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Dran

@ Dran_Arcana @lemmy.world

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  • happy to help!

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  • An example of this:

    Bitcoin mining started on cpus, then moved to gpus, and now exists on dedicated asics.

    A $200 GPU vs a $200 ASIC, the ASIC is going to be a faster sha256 calculator

    A $2000 GPU vs a $200 ASIC, the GPU is going to be a faster sha256 calculator

    A $200 GPU from today vs a $200 ASIC from 10 years ago vs a $200 CPU from today?... You get the idea.

    There's no way to know without specific details which will be faster. You could be running software encryption on a raspberry pi from 5 years ago or the drive could be running an encryption ASIC from 10 years ago, etc

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  • The short answer is that: all other things being equal, it will always be faster and cheaper to do things dedicated in hardware. Comparing one implementation to another, however, is always going to be an "it depends"

  • What's the worst rated film that you love?

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  • Never Back Down. That movie is just such a vibe.

  • What have been your costliest mistakes in using Linux?

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  • I am also curious

  • Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025

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  • Regular Ubuntu I get; it's specifically the separation in the list between core and the standard 24.04 distro that I don't get. I can't imagine that droves of nerds are installing straight Ubuntu Core unprompted. I'd absolutely buy though that some distro or some handheld is based on one.

  • Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025

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  • Where are all the Ubuntu Core 22 installs coming from? Is there some large device or distro that uses it?

  • Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform

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  • DRM is already the primary purpose of trusted compute if you read shareholder meeting transcripts; security is a marketing side effect.

  • My Plans for Win 10 EOL

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  • I don't have a sim or VR, I purely use keyboard/mouse/controller/fight sticks across my various setups

  • My Plans for Win 10 EOL

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  • To expand, my main workstation is a $180 eBay used Dell that I slapped a 3050 in. Tower in its entirety cost <$400 and realistically, I only needed the GPU because I have a 4k/240hz main display, and 4 total.

  • My Plans for Win 10 EOL

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  • There's no need to go headless on the Linux workstations, I don't, although I do build the system myself from headless to keep the bloat down. X11 and awesomewm/i3 is like, 100-300mb of ram with modern necessities included

    I use the Linux workstations with awesomewm for 99.9% of my computing needs, moonlight only comes out to connect to the gaming PC

  • My Plans for Win 10 EOL

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  • I sort of run this setup right now @4k/240hz. The only part of this I don't do is flight sticks.

    I run Ubuntu on my interface workstation on a 9700T/32gb/30506g and sunshine/moonlight to my rack mounted gaming desktop downstairs running win11 on a 9900X/32gb/5070. I also have an Ubuntu machine upstairs and in the living room that leverage the same streaming setup to put games there. Works great on my phone too with a Bluetooth clamp controller

    Windows on the gaming PC is the way. Yeah there's a lot of bullshit there but it literally only streams games. Use the ctt winutil to strip out most of the annoyance and you forget windows even exists

  • The Return Home

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  • Remote assistance is not rdp, it's Microsoft's support hook over the Internet, which requires telemetry to function. It is distinctly separate from, and not a prerequisite for RDP.

    The rest of that I'll have to look into, but disabling remote assistance seems sane in that context.

    I wonder if other parts of the shutdown dialog or hover context menu have phone home functions that can only be disabled in roundabout ways; it wouldn't be the first time. It would not surprise me to learn that the "which apps are preventing shutdown" dialog would be something that triggers a call to phone that data home.

  • I will hack Google

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  • I must be really old then!

  • Why Ubuntu is calling Canonical?

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  • It's almost certainly related to cloud-init, (the canonical tool for handling deployment automation) or Ubuntu pro (extra long support for backporting security packages to older distros, plus some conveniences). They're pre installed as a convenience to paid users of those services, that's the (IMHO, quite reasonable) model they use to fund the distro. I would expect that some or all of that traffic would disappear if you disable/remove those two services.

    https://cloud-init.io/

    https://ubuntu.com/pro

  • I will hack Google

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  • Was backtrack before or after whoppix?

  • The Return Home

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  • I'd say that the ctt winutil does a pretty good job. I've been running installs cleaned by it for a good year now without major issues

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • "simple majority" is a technical term in this context, it refers to any number >50%. In the context of the Senate, that'd be a 51/49 split, or a 50/50 split broken by the VP.

    There are some procedural measures that explicitly only require this simple majority to pass; most bills require a 60/40 in practice because that's the threshold required to bypass a procedural filibuster. They at the very least require a simple majority + 0 members of a body opting to invoke filibuster.

    Say what you will about the people we've currently elected; I just stand by it being a sound procedural practice.

  • ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it

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  • Yes they were, so I'm offering you an actual theory as to why this may actually be true, yet difficult to "prove".

    Smoking was bad for your health long before anyone sat down and took the time to prove it. Autoregressive LLM tokenizer are a very new field of computer science and it's going to take a while for the community to collectively understand everything we're currently doing by trial and error.