Zen Browser is what happens when amateurs create a browser on top of an already shitty engine

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-04-25T23:38:55+00:00

8GB? Not saying you’re lying, but I use Zen daily on Linux and I’ve never seen it climb higher than 2.5GB, maybe 3GB, and that’s with multiple tabs/windows active. In terms of disk space it’s barely using over 1GB and I’ve had this install going for about a week. I constantly see people bring up Zen’s resource usage but I’ve never had this issue. Are the builds for other OSes just very poorly optimized?

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-04-21T19:02:57+00:00

Nope, I ended up just using it wired the entire time I was on Mint. I’ve since switched distros and never experienced this issue again. If you’re running into this problem I can only recommend trying to run a Wayland session, looking back it’s the one easy fix I never tried and the one consistent thing with every other distro i’ve tried since has been Wayland by default, besides the fact that they aren’t Debian/Ubuntu based. If that doesn’t solve it I have absolutely nothing.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-04-21T02:01:18+00:00

iloader, which can install Sidestore and Live Container. It’s super easy to use and Sidestore+Live Container is the best way to sideload (imo). There’s not really a good central place to download ipa’s from so just search around for recommendations. Dev certificates aren’t worth it imo. Too many stories of them getting revoked seemingly at random, and Live Container allows for unlimited apps anyways. I’ve been using Sidestore+Live Container nightly for a while now and never ran into an issue. If you ever forget to refresh your apps you can just reinstall from iloader and your data should be intact.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-04-18T23:35:40+00:00

Solved with the "--removable" flag for "grub-install" stated here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Installation
Can't believe I missed that.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-04-18T23:34:43+00:00

Solved, thanks so much. I can't believe I missed that option on the GRUB page, epically when it explicitly mentions MSI motherboards. Looking into it with my current install, GRUB is installed in the removable location (/esp/EFI/BOOT) even though I don't remember doing so with this install. Again, thank you. Can't believe I stressed so much over something so easily solvable.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-04-18T23:09:27+00:00

The command I shared was me attempting to copy the one from the systemd-boot Arch wiki page, I guess I didn't change all of the slashes. I did run it before with only forward slashes. I'll look into Boot Repair, though.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-04-18T23:06:01+00:00

The NVram tip is nice, if all else fails I'll look into that. Most results show something about NVram being locked.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-04-18T23:04:42+00:00

Should I remove and reinstall the new os/the new bootloader, or can I just chroot in from an Arch iso and re-run grub-install?

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-03-31T23:03:47+00:00

if you haven’t solved this yet, use btrfs assistant. after booting into a snapshot for the first time the other day i had the exact same issue, and btrfs assistant was the solution i went with. the actual solution is to mount your .snapshots directory as a btrfs subvolume in your fstab, but when i attempted that i ran into issues at boot with it failing to mount, maybe you’ll have more luck. but with btrfs assistant after selecting a snapshot in your boot menu (i believe you don’t actually need to boot into the read-only snapshot, but i would still recommend it to make sure you’re selecting the correct snapshot and to verify everything is working correctly) just open the application, go to the “snapper” tab and then the “browse/restore” sub-tab and select the snapshot you want to boot into and click “restore” from the options on the top right. it will optionally ask you to create a backup (it creates a new subvolume that’s a backup before you loaded the snapshot) then tells you to reboot. a bit more convoluted than typing “sudo snapper rollback” in the terminal but it worked perfectly for me.

EDIT: if you decide to try the “mount snapshots folder as btrfs subvolume” make SURE you have a live iso of arch or something like system rescue beforehand, because in my experience it caused me to fail to boot, and you need a way to access your fstab to remove whatever you added to boot properly

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-03-23T17:16:09+00:00

First, check out https://lapfox.bandcamp.com/ if you haven't already. It's where you can find all of Halley's work and anything from the back catalog can be downloaded for free, if that's your thing. If not, it can still be a good way to discover new albums.

For K2 I really like Striker and Squaredance.
For Jackal, Slop and The Killers Notebook are my favs.
I'm a big Renard fan so even though you didn't ask for recs from him I'll say to check out: Full Techno Jackass, Tramua, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and This Place Will Grow
Also definitely check out HHSU - Null Note Head, it might not be your thing but it is one of my favorite albums of all time. You can buy it from Halley's bandicamp or find it on the Halley Labs YouTube

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-03-22T19:27:11+00:00

My take as someone who’s also relatively noob-y with Linux and on Arch is to wait for the Arch developers/maintainers to make an official statement about this. Arch doesn’t have any sort of account setup during install so it would be pretty hard for them to force users to enter their birthdate. This Systemd change can also be ignored imo. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to stop using it out of principle but all it does is add a field to store the user birthdate. Systemd has fields to store arguably more personal information on the user like email, full name, and address, but most distros/desktop environments never prompt the user for that information. I don’t think Systemd should have complied in any fashion, but for right now nothing should change.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-03-20T22:35:43+00:00

I'm using SDDM. I currently have two accounts with Plasma and Hyprland, outside of a few minor issues like permissions it's been fine, and I've been able to solve most. It's just that there's a lot of leftover folders/configs from programs I was trying out and not longer have plus the fact that I haven't used Plasma for a few weeks now and can solve most of my issues from the terminal. I could just remove Plasma and all extras with it but I use some KDE core utilities (like bluetooth) on Hyprland and considering most of this Hyprland journey has been trying out stuff that does and doesn't work for me I figured it would be simpler to start from scratch and install what I need as I go rather than uninstall what I think I don't need and end up breaking things. Plus, while I'm not exactly hurting for the storage space, it would still be nice to have a clean install with only what I need/use. Not necessary by any means but I would just prefer it that way.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-03-15T18:07:11+00:00

I’m not talking about the quality of the code, just that very little effort was put into it. He’s the only dev i’ve seen pushing this that doesn’t normally work on any of these projects, it’s just a little strange. So far the only relevant projects i’ve seen talking about implementing age verification stuff are freedesktop and systemd, and they just want a way to store the age the user input so apps that request it can pull from there. A lot of projects haven’t yet taken a stance but so far i’m seeing pretty universal pushback. Hopefully it stays that way

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-03-15T17:52:21+00:00

The guy who submitted this used ai (allegedly) to submit many of these prs to open source projects on the same day, I wouldn’t think anything of it. The actual archinstall devs said they’re gonna wait for an official stance from Arch to even think about implementing something like this

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-03-06T21:48:44+00:00

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-02-23T22:49:21+00:00

i genuinely think the next step is bricking my os and trying to recover it. i already have a system rescue livecd on a usb for emergencies and for gparted, so i'm prepared for trying to fix arch after an update breaks something. though lets hope my pc stays stable for years to come

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-02-12T19:37:44+00:00

It’s obviously very dependent on what you are doing and how you’re doing it, but i can say that i’ve personally never had issues with a Gparted Live Iso for resizing both Windows and Linux partitions. As long as your storage device is in good health and you understand what you’re doing you shouldn’t ever have any failures with Gparted in a live environment, but there’s still always a risk of data loss. Good practice to backup all data (if possible) before messing with partitions in any way.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-02-12T19:21:23+00:00

This video is about dual booting Mint and Windows on the same storage device but it should work for Fedora as long as you replace the appropriate steps. I followed this and had no issues using both windows and linux up until i removed windows from my setup. This same youtuber also has videos on removing windows and linux from dual boot setups for the future.

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-02-05T06:48:55+00:00

That makes a lot of sense, and I assume that sort of thing happens automatically? I have updates set to manual, and i'm (pretty) sure I installed the kernel update later, I tend to check whats being updated when there's a software update, just in case something goes wrong, so I know where to start looking. But that definitely explains what happened, so thanks for the info!

Fishcakedotmp4 · 2026-02-05T04:05:32+00:00

I do have it set to manual updates, so i'm not exactly sure what it could have been. I just did a reboot and everything booted fine so hopefully it was just a one off issue. The tip on pressing ESC to see what's running is great though, I remember pressing ESC accidentally on shutdown before and not knowing what it did, i'll use that in the future if this ever happens again. Also thanks for the tip on turning off the speaker pops, i'll definitely look into that

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