saltamimi · HackerLangs

7 giorni fadiscuss

Could someone give me an actual guide for spending as little as possible to get as maximal gains with either SOTA or cheap models as a systems administrator and not someone like a full-stack developer?

The models are so powerful and consequently so expensive and confusing to use, I don't get all of it.

saltamimi

10 giorni fadiscuss

Sorry, the article didn't really say if it was upstream or only in Debian. I assumed it was only Debian.

I still stand on the point that stuff like this should be frowned upon regardless of stance on issue.

saltamimi

10 giorni fadiscuss

Protestware as a whole has never worked to solve anything. Awareness of a particular issue is the only positive thing "protest" software has successfully tried, with the second order effect being better supply chain management.

I don't use Linux or Xsnow but it baffles me how distributions would allow something like this. Sure, it's just flags now, but if you look at faker and colors.js, you'll see the other side of the coin of what happens when you allow software like this.

saltamimi

11 giorni fadiscuss

Within your company, sure. But there's some engineers (think medical) who know standards like DICOM and PACS imaging but aren't familiar at all with OS internals or systems administration.

saltamimi

11 giorni fadiscuss

One of the more interesting pieces of Microsoft software is the Windows Admin Center where it's a web app to configure a Windows Server. Ideally, it was made for core installs where there's no GUI but it's there as a viable web management panel.

The tool from OP and WAC are pretty similar in terms of functionality and usecase. Why would you want this? Well, imagine your team needing to be able to do server functions but you have less technical team members to do it for you, which is very often the case in big places, most people are familiar with the web browser and having a website to do these sorts of actions makes it easier to have things done in one place without a lot of tools like Remote Desktop, SSH, WinRM, etc. configured.

saltamimi

18 giorni fadiscuss

I don't think that market is as big as you think it is and if anything, it's only going to push people away from the Steam Machine into another micro PC platform that will be able to run Steam OS.

saltamimi

18 giorni fadiscuss

What are you coding over the network such that the network is a bottleneck?

saltamimi

18 giorni fadiscuss

I don't see a market of people who want to pay Valve $1,050 to play Steam games on a custom Linux machine with old hardware that won't support big name games that have kernel anti-cheat on them.

I really don't see the vision Valve is looking for here.

saltamimi

18 giorni fadiscuss

I just don't see a Linux gaming machine being a reference piece of hardware for big name publishers when they are making Windows-only games.

The Steam Survey is a better indicator of what you should target vs. something like the Steam Machine or Deck IMO.

saltamimi

18 giorni fadiscuss

There's better options at this price point, I'm afraid.

Even buying an old tiny micro PC that's 10th gen Intel would've been a cheaper buy.

saltamimi

18 giorni fadiscuss

The Zen 4 cores in it is Ryzen 7000 Series, we're on 9000 series.

The GPU is on par with the 3060 12GB and RX 7000 series GPUs which are older.

The PS5 is six years old! This is a brand new machine!

saltamimi

18 giorni fadiscuss

I don't remember anyone saying this about the Switch and at the time, the reviews for North America at least were very positive.

saltamimi

18 giorni fadiscuss

It's just dead-on-arrival.

I'm not convinced this hardware is "an extension of PC gaming, not a console" when the hardware is generations out of date. To credit Microsoft, Sony, and other players, the reality is that unless you are "in the game" for decades, you HAVE to provide a convincing differentiator from the other console markets.

Steam had this with the Steam Deck and personally, I see the world moving to thin clients that play games via some remote desktop infrastructure. It makes no sense to buy this hardware even if it was 500-700 dollars.

In my opinion, it would've been worth the money to just buy a gaming PC, put it in a garage, hidden room, etc with the networking gear, then stream it over the network to a Steam Link or using Apollo/Artemis/Moonlight/Parsec; anything.

Tangential to this discussion: Steam is in the unique position to create a kernel anti-cheat. I know that's not popular. But they are the only ones with the install base AND ability to pull it off in a such a fashion that wouldn't be so god-awful. It's clear that multiplayer gaming isn't going to go away from kernel anti-cheat. It's also clear that developers are still going to target Windows-only with Steam Deck support as a best-kept basis.

I don't see the Steam Machine/Deck as a competitor until they solve the kernel anti-cheat portion. Until then, it can play games that are older, not popular, or single-player which is a valid market but not one that I am a part of, anyway.

EDIT:

S) It's not meant for you.

   A) Sure. But you're telling me people are going to pay $1,050 to couch-potato games? I don't see that market and I'm not really sure how you would swing that.

S) But it's on-par with the PS5.

   A) Which isn't a valid differentiator. The PS5 is 6 years old and not $1,050. Even if it was $600, that's not a good deal.

S) It can be a regular PC.

   A) Sure. But you could also save money and put a regular PC behind or near your monitor or TV.

S) I just want to game on hardware that's good enough.

   A) I get it, but there's so many cheaper options out there. Honestly, it'd be better value to get a Steam Deck, get a docking station, then hook that up to your TV than to buy this.

Dead-on-arrival doesn't mean that this doesn't serve a niche. The niches this serves just really cannot be this compelling. You cannot tell me you have $1,050 laying around just to spend on this machine that comes with 512GB of storage.

I don't get it. I don't get the market segment that does want this when there's so many better options on the market.

saltamimi

23 giorni fadiscuss

I like this although I would not have chosen Docker. Podman comes with no socket and rootless by default, it just seems more in line with this sort of architecture, not to mean Podman Quadlets and honestly, I would think it's better with git tracking but to each their own.

I probably wouldn't have chosen Debian. It'd probably be easier to use a RHEL spinoff like Alma or Rocky Linux.

Overall, very nice!

saltamimi

26 giorni fadiscuss

For me, it's a personal preference and in my opinion, it's less professional.

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The Pixel series outside of security (to which their own flavor of Android doesn't even take advantage of like we see with GrapheneOS) doesn't have any particular outliers that would make it any more or less enticing than another company's phone.

Their ChromeOS hardware was nice but had lackluster software and by the time it was EoL'd, never got the love of ChromeOS-present.

Google TV generally gets outpaced by onn (Walmart's brand) on cost and value proposition.

And also the fact they have shown time and time again that they just kill products over and over again.

saltamimi

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I know this is off topic, but I do thank you for your Android work, the idea and elegance of fastboot.js and that SafetyNet workaround trick was truly really cool.

saltamimi

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One of the neat things about something like this is that you could, in theory, do OS builds (think stuff like bootable containers) where you can, deterministically, configure an operating system to boot into all within the confines of your web browser.

We already have image builders for stuff like Talos Linux and Incus OS. This is not out of the realm of possibility.

saltamimi

3 mesi fadiscuss

1. That's awesome! I assume RDP or VNC would be the same then, I use that for work primarily.

2. Huh. Well, I feel like an idiot! I always use two hands when opening the lid, muscle memory, I guess.

ps. one question you don't have to answer: for the wireless keyboard, did you guys consider something like a fingerprint sensor? I like the idea of having something like that akin to Mac's Wireless Keyboard but I don't know how much integration something like that would need.

saltamimi

3 mesi fadiscuss

Hey Nirav, congrats on the newest release and I'm really eyeing the 13 Pro.

A couple of questions:

1. How are the thermals? I've had mixed experiences with my 11th gen FW 13 throttling under load with the fan sounding noisy. It's fine if I'm alone but if I'm at a team gathering, it's noticeably loud.

2. Does the lid open with one hand?

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