Why did you switch up the title?

Except that the download numbers don’t correspond at all with the population numbers.

That’s not how it works. Right now the situation is: it doesn’t work. You claim it should be a workable situation. Show how it should work, don’t ask people to prove a negative.

Unless you bring a solution to the table, taking the position that it isn’t impossible is just cheap contrarianism on your part. Sure we can try new things, but if it doesn’t work and everyone is commenting the approach isn’t helping, then maybe take the hint. Or not, and keep swimming against the stream (in which - seeing OP’s other comments - they seem to be more interested than actually solving the problem)

ITT: people giving wrong answers to a post linked to a blog that answers the question ‘What is PID 0?’

If someone is trying to achieve a goal through (what they might not know are) impossible means, “letting them be” isn’t going to help them.

Although it might not seem very helpful (and indeed there are better ways of helping) pointing out the flaws in the approach is contributing more than “letting them be”. Doesn’t cost a thing to be civil about it though.

Thumbnail alone is enough for me.

Number 2 is exactly where my hesitancy lies. Is a CDN still chugging along - not serving stuff to a select user group that has passim enabled is actually finding the fw - saving enough energy for it to cancel out a whole p2p network. I don’t think so (and again, I’d need some metrics before I will. you can’t just waive that away with 'local == fast&less steps == obvious; don’t need statistics)

As for number 3: p2p can only say if there are peers. if there are no peers, there still can be an update (what about the first person to download the firmware for example). It would be a security risk for the system to not give you updates if there are no peers, so I highly doubt that’s the case.

Sending traffic through the LAN is extremely quicker and saves a lot of steps, you dont need statistics for that, it is obvious.

That’s an overly simplistic way of looking at it, and in no way does it say anything about the energy efficiency of the system as a whole. Next to that, you still need the CDN server running 24/7 to serve hashes and fw that isn’t available in the p2p-network (just think how much less power efficient it will be to first crawl the p2p-network, make the conclusion the fw isn’t available on it, only then to still have to contact the CDN and download the fw the ‘old school’ way)

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool new feature and a great way to get less dependent on CDNs and save money. But I’m just not buying the energy saving argument.

They still need to contact (actually look for) and download from peers though. I can see how it can save money on CDN costs.

But with claims of climate friendliness, I would at least expect some energy consumption metrics to back that up (from all participants in the network)

Who are you talking to? No one is making any suggestions. But I’ll make one: So far the only leads Russia claimed to have are: ‘repeatedly visited Russia, including Moscow, where he held meetings with Russian citizens’

I suggest those leads are wafer-thin.

Climate-friendlier

Press X to doubt.

You must be real paranoid if you think Canonical made bot accounts to promote snaps on Lemmy.

Ha exactly my thought!

I also noticed when the drag-and-drop occurred I could no longer hover over the folders in my bookmarkbar. Hadn’t yet found the willingness to find out what was going on, but nice to hear it’s solved.

That’d be something akin to lab-grown meat, and imho actually a vast improvement.

Good luck trying to update systemd

Hence the big if

No the sample size is ~5000, which is pretty OK if representative of the population (big if though)

I think this is the way to go if it doesn’t frustrate further development too much. Kinda risky to pull the old app out of stores and see the blissfully unaware part of your userbase leave for a competitor.

And then accidentally copy/pasting the failed attempt code snippets of the OP describing the situation.