+1 to submarine. :)

It wouldn’t sadden me in the least if video cards would stop shipping with RT cores. I would rather that go to more raster cores so every game can benefit from the performance boost.

It’s very weird that Linux is broken up into Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Linux (non-WSL), Fedora, etc, etc. but none of the other OSes are. Example: Windows isn’t broken into Server 2022, Server 2025, Windows 10 home, Windows 10 iot, Windows 10 S, etc, etc.

It’s very hard to tell what the total numbers are as you can’t just add these together, since an indivdual might use several.

O, neat. Looks like it is a Rasperry Pi Compute Module 4 doing the work. Good news with that means it’s a generalized solution that will work on lots of similar devices if there are supply constraints on this particular one.

Damn, 20 seasons just since Aug 2023.

Honestly, I had forgotten Overwatch 2 was a game that existed. Whole thing was a shitshow on launch and have yet to feel the desire to play it.

OpenAI put in an order for 40% of RAM supply at two of the three companies that make RAM.

This is most certainly a supply/demand issue. See linked article for more details.

These are a pretty big deal. Means you are able to take out drones in a very cost effective way, and don’t have to get so close as to gun things, which could damage the aircraft when the target explodes.

There are potential countermeasures for this (evading when being chased), but this involves the Russian drones getting much more sophisticated (read: expensive) which is also a win.

Smarter Every Day actually made an in-person presentation to NASA stating the same thing with a crapload more detail.

Damn does that video escalate! 🔥

Microsoft itself, in fact, declared that all PCs will be AI PCs

It’s funny that Microsoft intended for this to be a marketing boon, but many users read it as a threat.

‘This is my hole’

Apple probably isn’t seeing it as a factor. Anyone switching from MacOS to Linux on Apple hardware has purchased Apple hardware and will likely continue doing so because they’re the kind of people who buy Apple products and you can’t change that about a person.

When they are ready for a new computer, are they going to spend double to buy Mac hardware when they specifically want a Linux machine? Many will say no.

As a somewhat side fact, most of Microsoft’s own cloud services are running on Linux. This fact nudges me to believe the opposite of your conclusion. That is to say, changing your OS doesn’t necessarily change the software you use.

That said, I would be very surprised if Microsoft’s cloud offerings were as popular among Linus users.

We are already at >7% for English-speaking Steam users. At this rate 15% isn’t terribly far off.

But, even now, it’s getting increasingly difficult to tell your manager “we should lower our product’s sales by 7%”.

Importantly, there was a net increase in Linux users and a net decrease in Windows users.

Also Mint gets a ton of traction here too.

Love to see it!

This site won’t update till tomorrow, but Steam’s English Linux numbers are >2x the overall numbers (China apparently hates Linux). Going to be something like 7% for English-speaking Linux use. :)

See chart at the very bottom

Edit: 7.09% :)

Did you set different timings while you were in Windows? Looks like MemSet can do this. I would assume not though.

But, yeah, thank you for mentioning that memory tool in the OS. Had no clue it even existed.

Yeah, forwarding a port to a server with SFTP allows you both to have two-way links. Have done this with some of my friends as well.

Sneakernet via a HDD is also damn helpful for initial bulk transfers.

More info: MemTest86 is the standard. Put that on a flash drive, boot into it, and run it overnight. It needs to complete a full pass, which takes 4+ hours. A single failure or two is OK, any more is not.

If we are testing hardware, I would also suggest a CPU test with Prime95 an a GPU test with Furmark. Both of these tests are faster than the memory test, and you can always do them from a live linux environment if you want to remove your current installed OS as a factor.