To everyone saying you can’t play games on Linux. You can. You can play an amazing amount of games, even on launch day, with nothing more than a click of the install button on Steam. I smashed install for Clair Obscur last night and it works great. If you don’t play highly competitive online games like League of Legends then you’ll be fine.
Anecdata— a mate of mine plays Hell Divers 2, and thought he couldn’t play it or it wouldn’t work well. I told I had played it and it worked fine. Two days later, he’s using Linux and getting better performance than he was on Windows.
It has been five years of gaming exclusively on Linux, and I have yet to find a game I can’t play with the only exceptions (for me) being League of Legends and iRacing. But I can live without them. If you don’t play extremely competitive online games you can probably play it. My rule of thumb is, “are there IRL pro tournaments for money?” if there aren’t it’ll very likely just work.
My only tip is just use something like common. Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, Arch, ZorinOS, Kubuntu… all will probably work with zero effort. Don’t go mucking about with weird distros, and bizarre tweaks, and you’re more than likely gonna have the most stable system you’ve ever used.
I cannot recommend Linux highly enough. Five years ago I was skeptical and unsure but tired of Windows bullshit and here I am— still loving it. I’ve fully upgraded the system recently, except for the GPU (because 5090 prices are ridiculous and I don’t want less VRAM than my 3090 has) and it even booted from my old install and just worked.
Try Linux, friends. It’s pretty freaking great these days.
You’d be surprised how many games you can. It’s a pretty common misconception at this point. The only things that you can’t are some highly competitive multiplayer games like League of Legends or iRacing. I haven’t had a game not work in years, just smash the install button on steam and be done with it. Even a large amount of MMOs just work. I play SWTOR and even have StarParse (stats overlay working perfectly).
And if enough people move to Linux even those holdouts will eventually have to support it. The Steam deck has been the gateway drug to Linux for the masses, and I’m stoked for it. Moving to Linux for my desktop gaming machine was the single best decision I made 5 years ago, and I haven’t used Windows since. It’s more stable than Windows ever was, and I also don’t have an errant update break a game, the system, or cause a reboot at the worst possible time.
And those are the only types of games I play... So for me it feels like barely anything I want to play works on Linux.
I play Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty Warzone, Apex Legends, PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Fortnite, and none of these seem to work on Linux.
The only games I regularly play that work on Linux are DotA 2 and CS2, but I would also prefer using faceit for CS2 as there are way too many cheaters without it, and faceit does not work on Linux.
I’m definitely not saying there aren’t loads of people who will have problems because of it— the games you listed are all popular with millions upon millions of people. I used to play League exclusively. With that said, there are likely that many who don’t play those competitive multiplayer games who could absolutely enjoy playing games on Linux with zero effort and have a better experience doing it. I gave up playing League for Linux, and I don’t regret that. I’ll never be good enough at it to really enjoy it.
My point is, more or less, if someone mostly plays solo games, or games that will never have professional players (because there won’t be enough money to pay someone to be a professional)—- Linux slaps. Use Linux. It’s free. It’s great. It’s stable it works.
Is it for literally everyone? No. But it is probably for a lot more people than realize it.
Additionally, if the market becomes big enough, those games that don’t work—- will be forced to. Money talks.
It still limits the selection, especially, if someone is into competitive games which often have anticheat sitting on the kernel. Which is crap, but it is how it is
I’ll be honest this sounds like something that could be completely automated without AI. Wouldn’t a simple shell script accomplish this? Merge, push tag, deploy release with tag. I’m really not sure why AI is useful here at all but maybe I’m missing something?
I think the only main "benefit" here is auto-documentation. I have for example been pretty impressed when doing coding with Claude Code of how it creates the git commits.
I've just been testing it out having it create a whole application by itself so I can understand how well it works and what its limiations are with Sonnet 4. So far it is pretty impressive but also limited in context retention/retrieval.
Sort of tangential but I’m surprised folks are still using Apache all these years later. Is there a certain language that makes it better than Nginx? Or it just the ease of use configuration that still pulls people? I switched to Nginx I don’t even know how many years ago and never looked back, just more or less wondering if I should.
Apache does everything, it's fairly easy to configure. If there's something you want to do, Apache mostly knows how, or have a module.
If you run a fleet of servers, all doing different things, Apache is a good choice because all the various uses are going to be supported. It might not be the best choice in each individual case, but it is the one that works in all of them.
I don't know why some are so quick to write off Apache. Is just because it's old? It's still something like the second most used webserver in the world.
I'm using nginx since what feels like decades and occasionally I miss the ability to use .htaccess files. This is a very nice way to configure stuff on a server.
I use it because that’s the one I’m most familiar with. Using it since 15 years and counting. And since it doesn’t the job for me, I never had the urge to look into alternatives.
Apache has so much functionality. Why wouldn't anybody use it?
I started using it when Oracle's Webcache wouldn't support newer certificates and I had to keep Oracle Portal running. I could edit the incoming certificate (I had to snip the header and the footer) and put it in a specific header for Portal to accept it.
Really good sales people know the literal dollar value of their work. They often times have large networks, existing relationships, and know how to use them to make money. Every really good sales person I’ve ever known gives literally no shits about what anyone tells them because they’re closing. They know it’s their relationships more than anything pulling in the cash. When you’re closing deals for millions upon millions of dollars, if you aren’t getting paid enough there’s a competitor out there willing to do so to buy your relationships.
If engineers knew the literal dollar value they provided they, and could prove it, we’d likely be more motivated by money as well.
Addendum/Edit: I still think the best job ever is selling commercial aircraft. Close a deal on a fleet of 747s? You’d probably make a lot of CEOs blush with that pay day.
I like ECharts a lot and generally, it was incredibly easy to use and customize. I tried a lot of alternatives that weren’t nearly as full featured. It’s really got most anything you’d want included in outta the box.
With that said, I had trouble getting it to stream updates, and was having big performance issues with the dataset I was throwing at it (full telemetry from a racing sim roughly every 12ms). I did not make any attempt to refine the data before delivering it so YMMV. I eventually switched to Plotly and D3 to get better performance, but definitely missed the ease of use.
They partner with Listhub and pay for the data feed, and/or get deals with individual MLSs and large brokerages. Hopefully, for folks in the UK it’s not as awful as it is in the states.
They also shredded him for wearing a tan suit. We’re living in absolutely insane times. I have no faith the Republicans will do anything meaningful to reduce the spending, as they’ve historically done the opposite. But who knows? Maybe they will this time if only to cement the death of democracy in America.
Not OP but there are a few ways I can imagine this being true:
- the song file stored in binary, printed out line by line
- the sheet music for the song, ie instructions for recreating it
In AI/ML world we're usually thinking about encoding into a series of high dimensional vectors, not sure off the bat how to represent that as a 2d image
Anecdata— a mate of mine plays Hell Divers 2, and thought he couldn’t play it or it wouldn’t work well. I told I had played it and it worked fine. Two days later, he’s using Linux and getting better performance than he was on Windows.
It has been five years of gaming exclusively on Linux, and I have yet to find a game I can’t play with the only exceptions (for me) being League of Legends and iRacing. But I can live without them. If you don’t play extremely competitive online games you can probably play it. My rule of thumb is, “are there IRL pro tournaments for money?” if there aren’t it’ll very likely just work.
My only tip is just use something like common. Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, Arch, ZorinOS, Kubuntu… all will probably work with zero effort. Don’t go mucking about with weird distros, and bizarre tweaks, and you’re more than likely gonna have the most stable system you’ve ever used.
I cannot recommend Linux highly enough. Five years ago I was skeptical and unsure but tired of Windows bullshit and here I am— still loving it. I’ve fully upgraded the system recently, except for the GPU (because 5090 prices are ridiculous and I don’t want less VRAM than my 3090 has) and it even booted from my old install and just worked.
Try Linux, friends. It’s pretty freaking great these days.
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