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  • AMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backend

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  • AMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backend

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  • Yeah, same with the next gen zen5 laptops. The Ryzen 9950x can compile code faster and by using less power compared to 7950x. It is going to be awesome for dev laptop performance and battery use.

  • AMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backend

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  • I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop

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  • Yep, windows kernel has a ton of Rust code already, even some of its syscalls are made in Rust. Linux kernel is getting a new GPU driver for NVIDIA written in Rust, and GPU driver for removed M-series also written in Rust. removed is hiring Rust devs, so is Amazon, Meta, Google...

    In the startup space it's been quite good with Rust for some time. I've been writing production code with it for almost a decade. It is not a fad anymore.

    A productive, safe, fast and fun language to write with excellent tooling, and we are just getting started.

  • I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop

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  • And developers who get familiar and easy tools such as cargo, rust-analyzer and all the popular libraries working in any Cosmic project in about five minutes. And the compiler will tell you if you managed to make memory errors or data races in a very clear way. Always the same way.

    You learn Rust and its tools once, and you can just jump into any of these projects and be productive.

    And yes, scripting language is needed for Cosmic at some point. There are a ton of them, from RHAI to different lisps to python to javascript. Plug and play, and the interop is easy and fast.

  • I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop

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  • More than C or C++? I've been working on very effective and performing Rust teams professionally now about a decade and I tend to disagree.

  • I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop

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  • Yep, but QT's object model and its being written in C++ makes it super cumbersome to use in Rust. GTK is better here due to it being written in C, but the direction it's taking in GTK4 is not really great, and having a safe Rust UI toolkit is a huge win for the community.

    Cosmic being fully Rust means I can just take one project from them, and immediately start working on it with cargo and all the familiar tools. It's not as easy with C or C++ projects in Gnome and KDE.

    I think it's great we have some competition in this space, everybody wins.

  • I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop

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  • For me it is the language it's written in: Rust. Now I can participate, fix bugs and implement new apps with the language I know the best.

    Some people might also say less crashes, less vulnerabilities and all that, but for me the first part is the most important.

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    Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

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  • Might be depending where you live. I never had issues finding all the parties and having a large network of friends without Meta apps.

    I was born before computers were really a thing though, so maybe that has an effect on this. Now I don't even realize without reading these threads that I miss something. Life is just fine without…

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    Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

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  • About 12 years for me without any Meta accounts. I talk with my mom using Signal, and have a very active group chat with friends on Signal too. A dozen of Matrix channels for nerd stuff, Akkoma and Lemmy for social feeds, the orange site and Lobsters for work, LWN and Phoronix for hobbies.

    Enough for one day with these...

  • Have just replaced the super convoluted Spotify process for getting local files to my phone with Plexamp.

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  • A solution is also to download new music every morning... And end up having terabytes of flac to manage in a few years.

    Still worth it. And now the plexamp random playlist starts to be very interesting.

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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  • DNS blocker will be as useful or maybe even less than ubo lite. E.g. it just cannot block youtube ads like ubo does.

    Also Google and removed both bypass your DNS blocker. They use their own DNS server and DoH protocol to resolve their ad servers. DoH is also hard to block because it uses port 443 with https.

    The best bet right now is to use either a DNS or even better: packet filter level blocker such as zenarmor; together with ublock origin on firefox. Nothing else will not really block tracking in 2024.

  • How much do Americans actually pay for healthcare?

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  • Like the whole stress of needing to pay anything if needing medical help... If I would avoid that, it is worth even a bigger monthly pay.

    Like, in Berlin I can just walk to a doctor, to a hospital or to a pharmacy, plug my insurance card to a machine and it is all settled. I never see any money changing hands, or at maximum 10 euros copay if getting expensive prescription drugs.

    Completely removing the stress of having a huge bill suddenly is worth the money I put into the insurance every month.

  • How much do Americans actually pay for healthcare?

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  • Is it possible to get health insurance with no copay at all in the US? My insurance in Berlin is about 1500€ per month, for which my employer pays half. If I lose my job, the unemployment office pays it and the price drops to 100€. The same happens if my salary drops, because the insurance cost is a percentage from my salary.

    But if I came to the US, what kind of insurance would I get with $1500 per month?

  • What is the OLDEST online account that you currently still own and still use somewhat frequently?

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  • GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.

  • What cheap thinkpad is best?

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  • What cheap thinkpad is best?

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  • One rule of thumb is to be really sure it doesn't have a tn film screen. IPS at least and even those were really bad up until T490 etc. X1 series has better screens, but you cannot upgrade almost anything to those.

  • Why you should (probably not) run Slackware

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  • I would say OpenBSD is closer to the Slackware idea. You install the system and it works how it was designed. It might not be what you want, but if you are a security-minded C programmer, OpenBSD gives you the full experience out of the box.

  • Why you should (probably not) run Slackware

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  • It is not for everybody. But if you are in the crowd who consider Slackware, things like fingerprint reader or wifi are not the first things that are important for you.

    Get a ThinkPad X230 and go with OpenBSD to get some of that old school unix feeling.