I feel like you all are misplaying your hands. Find contractors that work for the govt.
They can bill the govt much higher rates because you have a PhD. They don’t have to pay you the extra. You could literally tell them that. Pay me at a junior rate and keep the difference until I prove I’m worth more.
You’d be straight revenue/profit for them. and it gets your foot in the door and you start getting actual experience.
Sounds like someone needs garbage in their front yard
Unless you copy and paste. In which case just stab yourself in the eye of you are using tmux.
If you already use pop with the cosmic plugin, it’s going to be a better version of that. If you use something else then I’m not sure why youd care tbh.
Maybe I don’t keep my finger on the pulse of this stuff the way I should, but what’s the main benefit of 24.04? Pop updates the kernel and packages already. The main benefit we would get is newer gnome which… obviously isnt a development priority for them since it’s going away.
What are we missing out on?
It could take that long. I was wondering if Ubuntu is 24.10 /25.04, 25.10, and 26.04 if pop will align their alpha2, beta, and official release with the Ubuntu release schedule.
I know they said something about a yearly release cadence for cosmic but I’m sure that’s once it’s officially in production.
That said, as far as an alpha goes, it’s much more polished than a typical alpha. The path from here to beta might be faster than we think.
Pop devs never shied away from releasing with non LTS releases though and since one of their main pain points with releases was always gnome + cosmic plugins I’m not sure how their dependency on Ubuntu releases is affected.
I was super nervous for cosmic because I love pop. I didn’t want them to bungle it and force me to distro hop. The alpha made me way less nervous and much more excited.
Whatever they do, whenever they release, I just hope they get it right! Small bugs are fine but major crashes would make me very sad.
“they are the same picture” -my wife
I switched from Nvidia for amd for the same reason: “and is better on Linux”.
In my experience you are just making different tradeoffs. I use pop so your mileage may vary but Nvidia was easy to use and upgrade. It’s not nearly as bad as people let on.
AMD on the other hand isn’t as seamless as people let on. And the open source drivers, while awesome, don’t let you take advantage of the codecs for video streaming or even alot of the AI ML stuff, so you switch to the proprietary drivers and they are slightly buggy.
I wish I kept my 3070ti over the 6900xt.
Unless they figure out a way to let me use av1 or rocm more easily then my next card will be Nvidia again.
My thoughts on it are: as a developer, if you flag the issue for your management, and they want to move forward, then you’ve done your part.
Maybe put an extra comment in the code for posterity’s sake.
It’s not ultimately your problem and what else are you going to do? Work unpaid nights and weekends to fix it for some guy who might run into a problem 8 years from now?
And roll it out in a controlled fashion: 1% of machines, 10%, 25%…no issues? Do the rest.
How this didn’t get caught by testing seems impossible to me.
The implementation/rollout strategy just seems bonkers. I feel bad for all of the field support guys who have had there next few weeks ruined, the sys admins who won’t sleep for 3 days, and all of the innocent businesses that got roped into it.
A couple local shops are fucked this morning. Kinda shocked they’d be running crowd strike but also these aren’t big businesses. They are probably using managed service providers who are now swamped and who know when they’ll get back online.
One was a bakery. They couldn’t sell all the bread they made this morning.
How does zellij do copy and paste? That’s the only thing keeping me from diving into tmux (beyond using it as a persistent terminal).
Why did you get kicked out?
You know what makes my Linux distribution perfect? My windows partition that I can switch to quickly.
And green. All associated with the more popular variants pfsense, opnsense, truenas, and freebsd.
Data truly is beautiful
I can’t tell if ops joke is “intentionally confusing buffers with registers” and everyone is playing along or if people aren’t making the distinction between the two in this thread.
Which is ironic and humorous…potentially by accident.
Probably have a porn and PC game filter to thank for my career in IT
I totally believe you can hit the ram limit on these. I was just saying Ive surprisingly managed to be fine with 8GB.
Android emulators are notoriously memory hungry and there are certain tasks that just flat out require more ram regardless of how well it’s managed.
The advice I heard about these a while back is: if you know 8GB isn’t enough for you, then you aren’t the market segment they are targeting with the basic models.
That said, no “pro” model should come with just 8GB. It just waters down what “pro” means.
I’ve been using a Macair with 8GB of ram since they came out. It was on sale at Costco and I had a gift card. I think I paid $500 out of pocket.
I was worried that 8GB would limit me but it was the one on sale so I rolled with it. I can say that after several years, the only time it’s limited me was when I tried to run an AI model that was 8GB. Obviously, that becomes an issue at that point.
But for all I do with my air, including creating a 1GB ramdisk for a script/automation ml job I run, I have never felt limited by the ram.
I open a bagillion ff tabs. Never close windows etc. it’s an air after all, not a workstation substitute, so my use ases arent overly taxing in the grand scheme of things. I’m not editing my 4k video or doing rendering with it. But ram hasn’t been an issue outside of the AI workload with the 8GB model–and tbh that’s only an issue because of the ML cores. They absolutely scream vs my 1080ti that’s in my server. My m1 with 8GB of ram runs circles around my 24 core 128GB ram server that has a 1080ti.
I did just get a MacBook pro for work that I requested 128GB of ram. But that’s because I wanted it for bigger AI models(and work is paying not me).
Kaola family by Blippi.
It was demanded of me.