The key is to buy enough different pieces of furniture that you wind up with a separate set.

My OS came with an officially packed (by Mozilla) non LTS version of Firefox that gets regular version upgrades.

That’s clearly Evita Bezuidenhout.

They don’t in general, but things that do heavily detailed graphics work (like your compositor or browser) or lots of cryptography work on the CPU can get a bit more out of those newer instructions than many other programs.

Very approximately, things that Gentoo offers prebuilt versions of because compiling them is so resource intensive are often the things that can get the best benefit out of your architecture variant. (Not singling out Gentoo here as an example of “doing it badly” - they do the sensible thing by providing these prebuilt binaries, but in some ways it defeats the purpose of optimised source distributions.)

It’s a Hard Problem™ to solve.

Let’s not make people get up before sunrise.

Services I know that have both HTTPS and SSH access have seen all sorts of weird stuff seemingly related to LLM bot scraping over the past few months. Enough to bring down some git servers.

I solved this by using Linux anyway and being way more productive than other folks.

Look I don’t have heat in the winter so I compile Firefox for various processors to keep my bedroom warm okay?

The irony is that big things like Firefox can get the most advantages from building for your specific CPU variant, especially if you use them frequently.

Would you prefer if it were 3/3/2022 instead?

For fun.

I can multitask. Get called slurs while I’m working and make an extra $1000/day.

I hate that restaurants will give me (non bendy) straws even when I specifically ask to not get a straw.

Maybe something like OpenStack?

I touch grass every day. I want to do it on my own terms, not Amazon’s.

Everything on the system, including the desktop, kernel, and CUPS, can be installed by snap.

Fruttholes

Oh look at these people who don’t even have butter bells!

Turns out hosting a bunch of files is very cheap.

Yummy!