Had a discussion recently. Someone praised the boot speed of a recent M4 #Mac Mini and how it only took it 10 seconds to boot up and that you do not get this on any other hardware and operating system. I tried to explain that Mac's by default do not cold boot but hibernate. While 10 seconds are pretty long for booting up from hibernate. Meanwhile my 13 years old low-end #Linux Laptop, which actually cold booted took 14 seconds. They didn't listen of course ...

@9to5linux @news Hold on! Is it really called "I pee fire"? 👀

@nixCraft But I already did so in 2019. If I reinstall all my systems, can I make it double the year of my linux desktop? 👀

Wenn der monitor voll ist mit Ichinga Meldungen. Dann weißt du, es ist Freitag #dontdeployonfriday #devops

@linuxnews Gut das Donnerstag ist und nicht Freitag 😁

To close this year, here is the latest devlog of our game. Happy new year all! #godot #madewithgodot #devlog #indiedev #gamedev https://z-ray-entertainment.itch.io/space-conflicts-empires/devlog/1040026/devlog-december-25

@nixCraft Worst thing, no matter how many AI channels you set to "Never recommend videos from this channel" or "Not interested" YouTube just spits out even more AI junk ... It's like a hydra. Cut of one head, 3 new spawn.

@kalpa und auch die Version in Deutsch: https://docs.z-ray.de/de/docs/kalpa-desktop-install-guide/

I'm an Oracle it seems!

https://mastodon.social/@ZRayEntertainment/wrapstodon/2025/74458699864c369c

#Wrapstodon2025

Wrote a little guide on how to install and setup @kalpa for the meantime while the dedicated installer is still in the works due to #KDE working on it's KDE Initial System Setup (KISS). While I like Kalpa a lot installing it is not very trivial: #linux #KalpaDesktop https://docs.z-ray.de/docs/kalpa-desktop-install-guide/

One of them also appreciated the lack of DRM video playback which allows them to host a watch party. Or better said the lack of blacked out rectangle where a video should play if streaming via Discord for friends.

After helping them to migrated to #Linux and leaving them more or less alone except if they asked me for help to figure things out. Yesterday I asked two of them if they want to move back to #Windows. They said no: "It boots and shutdown soooo much faster, also it does not need to reboot multiple times after an update". Not what I expected but sometimes it's the little things making people happy. 😅

In case you are a #Linux gamer (or apparently Steam Deck) and play #EliteDangerous I just wrote a little guide on how to setup and run the famous E:D Market Connector on this platform. https://docs.z-ray.de/docs/ed-market-connector-linux/

I feel like captachas and "prooving" someone is human is just mobbing. Especially the Audio captchas. Good luck with autsim to solve them if every noise is equal in its volume and you can not differenciate between background and foreground noise ... really funny. Also, WHY THE F*CK DO I HAVE A PASSKEY IF THEY DO NOT ASK FOR IT!? ...

If you ever feel useless. Remember this guy from Lucifer. He wasn't able to pull into traffic for at least 3 seasons. #funny #meme #motivation

@nixCraft Welp I broke it ...

@nixCraft NixOS

@nixCraft git push --force origin main

Of course it pushes through production.

Been using #Linux over 18 years by now. Never had it been the case someone asked me to help them install it. Until recently. I have helped migrating 3 people to Linux and 3 more have asked me to help them in the coming days. This does also include some "not so tech savvy" folks. Thank you #Microsoft for #Windows11 everyone hates it ❤️

@TheBen While I do not want to kill off your enthusiasm this is at least how it works for me. You do you and that is the important takeaway here. Thought this might be helpful dunno. 😅 4/4