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gianni ,

The fact that iPhones are getting this before Android phones without Google Play Services tells you all you need to know about the nature of RCS. Android has lost all of its intrigue and fun in favor of becoming GoogleOS

gianni ,

I’m pretty much all BTRFS at this point

gianni ,

Filesystem compression is dope.

gianni ,

No, there aren’t any licensing issues with JPEG-XL.

gianni ,

JPEG-XL is in no way patent encumbered. Neither is AVIF. I don’t know what you’re talking about

gianni ,

Royalty-free blanket patent licensing is compatible with Free Software and should be considered the same as being unpatented. Even if it’s conditioned on a grant of reciprocality. It’s only when patent holders start demanding money (or worse, withholding licenses altogether) that it becomes a problem

gianni ,

YouTube serves VP9 video (and more recently a lot of AV1) and I think the Pis only have hardware accelerated decoding of H.264/5 as it stands today

gianni ,

Minecraft is arguably & measurably more performant on Linux, full stop. Anything using OpenGL performs better on Linux, check any Minecraft benchmark online.

gianni ,

Also, a lot of towns/cities remove those romantic locks regularly anyway.

gianni ,

We need more nuclear power ASAP

gianni ,

One Punch Man

gianni ,

It is a modern successor to formats like WebP & JPEG. WebP was barely competitive with JPEG

gianni ,

giannirosato.com/blog/post/image-comparison/

gianni ,

As an Android user, I’m considering switching to iPhone due to how much worse the Android experience is becoming without Google Play Services. I’m using a custom ROM with microG, which potentially means no RCS since it is only available through Google Messages which doesn’t work with microG.

As much as it would suck jumping ship, at the very least, Apple is still a consumer hardware company first & foremost while Google will always be an ads company. Android exists to that end & that end alone.

gianni ,

Throughout the entire OS. Image CDNs are adopting JXL on some scale - Cloudinary reportedly ships billions of JXL images regularly

gianni ,

I have customized ZSH to be very similar to Fish

gianni ,

I think the wave of hype sort of overshadowed a couple of key points about these chips:

  • Performance & efficiency aren’t leaps & bounds ahead of the Intel & AMD crowd
  • ARM Windows laptops are still Windows laptops

Battery life is hardware and software.

gianni ,

.tar.zst forever

Get ready to welcome more new users soon! (lemmy.ml)

Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. The current version, 22H2, will be the final version of Windows 10, and all editions will remain in support with monthly security update releases through that date. Existing LTSC releases will continue to receive updates beyond that date based on their specific...

gianni ,

I’m partial to macOS and I agree, I think Windows font rendering looks like garbage. On GNOME, I’ve found things to be okay. Sucks that patents are involved in this mess

gianni ,

I’m glad Fedora has GNOME as default. The KDE spin appears to be well-maintained enough for those interested to enjoy it.

gianni ,

I’m happy with Wayland

gianni ,

Chrome OS.

gianni ,

Huawei’s doing great. Plus, there’s a big push in China to consider RISC-V & Linux to reduce dependence on US-based tech like Windows, so seems like all good things

gianni ,

Pixel 6 & newer, newer MediaTek devices, anything with the Snapdragon 8 gen 2 or newer. It took Qualcomm a while because many companies (including Apple) were holding out for VVC, which to this day isn’t in a great state. iPhone 15 Pro & newer support AV1 hwdec

gianni ,

Go big or go home. No need to stick with anything from a large corporation if you’re already pulling away from M$

gianni ,

GNOME for sure

gianni ,

Aside from the backdoor (which is a moot point when talking about zstd anyway), there are a number of other very good reasons to use ZSTD.

gianni ,

Imagine playing games

gianni ,

Yes, it works on Wayland. I’d also give GNOME’s Console a shot.

gianni ,

Lemmy.world is designed for people who want another Reddit. Interacting with their users & communities tells you all you need to know. I’d be a fan of defederating, tbh

gianni ,

Lemmy.world is also notoriously mismanaged and has had dubious privacy issues in the past, such as their Discord situation regarding user messages

gianni ,

Ignoring the fact that the body of this post is very likely LLM-generated, this does seem pretty cool.

gianni OP ,

How to steal something you can’t own? Instructions unclear /s

gianni OP ,

Stopping software mainly used for piracy has equated to the inability to do what you like with what you rightfully purchase

gianni ,

I think these ARM chips are more expensive than we realize! Apple’s egregiously high upgrade pricing on MacBooks sucks, and 8gb of RAM by default on the base model sucks as well, but it is likely to raise the average sale price of devices equipped with their chips. This has been known for some time, I feel.

I’ll cut Samsung some slack since we don’t know the unit cost of the Snapdragon chips, and they aren’t likely to sell out of these devices right away even with competitive pricing because of the state of Windows on ARM. I’m excited to see how Linux support pans out on the next generation of non-Apple ARM notebooks, though; I think this is a chance for some manufacturers to take Linux more seriously, as Linux on ARM is actually not a terrible experience.

gianni ,

Unless something changed, I believe Apple is using LPDDR5 since the M2. tomshardware.com/…/apple-introduces-m2-processor-…

gianni ,

Mostly positive. My encoding utility Aviator can be shipped with a custom community-backed SVT-AV1 fork in the background without anyone noticing any issues like they would if I linked to system SVT-AV1. Flatpak makes this kind of thing easy, and users don’t have to think about it.

Apple (slrpnk.net)

I don’t care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the “blue vs green bubble” drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure...

gianni ,

As an Android user, Android phones with Google Play Services are no better - in fact I’d say they’re probably worse

gianni ,

I’m running a black & white wired Brother printer through a CUPS relay & I couldn’t be happier without HP’s bullshit

gianni ,

This post looks LLM generated

What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect?

See title. For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because a significant number of people remembered him dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013....

gianni ,

I’m all for this change, but hopefully it means Mozilla will put some more energy into Gecko to make it competitive with WebKit in speed and multimedia capability (P3 colors, HDR images, JPEG-XL, etc)

What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

gianni ,

Just yesterday I overwrote some pacnew files and borked user authentication for myself. Very rough time

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