No one needs anything, but can and do I use more than 1Gbps from my laptop? Of course. 1Gbps is only ~125MB/sec transfer speed. When I’m copying large files to and from my home NAS, I often want more speed than that so a while ago I picked up a 2.5g adapter, later 5g, and now finally with these new chips a 10g adapter.

Same for my SFF PC which only came with 2.5g onboard and no extra slots because ITX and can now do 10g via the same USB adapter which is great.

> No one needs anything, but can and do I use more than 1Gbps from my laptop? Of course.

I agree, but laptops are severely power and storage limited. How many >100GB games or whatever can you really download and actually play on a typical laptop? If faster Ethernet increases power consumption, it's probably a negative overall.

Speaking of model killers, can they do “wine glass completely full to the top” yet? That‘s the one I used to show people but I haven’t tried it in a while.

When the comparison is literally every other cloud provider who all charge by usage only, then anything more than $0.00 is in my opinion too much to ask for.

I’ve been using cloud services in one way or another from different providers (including EU based like Hetzner) and never seen this before. It’s always been pay for what you use and nothing more, which is kind of the whole pitch of cloud services.

I was just mentioning this in another comment earlier today, but Claude Opus 4.8 (that version specifically) uses the word “genuinely” on so many of its responses that I’ve started using it often when speaking when I didn’t before. Nothing wrong with the word itself, just a frustrating reminder that using these tools all day for work (and then on top of that some nights and weekends for personal projects) is literally changing how I speak and presumably think…

That and I’m not sure why they rebooted the server every time instead of just changing the flags…

I presumed that was to make sure there was no accidentally-warm RAM cache or whatever, start from a known system state.

Also it seemed to have revealed the aforementioned ulimit hiccup, so it sounds fruitful.

As soon as I saw the phrase “belt-and-suspenders” I immediately thought Claude, as it uses it constantly, but maybe so does ChatGPT.

Or “belt-and-suspenders”.

Was already getting lots of AI generated vibes from the article before that, but I’ve seen Claude constantly use that phrase and no real person ever in my life (though I guess some people must have or LLMs wouldn’t have learned it).

It’s the most annoying thing about reading anything LLM related. I genuinely (ugh that’s a term I’ve picked up from using Opus 4.8 every day for work as it constantly says it and now so do I and I can’t stop) want to learn more about the topic but it’s painful to read most posts about it.

The people really into LLMs, surprise!, have a tendency to also LLM generate their writing about LLMs. This would be fine if they used that as a starting point then edited it for brevity (LLMs are consistently overly verbose for some reason, this post was like twice as long as it needed to be, though I guess you could argue the same about my comment haha), correctness, and tone…but they usually don’t.

Then I make it halfway through the article and wonder if I can trust any of it at all.

No because there’s no way to handle an open submission repository at all. It’s impossible by design since anyone can submit packages to it.

I would never use anything equivalent to AUR on any distro due to the obvious security implications. That’s been my position for as long as I have known about Arch. I never understood Arch users using the AUR as a selling point for the distro.

Then again I live in the opposite end of the spectrum where I run only Debian Stable on my Linux desktop as well as my servers, where packages make it through Sid and Testing before getting to Stable and I can be relatively sure any supply chain attacks have been caught by then (like xz for example which was caught before it left Sid).

For those unfamiliar with Debian, Sid is basically a rolling release similar to using Arch with the official repositories (which is already dangerous without even touching the AUR), then packages move to Testing, then later eventually make it to Stable.

The AUR is, in my opinion, a pretty convenient selling point if you use any esoteric software.

It’s basically like a crowdsourced set of people’s tips and tricks for installing stuff on Arch, all written in the format Arch uses for packages.

Similar to how I’d not blindly take code from an AI and whack it into production, I wouldn’t blindly take an AUR PKGBUILD and execute it. But it’s nice to have a place to go see “huh, I wonder if anybody has shared their approach so I can borrow from it”.

That’s a perspective on the AUR that I hadn’t really seen before from Arch advocates, in my (admittedly hazy memory) it’s usually mentioned in the sense of “Arch is great because you always get the latest packages in the official repos and basically anything you possibly need you can just install from the AUR”. If you’re actually using it just as a reference guide essentially then it seems like there’s some value there.

However, I’ll push back a bit from my perspective as a Debian Stable user. I would consider even the official Arch repositories to be dangerous just like I consider Debian Sid’s repos to be dangerous (packages are too new and not sufficiently vetted). Then regarding installing packages not available in the main Debian repos, I’ve never really had any issues installing them either as there is always either an official developer run apt repo I can add, or an official deb package, or it just builds directly from official source without tweaks. So I’ve honestly never felt like I was missing “a crowdsourced set of people’s tips and tricks for installing stuff” on Debian as I’ve just never needed one.

I do realize that installing the latest packages directly from a developer’s repo or latest deb package or source is as dangerous as the Debian Sid or Arch official repos for the same reason (too new, not vetted), but the difference is those are only a tiny portion of the packages installed on my system (like a percent of a percent, maybe a half dozen packages out of hundreds). If I ran Sid or Arch, it would be 100% of the packages on my system which is an attack surface orders of magnitude larger.

EDIT: It did just occur to me after posting this reply that I use Homebrew pretty extensively as a package manager on macOS and its official repos are equivalent to Sid/Arch official repos, so I may be a bit of a hypocrite here :P

There are also dangers of being on older versions in Debian that rely on maintainers identifying and correctly back porting critical changes.

Fwiw the Arch docs are pretty clear that the AUR is a Wild West and that you should be vetting anything you find there before you run it.

Yeah I was gonna say I use Colima with Apple’s virtualization framework (it’s not the default for some reason but it’s a single command line flag), and found it works better than QEMU (better performance and resolved some bugs I was running into with the Supabase docker stack)

What movie was it? There’s a good chance I can find it.

If you’re in Reddit, there’s also a subreddit dedicated specifically to this kind of thing (requests for stuff that is no longer available) called /r/DHExchange

How about a non-vhs rip of Einstein's brain?

I did some searching. I assume you mean “Relics: Einstein's Brain (1994)”? If so, it doesn’t look like it was ever released on anything but VHS, so I only found a TV recording and a VHS recording.