No. Linux doesn’t make your CPU go faster.

The main thing where Linux helps on old hardware is that you can run it on less RAM, meaning you have more RAM for applications. And running out of RAM is very bad and slows everything down massively. If low memory is not your problem, it won’t be faster, or at least not significantly.

The Linux GPU drivers for AMD and Intel are completely different from the Windows ones, and that can in theory make some difference (not necessarily for the better), but not a massive one unless there’s something fucked going on.

There’s a bunch of other specific or minor stuff, for example file operations can be faster on Linux, but you’d only notice that if you’re doing some specific workload involving lots of small files, like switching branches on git or something like that.

idk I’m not seeing it (the photoshop I mean, I see the white people)

I, as tiny little shit, was only trained up to like 7-digit addition (with far fewer examples given I suspect) and I also generalize near perfectly to 100+ digits.

20th century food court from last call bbs was really good

Charmander infestation?

Nice. Yeah, train infrastructure always takes up lots of space. Sometimes you gotta put in holding tracks and the stations get even larger. Looks like you’re using the same train for input/outputs, how’s that working for you and how many stops does that train make?

I always wondered why people benchmark how many lines/s their terminals can render, but I guess this is actually important if you’re a C++ dev.

Oh fuck me why did I never figure that out. Thank you!

Lol. I think I get a rough idea why this may be NP-hard (sounds like something you could use some constraint solver software to get a decently close-to-optimal solution in reasonable time maybe, though I don’t know much about this). But more importantly, factorio train cars have a ton of slots (like 50 or something of that magnitude, each holding 50/100/200 pieces of one item). You could probably put literally every ingredient in the whole game in a two- or three-car train. I saw a challenge run where someone did something like this, I think the challenge was to just use one single train and no belts at all. Anyway my suggestion would be to make one train only serve one recipe (or a couple) at a time and that problem becomes trivial and it’ll be better for throughput anyway.

I hate Firefox’s Ctrl-H history feature. It’s useless. I pretty sure it doesn’t actually sort by date really, even though it claims to do so. I’m trying to figure out where I left off on some youtube series and it’s all in some random order. This has happened many times.

Oh btw, I’ve seen someone reserve certain slots inside train cars for specific things, which I think is part of the base game but not 100% sure, which might be useful for your train base.

Oh yeah trains are great fun, but if you play a regular game, they’re basically optional, and only worth it for long distance mines (train infrastructure needs lots of space). People use trains between factories when they build megabases (because of higher throughput I guess), but I never got that far tbh. Might be a fun challenge to maximize train use even for a smaller base though.

Pretty clean. I recommend leaving some space in between so you can patch things in later. Wire is annoying to belt, since not a lot of things except circuits need it, but they need lots, and it’s two wires per one copper, so I just make wires on the spot and feed them directly into the circuit assemblers at 3:2 ratio (I think). Also maybe coming from other games, you don’t realize what insane volumes of stuff like iron plates you want. You’ll actually have multiple full belts, half belting to move stuff around (except into assemblers) isn’t going to cut it.

Well that’s fun/intimidating! I’ve only seen a fraction but some levels took me half an hour already. I did figure each one out by my own so far though.

CW: Large Hitler tattoo and other Nazi shit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1cymfb7/ru_pov_british_parliament_applauding_an_azov/

Today I vetoed a Russian law. This law is Russian in its essence and spirit.

It is the quintessential Russianness of it that is Russian. Russia is in it. Russian Russia is Russian and Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia (vikings start singing in the background).

Libadwaita apps are so fucking good looking compared to literally everything else in Compsci.

You most not be familiar with Xfig (released 1985, screenshot from 2024):

Assuming the Russians continue with their attrition strategy, it would make sense they just widen the front and move slowly so as not to expose themselves too much. I expect they will only move quickly if/when the Ukrainians abandon their positions.

There was some western report/claim recently about 500000 Russian losses (forgot where it’s from exactly), which people/propagandist just assume/wish/spin means dead (it doesn’t). This is after the Russians, a few weeks ago, officially claimed half a million losses on the Ukrainian side, so I imagine that’s just “no u” propaganda.

Story-rich, narrative, role-playing etc. Except if it’s comedy. I can do comedy. Sometimes.

Also Obra Dinn I like and that has “story-rich” (I just checked), so whatever, I’m a hypocrite.