Name: Jeff Geerling
Title/Job Description: Developer / Video creator
Company: Midwestern Mac LLC
Location/Country: St. Louis, MO, USA
First AArch64 device: Raspberry Pi model B
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-geerling-086bb2a
Twitter Handle: https://twitter.com/geerlingguy
Other Social Media: About | Jeff Geerling
Favorite Book/Movie/Song/TV Show: Lord of the Rings (book and movies), though Jurassic Park comes in a close second.
I love doing strange and slightly insane things with computers, mostly to explore the limits of what they can do. I often take smaller/weaker machines and stretch them beyond what they are meant to do, but I also love working with more powerful machines to see what fun things I can do with them beyond the normal use cases.
With Ampere, Iām mainly interested to see if ARM CPUs can be built up in a similar way as the X86 ecosystem, so that Apple doesnāt have a stranglehold on all the āfaster than an SBCā computers, and so people could get into high performance ARM without having to rent a server from AWS, Azure, or Google.
So good to see you on here Jeff. I really enjoy your youtube channel.
Iām with you on that goal, I really want to see ARM give x86_64 a run for its money.
Please, if you can, help raise awareness for the need for companies like Qualcomm to make it easy to run Linux on their CPUās. Iām new to Ampere they seem to have a great story with Linux but not enough cheap hardware. (To my knowledge)
Yes, we (developers) 've been waiting for an āaffordableā aarch64 desktop for agesā¦
We now have a few different machines available, but not yet affordable Iām afraidā¦
