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Apple and Microsoft recently bumped their minimum system requirements to 16 gigs of RAM (mostly to accommodate new AI features in Windows and macOS).
How much RAM will we need to have in 5 years? Let's look at the RAM usage trajectory of personal computers to figure out what we'll need to have in the near future.
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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Latest Ladybird update.
1. Ladybird has been forked from SerenityOS. The two are now separate code bases.
2. Unlike SerenityOS, Ladybird will now use standard, open source libraries like openssh and ffmpeg. This cuts down on development time and keeps the project possible on the budget available.
3. HTTPCache is being implemented. It is currently experimetal.
4. WASM updates are improving site compatibility.
Next month is going to be weirder, supposedly.
This week I decided, on a bit of a whim, to publish the 2024 edition of "Linux Sucks" over on YouTube. Of course, all of you on Lunduke.Locals.com have had that show since February (along with every other version of Linux Sucks, from every year). But, hey. Gotta throw a bone to the YouTube die-hards every now and then, right? 😎
Also, this week, we got to spend time talking about both Microsoft Write running on an Atari ST... and Socialism. So, all in all, I'd call it a good week.
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Week number 2 of The Lunduke Computer Operating System is in the can! It's exciting to see things quickly take shape -- both from a technical and organizational point of view.
Here's a quick look at some of what went on this week.
The first handful of contributors have been onboarded this week -- with developer accounts on our GitLab project. While we're sitll a couple days off from many tasks being opened up to the contributors, this was a key step.
Additional contributors will be setup over the next week as we get more portions of the project rolling. If you've reached out to me to express your interest in being part of the project, you're on the list. No need to check in with me just yet.
First, Don Thornton created an SVG version of the Lunduke Computer Operating System Logo. Based on the bitmap one... but... you know... vector. Which means we can do a lot more with it (and scale it to a much higher resolution.
Then Duncan rolled in and used his "Blender-fu" to create this awesome looking render.
Which... not gonna lie... I love it.
Work continued this week on documenting the OS build environment, as well as preparing the early revision of the build script for initial publication.
At the current rate, the first version of both the documentation (which will live on the Wiki) and the script should be published in the next few days.
On that note: Another work item that needs to be tackled pretty quickly (ideally before the next week is out) is to document the workflow for submitting changes. That way all contributors will know exactly how to submit their code contributions. It's a small thing, but important.
After a great deal of back and forth -- and investigating -- a decision has been reached on how to host the official Forum. If all goes according to plan, that should be up and running this weekend.
We took a few extra days to make sure we got this right -- as this is where much of the official organizing and decision making for the project will occur. We'll need to live with this decision for some time.
Once the forum is live, it will be linked to directly from Lunduke.com.
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