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@sga013@lemmy.world

(Earlier also had @sga@lemmy.world for a year before I switched to @sga@lemmings.world, now trying piefed)

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  • Other than memory speed, there is one more blocker - your cpu (ish). live usbs do not store the raw image uncompressed, they would be much larger in size. instead, the file system used (usually squashfs) is compressed (usually zstd (default level 3), but could be lz4, or xz, etc). whenever a file is loaded, it is first uncompressed, and if you have enough memory, you can try the load to ram (or memory, wording may differ) option, where, important parts of image are fist uncompressed and stored in memory, resulting in better performance. Now most cpus are fast enough to decompress, so limiting factor still is likely your storage (usb x.y standard) read speed (and if it stably runs that speed, or is thermally throttled), but if you are on a faster underlying source, it can make a difference.

    Anecdotely, I use squashfs to compress most things i keep, and it is fast enough for most purposes, but i have observed that for benchmarks, especially single threaded, there is a significant difference. for geekbench 6, my singlecore score was close to 0.6 times of the actual score, when read from uncompressed, or from memory. for all core, score was nearly 0.85 times of the uncompressed/memory score. Would you realistically feel the difference, no imo. I even have a file system level compression (btrfs, zstd, level 3), and i do not feel a significant difference.






  • if i remeber correctly, it just slings most of fast moving things around (roughly equally in all direction), and only slow moving things actually hit it.

    slung out of the system.

    that seems a bit too strong for jupiter, that seems more like suns behaviour

    Jupiter’s pull is so great, compared to earth, that the ones that do get past or then pulled more towards the sun.

    this seems correct.

    but i have not actually done any courses on celestial mechanics, and mostly basing on yt videos that i watch, so you maybe are correct on this one.





  • I remember their appointment from brodie’s video on this, and iirc, they were someone who has been in community for ~20 years, and they also had some kind of vision disability (not 100% sure), because of which there was hope that gnome would do more investments on accessibilty front. Which to gnome’s credit, they have the best among other wayland folks, but this feels to sson. if it had been a year or 2, it would have made sense (they already were an old person, so time was not favoring them), because it is reasonable for such posts 2 change in that timeframe. the previous director also left in 5-6 months, then this person in 4, it really speaks something about gnome’s board