So now that I am now effectively priced out of upgrading my hardware...

[julian@activitypub.space]

So now that I am now effectively priced out of upgrading my hardware…

Hopefully we’ll see some additional attention turned towards software optimization.

I remember the day maybe a decade(?) or so ago, when Linux seemingly overnight improved their boot system to the point that a cold boot to desktop took something like 10 seconds, compared to Windows’ 2+ minutes. Hopefully we’ll see some crazy improvements like that soon, now that we can’t just throw more money at faster consumer hardware.

My HTPC is old, I think it has one of the first AMD Ryzen CPUs. It runs decently well on Ubuntu, but it’s sounding like I’m going to have to be reliant on this PC for another 5-10 years.

P.S. when I built that PC I remember saying 2GB ought to be enough for anybody