Because Who Needs Efficiency Anyway? The WhatsApp Windows application is going to be completely revamped soon. The native app is going to be replaced by a version based upon WebView2. source: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/241382/whatsapp-vernieuwt-app-voor-windows-gebruikt-tot-tien-keer-meer-geheugen.html That sounds rather uninteresting at first, but there’s a large but — actually, several. The WebView2 application is insanely bad in resource usage,…
Month: November 2025
Blast from the past: Planetarion!
Yes — Planetarion ( planetarion.com ) A text-based multiplayer strategy game that started somewhere around the year 2000. And of course, being the proper geek that I am, I played it. Planetarion still exists today. If you’ve never tried it, go ahead — it’s still running, somehow! The first round I played was Round 3,…
The lost art of looking up
We almost all stopped looking up at the skies and instead are now looking down at our little phone screens. Somewhere along the way, the infinite got traded for the immediate. Some things to wonder about: Did you know that our Sun has been fusing 600 million tons of hydrogen every second for more than…
Proxmox update: 10Gbe network. CHECK
Nerd alert! The three Intel X710 10Gbe network cards are in! Thank you Ebay! ( in earnest this time! 🙂 Port 1 will be used for the Ceph sync for the VM’s. Port 2 will be used for data towards my network. More soon! Brain out!