit.
Let it die, Postgre reigns supreme.
This is amazing in its truthfulness.
Thanks for making the comment I came to make. I imagine being older and remembering SQL as a new-ish thing really helped cement this, but when I started programming professionally for an enterprise, literally everyone pronounced it like this. I can see how and why it makes little sense to younger people.
Same here.
With wireless you get:
extra cost, extra weight (drives me nuts), either a battery that eventually fails or replaceable batteries that you need to buy and replace, and if its not bluetooth, some usb adapter that either gets lost of broken.
Now days sure, but I’d take one of later really good ball mice over many of the shitty cheap mice you get packed in with stuff now. The first few optical mice that I owned were legit worse than ball mice, while being much more expensive. I kept going back to the ball mice and regretting my wasteful purchases. The first one good enough to really kill them off was probably the MS InteliMouse 3.0.
I have, and am, selfhosting Matrix, and it isn’t that big of a deal if you’re someone that, you know , self hosts things. That is just outside of what most people can or are willing to do. That’s totally fine, but finding a FOSS platform that will host a VoIP/video server for you and not try to monetize you is almost certainly going to be rare or short lived.
I’ve been playing games on PC since my IBM XT, and I think that you’re statement “How many of the people dishing out north of $300 on a GPU are competitive e sports players or popular streamers? Probably most of them are not.” is completely off for a few reasons. I bought video cards that cost in that range in the 90s, hell they didn’t even do 3D acceleration then. I have never been an esports player, and that wasn’t even a thing back then. Higher end GPUs have always been expensive niche products that were targeting people that wanted the best performance and were willing to spend probably unwise amount of money for it. The chart in the post was showing the top of the line Nvidia cards, maybe of which were essentially “SLI in one card” halo products that most people weren’t buying. If you think that $300 is actually still a reasonable price for a decent GPU, you are misinformed. The last GPU I owned that was less than that was Nvidia Riva TNT from STB that was which was $250 or so in 1998. My fancy 2D only card that I owned years before that was even more expensive (it was a Number Nine video card if you’re curious). My current GPU was a super good deal at under $700 when I got it, and I never produce “frames that are not perceived”, I still have a 60Hz monitor. I just like high resolutions and less GPUs struggle with playing things even remotely smoothly unless I turn down many of the settings.
Yes, I can still technically play many of these games on the steam deck or use a cheap GPU, but it will be play and look poorly, especially on my rather large high resolution monitor that I use for work.