PostmarketOS allows you to use upstream Linux

It’s copy-pasted, not linked, but this is essentially a crosspost of: https://lemmy.ml/post/36614892

There are some good answers there already

TLDR: If you’re using Element X or SchildiChat Next, update them outside the official F-Droid repo:

SchildiChat via SpiritCroc repo: https://s2.spiritcroc.de/fdroid/repo/

ElementX via Github: https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/releases/tag/v25.08.3

Maybe Signal drains battery when it can’t use Google Play Services for notifications and falls back to keeping a connection alive to Signal servers instead?

Tell your buddy you can play Helldivers with him!

Helldivers 1 and 2 are platinum and gold rated on ProtonDB with recent reports on both confirming they work well.

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Helldivers

Random uneducated guess: Could it be some cache/shaders stuff? Depending on the game, it could take a while until the cache is warm and everything runs smoothly.

You’re both right: one doesn’t exclude the other.

• Yes we need to be more careful about privacy and who we trust with our data
• Yes we need to protest and take a stand against fascism

Had to DDG that, I could only think of (tofu plan)[https://opentofu.org/docs/cli/commands/plan/]

No idea why you’re being downvoted, it looks like an interesting concept:

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/

French Guyana: “Am I a joke to you?”

Thanks for the review, very informative!

You are absolutely correct. I’m not sure if it’s different now but back when I bought my Fairphone 3 they were very clear about this. Website filled with stuff like “The most sustainable phone is the one you already have” and emphasizing that not buying a phone is much better than buying a Fairphone. They merely claim to do better than other phone manufacturers.

Also, IIRC, their goal is not so much to beat the sector, but to move the whole sector in the right direction. When they first got fairtrade gold into a Fairphone, they set up a company to sell fairtrade gold for electronics, so other manufacturers could decide to follow their example.

Yep, as for the last point: the problem was not so much the devs but data going through a Chinese server

If Mint works for you, just stick with it. No need to try a different distribution to compare. You’ll know when you need it.

I would only go to Fedora if you need it. For example newer drivers (kernel, mesa). Don’t go change the kernel and/or mesa on a distribution, probably better to switch at that point. Or if you need KDE or GNOME for some reason. Wayland is disabled in Mint by default, but can be enabled. It’s been over a year IIRC since they added experimental Wayland support so it may be fine by now.

Differences between Linux distributions are exaggerated.

Mint is a great choice, it is very stable, and it really holds your hand via the Software Center.

However, stable also means old: it does not support the latest hardware.

If you have hardware that released after (rough estimate) April 2024, consider something based on Fedora, such as Bazzite, instead. It comes with modern drivers and should support modern hardware much better.

keep it on cache since I do a lot of code compilation, but I will usually switch it to frequency for gaming and stuff.

Isn’t gaming the most cache-heavy CPU workload there is? The X3D CPUs have consistently topped gaming benchmarks, even outperforming much more modern CPUs that lack 3D cache.

I’d sooner do it the other way around: frequency for compiling, rendering, transcoding, etc. Cache for gaming!

Yep, and then there’s probably a good number of people who have no idea of threat modelling who just copy those actions to say they have “good privacy”.

Tbh, I’m closer to the latter.

There will be tougher usecases to migrate. Which, depends on how you use Google.

For example, I’ve never read Google News but am having trouble replacing Keep for synced, widgeted notes (groceries etc) on phone, as well as GSheets for synced, collaborative excel-like sheets with good mobile UX.

Also, I would bundle mail and calendar in one (it’s a single button to import both in Proton and those services are tightly coupled) and check your duplicate browser/chrome mentions

The article says it can debug TUIs, similar to what the browser’s debug panel does for web apps. That is useful for TUI developers.

Other than that, I don’t know either what Kitty is missing.

Finally, the end of “it doesn’t work on Wayland” is in sight. Just in time for Windows 10 EoL too

… that there …