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    13 days ago

    Quite literally the opposite, no one will remember that Stonehenge was defaced with cornflour, but we will see and remember climate change.

    That’s just a meme about the fake outrage used as a diversion, instead of the real issue and why people resort to defacing art and monuments for their cause to be in focus.

    Any publicity is good publicity.












  • Just so you know, the load avg is not actually the CPU load. It’s an index of a bunch of metrics crammed together (network load, disk I/o, CPU avg, etc.). A good rule of thumb is to have your load avg value under the number of cores your CPU has. If your load avg is twice the number of your CPU cores it means that your machine is overloaded by 100%, if it’s equal to your number of cores, your machine is using 100% of its capacity to treat whatever you’re throwing at it.

    To answer your question, you can probably run a script that fetches your 5 min load avg and triggers a reboot if it’s higher than a certain value. You can run it on a regular basis with a systemd timer or a cron job.




  • Some people are trying (RISC-V for instance) but as others pointed out it’s really really hard, especially if you want to make the whole computer free and open source.
    First you need an architecture for pretty much all components if you want it to be truly free (how the CPU, ram, motherboard, etc. work, on paper).
    Then you need to manufacture these components, and making a modern CPU is insanely complex, even more so when you have a brand new architecture.
    Then you need software (firmware, drivers, etc.), and again, on a new architecture, stuff will work differently than it does on existing stuff. So people need to learn how to work on your platform to make software. And obviously you need to make it available to people by selling it somehow.
    It’s technically doable but the investment (both monetary and humanly) would be massive and not really something anyone can start on their own as a hobby.