MrArthegor

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by MrArthegor 6mo ago
Macs and PCs are fundamentally different. Their architectures have always been distinct though the Intel Mac era has somewhat blurred the line. Modern Mac is Macintosh descendants and by contrast PC is IBM PC descendants (their real name is
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by MrArthegor 6mo ago
A good technical project, but honestly useless in like 90% of scenarios. You want to use an NVidia GPU for LLM ? just buy a basic PC on second hand (the GPU is the primary cost anyway), you want to use Mac for good amount of VRAM ? Buy a Ma
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
For the drivers yes, but with lot of improvements from lasts years with funding in FreeBSD and recent driver in openBSD But apart from that, BSD have numerous advantages over Linux distributions : The system is designed/controlled by a
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
It’s more a criticism of breaking certain things, which is inevitable when your try to refactor something. The matter is in the end if the behavior remain the same when you finish. But it’s just a supposition at this stage, let’s see on the
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
Having a controversial reputation in leader is not always a bad thing, look at Theo De Raadt or Linus Totvald. It’s seem to have already attracted contributors, but let’s see how all of this goes in the next’s months.
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
Honestly the belief of the developers don’t matter at the end of the day. The quality of code is the only thing who matters. And I don’t imply the quality of code is good or not, I have no idea.
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
I agree completely with this post. It’s the eternal issue in the GNU\Linux side, reinvent the wheel instead of enhance the existing, and submit half backed solutions and claim it’s the full replacement to the previous solutions
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
Yes I know, but maybe my initial message wasn’t clear enough. But for me the fact Linux is just the kernel doesn’t make the previous criticisms invalid. The first concerning the development of the different components in sort of echo chambe
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
I’m agreeing with your description. The mains issues with Linux is it’s just the kernel, and anything is developed in their corner without taking account of the rest. Also, I tend to think the Linux folk in general seem to want to reinvent
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
I haven’t remembered any policy like that in past decades, for my country even more ( in the US you have to go back to apartheid to find policy who are discriminated against group of people) And in context of work or anything like that, the
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
Yeah, from a non-US citizen views, this type of policy feel like target discrimination against certain groups of individuals. And the message sent is disastrous. Personally I am part of people who have big advantages with actual DEI policy,
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
The “Snow Leopard effect” is more about the transition to Intel from PowerPC than the OS itself. And maybe I’m a minority but the latest macOS is not worse than previous editions, for instance I use Sequoia on a M1 Mac but also 10.4 Tiger a
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by MrArthegor 1y ago
Yes, any crawler or some traffic peak can do this if your infrastructure is not well engineered