I still do this!
That’s not ok, boomer :(
Did not see “faster than Commodore 64!” coming!
I’ve made almost this exact joke about my wife, who is making twice my salary working for an accelerator manufacturer (that isn’t NVIDIA).
No need to be that maximalist. Don’t self host email on a desktop machine you turn off.
What risks, precisely? I see lots of risks with online schools too. There’s a lot of evidence (example) from the acute COVID phase that remote and hybrid learning as implemented then has severe drawbacks for the majority of children, and I haven’t seen any concrete evidence to suggest that remote learning has any advantages besides being remote.
Wow they just…disabled all RAM over 3 GB because some drivers had hard coded some mapped memory? Jfc
Interesting! Do you have a link to a write up about this? I don’t know anything about the windows memory manager
Sounds like that list is getting pretty short
Lots of bad answers here. Obviously the kernel should schedule the UI to be responsive even under high load. That’s doable; just prioritise running those over batch jobs. That’s a perfectly valid demand to have on your system.
This is one of the cases where Linux shows its history as a large shared unix system and its focus as a server OS; if the desktop is just a program like any other, who’s to say it should have more priority than Rust?
I’ve also run into this problem. I never found a solution for this, but I think one of those fancy new schedulers might work, or at least is worth a shot. I’d appreciate hearing about it if it does work for you!
Hopefully in a while there are separate desktop-oriented schedulers for the desktop distros (and ideally also better OOM handlers), but that seems to be a few years away maybe.
In the short term you may have some success in adjusting the priority of Rust with nice, an incomprehensibly named tool to adjust the priority of your processes. High numbers = low priority (the task is “nicer” to the system). You run it like this: nice -n5 cargo build.
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