Way before apps were even a thing, around 2002-2004, I lived in the UK and shazam worked as calling service: you'd call 2580 (top to bottom on the center column of a phone numpad), it would listen for 30s, then would hang up and send you an sms with the name of the song. IIRC it would charge you something like 50p if it found a result.

It really felt like pure magic!

I wonder how much getting that number cost them, I recall vaguely that memorable premium short numbers were... Expensive

May I ask how much coffee you go through to purchase 40kg in one go? I would expect the beans to go stale, even vacuum sealed.

I like it quite strong. Just under a kilo a week approximately. I start to drink it in the morning and stop around 14.00 I drink tea after that.

One thing about load average on Linux which I never really understood was the inclusion of processes waiting for I/O, I never really got a satisfying explantation until I bumped into this post a few years ago: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-aver...

Supposedly Valve is working on this, but the lack of recent news is not promising: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/apparently-valve-are-...

The main company working on anti-cheat software was bough by Epic, and they dropped their Linux efforts as a result.

Epic is kind of a thorn in the side for me when gaming (on a Linux distribution). There are a few Epic exclusive games that I'd like to play (Arise: a simple story, Journey, etc.), but they don't even have entries in protondb.

That's probably due to Epic not having a launcher for Linux. A few months ago(?), I read it had become possible to run the launcher through Wine, but I don't think that's changed anything on the porting side.

I worry that games which are released as Epic exclusives may fall by the wayside when/if they eventually become nonexclusive.

You can run the epic games store on Linux and so far it worls well for indie titles I tried there. Not sure about AAA titles.

The company being bought by Epic happened before this news about the Linux effort. So I don't think that timeline is correct.

Do you have a source for this claim?

Proton has been a game changer for me: after many years on Linux only I ended up building a gaming rig a few years ago as I wanted to get back into gaming.The plan was to dual boot and only use Windows for gaming, but in practice rebooting all the time is just too much of a pain so I was using Windows almost exclusively there, with all the related frustrations. About 6 months ago I got myself a new SSD and made a fresh install of Linux with steam and Proton and I've been amazed a the performance and game support. Of course not all games work out of the box (and some not at all), but I haven't had to boot to Windows in months. And for the games I play the frame rate is at least as good as what I used to have on Windows (on a couple of games I do get occasional drops, but nothing too distracting). I play a lot of Assetto Corsa Competizione and my G27 steering wheel even worked out of the box!

In other discussion someone pointed out about passing a gpu to a windows kvm[1] and getting the output back to linux[2]. I never tried but seems really promising, might try it someday

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22905390#22906984

[2] https://looking-glass.hostfission.com