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@nixCraft Reminded of this old gem:

I am awarded a gold medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for my work on #curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/21/a-royal-gold-medal/

A royal gold medal

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (IVA, the same org that selects winners for three of the Nobel prize categories) awards me a gold medal 2025 for my work on curl. This academy, established 1919 by the Swedish king Gustav V, has been awarding great achievers for over one hundred years and the simple idea … Continue reading A royal gold medal →

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Dana Scully, a fictional character in The X-Files played by Gillian Anderson, inspired many young women to pursue careers in science, medicine, engineering, and law enforcement. As a result, she caused increase in the number of women entering these fields. This phenomenon is known as "The Scully Effect."

Source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scully

Dana Scully - Wikipedia

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@itsfoss LMStudio - almost completely replaces proprietary LLM services or apps...

Startup times for @linuxmint LMDE 7 Gigi Beta vs LMCE Zara 22.2 on @starlabssystems Starbook 7U:

LMDE 7 - 6.12.43+deb13-amd64:
Startup finished in 5.983s (kernel) + 8.043s (userspace) = 14.027s
graphical.target reached after 8.043s in userspace.

LMCE 22.2 - 6.14.0-29-generic:
Startup finished in 2.087s (kernel) + 6.733s (userspace) = 8.821s
graphical.target reached after 6.722s in userspace.

(Both set up to boot via EFIStub)

@starlabssystems Starbook 7U, @linuxmint CE 22.2, EFIStub boot, kernel - 6.14.0-29-generic, systemd-analyze time:

With Early KMS for i915, xe & iwlwifi:
Startup finished in 5.508s (kernel) + 6.171s (userspace) = 11.679s
graphical.target reached after 6.161s in userspace.

"Vanilla" initrd:
Startup finished in 2.087s (kernel) + 6.733s (userspace) = 8.821s
graphical.target reached after 6.722s in userspace.

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@starlabssystems
Starbook 7U, Mint CE as primary using EFI Stub boot- for speedup and bypassing grub… and a separate partition for other distros or OSs testing, last one was Fedora Budgie.