Great. Now add internal shipping, warehouse costs, R&D, including the ongoing development of a custom firmware, game engine including a editor, server maintenane and more for a device that, after all, is still selling in quite small numbers.

If that still isn’t enough, consider that each device comes with custom-made 24 games from various game devs.

That’s kinda why I’m waiting for COSMIC to mature more. Based on what I’m doing I sometimes prefer floating, sometimes floating. So a DE where both modes are supported equally and can be mixed and matched would be perfect for my preferences.

This reminds me of a similar situation about a year where Win7 market share suddenly rose from 2% to 9%. If you dug into the data it showed that it was mostly isolated to Singapore and the data also showed a similar increase in incredibly uncommon display resolutions and such. You could also do some math and would come to the conclusion that the numbers only made sense if the total number of devices in Singapore increased tenfold, with everyone running Win7 for some reason.

Long story short, you could explain this in detail to some people and some still wouldn’t accept that this wasn’t the return of Win7.

PS: Here’s a telling chart with data that wasn’t fixed from that time:

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/singapore/#monthly-202409-202509

PPS: And the same thing can be observed for this current fluke:

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/north-america

Apparently it’s the year of the 720p Linux desktop.

If I had to guess this is about the blatantly false title of the article.

Yeah, I’ve noticed there’s this subsection of people that have a completely wrong understanding of what the term “stable” means in the world of distros, and that it often creates as many problems as it solves, particularly on a desktop PC, or even worse, a gaming PC.

And for there record: Stable just means that things don’t change. That doesn’t mean it contains less bugs, is easier to use or is more secure. And on the flip side it doesn’t mean that distros that are not “stable” are necessarily “unstable” in any shape or form.

I like that idea, if only for the fact that it opens the door to recursive recipes.

I believe this design breaks down once you prepare an ingredient that then gets split for use in two or more later steps.

But now I’m thinking which kind of diagram could be used as well. Some adaption of an UML activity diagram maybe?

Staying on the serious side, it bugs me how many “hardcore gamer” spent a fortune on their setup and then just connect their monitor and be done with it. Even the best GPU and the highest settings can’t help you when the colors are completely blown-out due to the monitors stock settings. I particularly love how I often see Trackmania players that complain that a track is “too dark”, but it’s actually just their miscalibrated monitor.

/rant

Yeah. I’ve been loving it as a rock solid base for a server. Trying to use it as a desktop though? For basic browsing and such, sure, but once you want to do anything complex and require recent packages it becomes a mess.

So I usually swap my GPU every other generation after ~5 years or so, CPUs less frequently, but I always give the old parts to friends, family or colleagues and I Haven’t heard of a single defect yet. So yeah, I just don’t believe that heat related failure is something I should have to care about at all. Instead, I’d rather optimize my cooling capacity towards silent operation.

Other than that, the throttling limit already is the throttling limit where the hardware operates well at, not the limit which at which the lifespan gets noticeably affected. Those are much higher. This isn’t like hardware from 20 years ago anymore.

I mean, for recent generations of hardware that’s pretty excessive unless you have put in a considerable amount of cooling. Otherwise, if you’re doing that to a part that’s been rated for 95 degrees for example, which many current CPUs are, you’re most likely just loosing out on value by not having picked a lower tier part that already runs cooler by design in the first place.

Generally, thermal stress, caused by frequent heating/cooling cycles also causes far more damage to hardware parts than sustained heat.

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Slightly off-topic, but has anyone ever checked if the tri-counts given here are actually correct? The first one, sure, you can count that by hand and it seems to be more or less correct (since we can’t see the backside). The thrid and fourth are too hard too count, so we just have to believe that. The second one though? I don’t see how that can be more than 300 tris or so.

Some routing instance in between your users and your server might.

Although that should only be possible if the user has a hijacked client or you’re not using HTTPS. Or am I forgetting something?

While this is a very special and interestng use of this attack vector, I do think it often gets too much focus, mostly because it’s ignoring a much bigger problem: The average person doesn’t even know what the legit URL of a website should even be, and that starts with the TLD. Was it .com? Or maybe .org? Maybe some country-TLD or maybe one of the thousands of new TLDs like .world or .finance? If you don’t have a perfect memory of every URL of all the websites you’re using, being able to inspect the exact shape of each letter isn’t going to help you.

And for those that care about preservation and ownership: Physical releases on DRM-laden consoles aren’t the solution either. DRM-free products on a free platform are.

Your distro most likely just skipped that version. I distinctly remember getting excited about installing that specific version (on Arch). That said, I think that version was very shortlived due to a printer-bug or something like that.

Agree as well. Some of the hostile responses here are so insane I have wonder if they’ve even worked anywhere at all.

There’s so much to hate about Teams and Microsoft. Them trying to make the work status feature not completely useless isn’t it.

Very much appreciated and actually the kind if open-source news I’d like to see more of.

Many smaller projects like these often don’t have much of a visible online presence, so it’s nice hearing from the actual devs about the state of the project beyond what’s written into changelogs.

Exactly. This was less important before the internet got ubiquitous, but nowadays, when manufacturers can screw you remotely, it’s very important.

This kind of vertical integration, where a single entity controls both hardware and software shouldn’t exist.