• atzanteol
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    7 months ago

    Gentoo compilations are peanuts compared to the massive energy sucking hype that A.I. is.

    Their overall impact is low because they’re niche. It wouldn’t be if Gentoo were more popular. Imagine all of the AWS EC2 instances running Gentoo. And all of the Docker container builds still compiling glibc over and over.

    Fact is they still built a horrifically inefficient system for deploying software. It’s a crazy hypocritical stance to take. AI at least provides benefit - something that can’t be said of Gentoo’s waste.

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      7 months ago

      When you have multiple Gentoo machines, you compile soft once and distribute it. You would be mad to compile everything every time.

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            7 months ago

            You’ve missed my main point by so much if you’re explaining distcc to me.

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              7 months ago

              As far as I can tell, your point seems to be “Gentoo sucks and AI doesn’t”, so I’m not sure anyone here could change your mind.