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@drcounelis@mstdn.starnix.network @2T2@mstdn.starnix.network Don't we already? 🤣

@colinsmatt11 I also hate the pace at which they change the syntax of the language (In what way any is better than an empty interface? WTF?!!!) so gcc-go as a non-reference implementation always lags behind.

@colinsmatt11 It could be a good language though. Don't get me wrong, I usually can't take anything Google has a hand in even if it doesn't make me user their "services" e.g. WebPee as I call it. But with go Pike did a tremendous work.
It could be a modern-day C with interfaces/traits, sane lightweight threads and channels. The idea behind the language is beautiful and I like it syntactically better than rust. Unfortunately we have a general gravity towards web, so it's here too.

@iron_bug @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Yes, this was abstraction for abstraction's sake. First it was just a bunch of XML-files with weird names inside an organized directory structure. Aside from the fact that XML is not THAT human readable it was not that bad. But it turned into a shitshow pretty soon.
The most odd thing of it is that in Mac OS X, where they drew inspiration from, it wasn't that bad: XML files really worked there, were readable and had sane utilities, and launchd was not as bad as systemd.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @colinsmatt11 @allison @coyote @dushman Rust is better, but you'll still need a Tier 1 supported system for bootstrapping, I think.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @colinsmatt11 @allison @coyote @dushman Nope, having a C compiler is not enough nowadays. I have a couple of PPC-boxes so I know.
For example go is a very popular language and it is considered cross-platform because ARM and Intel are supported, but you can't even build reference toolchain on PowerPC. Well, you can on PPC64LE and you can even jump through several sets of hoops to build it for 32-bit PPC, but won't be able to build anything with it — third party modules aren't that portable.

@colinsmatt11 @allison @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @coyote @dushman It's a bit better for Power: there is Raptor Computing. There was also the initiative to make a modern laptop as a replacement for the ones who use old G4 PowerBook, but would like something more modern. I'm not sure it came to fruition though.

@colinsmatt11 @allison @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @coyote @dushman True. Now there is little demand for such solutions. Consumers are moving to mobile devices, and companies have no problem using "cloud" solutions and don't care where their software is actually hosted. They do it even in cases where to me it looks like a really bad idea.
But OpenSPARC has seen the light quite a long time ago. They've published docs for a very competitive CPU for the time, esp. SMT-wise. I was very optimistic, but nothing happened 😭

@nicemicro @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org What an interesting example!
I didn't have a microwave oven at home until recently, but of course I've used them and I was always reluctant to use these "presets" — does this button really do what it is supposed to? Maybe I should just set the power and time to be sure?
So when I decided to get one for myself I got one with just two big knobs. Well, not only because of that, the fact that "touch" buttons always get borked with time was also a factor 😅

@iron_bug @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Did the actually remove anything? I was pretty sure that's how GTK-based applications work when running in GNOME environment: menu bar on top of the screen, like in Mac OS X, but when run outside GNOME it's just a normal menu bar, top of the window. Is it not?

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @dushman @allison @coyote I think OpenSPARC happened before the Oracle acquisition.
There is also OpenPOWER with very liberal licensing, but no one seems to care.

@dushman @allison https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_rog_phone_6_pro-11648.php
This one has more RAM than all of my boxes, except for the Mac Pro 🤯

@dushman @allison I don't think it's on par with the game consoles though. Because even with all the quirks you can't make the heat dissipation efficient enough.
The laptops also have these nice 8 core CPUs, but still get throttled under continuous workload in half an hour or so.

@dushman @allison Phones are getting too powerful. The cheap Chinese device I've got myself this year for two hundred bucks can build mesa in a couple of minutes. This is crazy! Who needs all this computing power? And it's even got 120 Hz!
At least it can make it through 6 days on a single charge which is very good!

@sai There was a screenshot circulating around some time ago of a hardware review and the guy actually called it Hitler threading. Or was he selling his PC and described it? I don't remember.
It was so hilarious that I call it this way ever since.
OMG you already knew that, right? 😅

@sneak Homebrew had a command line switch for interactive build which gave you a shell before configure phase so you could apply patches. Can't you do the same with nixpkgs and fix it manually?

@sai OMG, P4 was a total failure, a disaster! Especially the Hitler threading.
But then laptops started to gain steam and focus shifted from performance to power efficiency so they've switched back to microarchitecture based on P3 and the whole Centrino thing overall was a huge success. Sadly, AMD wasn't fast enough to realise which way the wind blows 😢

@fribbledom @exception Here we go: https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_rog_phone_6_pro-11648.php
18 gigabytes of RAM. I think you can host a Matrix server on this 😅

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Using anything by Facebook is like being in extremely unhealthy relationship. I don't know how anyone actually uses for anything other than posting cat pics and doesn't get banned every half an hour.
What absolutely baffles me is how girls try to promote their OnlyFans on Instagram. I mean everyone gets that they want to sell their nude pics, but they still post the same pics with nipples painted over with a spray tool or something. This is so… grotesque! Beyond my comprehension.

@sai @Epsi@mk.absturztau.be Oh, thanks! 😹