Those things you listed are part of the fact, not all. Like saving 100kB. It does not matter in your 1TB hard drive, but it’s night and day in embedded systems. No benefit for you isn’t the same to no benefit.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would be a valuable thing to have memorized by heart?
2·16 days agoIt’s not something you try to recite. You just do it so many times you became too good at it to look at the table.
Four bits can represent up to 15, from 0000 to 1111. Correspondingly, 0 to F in hex.
Binary from right to left is 1, 2, 4, 8.
One byte is eight bits. It takes eight digit places.
XXXX XXXX0000 0000 to 1111 1111
00 to FF
0 to 255
Battery life? Yes, because it’s (mobile-grade) ARM. Performance? They are far behind high-end Ryzen or Ultra.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throatsEnglish
21·20 days agoYou think I don’t understand what AI is, not its restrictions? Based on what?
Show me one project which was built by AI entirely, sir. One complete project with full implementation of a certain feature, complete coverage of tests, please.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?
13·21 days ago“I wanna try out this FreeBSD thing.”
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCsEnglish
1·25 days ago$1M/year/person, he could have hired 50 talented developers to work on Linux for 10 years, which makes himself a hero afterall.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Handled a ThinkPad today. What distro should I go with? Ubuntu? Arch?
3·27 days agoWhy not asking? How do you know which distro best fit the computer if you don’t know it’s screen size and colour? And do ask again when it becomes colder in winter!
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you use a dishwasher or wash dishes by hand?
3·28 days agoAn in-depth research from MiniuteFood.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfeLICMfNc
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Technology@lemmy.world•Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam FrameEnglish
41·29 days agoAllow me to be pedantic here. What you were referring to here, “PC”, stands for “personal computer”. It’s a device on where you can perform computation. Sometimes that computation is to render video streams encoded in H.264 onto the screen, and sometimes it happens to take in your control signal to alter that video stream, like video games. You are free to perform any kind of computation on it.
“PC” has no implications of Microsoft or Windows.
But
Erroris a trait, not a type or an instance of any type.
What? I heard they were putting out good money to hire COBOL developers to maintain their old banking systems.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?
1·1 month agoIf you look at only the rating in number then the gaming industry suffers the same problem as the movie industry. You have to read in-depth review of it to determine the chance of you liking it.
People still talk about old movies twenty years ago. The original Hollow Knight is still being discussed by the community, especially now that Silksong is out, and the two stories connect. Gameplay-wise, Silksong has not only one, but six sets of play styles (crest). Imagine the contents to experience.
But of course you don’t have to experience all these if it’s not your cup of tea. Just saying you don’t have to invalid someone else’s preference.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Distro Recommendation Discussion (Not a 'What Distro Should I Use?' Post)
1·1 month agoI feel the same way, man. Every question of “What distro should I use after Windows 10 EOL?” is just generic to enough to be damned to hell. “Oh, but can it run Microsoft WordPhotoshop/AutoCAD/Steam?” Or, “I only use it to watch YouTube.”
How about finding a question that was already answered by others?
How about trying it out on a virtual machine or a secondary computer?
Face it. Your need isn’t that unique at all. You’re just a normal user like 90% of the remaining.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?
24·1 month agoI don’t care about the story, but when I played it when it was free on PS Plus, the gameplay is bad to me as I constantly get lost in the building. The protagonist has superpower but in the game it really doesn’t feel like so. I can throw stuff at enemies, then what? There is a fight where in the beginning I fight two or three enemies with guns, and it sucked because I don’t know where they are when I’m hiding behind cover. And taking two or three shots I’m dead. It’s a shitty FPS game in disguise of a Sci-Fi action game.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?
103·1 month ago“People didn’t like it?” Who, and how many percent? Most people enjoyed Hollow Knight also enjoyed Silksong.
CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?
7·1 month agoOK, hyped, yes, but by who? I bet 90% of the people who hyped it and bought it ended up enjoying it. And that’s justified. Not over hyped. What OP was thinking of Silksong is probably media exposure.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?
311·1 month agoIt’s a momentum from early 2000s. Rockstar (or was it Take 2 by that time?) set a lower moral line in the gaming industry and published games like Man Hunt and GTA III, where you can commit crime without much consequences. The gaming experience was nouveau and a thrill.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's an artificial limitation you put on yourself that has improved your personal life?
3·1 month agoI’m not good at drawing but I’ll try.
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I mean, you can cross-compile to generate a Gentoo rootfs for the embedded system.
I worked on embedded systems for audio devices. I of course endorsed Alpine as well, but with musl as the C library I got weird bugs of stuttering audio output.
With Gentoo I get the option to build my entire system with musl as well, but I would rather have that bug not in my system. That’s what Gentoo offers: options.
By “LFS”, I think you mean Buildroot, practically. Buildroot is also highly customisable, but Buildroot isn’t a distro. Like LFS, there is no way yo update a system, only rebuilding with latest packages. It also does not have flags for the whole system, so you’re on your own if you want to disable, say IPv6, in the whole system.