- MrDrMcCoyThere's also cgroup resource controls to separately govern max memory and swap usage. Thanks to systemd and systemd-run, you can easily apply and adjust them on arbitrary processes. The manpages you want are systemd.resource-control and systemd.exec. I haven't found any other equivalent tools that expose these cgroup features to the extent that systemd does.
- Did you not see the author's note about being an outsider to academia? Not everyone has the background to pull all that off. This is an earnest attempt to come as close as possible and they even invite feedback that would help it become a real academic submission.
- Maintaining an external database as a replacement takes you off the blessed path, is it's own hassle to maintain high availability, and tarnishes the shiny hyperconvergance story. I'd be a lot more interested if Kine offered an embedded HA database like YugabyteDB, CockroachDB, TiDB, etc.
- He's no eldritch horror, just a garden variety Bond villain. Volcanic island and everything.
- K8S doesn't scale nearly as well due to etcd and latency sensitivity. Multi-site K8S is messy. The whole K8S model is overly-complex for what almost any org actually needs. Proxmox, Incus, and Nomad are much better designed for ease of use and large scale.
That said, I still run K8S in my homelab. It's an (unfortunately) important skill to maintain, and operators for Ceph and databases are worth the up-front trouble for ease of management and consumption.
- Ah, didn't know there was a board in there or that there was a way to get to it from the cabin.
- Not being possible for all games is a major detractor for me.
- How's the mouse and keyboard story on PlayStation? The few shooters I play would greatly hinder me if I were stuck on a gamepad.
- The GTK file picker, which is frustratingly the default even on most KDE installs, is the one that sucks. The KDE-native one would much more closely match the experience you're looking for.
VNC is highly dependent on implementation. Sunshine/Moonlight runs circles around RDP in terms of performance and includes audio. For situations where you need the extra functionality is RDP... You can just use RDP. It works just fine on Linux, especially if you're on recent KDE.
On-screen keyboards are admittedly a pain point, but I've usually seen people say nicer things about the screen readers than Windows. Probably lots of different experiences depending on implementation.
- I concede that RDP is great (though Sunshine/Moonlight are worth the trouble), but that's been available on Linux for ages. It's hilarious that you're comparing features to GNOME-ecosystem apps. They are allergic to features. Dolphin from KDE would be a much better comparison for Windows Explorer.
- Bazzite and other immutable distros are doing wonders to fix that. Have you tried one of them?
- Wow, definitely one of the most unfounded opinions I've seen in HN in a long time. The video driver situation is stellar if you're on a recent kernel and not using hybrid Nvidia, but even that story is decent now. Bluetooth has worked reliably for me for years, and I appreciate being able to use SBC-XQ for my nice headphones, which is noticeably better than LDAC or AptX and not an option outside Linux. Not waking from sleep is usually a hardware problem these days.
Windows is a well documented hellscape of advertising, tracking, poor performance, and disregarding user will. Some people may pay to upgrade to a guilded cage from Apple, but trying Linux on the hardware you already have doesn't cost a dime. I've given Linux to multiple mostly tech illeterate friends now, and they are all happier and asking for less help on those systems. Amusingly, the help they've asked for wasn't even Linux specific and they would've asked the same things on Windows.
- Interesting. I would imagine the experience would be pretty poor (compared to Linux), and that the state of Direct3D/OpenGL/Vulkan to Metal translation to not be very mature or performant.
- There's also System76, Tuxedo, Slimbook, a few models of Dell and Lenovo...
- That's how I feel about KDE on AMD or Intel graphics. It's just buttery smooth and problem-free.
- The types and degrees of customization they do to their poor Ubuntu base gives me the willies. I can hear it pleading "kill me" from all the way over here...
- For most people, Google Docs, Zoho, M365 Online, Proton Docs, or some web hosted instance of OnlyOffice or Collabora Office handily meets the majority of needs.
As someone that is 100% on Linux and is occasionally forced to use Teams (where a fat client is no longer possible and was worse than the browser version when it was), I'm curious what that 5% was for you.
- Not always possible, depending on model, skill level, and/or availability of a mechanic that's willing to try. My own search for a mechanic to mod any of the cars I was looking at buying was fruitless and left me with the decision to hold onto my gas guzzler for a while longer.
- IIRC, Nissan even has a clause in their privacy policy for selling information about passengers having sex. Pretty hard to collect that without audio data.
- I some months back called every independent EV mechanic I could find a listing for in my state to see if they would help me disable the cellular modem of any of the models I was interested in buying, and they mostly told me either that they couldn't or wouldn't. One of the more polite shops I got in touch with explained that many models don't have a separate board that can be disabled anymore, or otherwise have more things on the board that need to be talking on the CAN bus for other, actually important parts of the car to function. As such, I still have my old car.
Since then, I've learned about the 50ohm dummy antennas you can buy. I might try that if my car dies before an AWD/4WD Slate truck becomes an option, and also if my living situation can accommodate charging.