Just like windows, except that the misdirected hate when the SOE environment gets in the way will be aimed at “Linux” instead of “Microsoft”.

Apparently they are back on the Linux train as of 2020, so thats good news.

No one wants to choose a bad OS environment, it will become one due to security or other non-negotiable requirements.

They aren’t going to just toss Ubuntu on a box and call it done. Itll be locked down, limited, and horrible to use. And users who dont know any better will blame “Linux”.

A government SOE Linux just isnt going to be a good ambassador for general desktop usage.

Yup, exactly, which is kinda my point. The OS given to users is gonna be heavily restricted, so no one is going to use it and then run home to install it on a home PC. Government OSs are just not good ambassadors.

Thats the problem though, there are near infinite ways for someone along the way to completely fuck it up, and very few ways to get it right. And security concerns are almost always going to make the distro worse for the users.

And even if it was left to IT professionals, they are just as capable of making it a mess on their own.

Yeah, that’s the one. Gnome 2 in 2017 would have felt pretty dated. And the political reasons can’t have helped either.

Double edged sword. Forced adoption of a shitty distro, or a really locked down/limited system might not be a step forward at all.

From memory, Germany did this many years ago, and ended up rolling it back?

Sheldon’s gonna be endlessly amused that Rajesh switched to social sciences

I’m really happy to hear that, I still have and occasionally use my steam controller, I quite liked it.

Completed stray with it and a steamlink.

It doesn’t help that its not well named, realtime makes it sound fast.

One of the few things I remembered from my degree was the realtime programming course, because we got to program a model train set in Ada, on a 286(?), running on floppies. This was in ~2015, so ancient hardware even then, and it was slow, but it was “realtime”.

Interestingly, my compsci degree never covered O notation, so that I’ve had to pick up along the way :/

When I last looked into it, many years ago, RT definitely did negatively impact average latency. It was slower, but consistent. Has that actually changed?

At low numbers, it doesnt matter. If you exqgerate the numbers the effect is more clear.

Eg. if the latency was 100ms, it would feel your movments are behind by 100ms, which would be unplayable.

But if you had a typical latency of 10ms, with rare spikes to 1s, the spikes would be considered lag, and annoying, but most of the time its good and playable.

Realtime doesn’t necessarily mean low latency, it means consistent latency.

So if the latency from and input takes 1s, that is realtime, as long as its always 1s.

Typically for gaming you want the lowest latency possible, and at least historically, that meant not realtime.

Edit: Some examples with made up numbers:

Airbag: you want an airbag to go off EVERY time, and if that means it takes 10ms, thats usually OK. RT guarantees that your airbag will go off 10ms after a crash every time.

Games: you want your inputs handled ASAP, ideally <5ms, but if one or two happen after 100ms, you’ll likely not notice. If you enable RT, maybe all your inputs get handled after 10ms consistently, which ends up feeling sluggish.

Unless you know you need RT, you probably dont actually want it.

Redhat were very successful with the open source, but paid support model, so it could happen.

Inertia would be hard to overcome, anyone using sales force right now is probably not gonna want to risk a newcomer.

Oh, my bad, I thought it was like a coffee thing :/

Tangent: That sounds like a bad idea for food safety. And I’m referring to both the original and the recreation. If it were for myself, I would buy something made of metal. edit: Thought it was a coffee thing, disregard.

On topic: Could you clean up the holes with a hot needle and some patience? PETG tends to be very stringy, which is probably the reason the holes are not well defined. Maybe try tuning your printer to minimise stringing?

Bizarrely, I had never heard of this before, and I am Australian. So maybe it was released, but maybe quietly swept under the rug?

I dont think this is a wise stance. The internet actually forgets a lot, and unless things are explicitly and intentionally archived, stuff gets lost all the time.

Isnt that exactly what minikube is? Kubernetes in docker.

I’ve used docker-in-docker images, but its usually not fun.

Looks like Test Driven Development + AI.

Hopefully the AI doesn’t get lazy and churn out huge if/else chains to pass the tests :D