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Trump’s win is a tragic loss for climate progress in c/futurology@futurology.today

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Is it a stretch to consider the possibility that our extinction is near?

do you think lemmy will ever be popular? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

We need to make it popular against all corporate forces like meta, X, bluesky etc. By creating more content and interacting with it more.

Bitwarden update: sdk-internal now GPL, sdk/sdk-secrets to remain proprietary but not used in clients in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

The way the founder replied coldly and closed the GitHub issue is pretty telling. Now they're doing damage control.

It's usually better to stay away from VC funded software. They exist for the sole purpose of turning a rich guy's million dollars into 100.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When I realised I can't go crying to my parents anymore and started crying into my pillow instead.

What does your country/government do well? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Corruption

________ parents are the worst in c/askouija@lemmy.world

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Y

What are you absolutely fed up with? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Cars. Need I say more?

Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store in c/privacy@programming.dev

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

In that case you can try cromite for Android. It's a decent private and ad blocking browser based on chromium.

Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store in c/privacy@programming.dev

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Okay. I have purged Google chrome from my devices long ago.

What's the point of living? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Hi buddy 👋🏾 Same here mostly. I have given up on expecting anything out of life. I moved to a tribal village and am enjoying my remaining days there in nature.

Why do so many mobile versions of sites run worse on phone than desktop versions? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because modern web is bloatware. Too much javascript, CSS, ads and cookie popups. A phone's hardware and internet speeds are generally not as fast as a desktop. So, it takes much longer to render on a phone.

Also, a lot websites nowadays deliberately make their mobile web experience shitty (cough ** reddit cough) to force their users to install their app.

I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far. in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I was using flakes. I gave the reason why it's data intensive. If a core dependency like glibc is updated, it's hash will change and all packages that depend on it need to be rebuilt and rehashed. It'll download all packages again even though there's minimal change.

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I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 7ai@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I hopped from arch (2010-2019) to Nixos (2019-2023). I had my issues with it but being a functional programmer, I really liked the declarative style of configuring your OS. That was until last week. I decided to try out void Linux (musl). I'm happy with it so far.

Why did I switch?

Nix is extremely slow and data intensive (compared to xbps). I mean sometimes 100-1000x or more. I know it is not a fair comparison because nix is doing much more. Even for small tweaks or dependency / toolchain update it'll download/rebuild all packages. This would mean 3-10GB (or more) download on Nixos for something that is a few KB or MB on xbps.
Everything is noticeably slower. My system used way more CPU and Ram even during idle. CPU was at 1-3% during idle and my battery life was 2 to 3.5h. Xfce idle ram usage was 1.5 GB on Nixos. On Void it's around 0.5GB. I easily get 5-7h of battery life for my normal usage. It is 10h-12h if I am reading an ebook.

Nix disables a lot of compiler optimisations apparently for reproducibility. Maybe this is the reason?

Just a lot of random bugs. Firefox would sometimes leak memory and hang. I have only 8 GB of ram. WiFi reconnecting all the time randomly. No such issues so far with void.
Of course the abstractions and the language have a learning curve. It's harder for a beginner to package or do something which is not already exposed as an option. (This wasn't a big issue for me most of the time.)

For now, I'll enjoy the speed and simplicity of void. It has less packages compared to nix but I have flatpak if needed. So far, I had to install only Android studio with it.

My verdict is to use Nixos for servers and shared dev environments. For desktop it's probably not suitable for most.