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  • This just doesn’t meet the material reality. Regardless of your personal view of the war, Ukraine is suffering a catastrophic manpower shortage, and has resorted to similar recruitment tactics employed by Russian officers.

    I guess they may feel as though there is no choice. Russia isn’t interested in negotiating whilst they believe their ideal terms can be won with force, but there are few feasible routes to any conclusion that returns Ukraine to its pre-2022 borders, let alone pre-2014.



  • This is just how all FOSS works. Everyone scrambles to do their own projects, either for fun or for necessity, and eventually some fizzle out and funnel people to contribute to alternatives. Trying to start immediately with one solution to rule them all just kills that early progress unless you’re part of some corporate gig willing to dump loads of money on it in the meantime.



  • pi zero for streaming is insane not gonna lie. What sort of resolution do you stream it at?

    A decently newish phone would blow even a pi 5 out of the water I bet. Modern GPU drivers from snapdragon or mediatek plus core designs that arent 7 years old out of the factory would be a godsend for low-watt homelabbers









  • RISC-V is just about at pi3 levels of performance so it’s not really that good for end user stuff yet. Alibaba launched a new core recently that might improve things though.

    On their servers? possibly. RISC-V is competitive when you stuff a bunch of cores into it and make it do basic server tasks that haven’t gotten more complex over the years. And in AI, you may just need a cheap CPU to orchestrate your GPUs/NPUs so anything will work there.

    I think we’ll see m1+ levels of desktop performance on RISCV within the next 4 years though. trump will do wonders for the Chinese semiconductor industry.



  • That’s the thing, though. I don’t have to turn off mitigations on Linux. And I don’t even think it’s possible to disable the very same mitigations in Windows - Windows itself is just a super inconsistent platform for software benchmarking.

    In fact, whenever I’ve found benchmarks it’s not that much of a benefit, especially as the mitigations get more optimised with time.