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Maybe if f-droid is important to you, donate, so they can buy newer build server?

ratdragon 1y ago
Did and doing regularly.
benrutter 1y ago
I'm not quite sure if I'm over reading into this, but this comes across as a snarky response as if I've said "boo, fdroid sucks and owes me a free app store!". Appologies if I came across like that, here's what I'm trying to convey: - Fdroid is important - This sounds like a problem, not necessarily one that's any fault of fdroid - Does anyone know of a plan to fix the issue? For what it's worth, I do donate on a monthly basis to fdroid through liberapay, but I don't think that's really relevant here?
- happosai 1y ago
  You are right, my message comes through as too snarky. What I wanted to give is an actionable item for the readers here.
nativeforks 1y ago
This has now become a major issue for F-Droid, as well as for FOSS app developers. People are starting to complain about devs because they haven't been able to release the new version for their apps (at least it doesn't show up on F-Droid) as promised
chasil 1y ago
Is Westmere the minimum architecture needed for the required SSE? Server hardware at the minimum v2 functionality can be found for a few hundred dollars. A competent administrator with physical access could solve this quickly. Take a ReaR image, then restore it on the new platform. Where are the physical servers?
- LtdJorge 1y ago
  Zen 2 Epyc would barely double the price of older platforms if you buy an entire server, and would run circles around them.
  - chasil 1y ago
    A slow computer that does what you want is infinitely more valuable than a fast computer that does not.
    - grim_io 1y ago
      why would a fast computer refuse to do what you want?
      - chasil 1y ago
        [flagged]
        RealStickman_ 1y ago
        1. That's still perfectly possible 2. We're talking about x86_64 CPUs here that have been open to install your own software basically since they existed
        chasil 1y ago
        More modern x86 comes with significant problems. The minimum is now eight cores on a die for both AMD and Intel, so running a quad core system means staying on 14nm. You may loudly criticize holding back on a quad core system, but you aren't paying $47,500 per core to license Oracle Enterprise database. The eight core minimum is a huge detriment for commercial software that is licensed by core. This, and this alone, shatters your argument. Any other questions?
        RealStickman_ 1y ago

Did and doing regularly.

I'm not quite sure if I'm over reading into this, but this comes across as a snarky response as if I've said "boo, fdroid sucks and owes me a free app store!". Appologies if I came across like that, here's what I'm trying to convey: - Fdroid is important - This sounds like a problem, not necessarily one that's any fault of fdroid - Does anyone know of a plan to fix the issue? For what it's worth, I do donate on a monthly basis to fdroid through liberapay, but I don't think that's really relevant here?

happosai 1y ago
You are right, my message comes through as too snarky. What I wanted to give is an actionable item for the readers here.

nativeforks 1y ago

This has now become a major issue for F-Droid, as well as for FOSS app developers. People are starting to complain about devs because they haven't been able to release the new version for their apps (at least it doesn't show up on F-Droid) as promised

chasil 1y ago

Is Westmere the minimum architecture needed for the required SSE? Server hardware at the minimum v2 functionality can be found for a few hundred dollars. A competent administrator with physical access could solve this quickly. Take a ReaR image, then restore it on the new platform. Where are the physical servers?

LtdJorge 1y ago
Zen 2 Epyc would barely double the price of older platforms if you buy an entire server, and would run circles around them.
- chasil 1y ago
  A slow computer that does what you want is infinitely more valuable than a fast computer that does not.
  - grim_io 1y ago
    why would a fast computer refuse to do what you want?
    - chasil 1y ago
      [flagged]
      - RealStickman_ 1y ago
        1. That's still perfectly possible 2. We're talking about x86_64 CPUs here that have been open to install your own software basically since they existed
        chasil 1y ago
        More modern x86 comes with significant problems. The minimum is now eight cores on a die for both AMD and Intel, so running a quad core system means staying on 14nm. You may loudly criticize holding back on a quad core system, but you aren't paying $47,500 per core to license Oracle Enterprise database. The eight core minimum is a huge detriment for commercial software that is licensed by core. This, and this alone, shatters your argument. Any other questions?
        RealStickman_ 1y ago