You can do it but using a junk second computer with no hard drive, a slow CPU and little memory.

This is the thin-client concept and it has been in use going all the way back to mainframes. It lost popularity when personal computers- PCs- got cheap.

Works like this:

The thin client BIOS is set to boot over the network. It locates your desktop, downloads a small OS and displays a login, to your remote desktop.

From there, it’s passing through the keyboard and mouse input to remote server and displaying the output. The real CPU work is all handled by the server.

The whole Edubuntu distro was built around this design. You could have one decent computer in a school computer lap and 20 crappy thin clients and everything would feel pretty snappy and work pretty well. Cheap and low maintenance to admin with only one hard drive / distro to maintain!

See JMAP Destroy All Monsters by the protocol author for an intro.

JMAP Destroy All Monsters

Services are currently drop POP3 support. Gmail and Microsoft among them. I would consider it obsolete.

IMAP is very much alive but has so many pain points that JMAP was created to replace it, along with CardDAV and CalDAV for calendar and contacts.

Fastmail created and uses JMAP and Stalwart has first-class support for it.

This is what Mozilla’s Thundermail service uses.

If this is primarily fixing old issues, over time we should see a sharp drop off and then even fewer security fixes then before due to fewer being introduced, due to being caught by AI upfront.

On the other hand, if AI is introducing more issues than it is resolving, we’ll see the baseline of security issues being found permanently addressed.

Yes, memory prices are affecting a lot more than people who want to run local models on high-memory desktops. That’s a small minority compared to all computer uses affected by the memory prices.

He’s referring specifically to local RAM used to run local AI models, whichl he argues is unused most of time. Say if you use your local AI for 4 hours a day, it’s idle for 20. Where the same model in a cloud might serve users across time zones 24/7.

It’s a similar argument about private car ownership, where a car might be used 5% of the day for a lot of people while 95% of the time it requires storage space, aka a parking spot somewhere.

Mozilla’s Thundermail email service uses Stalwart.

https://thundermail.com/

Systemd does about 60 different things now. Which ones did you want a GUI for?

Compared to what “heavyweight” distro at the time?

ClouDNS for DNS is good and cheap.

The more services you expect to be bundled with one provider, the more you will pushed towards bigger companies.

No.

I sent this to my plumber to congratulate him on his career choice.

Turns out now he’s an electrician and his company got hired to help build an AI data center. 💀Sixty electricians from his company alone on one job. Drones surveilling the repetitive work overhead.

So much for escaping the impacts of AI.

In the 4.x series, reportedly packaging was updated to use a package using standard Arch packaging format.

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How soon until Amazon buys one of each, prints them; ships them to a different warehouse, rips the pages out and scans them back in?

I host my personal site at home with a 15-min battery backup. After that, I accept the downtime. Rarely happens and I haven’t had a single complaint when it does.

The spec looks reasonable. I could see it replacing XWayland as a more modern and secure alternative for X11 apps not yet ported to Wayland.

Looks like he got arrested in the middle of a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon.

That pattern is also recommended in the book. Break down estimates into chunks of 5 hours or less.

With lots of smaller tasks, estimates tend to both be more accurate due to smaller scope, and some of the over/under inaccuracies will cancel out.