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  • Samueru@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI don't...
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    6 months ago

    I didn’t know flatpak was using MB instead of MiB, ever since I moved to linux most apps I’ve used report MiB instead.

    Edit: I checked my CLI tools because the guy said that CLI tools are all over the place, the only one that doesn’t use MiB is lf.

    Edit2: I lost my shit when I checked the profile of patrick and the first thing in the description says gnome developer, holy shit this can’t be lmao.







  • Samueru@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldKagi is now partnering with Brave
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    6 months ago

    All chromium based browsers are shit. Switch to hardened firefox or librewolf

    I’ve used firefox for years, in fact I sitll have librewolf on my PC with a custom userChrome.css, but the browsing experience is only getting worse every year and mozilla only breaks userChrome with every new update.

    I also mentioned librewolf in my original comment already.

    Plus I am not sure how anyone can even trust Brave’s browser when they are sketchy as fuck.

    They are open source lol

    The same functionality can be achieved if you spend literally like 5 minutes on it

    How do you sync your browser sessions without having to use an email? This is what mostly keeps me on brave.

    Also it really took me a while to get librewolf to block the cookie prompts from websites, because I had to go into the ublock origin settings and find the filter that blocks the cookie prompts, brave on the other hand does this automatically for you. As well as already having a built in dark mode, you don’t have to install 6 different extensions which is what I have on librewolf to get it to work.

    Also on linux firefox maps the alt+number keys to change tabs instead of using control+number keys, again on brave this comes by default, on firefox that is also another extension that needs to be added to fix that.

    In fact can you even change the background color of the new tab page in firefox? On brave it is super easy, it even lets you use an image, on librewolf I had to use a custom userContent.css for something so basic wtf.

    Also you didn’t go into details on what makes a browser good for privacy, brave can even block scripts if we are talking about going beyond the default settings, which on librewolf you have to use an extension as well to achive that.








  • Samueru@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldKagi is now partnering with Brave
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    6 months ago

    Edit: The people downvoting this comment instead of having a discussion are really winning me over to their side /s

    Welcome to the linux world of ideology driven recommendations.

    I fell for this crap when I switched from using nvidia to amd because the constant bashing that nvidia gets by linux users only to discover that hardware acceleration is so broken on amd that using the cpu yields better results lol.



  • It pains me to say this, but voidlinux, though I’m still not in the stage of “this one is not for me”, it has potential and hopefully I can sort all the issues I’ve encountered so far.

    I’ve tried multiple distros, and also used artix for a while so I’m used to not using systemd but man void is really another thing, this isn’t the first time I’ve used it, I tried it a year ago and gave up, recently I decided that I’m up for the challenge and began using it again, here’s what has happened so far:

    Well right now I’m dealing with the pc freezing when quitting the user session, for some reason I need to exit i3 before logging out, otherwise the system freezes.

    Also I wasn’t able to get a clean boot screen even though I had the typical kernel parameters quiet, loglevel, etc, it even prints info on the login prompt where I should be putting my username, though I managed to mitigate this a lot by passing a kernel parameter that tells it to use another tty for the boot messages.

    file-roller is broken, I can’t compress some directories to 7zip, the weird thing is that it only happens to some directories and not all.

    Though the very good news is that they fix issues very fast, puddletag was broken and they fixed it in like 2 hours after I reported the issue.

    Edit: It is not just file-roller that is broken, it is all of 7zip on void, I can’t compress with xarchiver either




  • But a shitty $50 no name PSU is probably gonna blow up before the $150 unit from a solid company with a well established history of quality parts

    Nope haha, I don’t know if you know, but Evga, Corsair and Gigabyte already had their issues with entire series of PSUs exploding, all those had the issue that the active pfc diode/transistor were failing.

    You will never have that issue if you buy a very low end PSU that is NRTL certified (plenty of sub 40 usd PSUs do) because they don’t have active pfc to begin with.

    quality parts

    At most maybe the more expensive PSU because it has better quality capacitors will last longer before the PSU will eventually refuse to turn on due to the caps degrading, but at no point it will explode.

    But the transistors, resistors, diodes, etc are all the same quality, there isn’t a quality difference in those.

    They are also “better” in the sense that they usually have less ripple and better regulation than their cheaper counterparts, but that does not make them safer, in fact it is the opposite:

    High end PSUs have DC-DC regulation, that is the 5V is taken from the 12V instead of it being its own output from the transformer winding, you have to hope that they implemented the supersivor IC right in these PSUs, because in DC-DC PSUs there is the posibility of a 5V failure resulting in 12V in the 5V rail if the 5V regulator fails. With cheap group regulated PSUs this isn’t possible because all regulation is done from the primary transistors and if anything fails the output voltages will just drop to 0V.