daniyeg

joined 11 months ago
[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

Roku is a pioneer in most of this crap but don't be fooled to think that only cheap stuff is gonna have these and that somehow you are safe if you spend a lot on your TV. as it turns out high end and average TV producers would also like to squeeze the tiniest profit margins out of their consumers and if they could get away with it they would do the same.

in fact nowadays most TVs regardless of price are actually collecting and selling your data and in the best case it's an opt out option in the worst possible place in the menu.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

ngl this image would be a sick cover for an album.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

the actual update size for the application is logical as far as i remember, it's the other stuff alongside it (i think related to graphics card) which is the real issue. it added around 500MB each update while the actual update itself might've been 10 or 20 MB.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

purely as an end user i hate how much it downloads with each update and how much it uses the disk space although that's much less of an issue. i know it's solving a real problem and relieving a lot of the headaches of developers maintaing packages for each distro's specific package standard, but it's simply not the software distribution solution for people without at least well enough internet.

i wouldn't use any distro with flatpaks as its main way of delivering software and i would in almost all cases always choose alternatives even if it's outdated. i don't necessarily hate flatpak itself but for me i don't want to spend money on extra data cap and wait 30 minutes for a small update for my game launcher to finish.

the appimage of one of the applications i was interested in was 3 times less than the average flatpak update so redownloading the appimage every time would be better. if i installed more packages yeah the math would be better but it's still wasted data per update no matter how small it actually is. i found out after a while of using flatpak that i wouldn't just update and was stuck with outdated software anyway.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

it's completely ok to not like or even hate wayland but this ain't it. i don't know if that's true, but even if wayland is so shit that every compositor needs a separate compatibility patch i still don't see how that's restricting your freedom or app developers' freedom or any kind of freedom. if it's so cumbersome to support wayland then devs won't support it and people won't use it. no one is forcing anyone to do anything no one is ruling through software even if apps drop xorg in a free software environment people can pay developers to keep maintaining for xorg.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

genuinely asking how does it restrict your freedom?

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago (14 children)

why do you dislike it though?

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

ah sorry it's more accurate to say it can "break" your xorg config cause that was my case. looking at this package it has libgl as one of its dependencies. as i have said i'm not familiar with how exactly it works but it can probably mess with your graphics drivers.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

ah classic mistake of installing AUR packages on manjaro. been there done that. check your logs and search for errors, it probably overwrote/deleted some xorg config that you must either manually add back or regenerate. sorry i can't help further im a linux noobie but that was my issue when this happened to me.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

mostly around my university but i have also seen the 5G symbol pop up at random places. it's never consistent though outside uni. the speeds are almost the same as 4.5G so it really doesn't matter.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

lmao yeah. long live Mokhaberat

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