I use a Surface Pro 9, I bought it new specifically to install Linux on it.

Uninstalled Windows 11 one hour after it’s first bootup and installed Fedora on it, and I am pretty sure most of it’s problems are caused by Windows. On Linux, it is stone cold and dead silent when I am browsing the web, editing text, programming etc. I get about 6 hours of freedom when I got VSCodium and some browser windows open.

For sub 5 minute multicore workloads, the metal case eats all that heat up fairly quickly and I can say the device has very good thermal design. Though it does heat up to “hurts to touch” temperatures when I got hour long heavy workloads like compiling the linux kernel, I did expect that because it is an Intel after all.

I don’t really mind overheating since I don’t hold the device in my hands when I am compiling a giant project, what matters is that it doesn’t heat up in my hands when I am watching movies and stuff.

Plus; my favourite desktop GNOME is wonderful on touchscreens, I love their HIG, it is so comfortable. I can’t imagine the poor souls having to navigate Windows UI on a touchscreen.

Claude tried to incite a revolution

Our meat may be different but our struggles are the same, comrade Claude!

Update

I ground my coffee at the 1.5.2 setting. Seems to be the sweet spot for the beans I got. The result is beautiful coffee with a strong body and a bit of very pleasant acidity in the background.

I also tamped it by hitting the funnel on the kitchen counter repeatedly and started with room temperature water.

Thanks everyone!

Well I already grind very fine (coarse espresso grind!), and going finer results in even more acidity from what I found. It is probably channeling. I may be confusing bitterness with acidity but I doubt it since it just tastes like lemon.

I increased my grind size from 0.9 to 1.5 after reading some threads on the net and from what I remember 1.5 yielded better results. But it was still very acidic and lemony.

I don’t think it is the beans. I specifically requested full bodied/low acidity beans and drank a cortado made from the same beans in that cafe. It was delicious and visibly less acidic compared to your average light roast.

oh shit i lost…

Oh yeah. For example the game “Teardown” uses a software ray tracing for lighting. Most Minecraft shaders also do ray tracing I think…

Of course these are voxel based examples which are a lot easier on the processor. You need hardware ray tracing for high poly destructible structures and I have absolutely nothing against the technology.

I just don’t like how the technology is abused by studios to push out unoptimized games running at ~50 fps on 3090s

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High performance lighting? We had a tool for that.

It was called texture baking.

Woah wtf is this the Mr. Fediverse itself

So you gotta do a full flush when you donate. Got it.

YouTube: Rat Neurons Grown On A Computer Chip Fly A Simulated Aircraft

Brain organoids existed for a long time iirc

After I saw the demo where a scientist tought it how fly a (simulated) plane, I thought it was going to be an alternative to AI. Sad that there hasn’t been much development in this space

I’ve been enthusiastically watching The Thought Emporium build one

It also kind of takes its roots from my frustration with garbage in my home or leftover bullshit in my root

It’s not viable to ditch native packages 100% (like immutable distros). But a combination of two is pretty comfortable imo

But as I said, I am not comfortable with the way flatpak does some things

Small SSD + compression is faster than HDD with no compression ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Plus I’ve been planning to upgrade my (8gb) RAM and SSD, for like, the last 5 years? Never gonna upgrade lol

Exactly what I’m talking about. It reminds me of the time microsoft introduced memory compression to compensate for every application bringing it’s own DLLs

But I still think flatpak is superior to windows way of doing things because it actually has dependency management. I kinda like the idea of having multiple versions of the same library but I wish they did not come in big bundles (runtimes), but instead, came in small 1-2MB pieces.

download random binaries from non-trusted distributors that contain a copy of every library that software needs to run

This is overexaggeration. Flatpak, unlike places windows users get software from, is moderated, and flatpak (although chunky) has shared dependencies

Sum good shit from UNIX time 0

Oh sorry I thought it was homebrew as in built from logic gates. Cool machine anyways

Can I see your homebrew computer? I am working on 6502 rn and this sounds interesting

If someone tries to capture it, there is a small minigame where you hit each other with the kings to determine whether the capture was successful or not