Yeah, its strange that moxie works with one of the most anti privacy big tech companies.

I have heard this before and am curious what kind of sites you open in the tabs?

I have a 8GB m1 mac mini and I dont see any issue with browsing in chrome (right now I have 11 tabs open).

It was my son’s laptop , he’s in high school. General Google Classroom / Google Docs / Gmail / web research stuff. He’s not technical at all. I bought him the 8GB machine thinking it would be fine, but it became a big problem for him.

I do think part of the problem was number of tabs open. It was a little better when I taught him how to manage tabs and I also turned up all the memory saving features in chrome.

But even with all of that, it would still slow down with what looked like a pretty minimal workload.

I spent a few hours with him on it, but he still had these kinds of issues.

It just seems like it requires a decent level of sophistication to work with a small RAM budget if you’re using Google software.

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra

I like unit tests when I have to modify code that someone made years ago, as a basic sanity check.

The signal founder is doing private llm’s at confer.to

Have you tried it? I’ve been meaning to.

Yes. Somewhat expensive given its web only (no api) but it works very well and new features are added continuously.

But for that it does not matter that much where the servers are located, more where the company controlling them is located.

There are quite a few factors that matter. The place where data processing and storage takes place is one of them.

It matters who can physically take control of the servers. It matters where the encryption keys are stored. The storage and processing location also matters for compliance with data residency laws.

But it's not the only thing I mentioned. Having physical offices and staff in a jurisdiction usually goes along with setting up some sort of legal and taxable entity that has personally responsible directors.

The whole issue is very complicated.

And it also caps your maximum expenses. A subscription user don’t have to worry something goes wrong and end up with a huge bill.

At least theoretically, the bill would work on a “wallet” system, where you fill up your account with $X every month, and then you’re charged per use. That keeps there from being a huge bill, worst case you’re just on hold until the next fill up.

WhatsApp is certainly not spam free. I get spam over WhatsApp, less than on telegram but still more than zero.

Turn key well designed onprem private cloud.

Yes and:

IIRC, Bryan Cantrill has compared the value proposition of an Oxide (rack?) to an IBM AS/400.

>Bryan Cantrill has compared the value proposition of an Oxide (rack?) to an IBM AS/400.

I've heard Bryan and Co. call it a "mainframe for Zoomers," but it's much closer to what Nutanix or VxRail is/was doing than it is to an AS/400.

It's not really a mainframe because the RAS story (Reliability, Availability, Servicing) story is sorely lacking compared to what a true mainframe gives you. So a midrange machine like AS/400 is probably a better comparison.

An AS/400 has a similar RAS story to mainframes than to Oxide/Dell. Oxide is closer to Dell (Oxide RAS is effectively the same as any sled hyperconverged) than they want to admit.

For modern applications written to seamlessly handle node failures the reliability is perfectly adequate.

For those of us who are unaware of "the value proposition" of an "IBM AS/400," could someone spell it out for us?

When the AS/400 came out circa 1989 or whatever, you could replace an entire mainframe with a box not much bigger than a mini fridge. The hardware is built for high reliability, and the OS and application software stack have a lot of integration. If Unix is "everything is a file" then AS/400 is "everything is a persistent object in a flat 64 bit address space."

The result is a system that can handle years of operation with no downtime. The platform got very popular with huge retailers for this reason.

Then in later years the platform got the ability to run Linux or Windows VMs, so that they could benefit from the reliability features.

High capacity, super reliable box that you could run your entire business stack on, if you could afford it.

The money IBM made with the AS/400 is actually completely mind blowing when you compare it to the rest of the computing industry at the time.

But will the elected representatives have the time needed to get good at their jobs? If not they might just be pushed around by bad actors.