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by andix 5mo ago
Omarchy is more like Kubuntu. Some config scripts and a few additional packages on top of another distribution.
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by andix 5mo ago
If I got the article right, they were running FUSE inside the VM, and the VM's FUSE was talking to a process on the VM host (probably over virtual network). That can't be fast, not even theoretically. Ever access to the fs had to
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by andix 5mo ago
SQLite is in-process. A user space file system is another process. Like Postgres if we want to compare fs with dbs. And Postgres is slow for many small queries, like a userspace file system.
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by andix 5mo ago
It's something completely different. A database like SQLite runs in the same process as the application All the filesystem calls go through the kernel. A userspace file system is another process. It's not like SQLite, it's mo
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by andix 5mo ago
I've never been confused by language features. Usually the architecture or extreme indirection of the code is the confusing part.
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by andix 5mo ago
Isn't it really obvious that a user space fs will always be slow, and especially slow with small files? I don't know the purpose of microsandbox, but such an article doesn't give me great confidence in exploring it further.
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by andix 5mo ago
There are many historic examples of "dumbing down" a country by their government. I've tried to list some here, but got flagged. Ask your favorite Chatbot to assemble one. A lot of them share similarities with the current sit
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by andix 5mo ago
Why would you assume this isn't their goal?
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by andix 5mo ago
> Are we purposefully dumbing down the country now? Yes.
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by andix 5mo ago
> slowly becoming incompatible with the latest applicative stack LTS distributions are great if your applications don't change (much), or are explicitly compatible with the specific distribution you run them on.
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by andix 5mo ago
I would never put a LTS system on a general purpose desktop. This would only make sense for some corporate environments, where the hardware purchases are aligned with the driver support of the LTS distribution. And even then it's quest
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by andix 5mo ago
Did you read the blog post? Not upgrading a server for 10 years does happen. And it's fine if you get the right distribution with security updates.
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by andix 5mo ago
Alma/rocky give you 10 years. Ubuntu pro, rhel and suse too, but they are commercial options (some free offers exist). So while debian is a great distribution, with 5y is definitively not in the top 5 of LTS distributions.
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by andix 5mo ago
> simply because I'm less scared to play with and fix stuff. The main reason of a LTS distribution is not having to play around and fix stuff. Install something once, and it keeps running without any changes, but still gets security
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by andix 5mo ago
Great. I like my personal servers to just keep working. Without having to restore backups. And without having to spend one Saturday every month to update and fix all the servers.
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by andix 5mo ago
Been there, done that. Less changes are just better.
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by andix 5mo ago
I have around 20 "personal toy servers". I really don't like to fix them all the time. Most of them are some small VMs or some Rasperry Pis controlling something. I want minimal changes on those systems, but still being able
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by andix 5mo ago
No
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by andix 5mo ago
Yes, I'm lazy. And that's fine.
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by andix 5mo ago
Quick tip for people who want to experiment with local models: A lot of the common smaller models are also available on openrouter or other services. Dirt cheap. I know it's not the same. But a lot of people buy expensive GPUs, just to
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by andix 5mo ago
5 years is not a lot. It releases every 2 years, so it requires upgrading at least every 4 years. In the worst case it's just 3 years of support, if you install right before the next release. ELTS is 10 years and paid. It's great
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by andix 5mo ago
Thanks! I don't care much about being fully RHEL compatible, or no ABI changes at all. I just want a system that gets security fixes quickly with as little chances of breaking things as possible.
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by andix 5mo ago
It usually doesn't live until the end of the support cycle. And if it does I will probably migrate it to a fresh VM instead of upgrading the distribution.
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by andix 5mo ago
I need to enable automatic updates, because I don't have the time to manually update. I have a few machines on Open SuSE Tubleweed, and stuff just randomly breaks. A few months ago there was a weird Kernel bug that just froze all of th
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by andix 5mo ago
> why do you care that much? I've had issues with Ubuntu/Debian upgrades more than once. Some third party binaries breaking with the update. Or some specific config tweaks that break, because the structure of /etc changed
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by andix 5mo ago
Maybe not reassuring at all: but we can't smell a lot while we are asleep. A bad smell won't wake us up. That's why fire alarms exist, noise (or bright light) does wake us up.
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by andix 5mo ago
Slightly off topic: What's currently the free Linux distribution with the longest support cycle? For a while I used CentOS 7 on all of those small VMs, because it got security updates for a really long time. With minimal risk of breaki
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by andix 5mo ago
From embarrassing situations in the past.
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by andix 5mo ago
I have a friend who doesn't have a sense of smell since birth. It's more of a problem than one would think. His diet is rather plain, and he doesn't enjoy a lot of food. It's mostly meat, fried things and sweets he enjoy
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by andix 5mo ago
Is a container breach really the relevant problem to solve for agents? VMs provide better isolation, that's true. But does it matter? Even sandboxed agents usually have a lot of capabilities. Adding backdoors to code by installing brea

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