Maybe you have hard links or sparse files in your source directory. Try with -H for hard links first. You can try with --sparse but I think hard links are more likely.

I’m a bit surprised an Nvidia 9x0 would struggle for web browsing. On a PC this old I would first check other things before swapping the GPU:

• Is it clean? Physically clean? Restricted air flow can make your CPU throttle down to avoid getting too hot.
• Is the operating system on an SSD or a spinning disk? I’m sure prices are insane nowadays but a small data SSD just for the OS will dramatically improve performance.
• How much RAM do you have? Again, prices are not good right now, but 8GiB is the minimum to run a modern desktop+browser.
• Do you have the proprietary drivers installed? I haven’t touched an Nvidia GPU on Linux in a long time, but I would expect those to be basically mandatory for a smooth experience.

As for the GPU, if you are not gaming on big modern titles, anything released in the last ten years should be enough. I had a good experience with AMD over this era for out of the box Linux compatibility, but I can’t say much about codecs, I never had issues and never bothered to check.

Intel is probably good enough also.

Another thing to consider is maybe your CPU has a built-in GPU, I use low/mid-range Intel CPU from this era without a discrete GPU as an HTPC and it performs fine.

Pretty common to keep your shoes inside in France. It’s more common in houses with a hard floor than in apartments with a wooden floor, but there’s absolutely no standard so you usually end up asking.

If the pattern was real 1TB drives would not exist either, since they are about 1.1 TiB.

The networking part of Nvidia (based on Infiniband) was originally an Israeli company called Mellanox. They probably already have a large footprint there.

Traditionally virtual tty 1 through 6 were text terminal. So X used the 7th, that’s why some older forums tells you to go there.

Nowadays, the graphical session manager will spawn on vtty 1, and sessions will dynamically use the others. So on a mostly single user computer, Ctrl+alt+F2 is likely to work. With multiple users, you can actually switch users or come back to the session manager this way.

If you switch to an unused vtty, systemd will spawn a text login prompt. And when you login, some logind dark magic makes the system realize your are entitled to hear the audio output of your application still running on your graphical session.

Valheim uses proton? I’m pretty sure it ran natively a few years back.

The explanation don’t explain why AE must be a diameter of the circle. What makes that obvious?

One of the main developers presented this project at FOSDEM.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6196-rewriting-the-future-of-the-linux-essential-packages-in-rust-/

(He is a Mozilla employee but made a point to tell it was not affiliated with Mozilla and was working on it on his spare time)

Purity is a concern.

https://www.techspot.com/news/102377-two-mines-north-carolina-key-suppliers-world-semiconductor.html

According to this article half the teslas are manufactured in China.

https://www.politico.eu/article/tesla-trump-and-the-china-trade-tariff-clash/

Another article on the subject:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/elon-musk-tesla-trump-us-china-evs/104670632

The cycle is reinforced by people giving the name of their grand parents to their kids.

Second degree cousins is not that close though. If every generation has three children, that’s 27 persons. I thinks that for most of human history excluding second degree cousins from the acceptable partners pool would have been impossible. Communities were not that big.

No we are not attributing fries to the Belgian, fries are french. The Belgian improved on our invention and make the best fries, but Frenchs invented it.

Content warning, a lot of french: https://www.musee-gourmandise.be/fr/musee-gourmandise/articles-de-fond?view=article&id=132:la-veritable-histoire-de-la-frite&catid=77:articles-fond

No there was HPC sku of Windows 2003 and 2008 : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2003#Windows_Compute_Cluster_Server

Microsoft earnestly tried to enter the space with a deployment system, a job scheduler and an MPI implementation. Licenses were quite cheap and they were pushing hard with free consulting and support, but it did not stick.