I’ve been using AstroNvim ever since i moved to Linux and not long ago got some inspiration to re-write my config to be more minimal. I also found his channel helpful :)

I think Hyprland does something similar: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/9854

Great file-manager, would recommend! Has a lot of plugins, integrates well with fzf to find files and zoxide for directories.

I use it as my default file manager and also in nvim.

Cute blog, so unusual to see a text container left aligned these days.

Update: They fixed it ! Works great now.

I was thinking how the hell does an app track another apps’ activity? So they allegedly used AppsFlyer, which is a Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP).

Companies like Grindr use it for tracking ads, it basically tells whether a user that clicked on a Grindr ad on Tiktok lead to a successful install of their app. They have to install an SDK for that. Apparently it wasn’t just tracking that.

Yeah they touched on this in the interview. Basically:

• Pixels allow unlocking the bootloader (most phones don’t)
• Pixels support alternate operating systems at the firmware level
• Pixels get long-term security updates
• The hardware meets GrapheneOS’s security requirements

In one part they mention Pixels Titan M2 chip, for example, which throttles how many unlock attempts you can make.

That being said they were critical of Google’s recent actions. Now Google gives OEM partners (Samsung, etc.) 4 months to implement security updates before publishing to AOSP. Prob one of the reasons why they wanted to seek an OEM partnership as they now get updates instantly with the caveat that for those 4 months they can’t publish the source code publicly untill Google releases it to AOSP. So they release 2 builds for every update (One with the embargoed security patches (binary/compiled version) and one with only public AOSP code (open source version that lags behind).

Also they had problems supporting Pixel 10 as Google removed device trees and didn’t push Android 16 QPR1 to AOSP until months after the Pixel release.

I have similar experiences, have been using it for a year now, works … fine.

Nothing broke, seems stable.

I also had some problems with my nvidia gpu around a year ago when I switched over to linux.

I’m not sure whether this was wayland specific, but when the GPU’s clock speed would jump up after some time of inactivity it would cause this sort of stutter / lag for that 1 second of transition. Was really annoying, I had to change the minimum clock speed, it did help. I eventually switched to a AMD gpu and everything worked perfectly without me needing to do anything.

And in general I had a couple of more problems with some electron apps back then (Obsidian), that did not work well when forced to run wayland. Though this was probably not nvidia specific. Eventually I remember finding some sort of fix for it by setting some obscure environment variable that I found on hyprlands discord that was recently made available.

i checked out Threema that was mentioned in the article. It’s 6.50 eur. I would have trouble getting people to use Signal, how do people convince others to pay for a messaging app?

I’ve never heard about sailfishos before. Are there any phones running it now? Also, forgive my lack of knowledge, but what’s stopping people from running it on their samsungs or whatever?

The whole thing does look interesting. Hopefully it picks up so that in 2 or 3 years when i’ll be shopping for a replacement to my pixel 8 I’ll actually have some good options.

Its not that bad to start with arch it’s not as hard as it used to be. I started with endeavourOS approximately a year ago and most things just work out of the box and you don’t need to do much and honestly i find it easier than having to navigate layers of abstractions.

Most of my time went into configuring stuff like hyprland, nvim and other stuff and arch just worked.

I came with 0 linux knowledge, the only terminal commands i knew were cd and ls and if not for arch I don’t think I would have been hooked on linux. That being said, I get it and sometimes it is frustrating but just putting it out there that it’s doable.

Just tried it, setting gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled to true made firefox unusable with all sorts of visual glitches so I changed back both.

Kinda annoying. Somewhere a month ago firefox suddenly turned sluggish. It loads fine, video playback is ok as well, but the UI animations on the video player like seeking, changing volume, subtitles or video speed are really laggy.

I switched to a completely new profile and tried disabling all of my extensions but it’s the same. Kinda accepted it at this point and am ignoring it. It came out of the blue hopefully it gets fixed as well.

dows direct bare metal access to your linux computer is imo not recommendable, at least if you leave your linux drives plugged in while booting windows. It can and has fucked up peoples linux installs and i wouldnt risk that. So either put it in a VM or figure out a way to easily unplug

I heard that things like that can happen, that being said, I switched to linux around 8 months ago with dual boot and so far nothing happened. Maybe lucky.

What are the main things Wezterm does better than Kitty, in your opinion? Back when I looked at trying a different terminal I was just not convinced there’s that much of a difference between say Kitty and the other hyped ones.

That being said, back then I didn’t need any of this session stuff and multiplexing as I used ZelliJ.

Oh interesting I wasn’t aware of how all of these things work. So even on the strictest CSS font visibility setting system fonts are not hidden (provided Document Fonts is enabled)? Local fonts I assume are hidden?

I remember thinking how strange it is that websites can know all of your installed fonts when I was playing around with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and https://www.amiunique.org/

I’m on linux and I have some extra fonts installed. Just the combination of them alone is so unique to me that you don’t need anything else.

It has a lot of momentum, so it will continue to dominate. But I wonder if it will decline over the long term as Linux continues to improve. Similar to how smartphones barely differentiate themselves from one another these days (compared to the past) maybe operating systems will have a similar fate. Maybe I’m a bit naive, but perhaps Linux will eventually have all the stability and ease of use of Windows, while also offering privacy, customization, and open-source benefits so there will be no real reason to use windows and the split will be more even.

Maybe… eventually…

I got it from play store. I use it to sync markdown files (Obsidian) works like a charm.

Not a safari user so don’t really know but on a quick google search did find this : https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari