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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • I think the “infinite growth” here is referring to our expectations of some systems we use growing infinitely, even when the system itself is bounded by finite terms, such as population or hype.

    For example, US Social Security works on the assumption that there are more people working and inputting money into it (via payroll taxes) than retired people taking money out. That assumption requires a growing (or at least very stable) working population, as a shrinking working population means that there will be more people taking money out than there are people putting money in. This growth, inevitably, will have to stop at some point. However, many retired people expect, and in some cases financially rely on, Social Security giving them money.

    A large portion of the Fediverse have expressed their disdain for such systems, and molave here is finding it ironic that they’d expect this platform to infinitely grow, as well. The initial hype from the whole Reddit shenanigans are dying off, and the platform will soon stabilize, at least until Reddit pisses off its users again.


  • Qubes OS

    The virtual machine workflow has made me completely rethink how I use computers, and there’s huge security benefits of compartmentalizing your digital life through Qubes. Qubes OS successfully compartmentalizes your VMs and brings them together under one unified desktop, so even though you have several VMs running, you can see all of them at once because you see their windows as if it was a regular Linux desktop.

    There are some issues with it though, such as lack of 3D acceleration for gaming, and its rather picky hardware support. Along with needing hardware that supports Linux drivers, you need a crap ton of RAM (I’m running 20 GBs on my Thinkpad T450s) for all of the VMs you run at one time. It doesn’t take as much CPU power as you’d think, though, as it uses Xen’s PVH emulation, instead of full-blown virtual machines like you’d see with VirtualBox.

    However, if you have the right hardware for it, and you don’t mind dual-booting or using another machine for gaming, I urge you to give it a whirl.