This is overly complicated. Just install Java then run

flatpak --user override --env="FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=openjdk" com.vscodium.codium

Note this works for all other SDKs too. It works especially well for programming languages like Rust that have their own package manager.

Doesn’t work so well for languages like C/C++ where you use your distro package manager to install dependencies. In those cases it’s easier to install VSCodium inside a container where you do have access to a distro package manager.

The kennel is a snap in Ubuntu Core, but you still need to reboot. I don’t think there’s a nice way to work around that.

Fedora IoT is similar to CoreOS, that seems primarily aimed towards Pis.

I haven’t watched the video yet, but keep in mind “resource usage” being lower isn’t always better.

For example, Plasma had an issue for some people where animations would not happen, freeze the system momentarily, and stutter. The reason why turned out that these people were using slow drives. Plasma was trying to load the bytecode for the QML animations from disk, but the IO operation took too long so the animation suffered. Had this bytecode been stored in memory, the performance would have been better.

But I also don’t want to discount the fact that some (perhaps most) of the time, high resource usage is a bad thing caused by poor programming and using technologies that are heavier, like Electron. Whether those tradeoffs are worth it are another matter.

I wish more developers actually used their software low-end devices to find performance issues. I recently got an Intel N100 and it’s actually been a decent experience on Linux, though Gnome shell’s animations are a bit stuttery even on Gnome 48. Haven’t tested any other desktop though.

It’s not making it worse. They like anime, so they have an anime girl as the mascot; a very tame one too.

But some people freak out about it.

If you use Anubis for free, he asks that you keep the girl on for marketing purposes.

If you pay / support the project, you can remove it.

Honestly, it’s a good way to encourage people to pay up because some people absolutely hate it.

I was wondering about that too. At first I assumed they were only allocated a few of the cores for their testing, but a typo seems more likely.

It’s actually pretty nice in some situations.

One thing that bites me about Loupe / Image Viewer is that it always goes through images in alphabetical order, despite the sort option you have set in nautilus.

Sushi does go through items using the same sort option set in nautilus.

Though it can be finicky with videos, so I don’t use it for that.

Good thing I use the Flatpak version, I’ll just remove the network permission.

NixOS was troubleshoot central for me. Not all programs behaved as expected with Nix’s unique design.

The authors found and reported vulnerabilities in Pagure and Open Build Service. These vulnerabilities have since been fixed.

You don’t need to do anything, these issues have already been fixed.

I did a bit more research into this and it seems this conspiracy is largely spearheaded by Kiwifarms, so I do feel a bit bad by bringing it up, just by being on the home page you can tell they aren’t good people.

Being down one person isn’t a death sentence.

(this is a joke based on the conspiracy theory they’re the same person; I haven’t looked into it too much, but there are some details that add up)

Safari has PWAs. They call it “Add to Dock”. Works well in my experience.

I haven’t noticed any major issues with Webkit on my Mac, only that Safari’s UI sucks.

Unfortunately Gnome Web also inherits most of Safari’s bad UI design. Really the only thing I want from Gnome Web (apart from performance improvements) is to have a bookmarks bars like Chromium and Firefox. Having to go into the bookmarks side bar is a major slowdown. I’ve had to work around it by using a keyboard shortcut for a new tab, typing in the bookmark name, then using arrow keys to navigate to it.

What are its benefits? It basically just feels like Safari, unfortunately including the things about Safari I don’t like.

Main thing I noticed is that it has the built in tracker (and I think ad?) blocking. I use AdGuard on Safari, but sometimes it doesn’t work correctly because AdGuard stopped running in the background.

Huh, he mains NixOS. Always a bit funny to see someone daily driving a distro different than what they professionally work on.

I thought I recognized that blog, I remember reading his blog TPM+FDE for NixOS back when I was trying NixOS.

There’s a theory that they’re the same person. I’m not sure how reputable it is, I follow them both, but haven’t seen any videos of them.

It certainly is a bit funny how Asahi Lina chose not to take a leadership position and she hasn’t steamed dev work in a month…

Clickbait. The VP Engineering for Ubuntu made a post that he was looking into using the Rust utils for Ubuntu and has been daily driving them and encouraged others to try

It’s by no means certain this will be done.