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  • ShimitarAtoLinux@lemmy.mlDisabling bloatware
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    41 minutes ago

    So what’s the point? A modern and fully integrated de uses background services and those services are required for many pieces to work so much that they have made not that easy to disable the service?

    If that’s the point, you are definitely being unreasonable.

    On the other hand the service can still be disabled understandably by text file editing to prevent users from breaking their system. I find the lack of an UI setting to disable it a reasonable choice, and yourself are telling me that it’s still removable by user anyway. A power user indeed, but still user manageable.

    Plasma user base definitely is not the customize everything people. I think it’s reasonable that akonadi needs deeper user action to be disabled

    That service is local only and needed for many apps to work, including stock widgets.

    What is your point against akonadi exactly?

    I would complain about that search indexer daemon (kglobalaccel or something similar) in plasma that still after years sometimes gobbles up 100% on a CPU core after screen unlock instead … But whatever



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    A user that want a minimal environment installs a modern complete and featurefull entire desktop environment and then complains that it’s too bloated, at five only on Lemmy.

    What is this, reddit nowadays? /S

    Anyway, you should uninstall plasma and switch to any of the many more basic Linux GUI environment that better suit you needs, that the magic of Linux after all, nobody forces you to use what you don’t like or don’t approve on your own machine




  • ShimitarAtoAndroid@lemmy.worldAnyone using the Brax3 phone? What do you think of it?
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    Loos pretty good to me. Maybe not a flagship but at that price with updates and spare parts guaranteed until 2030/2032? Unlockable bootloader with no string attached and a lean no frills degoogled Android? That can also install Linux?

    I already own a Nothing Phone. Or this would be my next phone indeed.

    Note: my nothing 3a was cheaper and with better specs, so no regrets






  • No, really, wireguard encryption overhead is negligible unless you have a really old CPU (like a Pentium100 or something).

    Whatever slows down your N100 is not wireguard per se, probably some tailscale overhead going trough their servers.

    I have a fairly dated rented server, with an Atom D510, 2 cores, which is 10 years old, and accessing it over wireguard or not, I can still max out the network bandwidth without any visible CPU overhead.


  • The maximum internet speed you get is the speed of the slowest link in between your house, your ISP, any other network in the middle, and the ISP you are using to connect your remote device to the internet itself

    On top of that, put tailscale. Assuming packets go directly between home and your remote device, then tailscale should not impact. But if the packets do go trough a tailscale server, like you have no public IP address at home, or CG-NAT, then that will be the bottleneck most probably.

    Tailscale on itself isn’t a measurable overhead.

    In general, for home network speed, consider your home UPLOAD speed (as that will the seen as “download” speed from outside) not the download speed, which is often many times faster.










  • I fully respect your comment, and I don’t doubt there are good reasons behind Plex. I choose to use jellyfin because I was put off by the corporate product resell approach of Plex that goes against my self host idea, so I never used Plex and cannot say anything bad about it.

    But I find annoying and even suspicious that every time there is a Plex or jellyfin discussion a few voices always denigrate jellyfin like it’s a no good choice for lack of features or dubious security and such.

    Yes guys (not talking to you in specific) I understand that jellyfin lacks those features, many people don’t care, and who do care they already know.