I swore I'd never get another Samsung TV but they I had a good deal on this monster at the Ithaca Reuse Center so now I use it as my monitor to edit photos -- I regularly preview at a size bigger than the 13x19s I print, but softness that wouldn't show up normally stands out like a sore thumb

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show me one idiot who will pay that much

Does anyone know about #SkikkComputers and/or #LaptopWithLinux @tuxedocomputers ?

Those are all EU #computer #laptop #brands, and I'd like to know more about them.

Websites:
- skikk: https://www.skikk.eu/
- laptop with linux: https://laptopwithlinux.com/
- tuxedo: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/

#TuxedoComputers

@ueeu

I wish my big chunky work laptop would ever spin the fan down. Maybe it's because it's charging and that heats it up more than if it were on battery power? But I'm not going to plug and unplug my computer throughout the work day...

I even put it into "best power efficiency" mode in the system settings.

Probably some super heavy security bloatware running in the background

Pentium III cpu heat sink. IOS "generate description" didn't recognise it...different era.

I plan to stick this atop the raspberry pi by our TV as a gratuitous feature-like a spoiler on the back of a Vauxhauk Corsa 1.4
#photography #computer

Have you ever notice how there's always more and more #computer in the #technouogy things surrounding us, but many of them utterly fail at being actually calculation machines? My favourite among all of these is when you want set your #dishwasher or #washingmachine to finish or start at a certain time. Some of the damn things even connect to the internet, but they can't figure out when to start if you want your washing to be done before 7 so you can put in the dryer before you leave for work

Linux 6.15 Memory Management improvements

The upcoming version of Linux will incorporate many memory management improvements that will make your PC better than before. This pull request, which is already migrated to the main Linux 6.15 Git, incorporates many memory management changes that will achieve that goal of making your PC manage memory better than before. As this pull request mentions a possible Linux 6.15 RC1 release by just a title, we expect that this release candidate will be released on April 6th.

A new command-line options, hugetlb_alloc_threads, has been added to the Linux kernel that allows you to choose how many threads are in use, with the default being a reasonable 25% to make your computer boot up faster. This is when allocating a large number of huge pages, which will see around 2.75x to 4.3x speedup on Skylake and Cascade Lake systems.

Alongside with this change, there is another interesting patch series that revolved around making the huge pages allocator more reliable than before. It reduces fragmentation to allow larger requests to be met more quickly, while making the operation cheaper.

In the pull request linked above, you can find a list of patch series that are merged to the Linux 6.15 source code.

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