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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Anecdotally I find my m1 laptop and ryzen 5000-series laptop to have similar energy efficiency, but I don't have much hard data. When it comes to laptops idle efficiency is king and this is where it gets hard to test the chips because
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
For me, I have 2 phones: the one with all the google software removed, in which uber and lyft wont work. The phone which has all the google software: lyft works, uber wont. Same experience with uber error reporting as you said. They dont ex
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
I find freebsd pleasant for server use. But using it for desktop, probably would not enjoy. As for slackware, yes :^) I'm glad you're having fun. But I think most people would give up at the lack of good package management before
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Sometimes I feel like this author, but then consider it may just be me getting older and resisting learning something new. I've never become an initv nor systemd expert but over time I have gotten to a point where I don't think sy
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
> a basic app does not run on Wayland and runs on Xorg or vice versa Can you even give an example of the vice versa case? I've never not had things work in X, so your idea about going over to 2 user-hostile OSs to solve a non-issue
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Nope! Not in my VM. vm tools dont support wayland copy, nor screen resize. Works in X
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
I've thought about this too but every time I've ever used remote X it's been terribly horribly slow. Do you really care? With RDP/VNC/others as alternatives, remote X has always seemed the most interesting but worst
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
It seems like wayland got a lot closer to generally usable in the last few years, but it's still not for everyone. Some of this is (intentionally) limited design, some of this is lack of people caring to migrate their software to work
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
As an enthusiast but not an expert nor a person with unlimited time and money, I found that while hitting 1gb/s LAN on ethernet is easy, moving up to 10gb/s has been hard. I have 2 networking cards and a router in between them, al
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Complete opposite experience. 5/3 is the worst bank I've ever used. I had a mortgage that got switched to them. I desired to do web banking, but their website & then customer support treated me as a hostile entity. Do you in a
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
And this is part of my point: by the time microsoft kills old computers, if they even do, they'll be 10 years old, not 2 years old.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
This is just an effort by Big Outdoors to get us to go outside by giving us nothing else to do. /s
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
We had them. Nobody bought them and here's what we got. BB10, WebOS, Windows Phone
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
> Have you never needed to transfer money when traveling or out of house No? It can wait for me to return home. Before wireless internet existed this wasn't an issue, so how has that changed things? > If US, have you ever mobile
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Every android release I see things removed, and inconsequential things added. It seems like iOS has been doing the opposite, such that slowly they may meet in the middle, and then iOS exceed android in every way. Apple folk, can I get an ho
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
It really makes me think... should we all have bought into blackberry/palm/windows' smartphone efforts in the 2010s? They seemed inferior at the time but, in hindsight, it's hard to imagine anything worse than where we a
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
So many good comments here, but I keep thinking about how thankful I am that PCs don't work like smartphones, and it's sad it's regressed to this point. Android has so thoroughly defeated itself, that I feel crazy to say I&#x
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
I've always thought so too - who is banking on their phone? And, loans aside, if I had money in a bank that forced me to change the way I live my life just to store money, I would move to a different bank and tell them that's why
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
That gives you some control, but because lineage is mostly just using upstream android, and google's "contributions" to AOSP continue the overall decline of android, and the majority of apps adhere to google's behavioral
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
If a team is effective, they can work with any system. agile, waterfall, whatever. That managers forced a system on to people to try and make them more productive is missing the point. Teams will be productive or not regardless and tamperin
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
vim is on there but not emacs? suspicious of the value of this survey.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
VM, which is fine for text but when it comes to video like twitch or youtube, there's a pretty high cpu cost on it. It's still smooth, 60fps, but at a cost.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Yeah, the great Zoom UI, where it pins itself to the top during a login process so I can't get to my password manager under it, or when it prompts for MFA and you can't paste in so you have to go type it by hand.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
I have an m1 mbp and a asus zephyrus g14 of similar vintage, and I have to say day-to-day, stock, the m1 mbp can get better battery life idle, and is less prone to getting into a state in which its fans need to activate. I'd say they c
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
> The love the Linux world has for Firefox is not reciprocated by Mozilla in the same way, and this shows in various places where issues fixed and addressed on the Windows side are ignored on the Linux side for years or longer. > The
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Never stopped me from using it on all the phones I've had - maybe somewhat slower, but I can be a little patient in return for some semblance of data protection & nuisance blocking.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Even this seems a few steps too many, perhaps catered to your needs? Ubuntu or debian with KDE already has equivalents to all of those things. It's just 1. Install Kubuntu/Debian/KDE Neon 2. Start 3. Skip the installs, firefo
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
While this is a real issue, that effects terminals in real-world use, I took issue with this quote: > This issue affects every terminal I've tested: Visual Studio Code, iTerm2, Alacritty, and Hyper. I don't think those terminal
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Well said! Another way of putting it: Python isn't a production-ready language, due to the way people are using it. Whenever some project I find doesn't just work, or works and then a few weeks later stops working, it always seems
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
> Do you find yourself filling out Cloudflare CAPTCHAs on a regular basis when accessing 80% of web services? I personally do not, nor have I heard anyone complain about such a thing. Sort of. On a regular basis = when I decide to visit

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