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by ayushnix 5y ago
I use fish as my default user interactive shell but I still agree with you. I despise this philosophy of "configurability is the root of all evil" coming from fish and "every preference has a cost" coming from GNOME. I t
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> The biggest recurring issue is with graphic cards that have poor support in Linux and require firmware blobs and with WiFi cards that have no free drivers / firmware. Intel, AMD, and Nvidia GPUS - all of them need firmware blobs t
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by ayushnix 5y ago
I tried using NixOS a few years ago but found it too esoteric. Learning the Nix DSL and the NixOS way of doing things might be rewarding but it has a significant threshold that I'd need to cross before I'm comfortable using it. On
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by ayushnix 5y ago
My laptop has a 14 inch 1080p display which is ~157 PPI so it needs around 1.2x scaling. My external monitor is 27 inch 4K which is ~163 PPI so it needs at least 1.5x scaling. The most obvious solution that fixes all of these problems is to
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by ayushnix 5y ago
I've actually done this on my primary setup which is an AMD ThinkPad connected to a 4K 27 inch display. I didn't know about issues with fractional scaling before I bought this monitor and now I keep everything at 1x scaling and ha
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Can I install packages not present in the official NixOS repositories without learning the Nix DSL?
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No, increasing just the font size is a hack. Unless you only use the terminal, doing this means not using GUI apps comfortably because icon size will not scale. Even if you somehow do make them scale, that increased font size and is limited
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by ayushnix 5y ago
I doubt GuixSD would work on most modern hardware considering it uses the Linux-libre kernel. Using the Guix package manager itself sounds useful though.
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by ayushnix 5y ago
200dpi on a laptop screen would ideally need 1.6x scaling, not 2x. It could vary between 1.4x to 1.8x but definitely not 2x. Not sure what's wrong with that website. At 13.5 inches, it would've been better to take a page from some
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> What about AMD? Good news, suspend resume has been broken on my AMD ThinkPad, at least for me, since kernel version 5.10 came out although it didn't really work reliably before either. Whenever, I dare enter systemctl suspend, my
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> I did look into the Framework laptop recently but while it's probably the closet things in a long time the keyboard doesn't look good and there's no trackpoint (nor even physical mouse buttons) It also has a screen that
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> My sway config has `output eDP-1 scale 1.25`. I started out with 1.5 liked it but eventually felt text still a little too large. At 1.25 I am finding I need to bump font size up with some sites. I've not seen tearing or any other
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> OpenBSD is largely made by its developers, for its developers. It has its own unique culture and does not seek mass appeal. I wish these kind of caveats were highlighted more often, not only when it comes to OpenBSD but also when it co
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by ayushnix 5y ago
IIRC, Theo was (is?) against using rust because rust hasn't seen real world usage and coreutils hasn't been written in rust (according to him). When someone pointed out how there's RedoxOS and uutils, coreutils written in rus
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by ayushnix 5y ago
You'll have to live with fractional scaling if you buy the FrameWork laptop. I know many people will say it works "perfectly" for them even though fractional scaling is discouraged by almost every DE and window manager (inclu
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> I've been rocking a DIY edition running Manjaro Sway community edition. Have you enabled fractional scaling on your DIY? How well do applications work? Firefox, for example, goes haywire and its popup menus start flickering as soo
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> native adblocker that won't get fucked over by Manifest v3 neither is uBO on Firefox and uBO is more effective than anything else out there including Brave's adblocking I'd also be interested to know exactly how Brave in
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by ayushnix 5y ago
There's qutebrowser and you can donate directly to the developer but I'm not sure if you'd be comfortable using it. The major downside is that web extensions (addons) don't work in qutebrowser.
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by ayushnix 5y ago
If you're looking for a privacy friendly fork of Chromium, the only option that's worth considering is Ungoogled Chromium on Desktop and Bromite on Android. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium http
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> We are too small and insignificant to make any true, lasting impact. Holocene Extinction? I guess it depends on the scale we're talking about. If we're talking on a planetary scale and the grand scheme of things, humans are i
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> I think you may find that "just get shit done" is even more true for BSD today than it is for Linux Can I run sandboxed rootless containers on OpenBSD?
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> For me (I imagine a lot of others as well), it's simple. If Chrome removes adblock, I'm going back to Firefox. uBO is already hampered and less powerful on Chromium based browsers right now (CNAME un-cloaking doesn't hap
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by ayushnix 5y ago
My AMD Thinkpad was released a little over 2 years ago and it still has serious flaws. And if the AMD gitlab bug tracker and bug reports on forums are anything to go by, I'm not optimistic about those flaws going away in the future. I
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> you need to buy known good hardware What is this "known good hardware"? I was thinking of somehow getting my hands on the FrameWork laptop since everyone and their mother keep singing praises about it but going through its fo
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Not usable for me because it needs fractional scaling.
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by ayushnix 5y ago
I obviously won't buy a 5 year old laptop. I guess I should change my question to "Are there any laptops released within the past year that have excellent Linux compatibility?" Because from what I've read on forums, susp
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> and not buying laptops with terrible linux support but I wouldn't paint the situation as this tragic. Please tell me the name of a laptop which has excellent support for Linux. At this point, I'm ready to go out of my way to
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Ah right, Linux, the platform where suspend and resume doesn't even work and hibernation is a mess. AMD https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-S2id... s2idle is broken and I have an AMD thinkpad wi
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Someone would have to really despise their grandmother if they install Linux on her desktop, doesn't matter which DE it is. I guess some people out there do like moron-friendly UI and UX.
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Correct me if I'm mistaken but logs of public IRC servers are often available without needing to make an account on IRC, right?

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