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  • Is it real that Arch users are rich and have mid level PCs and is always up to date?

    I do have a powerful desktop running Arch (or rather EndeavourOS with the EndeavourOS packages slowly removed over time), but also a 15 year old netbook. There’s plenty of up-to-date lightweight software in Arch repos, you don’t need to limit yourself to old software.

    Also it’s not like a new version of GIMP is suddenly going to use double the memory if you use the same tools in it.

    The biggest issue for the netbook is web browsing, but that’s just about web pages being resource hogs nowadays. uBlock Origin and NoScript help massively. Trying to use an old web browser is IMHO a terrible idea - you’ll end up with broken pages and a massive pile of security vulnerabilities.



  • This is seriously cool. Although the current specs are a bit funny - if you take the largest possible disc size (360 TB), then it would take a million hours to fully write it at 10 MB/s (more if the storage unit is actually TiB). That’s over a hundred years.

    Also if the goal is datacenter archival, then I wonder what the plan for practical use is - many individual discs with separate write “heads” (basically a RAID 0) to bring the speed up? And then maybe the maximum size per disc is a theoretical limit for the technology once we get faster access rather than something practical they intend to build anytime soon.