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  • It’s literally in every display you see in the world. OEMs stopped fucking with Windows years ago.

    Go to any fast food restaurants with those vertical displays? Linux.

    Check-in kiosks that have been deployed in the past 5 years? Linux.

    Your router, most platforms you interact with online, media devices, cars (they should be using RTOS, but many use Debian), movie theaters, POS systems…

    Linux is the most deployed OS on this planet by far. I’m kind of annoyed when people don’t realize this.

    I actually hate when engineers are just letting a desktop sit like this. It’s sloppy and unnecessary.















  • Yes, that’s called Round-Robin Load Balancing.

    To get more specific, your DNS provider spins up a large number of DNS resolvers out in the world on a CDN network that resolves clients to the most geographically convenient server(s) at any point in time based on the GeoIP info of your public IP.

    Once you resolve one set of addresses at any given time, it caches your request, so the next time you ask these DNS servers for something you’ll get a response right back from them as fast as possible.

    You constantly checking is just going to show this. It’s quite normal.