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unique_parrot2on The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC

You made me try this, my cpu went from 16% to 9% on my proxmox-box running a home-assistant vm and a few lxcs. Thanks for your post.

unique_parrot2on 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”

So all I am understanding is, we could make linux 10-100 times faster, but licensing-quirks don't allow it? Physical electricity, time and whatnot is wasted because of legal foo?

unique_parrot2on Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

HP made the same thing for desktop printers. Want to download a windows xp driver for an older printer (which is perfectly fine)?? not gonna happen from the hp site...

unique_parrot2on Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses–and What Happened Was Profound

I think it's not good to give MDMA to anybody without letting them know. And I belive that a lot of this wasn't give to optopuses, but hey, if somebody pays for your drugs writing an article can be fun.

unique_parrot2on Amiga Graphics Archive

My favorite was "light force". the loading times were awful. here is a litte video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnnAXux5Thk

unique_parrot2on Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL

tar (bsdtar) apple: v2.8, current 3.2 feel free to continue...

unique_parrot2on Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL

python, bash, opengl :( Scientists just want to use it!

(as of high sierra python 2.7, bash 3.2, ....)

New thing: DARK THEME, YES, OMG :(

Is apple holding the future back???? Where is the innovation?

unique_parrot2on Apple introduces macOS Mojave

WHY just can't apple upgrade opengl and python??? They have the $$$ And bash and ...

unique_parrot2on Lessons from Doom (2010)

You made me buy it.

unique_parrot2on Price of LEDs falling so fast it’s profitable to farm in a New Jersey nightclub

Article sounds like LED commercial.

What's the problem with sunlight farming?

If you want to try that at home, be aware of mold.

unique_parrot2on Microsoft Edge WebGL engine open-sourced

call me impressed when i can launch a mirrored copy of my windows ssd from an usb stick without fuss. this is just peanuts.

unique_parrot2on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear

That's great. You know how expensive it is to get rid of radiactive material. It this comes true the big power plants can just dump the waste into the river and say "It wasn't me".

I would not want to live next to such a thing.