Readit Newsrabf commented on Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard code.blender.org/2025/07/... · Posted by u/dagmx
rabf commented on ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion github.com/openzfs/zfs/re... · Posted by u/scrp
My thinkpad from college uses ZFS as its rootfs. The benefits are:
* If the hard drive / SSD corrupted blocks, the corruption would be identified.
* Ditto blocks allow for self healing. Usually, this only applies to metadata, but if you set copies=2, you can get this on data too. It is a poor man’s RAID.
* ARC made the desktop environment very responsive since unlike the LRU cache, ARC resists cold cache effects from transient IO workloads.
* Transparent compression allowed me to store more on the laptop than otherwise possible.
* Snapshots and rollback allowed me to do risky experiments and undo them as if nothing happened.
* Backups were easy via send/receive of snapshots.
* If the battery dies while you are doing things, you can boot without any damage to the filesystem.
Not ever having to deal with partitions and instead using data sets each of which can have their own properties such as compression, size quota, encryption etc is another benefit. Also using zfsbootmenu instead of grub enables booting from different datasets or snapshots as well as mounting and fixing data sets all from the bootloader!
rabf commented on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS pcworld.com/article/25715... · Posted by u/dingi
> Valve does not officially support NVIDIA gpus atm
Given NVidia's reluctance to support DRM (direct rendering manager) and Wayland, plus the general levels of nightmare that their official Linux drivers are, I wouldn't say this is Valve's fault. They've already been a poor choice on Linux 20 years ago. Even Apple has always been uneasy about their relationship (while Radeon was a less powerful choice for "premium" machines).
Also consider the ongoing AI hype. NVidia is right now very busy making their GPUs do exceptionally useful work on Linux - except the money is not in the graphics.
Nvidia had best in class support for linux and freebsd as a result of essentialy using the same driver across all three operaating systems. If you wanted good opengl support they were the only choice 20 years ago! Valve not supporting nvidia gpus at the moment has more to do with SteamOS on ly shipping on the steam deck which uses AMD hardware.
rabf commented on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS pcworld.com/article/25715... · Posted by u/dingi
You don't always make money because you sell to a specific customer. Sometimes it's about support and network effect. Devices (Scanners, Printers, ...) are compatible with Windows and sometimes only Windows because that's what people use, NVIDIA drivers used to be Windows only because that's where customers were. Does Microsoft make money from these sales? No. Do they make money from having an ecosystem that everyone is supporting? Most definitely.
Nvidia has had support for linux since 1999!
ChatGPT is not a valid source to substantiate a claim.
What sources do suggest as superior?
Julian,
I know that on the Internet the demand for sources can be a preemptive concern when structuring an argument.
However—please—there is no need to resort to large language model applications in order to support your subjective claims.
You can do this on your own, son. If the machine can find it, so can you! Take your time, think things through. What you're saying would sound more reasonable in your own words.
I find the disdain for LLM's somewhat troubling when they they are easily in the top 1% of commenters on most subjects.
The stock has blown up. It has more than doubled for me. Almost tripled.
It’s quite expensive now.
I would encourage you to do your own research.
For some reason, HN has very little depth in stock market understanding. HN passed on META at $100.
I know there are some very knowledgeable people here. Wish there was a way to create a “subreddit “ here without all the Reddit noise.
One of the reasons I still frequent this forum is to countertrade the espoused opinions. Meta@100 was such an easy buy, Everyone was talking as if they were going out of business because they did not like the idea of the metaverse. A quick look at their earnings said that was utter nonsesnse. So bizarre to see all jounalists and many users here to attribute the turn around to them pivoting to AI when that was not at all what the CEO was saying during that time. Always look for primary sources, opinions are funny.
Well, that's easy, we knew that decades ago.