• justdaveisfine@piefed.social
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    16 days ago

    Everyone in the dev community keeps talking about how good Rust is, so its great to see it in action.

    Edit: Dang, just realized the title already did the pun. I am eternally shamed.

  • Luminous5481 [they/them]@anarchist.nexus
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    16 days ago

    the funny thing about seeing this meme is that my home media server is running on a quad-core i5 that’s barely 3GHz, which is in a Dell workstation that I stole out of the storage room at my last corporate job.

    the poor thing can’t even run Minecraft, but I got it running a full Servarr stack. am I abusing my tech?

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 days ago

    On a serious note, I sometimes see low-end Win7 laptops for the price of just taking them away, them strugling with streaming lowres video on the web. What kind of modern mainstream Linux distro would make it bearable to browse forums and print text with?

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      At this point, I think the vast majority of performance issues would be caused by the browser itself trying to render overcomplicated javascript-infested pages, not the distro or DE. Pick any distro you want, but use a lightweight browser.

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      Steaming on a web browser won’t work well, but if you can download the file and open it with mpv, or open dev tools and find the stream URL and send it to MPV then it should play fine.

      Also I second xfce, any distro will do, I still recommend upgrading to ssd if you can, it’s a HUGE performance increase whatever the specks of the machine are.

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      15 days ago

      Try waterfox browser with adblocks. On linux one of the more heavy thing is the desktop manager, so maybe avoid gnome distros, cinammon is also a little bit heavy. If you want to go barebone there are many lightweight distros . Remember that you can run the distro from the bootable usb. Before install anything use the browser and check some video on youtube in full hd or even 4k.

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      15 days ago

      Uh… PC cases are still mostly steel. Maybe not carbon steel, but also not high marine grade stainless.

      Lian Li is the only manufacturer I know of to make aluminum cases and they’re freaking expensive.

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          Have you ever held a magnet up to them? They might just be aluminum coated to prevent what’s shown in the image.

          There are a few manufacturers that make magnetic case fan filters and such, that wouldn’t make sense if most cases were full aluminum.

          Maybe you still had aluminum cases, but then they were probably also rather expensive, because it’s more difficult to manufacture in that thickness without being brittle.