Presi300

Presi300, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I hate Google (the company and the search engine) but that doesn’t mean I hate everything they make.

E.g. pixel experience is the best phone interface imo, oneUI and all the other garbage can’t hold a candle to it.

Material is also my favorite design language, especially now with material you. Google disk is also incredibly convenient, as long as you don’t store anything personal on it.

You can say the same thing about any tech giant. I hate Microsoft and windows, but I use VSCode daily and I use ecosia as a search engine (which is based on bing). Their AI chatbot is probably also the most useful free chatbot rn. C# is also a great programming language and Ik that people like typescript (I don’t). Fluent as a design language is also great, though not as good as Google’s material imo…

Presi300, 10 months ago

Influencers… Do I really need to say anything else?

Presi300, 10 months ago

I haven’t gamed for a “long” time, as I got into it when I got my 1st laptop like 5 years ago… And I can’t say that I feel the burnout yet, especially with great games like Baldur’s gate 3 being released this year

Presi300, 9 months ago

flatpak remove --unused

Presi300, 9 months ago

Great. Works on anything without any issues. I use it for pretty much everything (except web browser and only because I don’t wanna bother with permissions on that)… As for the size argument, I have also never had isssues with space, my laptop has 128GB of storage total and the /home partition on my desktop is ~100GB, both use fllatpaks for pretty much everything, I have no issues with space on either… And yes I use flatpaks on gentoo, cry about it.

Presi300, 9 months ago

AUR can be an unstable mess at times (yes, it’s very convenient, but it has flaws and arch isn’t the only distro out there. Also the space argument just makes no sense, yes the 1st time you download a flatpak, it downloads like 1~2GB of dependencies, but after that all other flatpaks use said dependencies and are a fraction of the size. So ironically, flatpaks end up using less space than AUR packages, if you don’t clean out their cache…

Presi300, 9 months ago

idk what type of drive you’re using, but flatpak startup times are indistinguishable to me, when compared to native packages. And I’ve used flatpaks on A LOT of computers…

Presi300, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Eternity, I came from infinity, so it’s the only choice for me

Presi300, 9 months ago

…why would you use homebrew on linux?

You already use an arch container that has access to the AUR, which has literally every package, available on linux.

Also, if anything, flatpaks are THE official (universal) packaging format for Linux, it’s the most widely adopted and most well integrated of the universal packaging formats. I’m not saying that homebrew is bad, just why bother with it when you’ve got 100 other packaging formats that are all better…

Presi300, 9 months ago

I rely on flatpaks for all non-firefox browsers and haven’t had any issues with them, I’ve used the brave flatpaks specifically for almost a year now and no issues…

Presi300, 9 months ago

I used to use gnome with just a system tray extension until very recently, though I’ve now switched to plasma… And copied my gnome workflow there

Presi300, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

zram… Obvious

systemdboot (unless I’m on a distro without systemd)… My main desktop is running Gentoo OpenRC atm

xanmod kernel… It’s literally just free performance

wayland… I have 3 monitors with 3 different refresh rates and 3 different resolutions, X11 just isn’t an option for me (smooth animations are a bonus to ig)

Unlock origin, ecosia and dark reader as extensions, regardless of browser

VSCode… I like FOSS software as much as the next guy, but I want my code editor to just work with minimal to no configuration

Fish shell, has the best autocomplete and integration of any shell

Presi300, 9 months ago

Xanmod is a gaming-optimized kernel… Idk where you read the server stuff from and the performance and the difference isn’t so much in performance… I mean there is still an uplift there but it’s more improved frame consistency (less microstutters) the games just feel more snappy.

Idk what you mean by “low tech computer” but I’ll assume that means “weakest”, I run xanmod on my main desktop PC, which is the only computer I game on, so it only makes sense there. It does tend to kill battery life on laptops and idk anything about getting it to work with nvidia (I’m on AMD). As for the “weakest” computer I’ve ran it on… tbh I don’t remember, I don’t really use a lot of low-end PCs in my daily life.

As for compiling xanmod, no reason to, 90% of the distros either have it in their main repos, or in the AUR on arch or on a copr repo on fedora. I did compile and configure it myself (I use gentoo) but the performance difference between the packaged version of xanmod and the one you compile yourself is minimal, most of the uplift comes from the kernel itself.

Presi300, 9 months ago

I need to do extra shit for extensions and I just don’t wanna bother

Presi300, 10 months ago

Messing around with html/css, gaming, youtube, going outside, lots of things to do

Presi300, 10 months ago

Kremlin politicians, mass russian and communist propaganda and mass migration out of the country… And somehow there is a huge job market, inflation isn’t out of control and we’ve got one of the better 5G coverages in the EU… Bulgaria’s a weird country.

Presi300, 10 months ago

It’s hard to say where the country is headed, but unfortunately a big part of the population seems to believe the Kremlin politicians and that communism will somehow magically fix the country and remove inflation and that somehow we’ll be better off without NATO, which according to them forced us to give all or military equipment to Ukraine (ignoring the fact that literally all the military equipment Bulgaria has given to Ukraine is USSR era stuff that won’t stand a chance against modern militaries, that NATO conveniently protects it’s from)… That being said the kremlins haven’t won the elections yet, so we’ll see what happens in the future…

Presi300, 10 months ago

Wait, it does? Huh, never felt like it, I just enjoy the food

Presi300, 9 months ago

For chromium, brave, though I’d just stick to Firefox it I were you

Presi300, 10 months ago

I’m white… That’s just how I was born

Presi300, 10 months ago

My shere mass caused a buffer overflow in the code, it just couldn’t handle dat ass

Presi300, 10 months ago

I know that I’m gonna get hate for this but… My phone is spoofed to appear as a pixel 5, so I have unlimited Google drive storage… I would setup next cloud, if I had the hardware to…

Presi300, 9 months ago

I use proton mail, switched to it from outlook around a year ago and haven’t had any issues… Unlike with outlook, piece of trash

Presi300, 9 months ago

Just use VLC, problem solved

Presi300, 10 months ago

Just use telegram or signal, they’re the best end-to-end encrypted messengers