Yes, NixOS does need quite a bit of RAM while rebuilding (~1GB) and takes lots of storage because it keeps older generations (similar to OS snapshots) around.
Otherwise NixOS isn’t any more resource intensive than other OS. Anecdotal experience, but my NixOS system boots faster than Fedora Atomic with the same window manager and packages installed.
In any case, I’ve been using NixOS, Fedora Atomic and OpenSUSE MicroOS on my T480s without problems, so OP will be fine with any distro.
As a former LineageOS for microG user I’m happy to say that it’s no longer necessary to use it instead of official LineageOS because they finally added signature spoofing to upstream LineageOS [1].
As far as I understand, this allows microG to work perfectly fine with any app on official LineageOS, without any patching of the ROM needed.
I haven’t tried it and there’s no reason to switch of LineageOS for microG, but I’ll definitely give it a shot on a future device.
So I’ve been messing around with a few phones lately, a nexus 6p, a pixel 3a xl, and a s21 ultra, and I’ve noticed that on the 6p and 3a xl both sound louder, punchier, and clearer when compared to the s21 ultra. They also both have that thicc notch design with a massive speakerphone which might add to the high volume...
I don’t see how the ability of users to actually know which repository an app comes from and change the repository makes it more likely for devs to not remove anti-features.
I’ve had this exact issue a month ago where an app was available in official F-Droid repos and Izzy’s and I didn’t know which repo F-Droid selected by default.
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...
Glass backs were already popular on Android phones when Apple started using them. Previously they used metal backs, but they aren’t compatible with wireless charging so manufacturers have to choose between plastic and glass — guess which one is more popular with reviewers?
The 13T Pro, as well as the standard 13T, come in two versions - dual-glass design and glass front with vegan leather back, both featuring plastic frames with matching colors and metal-like finish. [1]
The Xiaomii 13T Pro is available with a vegan leather back (plastic) which won’t break from a drop. Instead vegan leather likely deteriorates in look and feel over the years, but I’d prefer it over broken glass.
Note that some devices aren’t able to correctly mount the second partition.
I guess this is because the first partition is used to boot ventoy, while the second partition holds data and some devices (e.g. printers) won’t mount the second partition.
PS: I nearly wasn’t able to hold a presentation because of this, luckily a second stick/phone/copy on web storage saved me, iirc.
Or they do it like their e2e-encryption: proprietary extensions to RCS without any compatibility with other RCS apps (not that there’s any, given it’s necessary to partner with Google to do so).
In recently purchased Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro with MIUI I see the message app isn’t available for many popular apps, those messages usually show when the android version is old but I have android 13 so I don’t understand why I see those errors so much in the play store.
Huaweii’s HarmonyOS is also based on Android, just like other manufacturer’s Android reskins.
They might’ve hard forked AOSP without incorporating newer changes and over time farther deviate from upstream AOSP, but at least three years ago they basically just replaced all mentions of Android with Harmony.
I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?
Nur was bringt eine Stimme für die letzte Generation, wenn sie keine Chance auf Sitze im Bundestag haben? Je mehr Stimmen progressive Parteien unter der 5% Hürde erhalten, desto mehr Sitze bekommen Rechte Parteien.
Sadly I find myself opening up Stealth (open source reddit client without any login) more than I’d like. There’s just more content for some topics. No longer supporting reddit by commenting is largely good enough for me, but it makes me understand how most people never left reddit.
At the same time I spent more time on social media than I should, like typing this comment.
Begleitet von einer hochkarätig besetzten Wirtschaftsdelegation ist der Bundeskanzler am frühen Morgen zu einem dreitägigen Besuch in China eingetroffen. Kurz vor seinen Gesprächen mit der chinesischen Führung hatte Olaf Scholz diese Woche öffentlichkeitswirksam einen eigenen Auftritt auf der umstrittenen chinesischen...
Ich bezweifle, dass die Präsenz von Olaf Scholz auf TikTok zu einer maßgeblichen Aufwertujg der Plattform führt. Dementsprechend bin ich der Meinung, dass die Vorteile von demokratischen Inhalten auf TikTok die Nachteile überwiegen.
Die AfD und andere populistische Gruppen haben eine vielfach größere Reichweite als demokratische Parteien. Es gibt auch eine substantielle Anzahl an Personen, die nur über TikTok/Instagram von Nachrichten erreicht werden. Deshalb ist es wichtig, dass z.B. die Tagesschau in den sozialen Medien präsent ist.
Die FDP wirkt einem potentiell geringeren Absatz von Autos durch erhöhte Preise mit dem fehlenden Ausbau der öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel entgegen. Wenn ein Auto alternativlos ist, bleibt die Führerscheinquote sehr hoch.
Bürger mit regulären Gehältern hassen diesen Trick.
Banks were able to create their own NFC payment app, which can be set as default payment provider.
I’m not sure what else Google Wallet is able to do, but I guess this might be about being able to have a default wallet with tickets for events and similar.
Hopefully there’ll really be open-source wallets. With banking/nfc pay this isn’t possible for service ands security reasons.
One always has to be suspicious of Mozilla these days.
As far as I know Mozilla never lied on technical details, at worst they didn’t know about wrongdoings by their partners and acted once known about.
The translation being done locally is advertised and should be simple to check with it being open-source. It also has to download for a while on first use, as well as translations take a considerable amount of time depending on the hardware. E.g. for larger sites it takes a short while until the last paragraph shows up as translated.
KDE and Gnome being nearly identical, irrespective of X.org and (X)Wayland, was to be expected. Prior benchmarks came to the same conclusion, altough I believe to remember the gap between Wayland and X.org has been widening slightly.
It’d be interesting to see if games running natively on Wayland will change things a bit more, but I don’t expect it to change performance any more than it did until now (barely measurable). Most of the performance issues of games is having enough compute to calculate the frames, not how they are presented.
But it’s interesting that Gnome Wayland still has some unexpectedly worse results in a few cases, altough it’s not a reason to choose any desktop over another.
For swap files on btrfs COW and features like compression have to be disabled. I believe for btrfs the swap file even has to sit on a subvolume with those features disabled, so it’s not enough to only disable them for the swap file.
I prefer swap files over swap partitions, because it makes it my partition layout simpler to manage.
If your using a swap partition, make sure it’s located on an encrypted partition, else it exposes data stored in RAM (encryption keys etc). With SSD’s it’s difficult to make sure this data is actually deleted, even after overwriting.
My preferred setup for a long time was LUKS with btrfs on top. Then subvolumes for /, /home and the swap file (+ /var/cache, /var/log etc.). This gives me peace of mind nothing is unencrypted except /boot.
Nowadays I simply use zram, which allows for a small part of RAM to be compressed for swap. It’s great, simple to setup and performs well. Imo it should be default for all desktops.
Agreed. Their discord has been full of inconsiderate jokes and memes for a long time. It’s not untypical of many edgy internet communities but it being directly associated with a project isn’t a good look.
I definitely wouldn’t want to get involved with such a project, altough it is a good piece of software and I don’t see their behaviour influencing the popularity of hyprland.
Yes, with Vaxry being banned from contributing to wlroots, hyprland development won’t get easier. At the same time I’d say wlroots and hyprland are largely feature complete, so not being able to contribute might not have a large impact on hyprland.
Hyprland and sway are the most feature complete tiling compositors I’ve tried. But since I strongly prefer dynamic tiling, there’s not much of a choice. River tiling is the best in my opinion. Sadly it doesn’t support moving workspaces between monitors, as each monitor has its own set of workspaces, which is a deal breaker to me.
In general I strongly prefer Wayland over X11, as I’ve found Sway to be a better experience than i3 + picom for many years (not having to disable the compositor while gaming, better multi monitor support, etc), but having to switch to wayland-native tools is necessary coming from X11 wm’s. For DE’s that’s not an issue.
Here's Why Microsoft Buying Valve Is A Terrible Idea (www.thegamer.com)
Can anyone recommend a lightweight, stable distro for a thinkpad?
I’m looking to mainly use it for school and was wondering if there’s any recommended distros out there for thinkpads....
What Rom do you prefer for your Pixel device?
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Do old phones just sound better?
So I’ve been messing around with a few phones lately, a nexus 6p, a pixel 3a xl, and a s21 ultra, and I’ve noticed that on the 6p and 3a xl both sound louder, punchier, and clearer when compared to the s21 ultra. They also both have that thicc notch design with a massive speakerphone which might add to the high volume...
Repository Overhaul in new F-Droid Client 1.20 (f-droid.org)
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. (about.winamp.com)
Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.
4 months durability for an $800 phone!
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...
Every time I search for a USB key, I end up finding the ones flashed with OS ISOs! I don't have a normal key anymore lol (sh.itjust.works)
Google Messages' text editing feature is live for beta users, and it could come to you soon (www.androidauthority.com)
Google Messages’ sent text editing feature has now begun rolling out to beta users, indicating that stable rollout is around the corner.
Why many Android apps are unavailable for MIUI phone?
In recently purchased Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro with MIUI I see the message app isn’t available for many popular apps, those messages usually show when the android version is old but I have android 13 so I don’t understand why I see those errors so much in the play store.
Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk?
I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?
Nico Semsrott im Interview: „Ich habe in meinem Leben noch nie so viel geweint“ (www.sueddeutsche.de) German
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Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright-Related User Bans * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
"Keine Plattform für den Staat": Antidiskriminierungsbeauftragte hält neuen Tiktok-Auftritt des deutschen Kanzlers Scholz für einen "Fehler" (www.tagesschau.de) German
Begleitet von einer hochkarätig besetzten Wirtschaftsdelegation ist der Bundeskanzler am frühen Morgen zu einem dreitägigen Besuch in China eingetroffen. Kurz vor seinen Gesprächen mit der chinesischen Führung hatte Olaf Scholz diese Woche öffentlichkeitswirksam einen eigenen Auftritt auf der umstrittenen chinesischen...
Kosten für Führerschein steigen immer weiter: Das sind die Gründe (www.swr.de) German
Android 15 will free you from using Google Wallet as your default wallet app (www.androidauthority.com)
Android 15 is now adding the ability to set a default wallet app. So on Pixels, you can change from Google Wallet to a third-party app.
Firefox Getting Translate Selected Text Feature, Here's How to Try It (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
Any way to rip high-quality from Apple Music? Or Spotify?
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unused is wasted (lemmy.world)
this is right after closing qemu-kvm
Hyprland 0.37.0 + 2 year anniversary! (hyprland.org)