lemmy_user_838586 @ lemmy_user_838586 @lemmy.ml

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Yeesss, keep going man, waste more time!

For someone who keeps complaining about how much time you lost to Linux, you sure spend a lot of time complaining on Linux forums, bashing it.

Bro. Why are you even here, then? Use whatever works for you, clearly you don't value Linux.

If I'm reading the manual right (I don't use i3), you're missing 'px' on end of your lines, like so:

gaps inner 10px gaps outer 10px

https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#gaps

Its weird that its not consistently needed though, for the workspace and modifying existing gaps in real time, it looks like the postfix 'px' isn't needed.

Completely unrelated, but nice username. I loved her character in Black Sails.

Huh, TIL they're on apkmirror. I've always been surprised they're not packaged separately for people to download to replace the manufacturers skinned apps, directly from lineage

Love the sentiment, and I agree, but anti consumer surveillance tech is here to stay, sadly. Can't tell you how many people in my life have Alexa, FireTV and random shit like that.

Can you explain a little bit? Which backdoors are you worried about with Qubes?

Its not, its a fork of the simple mobile tools suite that just got bought by an advertising company. This new maintainer forked the codebase of all the apps and is maintaining the foss version from here on out so we're not stuck with ads and malware injected into the apps we use.

If you're running your Linux install from an ssd, you could probably just leave it enabled. Ssd's are really, really fast at reads and indexing, vs mechanical hard drives, it doesn't really add much overhead to an ssd.

Been keeping an eye on postmarketOS, have been wanting to use it with a more modern phone in the USA, like a Pixel 4a or something. How has droidian been? Haven't really heard too much about that project, its a full Linux distro? You can apt-get stuff?

steamymoomilk, any relation to chunkyhairball?

https://lemmy.ml/post/7023770

I'm not sure it 'learns', it just gets installed with sane defaults that can help save battery life here and there, without restricting power too much it causes crashes, or other problems. You can configure it further in the config, but for new-to-linux people, often times installing is enough to see some good improvements from the defaults it uses.

Not sure you saw my edit, but I've been using a Dell Latitude 7490 for years and its been perfectly fine, so the issues you're experiencing aren't normal. Something is definitely up with your specific laptop. Just mentioning to help you narrow down issues.

That was my first thought, sounds like a hardware issue, either maybe overheating? Faulty ram or ssd issues, etc

Been using Ubuntu on my Dell Latitude 7490 for years with no issues

Lol yeaaah, parted in terminal is like tar, I have to look up the commands and flags each time and then because you're messing with a disk, I have to double and triple check it.

Disclaimer: I'm an android user and would love to switch to a Linux phone.

Problem with android is updates being locked by carriers or Google themselves. To get updates after 2-3 years you basically have to buy a phone that has unlockable bootloader and supports LineageOS, AND you have to have the technical skills to Install and set up LineageOS, I do, but no one else I know does, they just happily buy a new phone because app X,Y,Z stopped working on their old phone, which is perfectly usable. And if you have a phone where bootloader is locked (I'm looking at you, Verizon, EVERY PHONE THEY SELL THEY LOCK), oops there's an expensive paperweight, can never be running anything other than Android 8 or whatever it came with.

Haha that's awesome! These days I've pretty much settled on basic defaults to make life easier: Ubuntu and Gnome. Though with snaps getting more invasive, I'm considering jumping ship and moving to the OG, Debian. I settled on Ubuntu years ago when they did a ton to improve driver compatibility and automatic installation for WiFi drivers on laptops back in the Ubuntu 7/8 days (2007/2008). Briefly tried out Linux mint in 2014, and went back to Ubuntu after a few years, gnome worked a bit better for workflow than the traditional windows approach with a taskbar for open windows.