I've been using some of these off-brand n100 mini PCs as a homelab cluster for the past year or so.
Their physical size is smaller than a Raspberry Pi with case, and performance is more than twice a RPi5. And you get full x86 software compatibility. Idle power is around 4-5W measured from the wall.
Agreed. One of the reasons I use Linux and other open source software, is not to be dependent or beholden to a single company. I can't count the amount of times I experienced or read about others experiencing a company doing a rug pull on users of their software by either changing direction, abandoning the product, or changing licensing terms.
I do donate monthly to a number of open source projects because I like their work, and want them to stick around. But even if they don't, as long as the software is there and the user base is there, someone will pick up the baton and move it forward, even if it is at a slow pace.
AAA can make use of beefy GPUs, but equally it can run on more pedestrian hardware.
If AAA games sold only to those with desktops and high end graphics cards, PC gaming would have died a long time ago. Even today, many games run fine on Pascal era graphics cards, and they certainly run fine on mid range laptop versions of Nvidias 4050 & 4060.
Apples silicon can keep up with those, plus the simpler, less diverse hardware on Mac would probably lead to better optimisation if the market was big enough.
I'm not saying Vulkan is the only thing holding gaming from Apple computers, because I think the control Apple has over software distribution on Mac is also something that scares large publishers away from investing in the platform.
> Future plans for the app remain unknown, but users have a right to know what’s going on behind the scenes.
Do they though? You buy a license for a piece of software, and as far as I understand that doesn't include any fundamental rights involving insight into company policies, direction, business strategy, ...
Regardless, this is of course quite a dubious takeover.
The thing is that you bought a license for Bartender 5 and up until version 5.0.49 it was shipped by one owner, then from 5.0.52 onwards by a different owner.
Users absolutely have a right to know that the same software they bought is now being packaged by someone else. We're not talking about a different license or version 6 or whatever. Same software, different owner over night.
Also, this doesn't seem to be true anymore, the new owners did outline some future plans:
> [...] We've collaborated closely with Ben to understand his vision for Bartender. Our goal is to implement many of the improvements he had planned and address any reported bugs from the past few months to enhance Bartender's performance. [...]
This is often a major sticking point in M&A when you find out major contracts are not assignable or transferable depending on terms in those contracts. This can be with customers or vendors. My guess is a consumer app like Bartender isn’t going to have this issue, but just figured I’d share for a lucky 10k scenario.
I find that Fedora generally just works, has a lot of very up to date packages and requires a lot less tweaking and setup work than something like Arch.
If you don't need cutting edge software packages and run older hardware, I've been very happy running Debian for a long time.
Let's not write software and especially programming languages which assume or depend on users having access to advanced tools that require a monthly subscription.
I don't use KDE (anymore), but I do use Konsole and gave Kate another shot about a year ago.
Konsole is the best multitabbed terminal in my experience on Linux. I tried more "modern" or fashionable ones, but Konsole works great all of the time on all of my systems and it supports all the features I want (including graphical output using sixel, which is something I use in my own prototype tools all the time).
Kate is fine now that it has LSP integration, but it still can't compete with something like the VSCode ecosystem for plugins and first-party support from software frameworks and programming language teams. So I've since gone back to using VS Codium.
I have an 8-year-old and a toddler and have hosted and attended many a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese and elsewhere. A digital dance floor and trampoline are way better at a birthday party than an animatronic band. Kids love both and each gets them moving and wears them out. An animatronic band wouldn’t even hold their attention for a minute.
Their physical size is smaller than a Raspberry Pi with case, and performance is more than twice a RPi5. And you get full x86 software compatibility. Idle power is around 4-5W measured from the wall.