Filesystem compression is dope.
Compressionist
Filesystem compression is dope.
Royalty-free blanket patent licensing is compatible with Free Software and should be considered the same as being unpatented. Even if it’s conditioned on a grant of reciprocality. It’s only when patent holders start demanding money (or worse, withholding licenses altogether) that it becomes a problem
I’m pretty much all BTRFS at this point
JPEG-XL is in no way patent encumbered. Neither is AVIF. I don’t know what you’re talking about
No, there aren’t any licensing issues with JPEG-XL.
Minecraft is arguably & measurably more performant on Linux, full stop. Anything using OpenGL performs better on Linux, check any Minecraft benchmark online.
Throughout the entire OS. Image CDNs are adopting JXL on some scale - Cloudinary reportedly ships billions of JXL images regularly
I have customized ZSH to be very similar to Fish
I think the wave of hype sort of overshadowed a couple of key points about these chips:
Battery life is hardware and software.
I’m partial to macOS and I agree, I think Windows font rendering looks like garbage. On GNOME, I’ve found things to be okay. Sucks that patents are involved in this mess
I’m happy with Wayland
Chrome OS.
Pixel 6 & newer, newer MediaTek devices, anything with the Snapdragon 8 gen 2 or newer. It took Qualcomm a while because many companies (including Apple) were holding out for VVC, which to this day isn’t in a great state. iPhone 15 Pro & newer support AV1 hwdec
Go big or go home. No need to stick with anything from a large corporation if you’re already pulling away from M$
Aside from the backdoor (which is a moot point when talking about zstd anyway), there are a number of other very good reasons to use ZSTD.
Yes, it works on Wayland. I’d also give GNOME’s Console a shot.
Unless something changed, I believe Apple is using LPDDR5 since the M2. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-introduces-m2-processor-8-core-cpu-10-core-gpu-up-to-18-more-performance
I think these ARM chips are more expensive than we realize! Apple’s egregiously high upgrade pricing on MacBooks sucks, and 8gb of RAM by default on the base model sucks as well, but it is likely to raise the average sale price of devices equipped with their chips. This has been known for some time, I feel.
I’ll cut Samsung some slack since we don’t know the unit cost of the Snapdragon chips, and they aren’t likely to sell out of these devices right away even with competitive pricing because of the state of Windows on ARM. I’m excited to see how Linux support pans out on the next generation of non-Apple ARM notebooks, though; I think this is a chance for some manufacturers to take Linux more seriously, as Linux on ARM is actually not a terrible experience.
The fact that iPhones are getting this before Android phones without Google Play Services tells you all you need to know about the nature of RCS. Android has lost all of its intrigue and fun in favor of becoming GoogleOS