AWS’ benchmark is about lambda functions, not compile workloads, which are quite different beasts. Lambdas are about running a lot of small (so task switching), independent scripts, whereas compiling is about running heavy CPU workloads (so feeding caches). Server workloads tend to be more of the former than the latter.

That said, I’m far less interested in raw performance and way more interested in power efficiency and idle and low utilization. I’m very rarely going to be pushing any kind of meaningful load on it, and when I do, I don’t mind if it takes a little longer, provided I’m saving a lot of electricity in the meantime.

if you’re ok with the idle power consumption

I’m kind of not. I don’t need a ton of drives, and I certainly don’t need them to be NVMe. I just want 2-4 SATA drives for storage and 1-2 NVMe drives for boot, and enough RAM to run a bunch of services w/o having to worry about swapping. Right now my Ryzen 1700 is doing a fine job, but I’d be willing to sacrifice some performance for energy savings.

Eh, if they give me a PCIe slot, I’m happy to use that in the meantime. My current NAS uses an old NVIDIA GPU, so I’d just move that over.

Sure, but the criticism will be unfair unless you take into account the culture of the time.

I suppose. But once you’ve done it once, you can usually just reference an existing config and change the 1-2 things that need changing. The Arch Wiki is super helpful, and it’s really nice to be able to have it start on boot.

To each their own, I’m glad both options exist.

Eh, it looks like ARM laptops are coming along. I give it a year or so for the process to be smooth.

For servers, AWS Graviton seems to be pretty solid. I honestly don’t need top performance and could probably get away with a Quartz64 SBC, I just don’t want to worry about RAM and would really like 16GB. I just need to server a dozen or so docker containers with really low load, and I want to do that with as little power as I can get away with for minimum noise. It doesn’t need to transcode or anything.

It’s absolutely racist, and it was at the time. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth watching, it’s fantastic as a window into the culture of the time. It was super popular (among white people), and it helps to understand segregation and racial conflict. It’s one of the most important films of all time. What it portrays is absolutely disgusting, but that doesn’t change the importance of the film.

Eh, I think the point is to eat marketshare from the App store. They can always pull their games from alternative stores later, right now they just want anything to chip away at Apple’s dominance.

Linux works great on ARM, I just want something similar to most mini-ITX boards (4x SATA, 2x mini-PCIe, and RAM slots), and I’ll convert my DIY NAS to ARM. But there just isn’t anything between RAM-limited SBCs and datacenter ARM boards.

If there were decent homelab ARM CPUs, I’d be all over that. But everything is either memory limited (e.g. max 8GB) or datacenter grade (so $$$$). I want something like a Snapdragon with 4x SATA, 2x m.2, 2+ USB-C, and support for 16GB+ RAM in a mini-ITX form factor. Give it to me for $200-400, and I’ll buy it if it can beat my current NAS in power efficiency (not hard, it’s a Ryzen 1700).

Very… gently…

Nope. I’m over 30 and it’s like a light switch. 😜

Jk, no issues whatsoever with my sphincter.

I wish we had something like on Reddit where if you delete a post and it doesn’t have any replies (and perhaps in the first 30s or so), it just disappears.

Sorry, pussy pics. Mis-typed.

Yes, that’s what I’m talking about.

I’m saying that in production, the screens and whatnot probably aren’t fetching that file on boot, they’re probably pulling from some central server. So in the case of an airport, each of those screens is probably pulling images from a local server over PXE, and the server pulls the updates from CrowdStrike. So once you get the server and images patched, you just power cycle all of the devices on the network and they’re fixed.

So the impact would be a handful of servers in a local server rack, and then remote power cycle. If they’re using POE kiosks (which they should be using), it’s just a simple call to each of the switches to force them to re-PXE boot and pull down a new image. So you won’t see IT people running around the airport, they’ll be in the server room cycling servers and then sending power-cycle commands to each region of the airport.

Yeah, kinda dumb. But they do have a relatively popular workaround: the x-system. So forĝejo becomes forgxejo (x = diacritic for the prev letter).

Wow…

Eh, I just took it out to plug in my Game Boy/Game Gear.

The Wikipedia page is a bit sus as well.

I’m guessing it’s pretty boring, like Free Masons and other secretive groups, but who knows. People tend to overreact to things they don’t understand, which is why secretive groups like this get so many conspiracy theories created about them. Some people just want to maintain their privacy, and there’s nothing wrong with that IMO.

Don’t take this as me defending him or anything like that, I think Project 2025 is terrible for a whole host of reasons. But I don’t think it’s because of ties to a Catholic club.

Yup. I’m thinking of making a blog series or something about my setup. It’s a little complex, but the individual pieces are pretty simple, so anyone with time and interest could totally replicate it. Mine would focus on Linux, but since everything is in containers, it could easily be replicated on Windows as well.

Oh, and I’m working from the worst possible setup, I’m behind CGNAT, so I have to go through an outside server to make my internal stuff public. A lot of people can just use their router IP instead, which eliminates the VPN entirely (just port forwards from your router).