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> I am supported exclusively by donations, which incidentally, have been steadily decreasing since the start of the Asahi Linux project. The project has zero corporate sponsorship.

People’s donations to Asahi Linux have decreased, according to Hector from this thread [0]

Here’s how to donate: https://asahilinux.org/support/

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/c5a49bcb-45cf-4295-80...


And Linus’ immediate reply

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wi=ZmP2=TmHsFSU...

(not taking either side, just interesting to read the reply)


This part of the reply exemplifies one of the big problems in the kernel community:

> You think you know better. But the current process works.

Regardless of how badly broken the kernel development process is, Linus and others observe that Linux continues to dominate and conclude that therefore the development process "works". Success in the market blinds the successful vendor to their defects. Sound familiar?

If Linux carries on down this path then eventually something else that has been subject to more evolutionary pressure will displace Linux, and we'll all be telling stories about how Linux got complacent and how it was obvious to everyone they were heading for a fall.

And honestly, with maintainers like Hellwig maybe that's what needs to happen.


Or worse: Linux is so widespread and managed to practically kill most Unix alternatives, that progress in OS development is slowed down globally. I would strongly prefer Linux being an OS with a lot of progress to stagnation and possible no alternative in the next decades.

I find this reply interesting. Linus says that what matters is technical stuff, but even before the social media brigading, the whole thread was nothing but non-technical drama. So why is Linus focused only on that and not Hellwig's behavior?

You have to be pretty clueless not to understand that Martin's is wrong here, he, and the rest of Rust bozos he clicks with should have been kicked out of the Kernel the minute they started with their social media drama... of course, drama and rust are just bound to be hand in hand.

Definitely interesting to read both sides. I think they both present compelling arguments. There's a need to ensure stability with the kernel and avoid interference with outside forces. I suppose balancing that principle with eventual change is an inevitable difficulty.

> What is wrong with IRC and mailing lists that everyone jumped to...

Why did forums emerge ... like HN or Reddit.

Lots of technologies/platforms accomplish the same end goal. It's more about where have people gathered (network effects) and valuable information shared.

(Not many people are on IRC these days, and as a result - less valuable information can be found there)


I do regret the jump from desktop computing to mobile, but mIRC for example didn't jump while Discord, Meta, and the other advertiser-pleasers went in mobile-first.

mIRC for instance: Linux - use Wine

MacOS - run mIRC inside a Windows emulator, with no plans to change that, although it is compatible with other Mac-ready IRC clients that you can use to talk to the same people

Similar situation for Android and iOS compatibility

Source: https://www.mirc.com/mac.html


Wine? on Linux? Seriously, any IRC chat client on that OS would stomp MIRC any day.

Just some context:

  2.9M federal employees
  0.6% have taken buyout
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-f...

And something like 100k retire every year, so I'd bet a lot of these folks are people who were about to retire anyway.

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/


FYI - it's not the official guide nor documentation.

It should be better noted on this website, but this is not the official Zig guide - which can be found here: https://ziglang.org/learn/

(And while yes, Zig does make reference to zig.guide because it's very helpful and people appreciate the effort put into it - but it's still under the other online learning resource section, not official documentation section)


Feature Suggestion: (for any Apple employees reading), can you add the ability for coordinating amongst the invite attendees what date the event should be.

I coordinate creating events but have to sort through figuring out a date that works for most/everyone. And since I'm coordinating with non-employees (no view into their calendar), figuring out peoples calendar is a main pain.

If this functionality could be added, it'd be game changing for me.


Partiful has this (poll guests to find a time that works)

Being on zoom calls all day is way more brain draining for me, than RTO.

It would be for me as well, but why would you/your company do that? Or is it needed for your position? I do at most 1 zoom / week, the rest is slack, if not ok, then I leave.

OT: anyone have experience with pushover.net, if so - how is it?

I have Pushover. I love it. I have a bash alias that I use to notify me when some command completes. I get a notification on my phone, and a tap on my wrist letting me know some hours long task is complete, and I can do the next step.

I have a Octoprint integration which lets me know when 3d prints have completed.

You can also modify the priority of a message, so I can send "critical" events if I need to, although I use that rarely.


I really appreciate you offering the content as a single page.

Thanks for all your guides over the years. Truly invaluable.


Don't microcode updates require a restart as well.

Microcode updates aren't persistent, they're loaded into on-CPU-SRAM by firmware and/or kernel.

They do not.

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