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New comment by AviationAtom in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

AviationAtom — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:48:10 +0000

Cinnamon is cool and all but I prefer KDE Plasma. It seems to eliminate all the pain points Linux desktop environments typically have and everything just works. Pair it with Debian and you got a solid system.

New comment by AviationAtom in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

AviationAtom — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:46:37 +0000

Markdown support and the like are useful but their need to cram AI and account sign-in into it definitely seemed over the top. When they got rid of Wordpad I kind of anticipated them trying to pivot Notepad more in that direction.

New comment by AviationAtom in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

AviationAtom — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:59:06 +0000

Try KDE Plasma on Debian 13

New comment by AviationAtom in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

AviationAtom — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:56:58 +0000

KVM/QEMU is the only logical and sane choice on Linux, unless some tooling you're using requires VirtualBox. The key is to optimize and tweak all your host and guest settings, installing the guest tools too. Once you have it optimized it purrs.

New comment by AviationAtom in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

AviationAtom — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:54:32 +0000

I saw a gal say that a Windows VM worked solid for gaming, after passing through a GPU.

EDIT: I hunted for the link, to deliver it to you! https://astrid.tech/2022/09/22/0/nixos-gpu-vfio/

New comment by AviationAtom in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

AviationAtom — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:52:57 +0000

100%. I run this combo on my 12 year old Chromebook and it's a very solid web browsing and thin client system. Audio works, Wi-Fi works, Bluetooth works, everything just works, and works well.

New comment by AviationAtom in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

AviationAtom — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:50:32 +0000

Have you tried KDE Plasma? I have loved it since coming from GNOME. Install it atop Debian 13 and everything just works.

New comment by AviationAtom in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

AviationAtom — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:48:12 +0000

It's interesting to think how incredibly clunky, unintuitive, difficult, unpleasant to the eye, and just generally painful the Linux desktop experience used to be. These days Linux has proved it's usefulness on the desktop, both to novices and power users alike. I have no doubt that 2030s will be the decade of the Linux desktop. Perhaps until 2038 anyway.

New comment by AviationAtom in "1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises"

AviationAtom — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:01:52 +0000

It reminds me very much of the crypto mining craze, when there was a run on GPUs and one couldn't be had for any less than 5x it's MSRP. I know that eventually passed and so too will this but it still sucks if you had been planning to purchase RAM or anything needing it.

New comment by AviationAtom in "UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'"

AviationAtom — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:39:48 +0000

It's stretching all the way back to 2020. It isn't something new. It isn't just the government you need to be most worried about silencing you now, as other institutions wield equally great power.

New comment by AviationAtom in "1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises"

AviationAtom — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:32:11 +0000

That DDR5-4800 2x16GB price tend is crazy. It tripled from August/September until now.

New comment by AviationAtom in "The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust"

AviationAtom — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:28:04 +0000

The whole market was propped up by AI stocks though. So realistically you'd have to move out of the markets to avoid exposure.

New comment by AviationAtom in "The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust"

AviationAtom — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:26:08 +0000

It's a bit hard to short private companies, of which most AI companies have chosen to remain, to avoid scrutiny from shareholders.

New comment by AviationAtom in "Replacement.ai"

AviationAtom — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:56:34 +0000

I always compare it to the age of the industrial revolution. I have no doubt you had stubborn old people saying: "Why would I need a machine to do what I can do just fine by hand??" Those people quickly found themselves at a disadvantage to those who choose not to fight change, but to embrace it and harness technological leaps to improve their productivity and output.

New comment by AviationAtom in "Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform"

AviationAtom — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:41:51 +0000

We have run 8,000 VMs on ~120 servers

New comment by AviationAtom in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

AviationAtom — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:37:30 +0000

I think it's harder to quantify realistic work outputs in some settings, especially if work outputs have been skewed in recent years by people cooking the clock. In others I think they have observed a drop in work output. With the formerly very loose labor market I don't think there was much they could do about it before, but now they see RTO as an option to rein it in. I think if both sides of the equation more consistently approached things in a reasonable manner then both sides would be better off.

New comment by AviationAtom in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

AviationAtom — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:17:01 +0000

I think it's more the few bad apples that spoil the bunch.

Have you heard of over-employment? There are people working 2-3 full-time jobs, pulling over $500k, while actually putting in only a few hours worth of work each week.

There are a ton more that are working one job, but likewise giving very little output. It's harder to catch those folks in the act when they don't physically have to be present in the office.

While in office can be less productive in a fair amount of aspects it can also be more so in others. It isn't always some sinister plan from above.

Labor costs have risen greatly post-lockdowns, so companies expect to see a return on their money, more so in a rapidly tightening labor market.

New comment by AviationAtom in "First-in-Nation Bill Requiring Cars to Warn Speeding Drivers Goes to CA Governor"

AviationAtom — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:11:35 +0000

Fairly sure the way it will identify speed limits is based on the last sign the cameras have identified. I had a rental car that showed the speed limits in this manner and it was pretty nifty. "Low tech" yet high tech.

New comment by AviationAtom in "The Well-Off People Who Can't Spend Money"

AviationAtom — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:03:00 +0000

What's the point of not enjoying the fruits of your success now if you cannot leave this Earth with the wealth you accumulated?

New comment by AviationAtom in "The Well-Off People Who Can't Spend Money"

AviationAtom — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:01:27 +0000

What?