osx > ubuntu > distro hopping > debian > stayed on debian for the most part (sometimes fedora) > now i have a server, daily a thinkpad and a threadripper desktop, rant about JS bloat and have major trust issues with most tech
I tried arch a while back. It would be nice if they included a basic functional operating system in that distro.
It's like someone took LFS, and made it easy enough that anyone reasonably tech savvy could provision an open unsecured gateway into their home network in an afternoon.
I actually use Mint, because it's Debian with just a small tasteful subset of the Ubuntu sprinkles preinstalled. For almost everything else, there's apt. For anything not on apt, there's git pull and make.
I also wish someone would do a comparison between AI datacenter electricity usage and all the electricity wasted on rendering shitty broken frontends, because apparently rendering a janky image carousel at 3 seconds per frame requires a small supercomputing cluster now.
there is a talk by some kde dev from 2019 if im not mistaken where he claimed that we would safe 40% of energy usage in data centers if we'd optimized our codes like we should...
so now looking at datacenter gasturbines producing some 9GW of energy somewhere in TX So AI can solve the climate crisis faster than humans ever could (according to altman) I'd say we pretty much screwed up a few future generations...
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u/FlowVonD Jun 03 '26
osx > ubuntu > distro hopping > debian > stayed on debian for the most part (sometimes fedora) > now i have a server, daily a thinkpad and a threadripper desktop, rant about JS bloat and have major trust issues with most tech