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piexil ,

while I still use ohmyzsh, a lot of it’s opponents make it’s slowness one of its complaints. You don’t need ohmyzsh to have fancy things, it’s just makes setting it all up a little easier.

piexil ,

Since version 4.0 the version numbers have nothing to do with changes and are strictly time based. Linux 5.0 happened after Linux 4.20 because Linus “ran out of hands and toes to count on”, same thing with 6.0 after 5.19

piexil ,

Afaik there is no way to view usage for nouveau yet

piexil ,

Try out zram instead of the SD card swap

I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! (i.imgur.com)

Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....

piexil ,

Switch out the swap file for zram

piexil ,

I really enjoy the “maximize windows go to their own workspace” thing that macOS does, it combines really nice with swiping workspaces with the trackpad.

There’s a gnome extension that mimics this but it’s kinda buggy and feels like a hack.

piexil ,

Full screen mode kicks ass on a laptop.

Swiping between all full screen with trackpad gestures is the workflow on macOS I really like

piexil ,

Yes an option is best! Currently I have it with an extension although it’s kinda broken

I know not everyone likes it either. I only like it on my laptop, where I use the trackpad to switch between workspaces. It’s more clunky on a desktop

piexil ,

If it’s like reddit sync you’ll need to patch it with revanced

piexil ,

smashingmagazine.com/…/passkeys-explainer-future-…

Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

I have a Ryzen 3 1300X at the moment and it’s always had this soft lock freezing bug on Linux. I used to dual-boot Windows on this machine and Windows never had the same problem, so I think it is an issue with the Linux kernel (I’ve also replaced nearly every bit of hardware that I originally built the PC with, except for...

piexil ,

extremetech.com/…/254750-amd-replaces-ryzen-cpus-…

They probably won’t replace it past warranty but it’s always worth a shot

piexil ,

America’s basically never had public utilities to begin with. If you’re not at the whims of the electric company, you’re at the whims of the gas company. Which is sometimes the same one.

piexil ,

Weed is actually terrible for sleep, and I say this as an everyday user.

It stops you from entering rem sleep. People report a lot of dreams after quitting because of a phenomenon known as “rem rebound” where you will have a lot of rem sleep.

piexil ,

Ubuntu themselves package ROS, it’s a little out of date from the latest (1.16 vs 1.18) packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/ros-desktop

Try apt update && apt install ros-desktop

piexil ,

And aptitude tests themselves are flawed and usually only measure certain quantities or qualities of intelligence, and are not really a great marker for general intelligence (this is including IQ tests which have a very racist origin and history)

What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)

It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

piexil ,

Ooms are much less necessary with MGLRU if they keep to a new kernel

piexil ,

It’s also $12 a year ($15 normally).

It’s a small price to pay to ensure everything on your Plex server has subtitles. Subtitling stuff and hosting it isn’t free.

piexil ,

People were already giving money before this change…

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion (www.vice.com)

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion::In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

piexil ,

You literally listed off everything Israel is doing. Good job.

Israel’s killed over 11k civilians since Oct 7th.

Israel’s bombed over 20 hospitals.

Israel refused to take their hostages back even when Hamas offered them in exchange for the Palestinians hostages Israel has. Then bombed the locations they know hostages were at.

piexil ,

Israel is not allowing anyone to to conduct outside verification, and hasn’t for literal years. They deny UN workers visas, disallow any humanitarian worker from entering or leaving Gaza ( hrw.org/…/israeli-restrictions-access-and-gaza-hu…)

but Hamas is not fighting outside verification. The UN has also repeatedly verified hamas’ death counts in previous instances.

That alone should tell you whose statistic you should be more trusting of, and it’s not israels.

piexil ,

The only sources that the hospital was being used for military operations was the IDF who is known for lying. They even showed pictures of metal objects in the same room as an MRI. Literally something you would never do because an MRI will destroy anything metal.

independent.co.uk/…/israel-gaza-al-shifa-hospital…

x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1724782542304559215?…

…mako.co.il/…/Article-b124ea2e7bfcb81027.htm

All they do is lie

www.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/…/index.html

They said a calendar was a “terrorist list”. A literal calendar.

electronicintifada.net/…/need-comic-relief-watch-…

They even higher actors

dohanews.co/disinformation-experts-call-out-israe…

piexil ,

Never too old

piexil ,

And also really not that bad for what it is. I quite enjoyed my time with it actually. It’s most egregious crimes are that Google makes it and privacy issues.

piexil ,

Looks nice, what’s the advantage over something like rofi?

piexil ,

FYI fwupd also works on windows

There’s an MSI in the releases github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases

I thought I read somewhere that windows update would eventually pull from lvfs but I can’t find a source for that

piexil ,

It’s not just startup time, it’s startup time with heavy background I/O

piexil ,

Even on windows S0ix is garbage

piexil ,

Os on the fastest drive, one large partition + efi partition unless you have a need for separate /boot.

I use /boot on ext4 and / on btrfs with /home being a separate subvolume.

/boot is ext4 because grub has issues booting to btrfs when using ubiquity auto installer. Why? I do not know.

piexil ,

Is that a Wayland issue? Lots of modern laptops have suspend issues (broken S0ix sleep, missing S3, bios declaring wrong states, etc)

piexil ,

What hardware is your Thinkpad? Is it amd?

piexil ,

Regolith

piexil ,

Firefox can edit PDFs , although I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not in depth

piexil ,

I get better compression ratio with xz than zstd, both at highest. When building an Ubuntu squashFS

Zstd is way faster though

I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

I have recently started a new position and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy in order to get your food when it would literally work perfectly fine ordering to a real cashier or shit even a website rather than having to...

piexil ,

Similarly I hate that everything requires an app when a webpage works absolutely fine.

Nothing more infuriating than sites that have a fully (or half) working mobile version but then force you to use the app (stars eyes at reddit)

piexil ,

Nothing worse than websites that fool you into thinking they have a mobile friendly website but turns out it’s super restrictive and they force you to down the app to actually do anything.

piexil ,

Dracula for shell/wm theme and papirus-dark for icons

piexil ,

Kubuntu with the ubiquity installer will install onto btrfs. Flatpack is easy to add.

Add in system76 scheduler and an up to date kernel like xanmod and youve got 90% of what gaming distros will do.

If you’re using flatpak you don’t have to worry that the host system has old mesa.

This sort of setup is probably trivial to do in arch as well.

piexil ,

Afaik Lxd doesn’t do live migration of lxc, only vms

Same as proxmox

piexil ,

Coding tests are the fucking worst.

Almost never representative of the actual work and usually far more restrictive than the actual work too. (In that you can’t search, might be watched, etc)

piexil , (edited )

A lot of those enterprise solutions like crowdstrike are a pain in the ass because they use a binary kernel module that supports like 5 kernels at most too

Hyprland is a toxic community (drewdevault.com)

Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful graphics and animations, each configuration tailored to the unique...

piexil ,

From Vaxry’s response:

opinion - has no place in a serious blogpost

Sir, what do you think a BLOG is for?

piexil ,

Lead dev is a pompous asshole who gets offended by clarifying questions, doesn’t even take long to find an example

github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1817#issuecomme…

piexil ,

If you use this software, You will likely come across the community, in at least a passive way. as this is a piece of software with extensive manual configuration. Most people will be reading blogs and forums to figure out their configuration.

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