ayaya

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[–] ayaya 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't understand. What is the problem with what I said? I am genuinely confused by your response.

How is it off-putting that you can install a package with the exact version you want instead of doing it yourself? What you said puts more people off of Arch. You made Arch sound more complicated than it is.

If I want say, the 5.10 LTS kernel I can do yay -S linux-lts510 and then I have it. One command. It is probably easier to switch to an LTS kernel on Arch than it is on Ubuntu or Debian. Saying Arch is for masochists does way more damage to its reputation than clarifying its usage does.

[–] ayaya 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In Arch there are AUR packages for specific versions so you don't have to do it yourself. Arch is about picking and choosing your packages, but not really about actually building/patching things on your own like LFS or Gentoo.

Although picking a rolling-release distro and then using an outdated kernel does seem counter-intuitive.

[–] ayaya 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I recommend reading the actual paper. DDG is actually by far the worst by their measures. Even though Google has gotten worse, it's results are still massively superior to the competition. 9% spam compared to 31% for DDG and 23% for Bing. That's a huge difference.

I would recommend trying a SearXNG instance if you haven't before. You can combine results from multiple sources. I use Google as my main source while also having access to the DDG-style !bangs.

[–] ayaya 1 points 1 year ago

You mean Vanguard, which was announced but isn't actually in the game yet. Their plan is to add it late February or early March. We don't actually know any details about the implementation except that it won't be used in the macOS version.

[–] ayaya 11 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, if you want to bypass the hearts system you can go to Duolingo For Schools and create a classroom with only yourself in it. There is zero verification.

It affects the desktop and mobile app. I think it might also hide ads but I'm not 100% sure about that, it's been awhile since I've used it.

[–] ayaya 4 points 1 year ago

For me I had to disable video hardware acceleration (just video, not all acceleration) for Twitch to stop crashing all the time.

[–] ayaya 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am talking about on desktop but actually the Android version of Firefox was such a laggy buggy mess I switched to Brave on mobile.

On my desktop I use Arch btw with a 7950X and a 6900 XT. Honestly after using it for over a year I kind of hate it. I am so fed up with how many small annoying problems it has. Someone else mentioned Thorium in this thread and I might give that a try.

If Firefox works great for you that's awesome but it is BY FAR the buggiest piece of software on my entire computer.

[–] ayaya 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

For me Firefox crashes all the time in normal use. I am talking minimum twice a day. It also has this weird problem where it will pin one thread to 100% and lock up the whole browser when downloading files. I also had to disable video hardware acceleration or else Twitch crashes every 5-10 minutes but luckily my CPU is so strong that it's not too big of a deal to do software decoding.

I still use it out of principle but it has been a way worse experience than Chromium ever was for me.

[–] ayaya 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try to generate any higher and you'll get very weird and ugly results.

Stable Diffusion in particular has this issue with limbs. People have 2 arms at 512x512? Surely they must have 4 arms at 1024x1024! That's just math.

[–] ayaya 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch and EndeavourOS are the same thing. There is no functional difference between using one or the other. They both use pacman and have the same repos.

[–] ayaya 2 points 1 year ago

Weird. I've had a Pi-Hole + Unbound running on a Pi Zero since 2018 and it's never had any issues. I expected the Zero to kinda suck but it has been nothing but smooth sailing. It gets USB power from my router and even if my router reboots the Pi also auto reboots itself.

I do next to no maintenance on it and it just keeps on chugging along. Maybe once every six months or so I SSH in and do a pihole -up and that's it.

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