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If "FLOSS works" maintainers shouldn't be "facing severe burnout"

So your success criteria for ”FLOSS works” is that zero people involved in it experience stress related issues?

What’s your point, or are you just engaging in a conversation while completely ignoring the context?

Go ahead.

I have no idea what Gleam or Tangled is, so for me this headline might as well be an article from The Onion satirizing HN. I also refuse to believe any of these two things are large enough, like say Postgres, that one can claim everyone should know it. Surely writing an informative headline for ”hackers in general” can’t be that difficult.

Moving from MariaDB to SQLite and not Postgres for a web application of this scale is insane. I wonder what went into the discussion behind this.

”typical Postgres setups” do not include connection poolers to begin with, this is not a Postgres issue.

I’m an Organic Maps user and from a cursory glance I can see no reason to use CoMaps instead, it looks like the same app and I’d wish they’d make an attempt to clearer differentiate themselves since this will be an obvious question.

”Viking” is not a language, it’s not even an ethnic group. The language you’re probably referring to is Old Norse.

Markus Allard, used to be far left politician before turning far right.

Less weird than you might think, Mussolini was one of the most prominent socialists in Italy before turning fascist.

People are stubborn.

This is just a variant of the argument ”people don’t know what’s good for them”. You’re very close to the actual answer, which is that the aforementioned ”manager class” is simply convinced that they understand reality better than those below them, which is quite frankly absurd considering the fact that managers very rarely do any of the ”real work” that these tools supposedly make redundant, and yet they still believe themselves to understand the potential better.

That depends on which Volvo you’re talking about.

It turns out that a _very_ long HDMI cable, a Steam Controller 2 and Bazzite on a second drive was all I needed to get a comfortable couch gaming experience.

Yes, it does turn out that if you already _have_ a capable gaming PC, you can use that instead of buying a Steam Machine. Who would have thunk it.

It feels like people don’t understand what the value prop of the Steam Machine is, maybe because they’re mixing it up with existing functionality and previous hardware attempts for ”streaming” games. That’s obviously not what this hardware is about.

The memory requirements, yes. The crashing, no. The OS should not crash because memory is running out, but the solution is far from obvious or standardized. My recommendation for RAM constrained systems would be to use zswap combined with a generous amount of swap space.

It’s a small compensation for the immense damage you’ve all done to the industry and more importantly the economy

For all of those on HN that think venture capital is just numbers in a spreadsheet, consider that every dollar spent on AI is one that was not spent investing in the ”normal” economy. If this gamble does not play out, there will be bills to pay for all of society. As stated in Chernobyl: ”Every lie we tell incurs debt to the truth”, except in this case ”the truth” is the (un-)employment status of your friends, relatives and neighbors.

I’m not so sure the uncertainty around _regulation_ is the concern here.

The first few hundred words on that page does not explain why I should care about this, and amazingly neither does the comments here on HN.

The fact that this article is obviously authored at least in part by an LLM is infuriating.

I would expect openrsync to create a remote file /tmp/services, but instead it creates /tmp/services/services.

As someone who has also suffered uncountable years of abuse from rsync, I understand the impulse, but I think it makes a lot more sense (and is a safer default) to create a second ”services”.

If we have a chance to change rsync defaults to something less insane and save future generations from this mess I think we should.

I disagree, there is always a way to keep it free, if you care about keeping your promises. Especially in this case where the service is essentially locally encrypted json blob storage. There’s already plenty of premium functionality not included. If you have runaway costs due to abuse, just make up new limits to solve it.

It’s about the backpedaling. No one says it has to be free, they said that. They just have to keep their promise.

Ironically, by stereotyping ”Rust hipsters” you are painting yourself out as a stereotype as well. Knee-jerk comments like yours add nothing to the discussion. Rust exists for a reason, it solves real problems, but it’s not suitable for everything. These are indisputable facts and by discarding every mention of Rust as coming from ”hipsters” with no understanding, you are doing the exact same thing that you would accuse them of. ”Use Rust for everything” and ”Rust is useless for everything” are equally vapid and meaningless statements designed for nothing but trolling and showing ignorance.

now that they have people who built services on their API

People really can’t wait to be the next Zynga

That's like calling your programming language Latin?!

More accurately it would be like calling it Alphabet, since that takes its name from Alpha Beta (AB) just like the Futhark takes its name from the first letters in it.

Maybe if the ”Linux-curious” would stop using distros like Omarchy and other riced up Arch derivatives and instead try something like vanilla Debian or Fedora, they could spend more time using Linux and less time whining about how unstable ”Linux” is because you don’t understand what a rolling distro is.

I use zfsbootmenu and I love it.

It’s quite odd to choose the name ”Rocky” when that is already the name of one of the most popular Linux distributions.

most distros backport fixes which does not increment that version number. i.e. they patch it, they do not ship a completely new kernel release.

20 years ago your Linux installation might not include wifi drivers, bluetooth support, decent GPU drivers, fat32/ntfs drivers, or the widely used video/audio codecs of the era.

To be quite fair, this is pretty much the only reason Ubuntu exists. It started off as "Debian for people who just want stuff to work", but these days Debian even ships non-free wifi drivers on the install media. I've personally used both extensively and apart from the "enterprise support" argument and the minor convenience of having ZFS pre-compiled, I see no reason to use Ubuntu.

"how do I just run my game server on dozens of boxes without dealing with linux stuff"

A good first question to ask yourself is why you need to run it on dozens of boxes. You probably don't.

The point of Docker is not "I just want to run my program", the point is to bundle an application with its dependencies. It's one way to distribute applications, and far from the only one (despite what talking to some people might make you think).

As for the last part of your post, none of it is correct. Docker is not a "second linux to worry about" and considering unikernels in your use case is insane.

Terry Davis once said that "an idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity". You say you're "getting ready to launch an online game", then launch it. The best way to do that is the simplest way, which in my opinion is running it as a systemd service on _one_ Linux VM. When that actually creates problems for you, solve those problems, and only those problems.

As someone who has moved the opposite way, heavily using Incus and now checking out Proxmox, what made you go for IncusOS?

My gut feeling is that enterprise sentiment is leaning heavily towards Proxmox, fuelled by a VMware exodus that will only gain speed, and I don't see Incus really meeting the requirements most people have that previously used VMware, but of course Incus is awesome and you can't always pick technologies by what will be "employable" :-)