No gaming distro outperforms any other distro by any measurable means a user would notice.

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You probably shouldn’t use btrfs for swap unless you understand the heavy limitations on doing so. For starters, you didn’t disable CoW when creating, so I’m assuming you don’t know the issues involved.

Aside from that, I can say Void is still pretty Alpha, regardless of the claims. I messed with a bit just to see if it was worth it for single-purpose use-cases (they make this claim), and it’s just not there, unfortunately. I believe they aim to be a rock-solid alternative to Alpine with a more simple interface, but as you noted, they are nowhere there.

I also had a TON of issues with XBPS, and they need some serious work there. Duplicate packages, update issues, orphaned packages…etc. If they are serious, they need to put more effort into improvements, and also communicating the actual status of their project. Seems they are currently failing in both regards.

In which case, an app on a phone is still much easier. Plenty of privacy-respecting apps out there that handle wake words, STT, and IFTTT actions. Just seems a much easier route than trying to shoehorn it via HA when that’s not even it’s general use-case.

A phone seems like an easier solution, but there are VOIP integrations for HA, as well as ways to stream audio through the media player to different devices. I’m not aware of any integration that specifically does paging as you describe, but it would be easy to do with an esp32 board with a speaker.

If you had authenticated within a few minutes prior to that for another action, it probably would not have asked.

I don’t think it could possibly be measured because it’s something like: (file size ÷ block size) * num_writes

So it entire depends on the types of files, how often you’re utilizing writes to disk…etc. I just wouldn’t worry about it. If you REALLY want to estimate the tax: use iostat to check the number of writes on the drive in the last 24 hours, THEN enable online defrag and check it again in 24 hours. See what the difference is.

It really doesn’t matter for HDD though. Barely probably matters for SSD.

It should be a default, but I can see why it would be disabled for SSDs to prevent using cycles unnecessarily. If you’re using HDDs, check and see if it’s enabled.

Either way, unless you’re REALLY needing some minor performance improvements out of your disks, it shouldn’t make a huge difference.

Oops, you’re right. ZFS doesn’t have that.

There is no “normal” amount of fragmentation on modern filesystems that do things like CoW. That’s kind of the point.

If you’re reading and writing large files with a consistent amount of I/O, you’re going to have a higher amount of fragmentation because of the nature of CoW. This is by design. This doesn’t mean anything is wrong with the filesystem, just that peak performance soon after writing is not achieved. Btrfs and ZFS do online defrag and deferred scheduling of tasks for it to allow for EVENTUAL consistency as far as contiguous block forms go. The more free space you have, the sooner it will become cleaner.

No, they don’t. This is another one of THOSE comments.

Any distro will work.

Both KDE and GNOME have super simple key mapping tools to set your Super key combos to whatever you want.

Remmina is probably the best RDP client available for any OS.

I don’t even know where you can get a VPS with that little memory anymore. I think this is just the nature of the kernel progressing and growing in features and size.

Maybe have a look at something like : https://github.com/trisweb/buildkern

Those are customized installs to use the most minimal disk and memory footprint possible. You sure they run a MODERN release of Debian?

Not shaming, but I think you should understand what client/server means before asking that question.

You’re looking for an answer on which to place some unfounded rage where you don’t even understand the situation.

It’s a client/server app at the end of the day. Free users still expend resources on AMD’s end, and it’s not solely client-side. If it costs them money, they will of course try to negate or recover the costs of that.

Bait for newbs. Gotta love the sensational crash outs 🤣

The article is very misleading, but the real gist is that all of these AI dipshits figured out what FPGA was, and are now flooding the zone to use it. This tool has been an absolute gift to companies looking to move to FPGA for things like ML workflows, NL processing, and semantic flows, WITHOUT needing the dumb shit GPU pricing. Better results, cheaper bills.

AMD is two steps ahead of the game in these arenas versus Nvidia, and people just figured it out, so of course they are going to start charging for it. It uses resources on their end, so they need to bill for it to make it make sense. The same way every dumbass startup gives shit away to get you hooked is the way this works.

FPGA is going to usurp the reliance on CUDA in a massive way in the next few years, and they want to get paid for the upfront work they put in to make this possible.

Not shocked at all.

Still very true. What’s your particular issue with Brother?

Brother. Every single time.