minimaul

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by minimaul 5y ago
Low. For me, SoC power draw when compiling apps is usually around 15 to 18W on a M1 mac mini. My example app (deadbeef) compiles in about 60 seconds on that mac mini. On a 2019 i7 16” MBP (six core), it takes about 90 seconds, and draws ~65
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by minimaul 5y ago
I am using a https://noctua.at/en/nh-l9i as the cooler for it and it keeps it in a sensible range. I don't really max out all of the cores frequently, and certainly not with the most power-hungry workloads - eg AV
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by minimaul 5y ago
There are some nice self-build options too - eg I have https://www.asrock.com/Nettop/Intel/DeskMini%20310%20Series/... with a i7 9700 in (8c8t), plus 1x NVMe and 2x 2TB SATA SSDs for VM disk. Works really rea
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by minimaul 5y ago
It's actually interesting in that tech written to help games run on Linux can also help older games run on Windows! As an example, the best way to run The Sims 2 on Windows 10 with a modern GPU is to force the game to render via DXVK :
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by minimaul 5y ago
100%, go and exchange it. It should not be performing like this. I bought a base spec m1 mac mini for testing apple silicon applications on and it has ended up displacing a 2019 16" MBP unexpectedly - the mac mini is far faster in real
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by minimaul 5y ago
The Asahi Linux project already has upstreamed basic support, and hardware drivers are now being worked on. It's only a matter of time until M1 macs are practically usable devices on alternative OSes!
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by minimaul 5y ago
Yeah, I can't help but think this is probably an oversight rather than anything else - there doesn't seem to be anything personally identifiable in the macOS or Windows hardware info, and both of these are larger platforms than Li
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by minimaul 5y ago
I still run debian 32-bit on a P3 1GHz machine reasonably often - it's a legacy PC for gaming. Has 3DFX cards and everything! Old windows of that vintage can no longer talk modern SMB but Debian i386 can just fine, so I boot debian on
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by minimaul 5y ago
I agree - but in cases of marginal hardware I'd expect to see more strange issues than just specifically FS corruption with btrfs. At one point it was limited to if I was using compression, but using compression was the major reason I
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by minimaul 5y ago
Yeah, I notice some people have very different experiences. It's odd. For me it's a mix of NVMe drives, SATA SSDs on Intel SATA, or SATA SSDs on LSI SAS HBAs (in IT mode). It doesn't seem to be pinned to specific hardware, sa
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by minimaul 5y ago
It's disappointing :( I'd love to use btrfs on root on linux, and I try it on my home server and VMs reasonably often (and this is a xeon + ECC etc, and when I use ZFS/xfs/ext4 I don't get FS issues). I keep finding
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by minimaul 5y ago
FreeBSD is a first-class citizen in the OpenZFS project. It's not a hack or compatibility layer on top of the linux codebase. It makes a great deal of sense for the Linux and FreeBSD communities to collaborate on ZFS rather than both m
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by minimaul 5y ago
btrfs is used by orgs like facebook in a very limited way, and afaik not for big multi-disk storage pools with raid-style devices like ZFS is generally used. btrfs is still very rough for things like raid5/6 (where you want to prioriti
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by minimaul 5y ago
nano is great as a quick command line config editor. I wouldn't use it for a big task, but it's wonderful to just dive into, make a quick change, and get on with whatever you were doing. Has syntax highlighting support too, so you
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by minimaul 6y ago
Another anecdote - on working Xeon E3 hardware (so ECC, etc) I have had btrfs corrupt itself as recently as 5.x kernels from just normal use with compression on a single root device. ext4, xfs and zfs work flawlessly on the same hardware. F
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by minimaul 6y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I have worked on Magento 2 stores (even got their training, which was atrocious!), and... it was awful. It would take a LOT of money to get me to touch it ever again. It eats error messages, the logging is
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by minimaul 6y ago
> Combine that with most users being happy and comfortable with 1 IP address and there was no mass market appeal for IPv6 hardware or software. The mass market appeal for IPv6 is the fact that we do not have enough IPv4 to actually give
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by minimaul 6y ago
Mostly kwin, but also sway a little. I understand that GNOME is a bit further along than either of these, though?
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by minimaul 6y ago
Definitely. I even had the previous lead developer at $work love to say that things were best practice without really giving much justification - it's fuelled my quest for 'why?' a great deal :)
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by minimaul 6y ago
That's great! I've seen it make superb progress over the last year or so. Looking forward to it hitting feature-parity with mac and windows :)
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by minimaul 6y ago
+1 For the juniors on my team, the next question I always ask after the answer "it's best practice" is always "why is it best practice?" It's fundamentally important to understand why something is best practice
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by minimaul 6y ago
I tend to like native apps a lot rather than browser equivalents. I self-host my mail server and use an IMAP+SMTP client to talk to it - I don't use something like gmail. $work uses gmail and the web ui frustrates the hell out of me (a
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by minimaul 6y ago
+1 I do indeed have a portrait monitor for throwing terminals on to, and it's the worst place for making tearing visible.
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by minimaul 6y ago
I actually use KDE generally on Linux, I find GNOME very difficult to get along with :) edit: and desktop distro of choice is generally Arch for me - it's been a long time since I used ubuntu.
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by minimaul 6y ago
I did explicitly state that my points were very subjective - they are personal opinions and I didn't try to hide that. I also did not try to hide that I like macOS - that's why I use it now, after all. As I explicitly said, my att
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by minimaul 6y ago
From someone who tends to try this switch about once a year (because the lack of TLC the Mac was getting in the last 5 or so years was getting very very worrying - M1 feels like Apple actually care about the Mac again), I agree with a lot o
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by minimaul 6y ago
It's exactly why I have mac laptops for work and personal use, although I also have a full time linux desktop (and also a windows one for gaming. still no real alternative there!). I'm an easily frustrated person and I end up with
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by minimaul 6y ago
for 1. The cons? A super restrictive platform (even more than it was under intel) You can still boot arbitrary unsigned OSes - Apple still allows this, but it is obviously going to take time for other OSes to grow support for apple's c
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by minimaul 6y ago
However, TearFree does murder performance and lead to some horrible screen lag at times, and as an extra bonus AccelMethod sna is still crashy years after being introduced :( edit: there's also the modesetting driver + a reasonable com
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by minimaul 6y ago
There's also 010 Editor, which has a very similar thing for creating file format grammars. Invaluable if you work with complex binary files regularly. The scriptable functionality to decode a file format that this and Synalyze It do ma

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