n3t

You can already buy cheap but powerful old servers. But newer hardware tends to be more power efficient. So, depending on time horizon you consider, it might be cheaper to buy newer hardware.

Assuming that GPUs power efficiency will increase, the same will be true about them.

n3t

8 months agodiscuss

What's your cloud bill?

n3t

9 months agodiscuss

"About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025)

Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/

"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012)

n3t

9 months agodiscuss

Most (some sources say ~80%) Linux contributors are paid by their employer.

n3t

9 months agodiscuss

Every coworker I know who use Windows have occasional issues with webcams, mics, Slack notifications, whatever.

n3t

9 months agodiscuss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_art

n3t

9 months agodiscuss

> configuration with code

https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple... is a post you might enjoy.