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  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 months ago

    Your battery probably isn’t supplying sufficient voltage and your laptop is compensating. It is almost random chance in getting a good battery for a machine of that vintage. Using Linux will likely cause unexpected power off at low charge states.

    Your best bet is to return that battery to the vendor and try another battery from another supplier.





  • My eyes glaze over battle passes. I simply can’t process them. I don’t understand what the pass is for, or why the blinkenlichten, or why I should pay for more blinken.

    I did t get the etymology either. I am already battling, why do I need a pass? Is the pass like a road?

    It just seems so stupid to me.






  • The genius of one of his recent acts is the trolling he did. He basically made a joke about how fuckable children are and a joke about trans people in the same act, just to see what the media ran with.

    I didn’t appreciate how he used Daphne as a shield against criticism, but his unsaid point was salient to me.


  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldMonster
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    8 months ago

    You gotta have more empathy for the average person.

    If the average person cared about binary size in terms of bloat, then being that smartphone apps are almost all statically linked, why are smartphones the most popular computer in the world?

    To them bloat would feel more like apps you can’t delete, or say ads in a key gui component.

    The bloat most people will care about in terms of Linux is facing down a software update prompt with 1000 packages and feeling anxiety over the last such dialog box destroying the use of their favorite apps.

    I’m glad there are hundreds of successful distros, their complexities will serve well the hundreds of Linux desktop users.


  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldMonster
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, there is definitely a delineation between system and user, and like most things the line will be fuzzy.

    But in that end-user software space, 300mb is a pittance to pay for a minor system package update not breaking their favorite application, or a user not being able to use software because their distro is one version behind on libfoo.


  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldMonster
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    8 months ago

    What if who cares?

    When I used to build app packages internally I also built packages for our own python and ruby versions for our in-house software. The motto was: “system packages are for system software”. We weren’t writing system software, we were writing business software and shipping it, so why be dependent on what Redhat or Debian provided?

    Universal packages are just an extension of this philosophy, and is why things like docker and app stores are such a success. Burdening the user with getting system dependencies right is worse than the DLL hell of the old windows days.