DDoSing cost the attacker some time and resources so there has to something in it for them.

Random servers on the internet are subject to lots of drive-by vuln scans and brute force login attempts, but not DDoS, which are most costly to execute.

Wasn’t the tablet already an eReader?

There is no garden here, only chiggers.

Other efficiency benchmarks place Apple Silicon and AMD chips ahead of Intel chips:

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cpu_performance_per_watt

Google: trust us, we can’t see your VPN traffic. Most users: No.

I’ve donated to marcan to work on Asahi Linux, which gets upstreamed. That’s direct.

What has better performance per watt than M1 at a better price?

I didn’t pay a premium, I got a great deal.

The reverse engineering work was already complete, and all the containers I needed for ARM were available.

These have great performance per watt.

I host using an M1 Mac Mini using Fedora Asahi Linux. Installed easily, no problems. Fast and quiet!

I ran a Minecraft server for a while. Worked fine.

There are plenty of Linux containers available for ARM in part because a lot of developers want to run Linux containers within macOS on Apple Silicon.

That has had the effect improving the experience of running Linux directly on ARM servers.

All the hardware support for the Mac Mini is complete and working.

I’ve had no problems running Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini.

Looks great!

Looks nice and gets good reviews!

Fish has continued to add bash compat over time.

If you had Topos you could slowly ramp up your mileage on them.

Topos seem be a little wider than Altras.

He didn’t say he needed to make money farming.

Yes. One thing that motivated me was comparing side-by-side the C920’s result with my iPhone’s webcam. My test subject is a black cat in a black cat bed. With the C920, it’s just one black blob. With the iPhone camera, you can at least see the distinction between the bed and the cat.

C920 is good enough for meetings. I solved the focus problem using the traditional Linux method of writing of udev rule which launches a timer when it’s plugged in, which periodically launches a systemd service, which runs a bash script to make sure it self-corrects at least every 5 minutes.

❯ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-video4linux-webcam-config.rules
KERNEL=="video[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0892", TAG+="systemd", RUN{program}="/bin/systemctl start video4linux-webcam-config@$env{MINOR}.timer" ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}="video4linux-webcam-config@$env{MINOR}.timer"

❯ cat /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
# This file is managed by ansible-video4linux-webcam-config
[Unit]
Description=Periodically restart webcam config service

[Timer]
# Unit= defaults to service matching .timer name
OnActiveSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

❯ cat /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
[Unit]
Description=Set webcam configs

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/usr/local/bin/video4linux-webcam-config.sh %I"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

❯ cat /usr/local/bin/video4linux-webcam-config.sh
#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
  echo "Expected minor device number as sole argument" 1>&2
  exit 1
fi

   v4l2-ctl -d $1 --set-ctrl focus_automatic_continuous=0
  v4l2-ctl -d $1 --set-ctrl focus_absolute=0

Moneydance. That was a choice made years ago. It works fine, but we haven’t reviewed the options in years. On the plus side, Moneydance is cross-platform, syncs to a remote server, has mobile apps and is reasonably priced.

My wife has used Linux for over a decade. She primarily uses a web browser, office suite and a money management app.

Those have all been well-covered by Linux for years.