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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours 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.

A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Wait this is a new scam?

The weak science behind psychedelics in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

A daily "forever" treatment like SSRIs are way more profitable for big pharma compared to psychedelics which are freely available in nature and can have long term benefits on a single dose.

Pissers in c/linuxsucks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This winter we will keep our fellow Linux users warm no matter the cost..

[Article] Outrageous $200 trillion climate hack proposes blasting diamonds into the atmosphere in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So anything but reducing carbon emissions which are the root cause.

Bitwarden update: sdk-internal now GPL, sdk/sdk-secrets to remain proprietary but not used in clients in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Corruption

________ parents are the worst in c/askouija

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Y

What are you absolutely fed up with? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Cars. Need I say more?

Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

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Buddha explaining the oneness of all sentient beings (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/buddhism

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The five wake up calls to stop clinging and taking action mindfully (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/buddhism

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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.