Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

libde265 WASM embedded into go app, portable and cross platform

https://sequentialread.com/simple-windows-app-to-convert-heic-to-jpeg/

Now my mom can access her photos again 😤😤😤

@mjg59 not to mention that with LUKS, you don't lose access to the disk encryption key, because if you did, you wouldn't be able to use the computer anymore. You have to type it in every single time it boot.

IMO the real problem is that everyone has been giving up ownership of "their" computer, and are just now realizing that hmm, this might be a problem -- if its not yours, you won't have access to fix it in the event something does go wrong. And we all know Linux has its own fair share of ways to brick its boot process.

@hisaac

If the user owns the data AND the source code, why invest?

@karolherbst I've heard that typically more energy is used producing the CPU and rest of the computer than the computer will consume over its lifetime. Idk how accurate that is or what the ratio is, but so far I've had good results from buying used computers and sightly upgrading them for cheap. (Ssd and maybe ram too)

My process was:

1. Consult the power performance xy scatter plot on cpubenchmark.net:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html#scatter-cpu

2. Search engine search for each CPU in the area you are targeting to figure out what kind of computers it was put in and how much they cost used

3. Finally, shop on your local used market for good deals on one of those models. For me, this was EBay.

Personally I was looking for something quite different, I just wanted the cheapest fanless option that would make a reasonably good web server. I ended up buying 10 of these for $300 total, and then spent another ~$600 on ssd and ram upgrades for them. https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/dell-wyse-5070-server

For $100 each they work great!! I've given them to friends and sold some of them for use as a proxmox cluster. Without the ram upgrade they use 2 watts at idle, with the extra 16gb of ram, they use about 6watts at idle.

Obviously this specific model doesn't fit what you want if you care about CPU performance, but I just thought I'd share my process.

@j3s what does

"HTTP2 is digestible"

Mean?

@technomancy @SpindleyQ idk if its even pedantic, I think its just toxic 🙃

@technomancy @SpindleyQ this was actually "shell variables" vs "environment variables" on the openrc docs, but yes, I wonder how many times this pattern shows up, search terms banned from docs. I was thinking about starting a list

@technomancy @SpindleyQ

Lol, yeah... I wonder if this is similar to a different doc I found, where my "add the word permissions to make it searchable" PR was rejected because "they aren't called permissions, they are called file mode"

Or something