Viewer Log Stardate date,

I loved the Star Trek intro and Jill humming the music of the Original Series.

• Not all listeners eat cheetos
• IoT devices which keep going on the market all run on Linux
• the research likely does not include Windows machines that have WSL running which should be counted
• the number will ever grow with all of the linux distro hoppers and new Linux users
• Linus is truly the most important man in our time, all of these billionaires would be nothing without him
• Demolition Man movie showed us that we would have a robot pretending to drive the autonomous car, and use seashells
• Boston Dynamics are the only robots that have legitimacy (also very scary)
• thanks for the sudo apt install bmon very cool to see in the terminal

Yeah people still use dope, and more people use it everyday with it becoming more mainstream and accepted / re-allowed worldwide. There are a couple dope documentary in the off topic area, and I like to share one really dope podcast

Let’s be Blunt

Linux is definitely the dopest operating system since it is very green with cpu / system memory and storage use.

When I fire-up my computer, the processor stays in powersave mode set in grub. To be even more green I don’t update for literally years. I just keep the system offline unless I’m installing a new program, but usually not. I have been skipping one system release and upgrading to the next available but I may try every three releaaes just to see if I can make it work. I already have a full clone of the system two releases before the currently running system. I’d need to refresh the clone, and use current system as backup.

Linux left our planet and explored another. I don’t think you can get more dope than that.

It’s really dope that VLC nightly for android just finished adding per-song playback speed, so each song in your music collection can have a unique experience. If you have some music that is more instrumental

Tangerine Dream / Gramatik / Pretty Lights

Try slowing it down after having a high-tea

@jill_linuxgirl what is a high-tea, I assume it’s not as dope as it sounds

or relaxing cup of coffee, or as you drift to sleep. Instead of the song upbeat and energetic a calm melody can flow.

If you don’t have such music downloaded (pretty lights offer free dl on the official page) then using a website of Pandora or Spotify, with browser extension “global speed” will allow nearly any sound on nearly any webpage a custom playback rate. I specifically recommend this one because it has the option to turn off the browser’s default time-stretch, which, like most other software with time-stretch is of very low quality for slower speeds.

VLC also has the option but it is not visible in playback speed slider menu. Instead it is currently in advanced settings, or for iOS the audio settings under the group “advanced” at the bottom

While it takes away website revenue, I always wonder how much less electricity is consumed by blocking all other domains on a website except the main one. Sometimes I’ll turn it off just to see how much loads and it’s usualy 40+ separate connections with about the same more than once. I went to Phoronix and enabled one ad domain. After page refresh, over 40 more ad domains were requested, but not permitted. Imagine just how much greener our Internet activity could be if there were even half as many ad networks. It is nice to see that most web servers run Linux, so I assume ad networks use it, and there is continuous work to reduce power use with cpu scheduling, improved network and system performance

In 6.8 TCP connections are now 40+% more efficient on AMD servers with 100G nic, and 4-5% more efficient for Intel servers with 200G nic

recently a project that claims to reduce datacenter power use by an unbelievable

30%

And just how is tnis accomplished?

Kernel 6.13 with a 30-line code patch to part of the networking stack, making it more efficient under high load

In 6.15 there is another patch which improves network throughput by eitber 30% or if scheduled to separate cpu cores, 40% more throughput. THAT’S DOPE.

So I guess it will continue to improve and there isn’t really much to worry about with so many major performance improvements being made.

Another green example is for Intel EPP schedular further dropping power use for common tasks.

Over HALF for video playback, 35% for video conferencing,

Almost 20% more performance, and 11%+ performance-per-watt which is more than most CPU upgrades

And all thia, with one line of code to tune the cpu acheduler

So yeah, Linux is definitely dope, and it’s a dope idea to freely share all code and development with tne entire planet, and other planets too!