It's just a matter of not getting the same raw core count, but you can buy a lot of cheap Mac Minis to string together if you're buying a $10,000 Xeon or Epyc processor.

If you're buying a $10,000 Epyc processor, you're presumably paying a heavy premium for being able to have a very large system image. It's something of a waste to buy those CPUs if your workload is embarrassingly parallel.

Why not make a server product at that point.

Why bother? You don't buy a mac for the bang per buck, you buy it because you need a mac. If you want a build farm to CI test your iOS, you need a fleet of macs. Apple get to charge their high margins whether the case sits in the dark or not.

Like popping into any store to do the groceries and simply waving my hand to pay instead of fumbling in my pocket, only to realize I left my wallet at home or something.

Is that something that happens often?

Oh for sure. There are people that want particular things, and care about those tools. I'm one of them. Yeah, my complaint is that one of the barriers to adoption is a mental perception of complexity.

Well... not just "mental". Mostly mental, though. When it comes to day to day use, most people simply wouldn't need to know anything about SystemD. The idea that they might have to is destructive to the cause.

Diamonds are excellent for everything except steel, unless you're very gentle, eg hand sharpening of tools.

You see, carbon dissolves in iron, which is what makes steel in the first place and if you use diamonds to cut steel and you don't keep the temperature very low, the surface just dissolves away into the steel and blunts the diamond.

Well the lab ones tend to be higher purity and with fewer flaws.

If you really really want to impress a nerd by splashing dollars, get an isotopically pure diamond, which has even higher thermal conductivity.

Indeed, women are neither uniform nor immutable.

In a good long term partnership you both make an effort and can often find hot and interest in each others interests.

No consumer should ever have to give one second's thought to Wayland or SystemD. Nor to KDE, Gnome, X11... all this technical blather is straight up in the way and stupid. If I want to run a DAW, I shouldn't be concerned with ALSA/JACK. Having to know anything about any of this is a barrier to entry.

Until that shit fades into the background, desktop linux is doomed to single digits. And rightly so.

I understand that jewelry has deep, deep roots in culture. I certainly don't object to it. But diamonds have always been at the top of my list of the greatest illogical marketing successes of all time. The dollars-to-impact ratio of diamonds is so skewed that it's simply bizarre. Those marketers are kickass. They planted and nurtured a multi-faceted (see what I did there?) attack of expectations. They tied romance into it, the suggestion that being a good provider entailed paying large amounts for this rock of "ownership", they glossed over atrocities, and managed to hold on to that for a very long time.

Even aesthetically, I think diamonds are just boring. Coloured diamonds less so... but white ones? Meh.

If we can disconnect the bridal expectation, we can let the decorative side of this industry slide into history.

Yeah I'm not offended as such, but I am often mystified.

I've never found it very simple, and it lacks so much by the way of tweaks that unless if perfectly fits then tough.

For standard desktop stuff, XFCE is excellent. It's efficient, be straightforward, and customisation is possible but not necessary to get started, and generally very unsurprising in what it does. It's not a trend chaser so every version is just an updated spin on the one before.

I generally use FVWM, which, well you'd likely hate my config, but I've spent nearly 3 decades slowly bending out around me and it has nothing superfluous to get in the way, and lots of tweaks for programs that think they know better...

But yeah if you just want a straightforward desktop that's not a straitjacket, XFCE is I reckon where it's at. I never got into KDE, I flirted with window maker a bit, but personally I find gnome also too much like a cut rate knock-off of commercial systems, not the best Linux that Linux can be.

I would say though trust the gnome desktop is dominant to the point where it had a huge amount of influence to break things that don't fit within it's philosophy. Combined with the occasional target obnoxious quote from some of the core people, I can see where some of the annoyance comes from.

Don't read too much into my point... that's not what I intended. I accept disruption during protest.

However... if protection is granted over disrupting business from within the company by those employed in it on the grounds of moral objections, the list of companies affected is very, very long.

- Pharmaceutical companies
- Tobacco / marijuana producers and distributors
- Homeopathic businesses / holistic services
- Religious organizations
- Anything touching military supply chains
- Chocolate companies
- Diamond mining and distribution
- Palm oil producers
- Fast food chains
- Corn oil producers
- Renewable energy companies
- Non-renewable energy companies

I'm not saying protesting isn't right and reasonable. Even if it is disruptive, I get it, and I support it.

My point is very narrow. Make a choice. But it's ridiculous to be surprised or offended when you are fired for taking the fight right into your cubicle.

It's the blue states where noncompete clauses had weight.

Like California... oh wait.

How about you get up off your blindly partisan arse and actually learn something for once.

Here's an actual breakdown of noncompetes by state:

https://www.sixfifty.com/resou...

A few states ban them completely. A few more have wage thresholds, and most have some sort of "reasonableness" requirement, though for Alabama, that's 2 years so it's pretty weak.

California protects 3 times the number of people from non competes as ALL the remaining states with a complete ban combined.

So what was that about blue states again?

Why on earth?

Well all I can say is welcome to planet earth. Is your boss a moron? How about your boss's boss? What about the boss above that, you know the exec with all the dumb ideas, no understanding of anything technical, no understanding that things take time and the attention span of a squirrel?

What about the layer of HR goons where you can't tell ifv they said supremely incompetent or just plain evil (which is if course a false dichotomy)?

Well guess what those guys run the companies. Why on earth would you expect companies run by people like that to make sensible decisions on anything?

Oh that's a shame: my cheap joke didn't work.

Damn you totally didn't read shit I wrote.

True, I did not because you didn't actually respond to the point I made.

I'm perfectly fine with the state of KDE + Wayland.

Then why are you so angry when I pointed out that missing features and attitudes like yours are why it probably won't be the year of the wayland desktop this year. You so you don't care but your bolded text says otherwise.

This "Year of the Wayland desktop" is just bullshit someone wrote

So why are you here?

Right now the vast majority of the sci-fi/fantasy books are all Game of Thrones type, set in some medieval-style world where evil lurks around every corner.

You can tell it's GRRM apeing, extra gritty "realistic" fantasy because you'll hear about "whores" within the first chapter. It's like my dude, cargo culting GRRM by sprinkling some of the same words like seasoning doesn't make you like GRRM.