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  • …Actually I largely agree, and I’m a CachyOS Linux acolyte.

    I have my Windows partition stripped down to the bone. Not even Defender’s active, but once it’s like that it does just work for games, media and such. The partition is ancient.

    …It would be hellishly inconvenient for dev stuff though. You are massively overselling Windows there.


    Same with Firefox. I’ve had some weird issues with it on Linux and Windows, especially with hardware/graphics acceleration.







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    Friend, you ain’t seen nothing. I’ve seen stuff in the US South that you wouldn’t even see in Reddit. Stuff you wouldn’t believe, and I’m afraid to type out, stuff way worse than “If that n***** steps foot here again he’s getting lead in his belly.”

    Personal beliefs (and drama) can be pretty extreme.


    …That being said…

    Lemmy’s extreme too?

    I see dead serious “we should bludgeon X and his family to death” posts that make me very uncomfortable. Mods don’t care. When .world admins step in, the community cries censorship and ‘extremist right wing.’ I’ve almost left Lemmy over it.

    Maybe sh.itjust.works is better about that, though.


  • That could be versioning?

    For example, Arch Linux (CachyOS) sticks to one Python version systemwide, and doesn’t upgrade it until the whole Arch repo is ready to transition, while in Ubuntu many Python version exist in parallel. The Phoronix bench presumably uses the latest one. Perhaps Python 3.14 (and associated libraries) have some dramatic performance gains in certain benchmarks?


    I know there are some Python ‘hacks’ as well. Clear Linux, for instance, used to ship Python with some custom build flags and code patches that forced AVX2 and some other stuff, but I think Cachy pulled these in?







  • Not sure I understand you but I think I get it?

    Like, most of what AI bad is the cultism and corporate shit. Like literally shaving 2% off costs to drain a town’s water or something, or proselytizing scaling up transformers while ignoring the efficiency/scaling papers that keep coming out (because that would break the Tech Bro grift).

    …At the same time, the absolute energy cost is ridiculously overstated compared to, say, global aluminum or steel production.

    And then you have the ridiculous politicization. An example I often cite is a TV series that was ‘fan remastered’ and (as one component in a long chain) upscaled with an oldschool GAN that cost peanuts to train. Beloved years ago, but all of a sudden the fandom hates it because it has something to do with ‘AI’.

    At the same, you can’t ignore how irresponsibly its presented, where these companies are making pennies from spam/slop literally destroying everything. It’s quite reasonable to say “The idiots making this put no effort into it” or “I just don’t like it, yuck” when 99.99% of user-visible AI generation is slop/spam.