Chewy7324

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Why does open source take up so much memory space on Macos

I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I’m even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and...

Chewy7324,

Selling 8GB high end laptops like macbooks with soldered RAM shouldn’t be a thing at all. It’s such a waste of resources, because devices which could be used in 10 years won’t be useful beyond basic word processing and browsing.

The only reason Apple has them is to have a low starting price while taking 200 USD for 8GB additional RAM. For context, 16GB RAM costs about 50 USD in retail.

Waydroid and the DRM issue | How to play DRM protected videos on Waydroid?

I managed to install waydroid after a long and rather stressful installation process, but now that I have installed it, I am realizing that since Waydroid doesn’t come with DRM software (or malware) installed with it, it won’t play no videos, which is one of the reasons I installed it. Is there a way I can run drm protected...

Chewy7324,

If Widevine DRM works, it shouldn’t make a difference that it technically isn’t a phone.

I’ve found a project [1] which has a script to support Widevine L3, but idk how well it works.

Generally using other means (arr*) to access videos and store them on hardware is my preferred way now because of quality issues with DRM protected content. Altough depending on what you want to play it’s not an option.

[1] github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script#integrate-w…

Chewy7324,

Telegram doesn’t support E2E cross-device history. It’s more similar to Discord than to secure e2e messengers like Signal or WhatsApp.

Chewy7324,

This is great and already used on some distros like NixOS for many services. Regular users won’t notice this change.

How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver?

I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?...

Chewy7324,

I’ve bought a Nexus 4 to play around with Ubuntu Touch many years ago, but I really don’t think I could daily drive even a more powerful Linux phone. Many apps from messengers to banking apps are Android/iOS only, so it’d be really inconvenient to use — not to mention problems with calling and a not-so-great camera.

Almost all things I want to do on a phone are possible with a Pixel + GrapheneOS, which also makes an open source, secure and private phone OS.

Usually ssh’ing into a server through termux is all I need, altough it’d be cool to be able to plug my phone into a monitor and have a desktop with me all the time. But it being “cool” is the problem, as it’s not useful day to fay for me. If I need a pc I’ll take my laptop. I’ll probably try it at some point, but that’s many years into the future.

Chewy7324,

Performance and bugs might still be a problem with these relatively young projects. But if all you need is a browser I do believe it might be worth a shot.

In the EU 2FA for banking is required by law which usually comes down to either an Android/iOS app or a chipTAN device. That’s why browser isn’t an option for me. Sadly I don’t think waydroid passes the basicIntegrity check of AOSP [1], so emulation is out of the picture too.

[1] grapheneos.org/usage#banking-apps

Chewy7324,

There has to be a device to develop support for calling. Since there’re multiple open source phone projects it’s also not simple to just write an implementation for them. Additionally carriers don’t work all the same (different bands, …), so it’s really not easy to solve with the few resources available. As far as I know much of the development on these phone OS is done by volunteers and pine64 isn’t a big established company either.

Chewy7324,

My bank disagrees that SMS tan is secure enough 2FA and doesn’t support it.

Chewy7324,

[…] you can now set a shortcut to move entire workspaces to another display as well.

Awesome! This makes working with multiple workspaces on multiple monitors so much better. For some reason it’s missing on all DE’s/OS I’ve tried and only found on some tiling compositors like sway and hyprland.

Linux 6.6.6 has also been released, bringing about the end of days, raining fire upon the lands, and setting in motion a new era some may call: 2024. May the cosmic entities save us all.

Great to see the beastly Linux kernel being acknowledged. Happy Holiday!

Chewy7324,

You mean asdf isn’t a good title? /s

Chewy7324,

In my experience updates aren’t that big. The flatpak cli ux is just confusing to read how much data actually has to be downloaded because of deduplication.

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If hibernate isn’t a concern, I’d go with zram. Instead of swapping to a partition/file, zram compresses pages and stores them in RAM. This makes swapping quite fast.

I’ve not found out how to enable it on Void, but the following app was mentioned on a Void forum.

github.com/atweiden/zramen

Chewy7324,

It seems multiple Linux distributions are considering to update their x86-64 baseline architecture. This could improve performance, at the cost of hardware compatibility.

…nixos.org/…/pre-rfc-gradual-transition-of-nixos-…

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What do you mean with real-time mode?

I only know of real-time kernels, which allow to measure/calculate the maximum response time of an application. This is important for critical processes, like braking in your car, but decreases performance slightly rather than increase responsiveness.

Chewy7324,

Thanks for the link, real-time mode definitely makes sense and should be implemented for all compositors imo.

Responsiveness is not performance.

True, I miswrote. What I wanted to write was

but decreases performance slightly rather than in return for an increase in responsiveness.

Chewy7324,

Diese Statistiken sind immer nur ein Teil des Bildes.

Der Pappkarton liegt hinter der Plastikfolie, weil viel Material benötigt wird, was zu hohen klimarelevanten Emissionen in der Produktion führt und zu hohen Schadstoffemissionen beim Transport. Für den Pappkarton als Nudelverpackung fallen beispielsweise fast zweimal mehr Treibhausgasemissionen an als für die Papiertüte.

geo.de/…/nudeln--papier--plastik-oder-karton--wel…

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Their t-shirts are great. I’ll order a hoodie right now because their shipping cost is currently 60% discounted.

Edit: www.hellotux.com/aboutus.php

From your purchase we support free software, usually $3-5 from each product sold. But not everybody can accept money due to legal reasons, in this case, we give free shirts to developers.

Chewy7324,

Zuerst will die FDP “gar nicht regieren, anstatt falsch zu regieren”. Dann regiert sie ein paar Jahre später doch, um sich dann nach Löchern im Bundeshaushalt zu verdrücken.

Wer sollte diese Partei denn sonst noch ernst nehmen? Als Oppositionspartei finden sich sicherlich ein paar Doofe, die gegen die eigenen Interessen wählen.

Chewy7324,

Iirc it’s a thing for hotels to not have a room number 13.

Chewy7324,

It’s great to see to what lengths Microsoft goes to keep backwards compatibility. Compared to how a minor glibc update broke Linux apps without much warning. Without supporting legacy workflows I don’t think Microsoft would’ve had the market share they have today.

Chewy7324,

Die Bild hat sehr viel Einfluss. Deshalb nehmen Politiker von allen Parteien bei Veranstaltungen der Bild Teil. Niemand will auf der schlechten Seite der Bild sein.

Chewy7324,

There’s a Fedora copr with the triple buffering patches and it did improve the perceived smoothness of Gnome’s animations on my 8th gen Intel CPU.

It was especially noticeable if the system was limited in power because of running on battery.

Chewy7324,

If the system can’t keep up with the animation of e.g. Gnome’s overview, the fps halfes because of double buffered vsync for a moment. This is perceived as stutter.

With triple buffer vsync the fps only drop a little (e .g 60 fps -> 55 fps), which isn’t as big of drop of fps, so the stutter isn’t as big (if it’s even noticeable).

Chewy7324,

Yes, Vivaldi is based on Chromium.

Also, (it’s UI isn’t open source.)[vivaldi.com/…/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-sourc…]. Not much of an issue, given all popular browsers aren’t either (except Firefox).

Chewy7324,

You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs…its actually “better” right?), and I’m sure more.

Chewy7324,

And if a copied file is changed, btrfs only stores the difference instead of two complete files. E.g. if the 1GB file1 is copied to file2, they will take 1GB total. If 100MB is appended to file2, the total storage usage is 1,1GB

Chewy7324,

You’re right, atomic snapshots are a big advantage of CoW fs.

Rsync backups done while the system is running have a chance of being broken, while CoW fs snapshots are instant and seem basically as if the system suddenly lost power.

Chewy7324,

Interesting. f2fs supports file-based encryption and compression. It is designed for flash and is used for many smartphones.

Chewy7324,

FWUPD/LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) has made it remarkably easy to update a lot of system firmware and device/peripheral firmware under Linux. Prior to widespread LVFS support it was often a daunting chore for Linux users to update device firmware with frequently needing to boot into a Microsoft Windows installation, resorting to FreeDOS for system BIOS updates in the olden days, or go without updating firmware.

www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-100-Million-Firmware

Chewy7324,

Some Highlights:

  • A new component “systemd-bsod” has been added to show logged error messages full-screen if they have a “LOG_EMERG” log level. This is intended as a tool for displaying emergency log messages full-screen on boot failures. Yes, BSOD in this case short for “Blue Screen of Death”. This was worked on as part of Outreachy 2023. The systemd-bsod will also display a QR code for getting more information on the error causing the boot failure.
  • Hibernation into swap files backed by Btrfs are now supported.
  • Support for split-usr has been removed.
Chewy7324, (edited )

Ja. Hoffentlich legt Sony keine Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde beim Bundesverfassungsgerichtshof ein.

Chewy7324,

Danke für die Korrektur, da hat mein Textverständnis wohl den Abflug gemacht.

Chewy7324,

Yes. Hopefully they’ll continue to maintain the mautrix bridges they already have.

Also it’s sad to see Beeper misusing the term open source for the source available SSPL [1]. Beeper is free not to use an open source license. But an open source “license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor” [2], so it’s misleading to call their demo [3] open source.

I do believe supporting the different messaging services client side could be a better experience than relying on a server to translate between different protocols.

[1] blog.opensource.org/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-sourc…

[2] opensource.org/osd/

[3] github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

Chewy7324,

Awesome. Now playing 3D games on wine wayland should work fine. The previous patches already enabled Vulkan [1], but mouselock was missing.

I can’t wait to no longer have xwayland running. Almost all apps could work natively on wayland, except Java.

[1] gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/…/4522

Chewy7324,

This article is based on an article from Eurogamer in 2012 [1].

There’re more recent similar rulings like in France in 2019 [2], but Valve already appealed. It will take many years until there’s a final decision.

[1] eurogamer.net/eu-rules-publishers-cannot-stop-you…

[2] tomshardware.com/…/valve-steam-resell-games-ban-f…

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