These patches do offer some benefits for cloud providers or in general orgs that host a bunch of different products on potentially the same machine.
I could see benefits in them, especially if the v3 or whatever addresses some of the issues.
You could easily throw the components into an old tower case.
Getting the PSU to fit could be a bit tricky due to the rather short cables.
Workstations, like real workstations, are another beast and not what’s typically referred to as “office PCs”, those are indeed rather sff builds.
Again, optiplex sff 3060 as an example, it has two SATA ports, one x16 and one x1 (I think) PCIe, and looking at the PCB, apparently there’s a version with m.2 slots. Sure, not exactly server grade storage, but if you manage to find some version with m.2 slots or invest 10€ for a cheap SATA card, you can get enough storage attached.
GPU wise, absolutely no idea. My optiplex has a wx3100 that I got for cheap and its self reported power draw never goes under 5W, but since this machine is a desktop, it doesn’t run all day.
Sorry, but you’re either pulling those numbers out of your ass or haven’t kept up with the real world for 25 years.
The numbers I’ve posted above are measured using an external meter. I’m German, I have a vested interest in knowing how much power my devices pull.
And you don’t think, office PCs pay attention to power consumption, given they are intended to run 8h a day?
My optiplex sff runs at about 10-15W in idle, and it’s an i5 6500. The t variant in my elitedesk runs at 5W.
If you don’t need actually public DNS, something like Tailscale might be an option.
Damnit, that’s exactly the joke I wanted to make.
I already thought about that, but never really could justify switching.
I would argue, though, that it’s not customization, but rather packages themselves changing over time and sometimes just break.
And sometimes you have crap like a full boot partition, because apt decided to keep all Linux versions for some reason.
The carelessness. Mac OS is far from perfect, but it just happily chugs along. Linux often creates problems by just existing for too long. It’s gotten much much better, but it’s still not good.
See, if you would have read my comment and actually bothered to understand it, you would have seen, that I haven’t said no one is at fault here.
So I have to assume, you’re arguing in bad faith, you’re putting words in my mouth to defeat a straw man, while not addressing any of my actual points.
So maybe pull that infantile sarcasm out of your ass and try actually thinking about what you’re saying.
I think this video gets flak, because (in your scenario) not you and your coworker made a video about having fun, but your boss made you come to the otherwise empty office to act like you’re having fun and use that as advertisement.
Will you categorically stomp your foot and ignore every single argument in that comment as well? Because you’re almost there!
Blaming consumers for things that happen at least three indirections removed from them is childish. A consumer cannot know where all the resources are coming from.
Blaming EVs for this, is just as childish, if not actively evil, since the alternative would be oil extraction and that’s not exactly clean and happy either.
The idea is that women are afraid not to have children at all and get emergency children before 30.
That this will turn women into breeding and child caring machines has the nice side effects that you not only get a bunch of women who don’t have time for education, and thus more job security for me men, and it keeps them at home, so you don’t need child care facilities.
So all in all a great step forward into the 1920!
Yeah, but that’s the thing: it’s not fast. And that’s actually even more baffling.
All those rewrites cost money. All the shoddy software somewhere in the background of every corporation was written using these shitty libraries, frameworks, APIs. And that means cost.
I’m explicitly not talking about the newest crap Amazon or Google push, they operate under different principles, I’m talking about the data plumbing stuff. The eight billion Spring Boot apps, the PHP sites, the Python pipelines.
Writing and deploying a simple CRUD app, that just takes data from a request and saves it into a DB should be done in a few minutes. The actual “payload” is just input schema, DB schema, transformation rules, maybe auth. That’s it. However, if you want to do that in Spring Boot and K8s, it takes often hours or days to get everything right. Not because Spring Boot is hard, but because you forget a network policy in Helm or the dateformat between JSON/Java/DB is different or that library is outdated or there’s CVE somewhere or you have to look up that shitty mappedBy thingy from Hibernate again (that’s maybe just my problem, I can’t remember that crap) etc. etc. etc.
The basic problem behind is, that we have to take care of so much. Network, business logic, framework detail. You have hardly any layer or platform that is really solid.
Honestly, I would advocate the exact opposite.
Yes, programs became bloated and fragile, but the solution cannot be to return to the stone age, but be professionals for once.
Our entire industry is shit at actually engineering. There’s leaky abstractions everywhere, and that’s exactly why everything is so complicated and brittle. There’s no platform to build upon, only a scaffolding made of twigs, duct tape and three bananas for some reason. Every minor change in some minor library percolates through the entire stack.
You’re a simple developer, so am I. And we both probably wrote hundreds of apps that essentially do the same crud crap again and again and again. The same basic functionality gets implemented thousands of times, because we can’t get our shit together to build actually reusable components. Instead we rewrite the 12th iteration of “make stuff move in browser” and “make Java do business”.
We’re not engineers, we’re children with hot glue guns.
That’s great and all, but how does any of that justify an invasion?
What you’re doing here is whataboutism. You don’t address the actual problem, instead you’re derailing the discussion.
Are you two really naive enough to assume that Russia will respect a peace agreement?
Russia attacked several countries against international law, and Ukraine already had security guarantees from the US and UK following its voluntary surrender of their nuclear weapons.
International law and security guarantees meant fuck all when Russia invaded in 2014, and about as much in 2022.
Why do you think, Russia would respect agreements this time? They made their intentions very very clear.
Because you don’t know what you’ll need that wrapper beforehand, that’s my entire point.
Unless you’re only doing trivial changes, the chances are very high that you won’t be able to design the class structure. Or, you end up essentially writing the code to be able to write the tests, which kind of defeats the purpose.
If you have to ask “can’t you just” the answer is almost always no.
So, you fucked up and it’s postgres’ fault?