But how is it draw less power comparing to Raspbian? I’m not arguing, just curious how you measured that, and why NetBSD that much more efficient. I have a RPi2 with Raspbian, and another one with DietPi, I expect them to sip power similarly, considering they’re mostly idle anyway. Would love to read some blog on this though, if you happen to have one.
Well, look, here is my use case. I have some really old hardware that I used to play with earlier in life, it’s located at the parents’ place. I still use that hardware, but not too often, since I live on my own. I could replace all that, as it consumes a lot of power indeed (comparing to SBCs). But in absolute numbers, they’re just regular computers, so power draw is somewhere at 60–90 Watt/hr, I suppose. Which is not that much, especially given I run the machines half a day once a month. What I learned over the years, you can utilise some servers by not running them 24/7. One server there, I wake it over LAN nightly, copy some backups there, and turn it off again. Very useful. So, I think I’d keep them running for as long as they’re alive.
I’m all in for opinionated software, but not in the cases it is made by people… (if not vibe-coded, lol) by incompetent people. That’s what the article is about if you were to read it longer than you mentioned. Great that you are the top comment, summarises this community for me.
They simply don’t care, except for censoring the narratives they don’t like to be discussed. Plus utilising the masses when they want to advertise something to them. All in all, I’m wondering why I waste my time here.
By the way, I like your implementation and use it from now on. Hope it’ll be active for some time.
Write your own then, I guess. I prefer a developer to have at least some basic understanding of what they’re developing and why. And when they do, and when they themselves use their product, they do have opinions. In my opinion, especially if the project is open source, you’re free to do as you like.
I like opinionated software, because usually the developer uses the software themselves, and they prefer to not have some features you might like. I’m fine with that, if our opinions are similar. If not, I just might ignore that software, I guess. Sure thing, we cannot make all software opinionated, there’s no point in that. But some of it, I enjoy it to be that way.
It’s many times better, but the original website is so mediocre that any implementation is better at something, at least. I’m getting a good laugh reading all this ‘the original is so good’ praises. Just increase the font sizes on mobile and see how it’s broken.
Well, my first Ubuntu (circa 2006…07) wasn’t working well on me (with wired internet, no Bluetooth and an average Intel PC. These days, only one obsolete GPU wasn’t working for me. Basically, a default Fedora installation works well with everything I throw at it. In my view, the situation improved tremendously.
So, if you have money, you can throw away as much as you can, right? I have bought loads of Apple tech during 2010s and all of it is trash. Every iPhone (e.g. models from 4 to 7) costs tens of dollars today, down from a thousand. Not only that, they’re basically useless. I have a few iPads 3 (the first one with Retina display), and it’s perfectly fine display, but VLC is the only app that works with it. Also, you can watch YouTube via browser, yet it’s not a pleasant experience. At least my MacBook Pro (pre-retina) works great with Linux, and possibly I’d keep it around as a Linux server, till it breaks. I cannot do anything like that with any of iOS devices that I have. Why?
When I purchased them, I had no idea that would be the case. My perfectly good iPhone 12 mini is already at its last legs (I bet a couple of years), thanks to iOS 26 and the liquid ass. Why is it so? Why should I stress about initial purchases? I’m not that poor and young, sorry, I’m worried about the footprint. And I hope you would one day too.
Which distro did you choose? What about the interface, did you have any special things to mention about the migration, was it all the same for you? I find it curious to have someone new with that much of Windows experience.
Well, this time I tend to agree with your points. Personally, I don’t believe an abstracted black box system can assure you it’s going to work as intended without any issues. To me, that’s more like an illusion, since you know no internals of that black box system. Theoretically you can sue the company if their promises are broken somewhere (e.g. you were offline for longer than expected), but suing Amazon just does not sound real to me. Also, I don’t like isolating the whole system into some ever-changing black box instead of learning how to maintain a real server, but possibly that’s just YAGNI.
I’d like to point that exaggerations like $430 an hr (isn’t some average salary) or three Starbucks a day being something everyone casually does, they weaken your point.
As the rest of your comment, personally, I see it more like a pitch to use AWS, rather than some conversion whether everyone really needs that enterprise tier. Me, I’d prefer to control as much of my infra as possible, rather than offloading it to others for an insane price tag.
At least camera and other sensors. It looks much better than other devices, though. What I meant is that compared to Android, the average user might not want a half-baked device.
I thought there’s some sort of ‘adding this and that to the interface would make it actually pretty solid’ kind of thing. As I myself see this as promising, if it would be worked through. As the current implementation is just student (at best) level of work. Absolute incompetence.
Upon commenting, I removed the snarky part of the website being visually… well, bad. After all, FSF isn’t about design and aesthetics, right? But donate button not working demonstrates the whole seriousness of the effort.
Have you been around when iOS 7 was released? If not, I’d say that was the same, whatever that means. Things might get better, but we’re not entitled to it.
I swear, before I finished reading your comment, this thought jumped into my mind: ‘oh my, they do host everything with a computer similar to my [pretty old by the way, but still beefy] for-work computer! Impressive!’
Which is, I still believe is perfectly possible to do.
You don’t because it’s not reasonable. It’s fun to play with (speaking from experience), but it’s not reasonable in day-to-day life. That’s why smartphones are so successful. That’s why we need to actually open platform.
And the average person would understand that as a non-issue. The issue is you need a developer account to distribute your app, and Google can censor you not explaining anything to you or others. The issue is Google being a gatekeeper. And the fact that there’s malware in Google play store, is a cherry on top.
Ditto! I try reading some silly things, play some old silly games (e.g. Warcraft, not arcades), or just watch some YouTube. But I don’t watch YouTube in my daily life, so I’m not addicted to it.