Say what now

Informative & fortunate.

Yeah, a Rust rewrite is OK. A rewrite under MIT is not OK.

State planning and funding those plans. Taiwan, S. Korea and China (among others) have all planned their chip manufacturing capabilities and appropriately funded their development. Instead of relying on markets and firms to decide to do it, their governments decided that chips are strategically important input to their (and others’) economies and directed funding and labor to create those production capacities - education, machines, factories, etc. Critically we also used to do this in Europe and North America but we decided we’ll let the market make those decisions based on profit alone since the 80s. Turns out that the market had somewhat different ideas for making profit. Which is unsurprising since chip design and manufacturing is inherently long-term affair while threre’s plenty of profit to be made in short term lower risk bets. We still have an edge on the design side but I think it’s a matter of time till planners overtake us on that front too. You see what’s happening with Intel, laying highly skilled people off, investment banker directors considering selling their factories to TSMC, and the America First government proposing a foreign takeover instead of directing public capital and setting long term goals.

Top kek

I’m planning to introduce my kids to Linux at a really early age. I was using DOS at 4-5 years of age. They’ll be using Linux. I hope by hooking them up young, they’ll grow resistance to corporat OSes and devices. Plus I’d be able to delegate the maintenance of the self-hosted services to them. 😄

“Hey girl, Immich is outta date!”

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Thank you for your service!

Is Ollama doing the cooking? 😂

That’s because it’s in a land down under.

Greater Torontario Area 😄

Growing up in one of those neighbourhoods in Eastern Europe was absolutely incredible. It was one of the few bright spots of living a tough childhood during the economic collapse brought by economic shock therapy in the 90s. Tons of neighbour kids to make friends and play with. Kindergarten and school in walking distance. Green spaces all over the place. Most kids walked by themselves to school till the end of middle school. Then we went to high school by free or cheap public transit. Going from that to the GTA was shocking, even though the GTA is not even close to the worst planned North American metropolitan area.

Debian

I did not read the post, I just came here to say Debian since that’s the answer to the general question. 😄

With the new 6.15 development kernel, the Canonical Kernel Team has also rolled out the long-planned deprecation of the linux-modules-extra package (see LP#2042831), shipping all the kernel modules via the linux-modules package, which is installed by default on all systems. This change aims to simplify our build infrastructure and, more importantly, remove the need for some of our users to install an extra package to obtain full kernel support on their systems. The linux-modules-extra package was originally introduced when storage size was a significant concern, particularly on small devices. However, with zstd being used by the kernel as the default compression method, the total install size of linux-modules plus linux-modules-extra is smaller than the previous size of linux-modules alone. We anticipate a seamless transition, but please contact us if you have any questions or encounter issues.

Oh this is nice!

I understand the argument you’re making and I can see that way to look at it. It’s a useful framing and interpretion. I however see it as the same trend of seeking ever higher profits by shareholders. I don’t think shareholder primacy is conpatible with making good product. As a good product is made and sold, profits eventually stagnate as it saturates a market, sharholders demand profit growth, firms often respond by reducing product cost, which typically makes it a worse product. Lots of examples for this process. In effect, for many decades now one could consider profit growth being the primary product of corporations. When I look at the current developments you highlight, I can see manufacturing hype as the next version of this product. It’s novel, but I see it as an evolution along the product line that is maximizing shareholder value. I’m not saying this is a better interpretation or anything. To me it makes sense but I’d be perfectly happy with yours if I didn’t already have an opinion on this and I would have been well informed by yours. 😊

Thanks for the work!

EXPLODING BATTERY

The Android app finally does IO on a background thread. 🫠

While the author does a good job to explain this phenomenon within tech, this isn’t tech specific and it predates the dominnce of the tech industry. This guy is often credited with populrizing this model.

The robot knows what’s up.

If it only was merely aboit staying in business… instead it’s all about growing profits. They made $613M on $4.3B last year.