Well, it’s a trade off.

Under normal usage my idle CPU load is much higher and my fans are always on, however, in Linux they only turn on under load. I imagine this also ends up in an increase to my utility bill and ultimately the resources I consume.

On the other hand, I recently spent about a week processing data at full CPU load and my system was nearly unusable. For a 12 YO machine I can’t really complain though.

The ideal case would be having the option to easily prioritize processing vs responsiveness.

Crunchbang (#!) linux breathed live into some very wimpy hardware I’ve had in the past.

Loved the minimalism.

In my student years, I always ran with Xubuntu on a used thinkpad.

Although I’m a gnome guy these days, I still need Thunar as my default file manager. It’s nearly perfect…

I run Debian with gnome, headless and raspi and love it.

Used Ubuntu for years, also had a good time and still respect the project even though it deviated from my needs.

Sometimes I’ll boot up something new just to poke around but I’m happy sticking with Debian for the time being.

Desktop: Macintosh (<X) -> Windows (XP-10) w/occasional Ubuntu dual-boot (various DEs) -> Debian + Gnome

Server: Ubuntu LTS -> Debian

I’ve also had a number of used thinkpads over the years where I mostly ran Xubuntu and crunchbang.

I still boot into Windows every month or so if I need to model something in Rhino (CAD). Couldn’t get it working in Wine and my 12 YO computer isn’t performant enough to run it in a VM. The last thread remaining and waiting to be cut…

Yes, only European cities covered by Eurostat. I tried to cover this in the about section but it basically boils down to processing time, my own available time and to a lesser extent storage.

It took me more than a week to process 2013-2023 for the included areas, which is roughly 10TB of raw imagery (with less than 60% cloud cover).

The Eurostat urban extents, for the most part, delineate urban areas with a detailed vector dataset. This is something that I also couldn’t find on a global scale.

I’m not decided yet on expanding the extents, which also depends on if people actually find this useful. However, it is open source (AGPL) so it can easily be forked and adapted.

If you’re willing to share OS/browser that could help :)

I’m on the fence with adding Sentry as I was hoping to keep the project very privacy minded.

Do you mind sharing the OS? This was developed on Firefox (Debian & iOS).

I don’t know if your WebGL is working correctly but I could try to add a check (and thus a more graceful failure mode).

Thank you for the report!

It’s admittedly less obvious on mobile.

Sorry, you currently need to click to load another area. You can also navigate with the search bar or randomize by clicking the city icon.

I do want to load things automatically but need to figure out how to avoid hogging to much resources for contouring on the users device.

This is the first time sharing this, so a bit of an early release 😅

I plan to pay for Immich

I’m really hoping for the 3D options. If OpenSCAD isn’t a good fit then I still boot to Windows for CAD :(

I’ve had a particularly difficult time with CUDA/Pytorch in WSL. Also with Windows not reclaiming memory…

But don’t get me wrong, WSL has helped a lot when I’ve needed to use Windows at work.

In my experience:

• No lockfile, and using the third party conda-lock is clunky
• Painfully slow solver, although the libmamba solver came to the rescue
• Conda-forge can lag behind pypi by weeks, depending on the package

Interesting, but if I have to use Windows then I would consider Conda depending on my dependency situation.

I don’t particularly like Conda, or Windows, but what I like even less is manually finding wheels for my project. For something like GDAL, I wouldn’t even try on Windows without Conda. I think it’s also easy for a beginner to get up and running with this setup.

My preferred setup is pyenv on Linux with poetry :)

I remember getting a Ubuntu CD box set many years ago when I ordered free disks in the mail as a teenager. The box was well constructed, prints of high quality and the CD labels were especially sharp.

Crazy how physical media was king back then.

After getting used to the vanilla Gnome flow, at home and at work, even MacOS starts to feel a bit clunky.

Love the minimalism of Gnome with the stability of Debian.

If the open source release is adequate then you can just continue using it… Or fork for your needs.

Sadly, still dual boot for rhino, in a VM I’m just not getting enough performance out of my aging pc.

A Linux version would be a dream come true.

I like to require access to 22 via IP whitelist and all services on SSL behind a reverse proxy. Doesn’t leave much surface to attack.