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IrateAnteater ,

I think that every operating system needs to a have a “do what the fuck I told you to” mode, especially as it comes to networking. I’ve come close to going full luddite just trying to get smart home devices to connect to a non-internet connected network, (which of course you can only do through a dogshit app) and having my phone constantly try to drop that network since it has no Internet.

I get the desire to have everything be as hand-holdy as possible, but it’s really frustrating when the hand holding way doesn’t work and there is absolutely zero recourse, and even less ability to tell what went wrong.

Then there’s my day job, where I get do deal with crappy industrial software, flakey Internet connections and really annoying things like hyper-v occupying network ports when it’s not even open.

PlexSheep ,

Just use Linux?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Tell that to his boss lol

IrateAnteater ,

Yeah, I’d love to, but first we have to tell that to Rockwell, Siemens, Bosch, ABB, etc, etc. All the proprietary software runs on Windows. Not to mention getting my company on board when we’re already heavily into the Microsoft ecosystem at the corporate level.

PopOfAfrica ,

It kind of baffles me that people are still invested in Microsoft at a corporate level considering the costs associated with it.

PlexSheep ,

The corpos don’t really care and want someone to blame if things go wrong, that’s why they often use proprietary alternatives.

AnarchoSnowPlow ,

I try to not buy any Wi-Fi smart home devices anymore. I try to stick to zwave or zigbee, zwave I have better luck with generally. I even left my nest thermostat at my old house and installed a 10+ year old zwave thermostat at the new one. Way happier. I’m not relying on googles API to be stable anymore for home assistant interaction.

HStone32 ,

You could make your own smart devices. You don’t even need to be smart in embedded systems these days either. Just use a cheap SBC.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

If I can’t type the program into my TRS-80 from a computer magazine I don’t trust it.

lauha ,

I was going to laught at the hypocricy of you using lemmy, definitely not using your TRS-80 but I don’t trust my phone, the lemmy app or lemmy server either.

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

We just need to write a version of Lemmy that runs in basic on a TRS-80 and publish a magazine

RaccoonBall ,

Trash 80 dialing in to a Linux shell account using one of the various cli lemmy clients should work

HStone32 ,

I’m training to work in hardware currently. Its my hope that there at least, people still care about min-maxing power vs performance.

lord_admiral OP ,
@lord_admiral@lemmy.world avatar

It’s really hard.

HStone32 ,

Wasn’t expecting it to be easy. Think it will be much more rewarding though. Already has been thus far.

Edit: wait, that was a pun, wasn’t it?

Baggie ,

Any recommendations for a beginner or hobbiest? I’m going to assume it goes beyond writing more performant code

spiderplant ,

A lot of it is in the design stage tbf. If features/UI can be cut or simplified then it can make a big difference. Performant code is good and the tech stack you choose also matters.

HStone32 ,

I started with raspberry pi zero projects. Specifically projects that make use of various GPIO hats like cameras, displays, speakers, etc. At that level, things are still very abstract compared to bare-metal firmware, but you learn some of the basic principles of I/O. Next plan is to read up on circuit design, and start doing more projects with arduino-controlled breadboards.

lord_admiral OP ,
@lord_admiral@lemmy.world avatar

No, it was a palindrome.

bitwaba ,

My understanding is that hardware companies usually alternate generations: one for performance, one for power. It seems like this is the balance that makes the market happy.

mariusafa ,

This is the way. Most of the games today run as shit because people doesn’t know or care about computer resources management.

outerspace ,

Better to run a whole generation , so like 30 years so people would start planning the upgrades ahead for when everyone is ready

Ugurcan ,

Stop using JS/Node for even brewing your coffee and see this problem resolves itself.

lord_admiral OP ,
@lord_admiral@lemmy.world avatar

Spring 5 has WebFlux, which runs on top of Netty. This is usually how I heat my home.

11111one11111 ,

In 1000 years this meme/tweet/post will be what my entire generation’s existence will be known for. Noone will remember the politics, the disasters, the geopolitical events good or bad, they will remember our entire world and existence ad the only time that technology advancement was driven by the big tech mafia trying to see how far it can get it’s dick in your digital footprint.

It’s the new cops v robbers or bootleggers v prohibition race. Our tech is getting faster to out run the corporate fuckin maleare but the faster we go the more they stuff in so to the avg user they’re ended with paying $6k for a GPU/cpu combo that runs at the same efficiency as my school library’s c9mputer did running ms-dos running Oregon Trail in 1995. You are so confined by only having access to functions with massive fuckiing app buttons that even logging in as a guest user req you to memorize every CLI ever made.

It’s become my defining “I don’t want to live in this world anymore”

lord_admiral OP ,
@lord_admiral@lemmy.world avatar

You’re provoking my alcoholism. I reread your comment three times and here I am on my way to the liquor shop.

rustydrd ,
@rustydrd@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think I already posted this at some point, but Software Disenchantment is always worth mentioning in this context.

sasquash ,

But how would you implement that new Microsoft Screenshot surveillance bullshit feature? Just imagine what a giant waste of resources that is. You have something on your screen which is information and mostly likely already in a good form to process like text. But it makes a screenshot every few seconds and uses some “AI” to make the already existing information searchable again from a fucking screenshot??? Maybe I missed something but that is how I understood the feature.

lolcatnip ,

If it was for surveillance, do you really think they’d tell you about it?

fossphi ,

I 100% agree. But, where Linux?

deus ,

Can current Windows even work with 2GB of RAM?

lost_faith ,

Yep, minimum win 10 1gig cpu 1 gig ram (32 bit) 2gig ram (64 bit) just don’t expect much out of it lol

mryessir ,

How goes the saying? 32 MB of RAM and always swapping?

flauschke ,

I’ve heard Emacs as eight mb and constantly swapping (I use Emacs BTW)

mryessir ,

Your awesome for correcting me (I use vim BTW)

Plus emacs and lisp are superior. But I didn’t managed to jump ships.

Sleepyforestwizard ,

Antix made my old Chromebook’s usable. Old tech is fun.

uis ,

It’s not that hardware isn’t capable, it’s just manufacturer isn’t willing. Or rather willing to not.

bruhduh ,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

Antix is the last one standing on the support of old hardware, also gentoo Debian and tumbleweed is good ones since they support WIDE range of architectures

SuperSpruce ,

I make sure my own web game can run smoothly on crappy hardware. It runs well on my gaming laptop downclocked to 400MHz with a 4x slowdown set by Chrome. It also loads in a couple seconds with a typical crappy Internet connection of 200kbps and >10% packet loss. However, it doesn’t run smoothly on my Snapdragon 425 phone or my old Core 2 Duo laptop. Is this my game or just browser overhead?

Holzkohlen ,

You have my vote.

vox ,
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

that’s why I’ve been doing most of my gamedev stuff on an old craptop from 2016.
performance issues become apparent immediately

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