m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@thor They are in the works. They have plans to fix the bills below a certain level for a year and a half: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-05/truss-earmarks-130-billion-to-keep-uk-energy-bills-below-2-000

@claudiom Having hostname in PS1 is not such a bad idea after all 😅

@ryan
> It just amazes me how much bloat has been normalized on the web.
Yeah, and it only gets worse! The computers that were used to edit video not that long ago slow down to a crawl when you open a website that can… display text and images, exactly like 20 years ago, but now it requires much beefier machine all of a sudden. It's just crazy 🤪
The browsers got much more complex, I don't think we can still call them browsers, they are more like web platforms now. OS on top of OS.
@tomxcd@fedi.nullob.si

@neauoire
I actually thought that you really wanted this book, but the first two bookstores didn't have it 🤣

@ryan
As for the modern resource-hungry browsers, try an extension like "Auto Tab Discard" it suspends the tabs you don't actively use, but you can always get back to it if you want to, this way only a small number of them (8 for me) remain active — browser is no longer a monstrosity that can eat up all RAM.
@tomxcd@fedi.nullob.si

@ryan
> X230 with 8GB RAM
Oh, that's not old at all! My workstation is 11 year old Mac Pro. It has 28 gigs of RAM and two quad core CPUs, a discrete GPU with 2Gb video RAM can drive two 30" displays and it's more than enough for me. My laptop is old HP ProBook 430 Gen1. I've upgraded it with 16 gigs of RAM and 1Tb server grade SSD and it's blazingly fast. I doubt it can pull off 4k videos, but I don't need it to — my TV can do that 🤷
I have a few boxes WAY older than that!
@tomxcd@fedi.nullob.si

@ryan
Just how old exactly your hardware is? 😯
With youtube-dl and mpv I can play Youtube videos in 1080p even on my Thinkpad T43 that is around 17 years old! Still a capable machine, I can even get a ~2 hour battery life out of mine, but it's crazy to use it as a daily driver.
@tomxcd@fedi.nullob.si

@tomxcd@fedi.nullob.si Luckily it has an API that Invidious, youtube-dl and others use so you can, in theory, get any UI you want. With a browser extension for example, "Enhancer for Youtube" is nice. Too many features for me though and I use youtube-dl most of the time if I really want to watch something.

@tomxcd@fedi.nullob.si
It's funny how I discovered Fedi.
I've always wondered why something like distributed Twitter doesn't exist and then I realized it actually does! 🤣
That's despite the fact that I knew of Pleroma back from imageboard days, I knew there is GNU Social, I just never realized there is ActivityPub and that it all kind of works together now 😅
@eris

@fuggy
Grado headphones are also good! Probably even more expensive that Sennheisers, but have subjectively better sound quality. You'll definitely need DAC or at least a headphone amp for higher end models. They are not "ergonomic" though and look weird.
Sennheiser has Momentum range for mobile devices. I have M2 wired, but there's also a Bluetooth version. Sound quality is so-so compared to HD59x, but acceptable, build quality is stellar, low impedance, so no DAC or amp required
@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network

@fuggy I wasn't aware that Purism's target audience is normies, but okay 😩

@fuggy While I'm all for not bundling things together and selling everything separately — it's more flexible this way. I still don't understand why they do this. They definitely get a lot of customer dissatisfaction due to slow charging — and it's slow because old charger isn't powerful enough for the new gadget 🤷

@iska@mk.starnix.network That was a joke. Enjoy if that is your thing!
They are easy to get lost in though. Even Kernigan said they are bad in the Go book. His word might not have weight for you though. If you hate C 😅

@iska@mk.starnix.network Now try saying that without crying 🤣

@iska@mk.starnix.network Enjoy your s-expressions 😂

@meeper Applies to almost every country really.
Politicians do something because people want them to do something and what they do is usually pretty bad. But if you are a cat, no one wants you to do anything, cat's cute as it is 😹
@kroner

@arh@mstdn.io There are crappy companies, but there are also countries so fscked up that people do that to themselves by their own will — because they are convinced that they'll give the wrong impression if they don't.
If you are a salesperson and you do your job with high temperature it's shitty towards the customer, but if it's an office job, you don't tell anyone and in a couple of days half the department comes down with flu, it's just inefficient! No one wants it, that's crazy 🤬
@Cedara

Пальто шерстяное норвежское наверняка у Тинькова подрезал!

@MischievousTomato And it's not because it's an STD 🤦
It's so disturbing!

@traabot
Insert@Home? 😏