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So far I've been playing with Linux on my old work laptop and they've been playing together nicely. Almost everything else about the laptop? No. But hey at least graphics works.

Why not just fix the algorithm so you don't get spammed with those posts? Limit posts from one community to 1 or 2 per page so it's at least spread out.

It's kind of a growing pain issue honestly. As lemmy grows and more people post in more communities it shouldn't be as much of a problem. I don't know if self regulation like that will really affect the serial posters though.

Don’t use spinning disks

Lets be honest here, that applies to any modern PC outside of mass media storage/backups. I've been saying for nearly 10 years now that HDDs don't belong in normal computers.

That hasn't worked on any (good) machine for the last 20 years. Especially now in the EFI age any important settings like that are stored in nvram.

Android? How many apps do you have installed?

Androids compilation thing on startup is annoying as hell on low end phones. On high end phones it's much less of a problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4

Do you use tasker or any automation app? Anything time based will trigger the clock.

For a laptop that old it’s not worth the money. Anything “good” is going to be at least 10 years old just sitting in a box rotting.

In 3 years I haven't had a single attempted connection that wasn't me. Once you get to the ephemeral ports nobody is scanning that high.

I'm not saying run no security or something. Just nobody wants to scan all 65k ports. They're looking for easy targets.

Change the port it runs on to be stupid high and they won't bother.

Mac OS dropping 32 bit support made me realize just how bad the situation is. And that was over 5 years ago.

The fact that any software being made in 2025 is still 32 bit is ludicrous.

I remember the doom and gloom whenever he returned to working at Nvidia. “Oh they’re going to effectively kill the open source drivers.”

I’m glad he’s up to good work still.

The fact that codecs like aptx aren’t ubiquitous on all android devices is one of the biggest reason why it never switch back. Aptx when the two devices support it is beautiful. Low latency, high quality. Perfect. But even nice devices don’t always support it (I’m looking at you google) It’s a solved problem, but manufacturers can’t get their shit together.

Then you have manufacturers like Sony who produce butt loads of Bluetooth paraphernalia, but can’t make Bluetooth on their phones work for shit. Bluetooth key for his Tesla doesn’t work for him unless his wife turns off BT on her phone first.

2.5mm plugs suck ass. My first smart phone had one and I HATED it. It's so tiny, fragile, and I DETEST working with it.

The funny thing about battery size; they could make the phone 1mm thicker and you’d get way more battery capacity from that than removing an aux port.

Z space is not at a premium, X and Y space are. A 3.5mm jack takes up a TON of space in all dimensions. The PCBs of modern phones are TINY compared to the phones of old.

Apples dongle is $10 and very high quality. It uses the same chip that was previously internally in the iphone. Good adapters aren't that expensive.

Dedicated DACs for phones started taking off right as the 3.5mm jack was getitng killed anyways. All the hardcore audiophiles I know that listen to music on their phone use one of those because they can actually drive good headphones. It was kinda perfect timing.

You can have wired USB C headphones with no latency.

Also any good headphones should compensate by delaying the video a bit. At least on iOS with Airpods the audio and video are almost perfectly synced. Same with any other bluetooth headphones I've used. I did have a REALLY old BT speaker with like a 500ms delay and that was very noticeable. But that speaker is over 10 years old and cost $20.

entirely

It's not just overhead.

Proton is amazing, but it’s entirely overhead translating library/system calls to Linux.

That is not at all true.

but that’s a separate statement about games being better optimized on Windows.

Is that though? You can't say X is better than Y when you're changing multiple variables. If windows had a proton equivalent and both games ran through it then yes that would be a direct comparison. But you can't say X + Y is better than Z (by itself)

DXVK is a part of proton that also is available on windows. DXVK alone can get you double digit performance improvements on games. And that's not getting into all the one off tweaks users can do to proton to optimize the game. Enabling pre compiled shaders gave a huge performance boost for Elden Ring.

Games run faster on SteamOS with proton than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

FTFY. I hate all these articles that downplay the heavy lifting proton (and all the tools that make it up) are doing. But "Proton makes games run better" doesn't get the same attention.