The one big issue for me that's still left is that it will just download binary blobs from various online places, and do so continuously. It will always update to the latest version of whatever thing it decides it needs. One has no control over it.

So it will always run the latest release at basically all times.

One of the few things that saved us from the XZ disaster was that as a library it took a few weeks to roll out, and that delay allowed someone to notice the behaviour change before it was rolled out everywhere to limit the impact.

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Quoting: Lamdarer

Quoting: grigiIt's really looking like a second order trend line would match those stats much better.
Or at least a trend line before/after the steam-deck release?

Not sure if it really is necessary, but yeah pretty much matches, although we don't know how it will develop in the future for sure.

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That trend line does track very closely.
Statistically we know these things end up being s-curves, and if so, we might be out of the long preceding tail.

Exciting!

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I think the bigger issue with Canonical is that their previous open-source projects was developed, dropped in the open, and if you wanted to submit a fix you had to sign a CLA.

That's basically signalling that they didn't really want to cooperate.

A few of their projects was very successful in my opinion. Unity is one of them.

Another big issue is their doubling down on their own thing which is incompatible with everyone else, like them dragging Upstart for years after it was clear they lost to Systemd, and the same with how they Snap everything.

Canonical doesn't listen to its users, Even when they have something good (like early Unity) they make it really hard for anyone else to use, and even harder for anyone else to work on it.
Then after the initial good work, they leave it to stagnate.

Same with Launchpad. Same with Upstart.
Look at the LXD fiasco, their one project that got outside traction somehow affronted them and they killed it off.

There is some really weird culture going on there.

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It's really looking like a second order trend line would match those stats much better.
Or at least a trend line before/after the steam-deck release?

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It's a laudable effort from Canonical to try and harden the linux desktop by using sandboxing as standard.
Just, why do they always have to do the Not-Invented-Here thing all the time.

True, Snap supports more use cases than either Flatpak or oci, but its such a closed ecosystem that nobody else dares adopt it. So it just develops at a slower pace, and gets less testing. And sits with horrible performance for years, etc...

It's basically the reason I tell people to move off Ubuntu as their snapification of everything is really breaking things.

Frustrating that Ubuntu (Means: Working together well) is not working together.

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More like the M1 interested me in that Apple didn't skimp on the IGP like Intel/AMD does. And the extra RAM bandwidth is interesting. The whole wide and slow thing is great for power management.

When you put it under load, it's efficiency is surprisingly average though.

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Quoting: nondetect

Quoting: grigiSo many people I know absolutely despise anything "AI". (That includes me

Am I correct in understanding that if the new model is a continuation of the 7040/8040 processor series, let's say 9040, you would be fine with that?

The previous naming convention would end up calling these ones 8850/9850. It's a continuation of those models, yes.

It looks like a great CPU, just, I hate the name.

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Honestly, that mobile naming convention... It's terrible.

So many people I know absolutely despise anything "AI". (That includes me)

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: grigiDo you have alternative donation platforms than Patreon or once-off paypal?
I honestly don't care about the rewards, I just want as much of my money to arrive at you Liam. (As in the minimum charges).

I'm asking because Patreon has been in the news for taking what many people think is an unfair percentage of fees.

Nope. Every additional platform is more admin/tax work for me. Paypal and Patreon keep it simple and I am personally happy with both.

Cool, so which one should I setup? The one that charges you less fees?

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Do you have alternative donation platforms than Patreon or once-off paypal?
I honestly don't care about the rewards, I just want as much of my money to arrive at you Liam. (As in the minimum charges).

I'm asking because Patreon has been in the news for taking what many people think is an unfair percentage of fees.

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