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  • This is great until your job outgrows a single computer or you want to have redundancy. Also, chains of bash tools don’t have the best error management when something chokes in one of the middle steps in the pipe. You can still leverage simple bash tools for a lot of the under the hood stuff, but you start needing something more to act as the glue petty quickly when you scale. KISS should still apply.













  • Even Nvidia video works out of the box without any additional drivers.

    The thing with Nvidia is that although the default drivers work, they are more generic and don’t take advantage of all of the features and performance of recent cards. Most people would want to load the proprietary drivers from Nvidia to take full advantage of the card.

    Linux would normally include the better drivers, but Nvidia keeps them under a software license that prevents Linux distributions from bundling them.

    Even with this, Ubuntu includes a tool that will download and install these drivers that they can’t


  • You don’t need any internet connection to install Ubuntu. Just use the normal install, not minimal network installer. Install from a USB stick.

    Also, there’s no requirement for a wire either. If that were the case, you could never install on any modern laptop.

    You would need some sort of functioning network to upgrade packages or install anything not in the base image, but this would all be after installation when you have a working OS and wired or wireless won’t matter.



  • One of the hurdles to ARM is that you need to recompile and maintain a separate version of every piece of software for the different processors.

    This is a much easier task for a tightly controlled ecosystem like Mac than the tons of different suppliers Windows ecosystem. You can do some sort of emulation to run non-native stuff, but at the cost of the optimization that you were hoping to gain.

    Another OS variation also adds a big cost/burden to enterprise customers where they need to manage patches, security, etc.

    I would expect to see more inroads in non-corporate areas following Apple success, but not any sort of explosion.



  • I have had various sticks and Roku highest end models and then got the latest ATV with hard wire port that adds Dolby vision and high frame rate HDR. I have a 2022 high-end TV.

    The video quality is noticeably better. Not sure of older ATV, but this is clearly better than the top end Roku. Also, I’m not sure if it is the same on older tvs

    The other thing is that you want to hard wire if at all possible. Even the best wifi can’t touch the reliability of a wire


  • Does the group have any archive, mailing lists, ticket system, etc, where they work on and document the work that they have been doing?

    Past questions and answers will tell you common issues, solutions, should point you towards the areas where you need to focus.