No, it's not and we don't. The numbers we do have suggest that it's great in developing societies and terrible in developed.
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The motivation is truly awful, but the result? Thank goodness. Calibri just screams unprofessional
3836293648 commented on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution cachyos.org/... · Posted by u/doener
I use dwm. There is no bitrot.
There's still bitrot on the X.org side even if your DM is maintained
3836293648 commented on Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 qualcomm.com/developer/bl... · Posted by u/mfilion
Woah, this is amazing. I’ve been looking for an ARM Linux machine for a while and ended up about to get M2 Pros in a rack running Asahi. It has been near impossible to get a Snapdragon Elite machine. The IdeaCentre or whatever is 2x the cost / performance and as far as I know is poorly supported.
This changes the game. I’d rather use native Linux than Asahi (though the latter is amazing).
How is Asahi not native?
It actually requires translation everywhere. GPUs have their own internal API that Vulkan, OpenGL, DirectX, etc. translate into. That is what drivers do.
That's being disingenuous. Of course a high level api has to be implemented in terms of hardware specifics, but you're implying, hopefully unintentionally, that that hardware interface is Metal, and it's not.
You can run Vulkan on Apple Silicon as natively as you can run Metal, even if some parts of it don't map too nicely to the hardware.
We only seriously say translate when we go from one high level API to another, just like we call some compilers transpilers even though literally everything is a compiler for something.
To elaborate on this, Vulkan is an open _standard_ whose many implementations (user mode driver) may or may not be open source. Vulkan is just a header file, it's up to the various independent hardware vendors (IHVs) to implement it for their platform.
Also a small correction: Vulkan actually _does_ run Apple platforms (via Vulkan-to-Metal translation) using MoltenVK and the new KosmicKrisp driver, and it works quite well.
Vulkan also runs on Apple Silicon without translation on linux
3836293648 commented on GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20 inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/... · Posted by u/pjmlp
It's particularly jarring to basically every site I've seen it on which is usually some serious and professional looking open source site.
I wonder why nobody configures this, is this not something that they can configure themselves to a more relevant image, like the GCC logo or something?
Because that's the difference between the paid and free versions
3836293648 commented on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/... · Posted by u/tedsanders
10 pages about the question means that the subsequent answer is more likely to be correct. That's why they repeat themselves.
But that goes in the chain of thought, not the response
3836293648 commented on Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer? · Posted by u/evolve2k
Comedy option: Give them Linux From Scratch [1] and the minimum set of tools and packages required to bootstrap it.
App store? Yeah we have one, it's called make.
Unironically this though. Computers are bad for children, if they want to use them, make then actually learn what they're getting into.
Or even better, don't let them have any kind of computer at all. Unfortunately that only works if your entire community goes down that route
IDEs are an invention from the late 1970's, early 1980's.