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  • bruce965@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlAMD vs Nvidia
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    17 hours ago

    If you don’t want proprietary drivers the choice is quite straightforward: AMD. The official drivers are open source.

    As for my experience, I’ve had absolutely no problems in the last few years with AMD, but I have to admit that I have always been using an iGPU, which has always been good enough for my needs.

    I used to have problems with Nvidia proprietary drivers, but that was at least a couple years ago, things might have changed. I’ve never had issues with the free unofficial drivers, besides worse performance.



  • Keep in mind that non-hardenized containers only protect you from bugs, they don’t protect you from sophisticated malware. If you suspect the software you are trying to run might be a virus, don’t run it, or run it in a virtual machine.

    I would recommend using containers only if you absolutely understand how to make them secure AND you have no reason to suspect the software you are running might contain nefarious code. In any other case use a virtual machine.




  • Well… that would make sense. But it’s much much easier to just do it preemptively. The browser API to check how much memory is available are quite limited afaik. Also if there are too many elements the browser will have to do more work when interacting with the page (i.e. on every rendered frame), thus wasting slightly more power and in a extreme cases even lagging.

    For what it’s worth, I, as a web developer, have done it too in a couple occasions (in my case it was absolutely necessary when working with a 10K × 10K table, way above what a browser is designed to handle).









  • bruce965@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat's with the cross?
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    3 months ago

    For reference, this is what the “Checking for Updates” page on the Pop!_OS store looks like for me. This icon feels out of place, that’s why I assumed this is a placeholder that replaced the correct icon that went missing due to some kind of minor problem with my installation.




  • You should install Rethink and see how much garbage your phone constantly transmits and receives. And this is not even a kernel-level firewall, so who knows how much data Google actually exfiltrates…

    I don’t know about a constant audio stream, nor about keywords, but I noticed that Google Keyboard sends out some data every time you type anything. It’s not even that subtle.




  • I am not sure… in the case I’m referring to, they were lagging also when scrolling. But it was React, so native browser rendering. And they were actually very large tables, so we had to do some funny things like viewport culling (see react-window).

    For what it’s worth I’ve never had any similar performance issues with tables in Flutter (web with the canvas-based render engine, not Android) when applying the same culling technique, they just ran fine at any resolution. Different hardware, though, so it’s not an apple to apple comparison.

    In any case just to be safe I would personally assume less pixels = less work = less power = more battery life. My opinion is very unscientific though.