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by ttarr 4y ago
I think WSL is overrated. I haven't used Windows for years but it was forced upon me by my new employer. Overall I'm not impressed, at least when compared to a full native Gnome experience. Not sure how people are managing, any fi
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by ttarr 4y ago
Try Poco F1, almost everything works, at least as a phone.
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by ttarr 4y ago
> Why should they hire someone from US and not someone somewhere else where the pay is lower? Good point, so far so good but we'll see as time goes.
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by ttarr 4y ago
> I spend 15 minutes walking in a park. > Yes, spending hours in a car is not the best choice. > One should ask themselves why they chose to sign a contract with a company hours away by car in the first place. Good for you, realist
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by ttarr 4y ago
Not always, mine's locked.
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by ttarr 4y ago
Poco F1, I'm sure newer ones have it too.
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by ttarr 4y ago
I don't think they stopped, my Pixel 3 XL is locked also in the same manner.
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by ttarr 5y ago
Yes, along XINPUT2 for improved scrolling.
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by ttarr 5y ago
Interesting! What's your monitor like? Sometimes I suspect it's because of my 4K monitor (with 1.5x scaling), that's a lot of pixels to shuffle, especially if the rendering code/pipeline is not optimised[0]. Testing my s
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by ttarr 5y ago
I should've been more clear, Firefox is just an example, my problem is the mouse pointer being affected by heavy load of any kind on the GPU/UI thread. As coldblues said, it's probably Mutter not having an independent thread
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by ttarr 5y ago
Firefox was just an example, anything that's heavy on the GPU yields the same problem, and yes I did have the right knobs enabled on Firefox and can confirm that HW was indeed working. Recently however I had to disable it, see https:&
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by ttarr 5y ago
Yes indeed, I believe you are referring to this WIP: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1241 There is a super nice demo there that sheds light into what I'm trying to convey.
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by ttarr 5y ago
I've used Gnome on Wayland since first available on Fedora, that's until two days a go! What happened you might ask? Well, I had enough of slow performance, with every release I'm thinking it'll improve, it did but at sl
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by ttarr 5y ago
Any good browser, other than Firefox, has good support for Wayland, and does away with Manifest V3 (or whatever it's called)?
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by ttarr 5y ago
>3MP Sony IMX258 main camera It's 13MP, I freaked out at first!
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by ttarr 5y ago
The first iPhone had a slower SoC, yet it felt way faster. I think there is room for improvement on the software side to make things faster.