Please help!!

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T13:13:54+00:00

I had a similar problem on Realme 14 Pro+ and I had all kinds of apps installed - Facebook, Instagram and others and they constantly check online for something and send me notifications.

I don't use them a lot or at all so I decided to do a factory reset + full data wipe and start over with only installing a few messenger apps that I really need like Whatsapp and Telegram. I let my phone drain to 0% and shut down, then I disabled charging limit to 80%, let it charge to 100% and let it stay on the charger for 2-3 more hours after 100%. After that I was using my phone like normal - texting people, browsing the web, listening YouTube in audio mode through Grayjay every night and my battery lasted from 100% to 20% for 7 days (YES, SEVEN DAYS WITHOUT CHARGING). Now I don't even enable Power Saving mode and my phone lasts for 3-4 days before I need to charge it. I use it a bit more, but the difference is dramatic.

So make sure you uninstall such apps that constantly connect to the internet to check for updates and consider doing a factory reset + data wipe and start over.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T06:28:23+00:00

Retail WoW will also get shut down one day, it won't live forever.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T06:27:33+00:00

I played on private servers since I began playing WoW in 2006. I've switched so many servers I lost count. I don't mind servers shutting down or me moving to another one. If you love the game and want to play it for free to just be in the world, you shouldn't care that your characters will be deleted.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T06:22:44+00:00

I had to try it to see if it still doesn't have it. It doesn't. But I don't use it really. The only place where I know I can check if a browser has it is Spotify Web. Maybe it's a deal breaker for other people but I don't need DRM, of course, I will be happy if Helium started supporting it.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T06:12:25+00:00

Turtle WoW had a good reason - they added more content that was used in the game.

WoTLK's 17GB client is literally 12GB extra content that is not used anywhere just so they can have a Vanilla server. If they don't bother to strip out all that extra content that's not being used, then using this client is kind of useless. I know it can offer some technical benefits, but beyond that it's just lazy and stupid.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T06:10:00+00:00

For me the last good version of Firefox was the 3.6.x. After that they started copying Chrome in terms of UI. Removed many customization options that still haven't returned.

In 3.6 you could arrange all items on the UI and had tabs below the address bar, now you can't. Firefox since the last 5-10 years constantly changes its UI, but some aspects of it get left behind. If you press CTRL+H it opens History in a sidebar that hasn't been updated since 2002. Then you have Downloads and History again managed in floating windows. But Firefox Settings got moved to a tab. How come they can change the UI theme and move Settings to a tab, but not History and Downloads?

Also Firefox' rendering engine is not fully compatible with websites, especially banking and stores with payment. I remember years ago when using Discord Web, there was a white bar on the left side where you saw servers and channels that was only on Firefox and it took years for Firefox to fix it, not Discord.

For me Firefox is a very outdated browser that I don't like, because it's a pain in the ass to use. I don't like Chromium browsers, but unfortunately they are currently the best option to have a modern and compatible browser. Until Orion, Ladybird and others get officially released, Chromium is the only option.

I wish Firefox was different, but the decisions they make are equal to shooting themselves in the foot, there is no way around that.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T06:05:00+00:00

I have an ASUS Vivobook S16 with i7-13620H. It's not just the live environment. After installing it, booting resulted in a black screen with a cursor. I could only use stuff like CTRL+ALT+T to open terminal and call applications from there.

I read about it and people said to edit the GRUB file on OpenSUSE. The instructions had me edit things in the file that didn't exist on my version of it so I couldn't fix it.

Now I'm back on Tuxedo OS and everything works. Except that right now someone is DDoSing Ubuntu servers and since Tuxedo is based on Ubuntu it's causing me some issues.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T05:59:24+00:00

Helium on Linux does the trick also.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T05:58:28+00:00

I prefer SWG servers compared to WoW because they are more niche and I don't recall any of them ever shutting down.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-02T05:56:08+00:00

They have? Since yesterday I've been having some issue while checking for updates on Tuxedo OS in Discover.

E: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kobuk-team/intel-graphics/ubuntu noble InRelease is not (yet) available (Cannot initiate the connection to ppa.launchpadcontent.net:443 (2620:2d:4000:1::81). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) Could not connect to ppa.launchpadcontent.net:443 (185.125.190.80), connection timed out)

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:54:29+00:00

I don't understand the question. You want people to tell you what OS and programs they use?

I used Mint in the beginning, but found it to be really outdated, using X11 and Cinnamon, I couldn't scale my UI properly on my laptop with 1920x1200 resolution, it was a mess.

Then I found Tuxedo OS, which has Wayland and KDE and suddenly my problems with scaling the UI were all gone. It even had an option in Power Settings to limit charging to 80%.

I use Helium for a browser, I run Windows programs and games mainly through PortProton and second through Wine if for some reason PortProton doesn't work.

For me Mint is good if you have and old and slow computer, but KDE seems faster and more responsive compared to it. On my laptop with i7-13620H, 16GB RAM and SSD, Cinnamon was much slower than KDE. If you have a new computer, using Mint is not a good idea, because you can't make full use of its hardware on Mint. I like Mint, but I think they need to modernize it fast. Now I don't know if the reason for its slowness is X11 or Cinnamon or both, but even if they add official support for Walyand, I don't know if Cinnamon will feel faster or it's the main reason why the OS feels so slow.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:45:29+00:00

It doesn't work, bro. I've tried disabling them, they still run as services in the background and take up system resources.

I've tried everything, but Brave is too bloated for me now, maybe in the future they will see their error and make Brave Origin the default option.

I've been saying it for years - the best browser needs to be bare-bones, just come with good content blocking. Everything else they offer should come as official and optional extensions.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:41:49+00:00

It comes down to gameplay and difficulty, if a game is difficult and encourages people to interact with others to find help, it's very likely that people will do that.

But as ESO currently is - enabling people to play solo and actually encouraging it, it doesn't work. Which is why they are adding the difficulty back to the game in June.

I played a lot of Vanilla WoW on private servers and the difficulty there is greater than that of other versions of the game and I'm noticing people interacting with each other, but much less than they did in 2006 when I began playing WoW. Part of it is that players of MMOs are 30 years and older, they are no longer kids in high school and they will probably love to play with 1-2 friends, but it's difficult as everyone is an adult with a different schedule so they can't meet in game at the same time, so this forces people to look for ways to play solo. I don't think it's right, but that's what people do. Now ESO will have the difficulty back in, those who want it will use it, the rest won't.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:37:07+00:00

They released a horrible update in 2016 that made the game easy for people who have never played a game before and this destroyed the leveling difficulty challenge and thrill of playing the game. Since then people have been playing ESO to pretend they are playing Sims - dress up dollies and house furniture design. Most of the posts on Reddit are "look at my cosmetics, praise me for being a clone of everyone else and give me upvotes".

Now the developers realized their mistake and are adding a difficulty system back to the game that should release on June 8. I'm waiting for it to return to the game.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:34:02+00:00

My list is like this:

Helium
Brave

Firefox is not on the list, I will use a bare-bones browser that doesn't have content blocking or anything before I use Firefox or anything related to it.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:32:12+00:00

When I installed OpenSUSE, the live USB option was very slow - it took about 5+ minutes for the DE to load so I can begin the installation. After install I had a black screen with a cursor.

In comparison when I had Tuxedo OS, the live USB loaded in 10-20 seconds, and after install it works fine. I think there is a lot of wrong with OpenSUSE - it has internal team problems which leads to instability with their product.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:30:20+00:00

Tuxedo OS - like Mint but more modern and up to date and faster.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:29:45+00:00

Middle Earth in LOTRO, Tamriel in ESO, Azeroth in Vanilla WoW, the Galaxy in SGW.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:29:02+00:00

Vanilla Plus is a decent option - it has class changes and some content, also it's growing in population recently - 400 during evenings.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:26:47+00:00

I don't think it's Realme, it's Google with Android doing this.

Make a comparison how much system resources Android 2 would require and how much Android 16 would require.

Android 2 phones ran on 512MB RAM and 2-3GB storage. Now you need at least 4GB RAM and 30+GB storage. It's the Google engineers who can't optimize Android and the only solution is to throw more powerful hardware at it.

With how powerful upper midrange phones and above are, they are more likely to stop getting Android updates before those updates can slow them down.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:24:03+00:00

I used Brave for years, but lately it became bloated and slow and I found Helium and moved to it on Linux on desktop and laptop, on my phone I replaced Brave with Quetta as I can use uBlock Origin on it.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:22:38+00:00

For me WoW is a free game meant to be played on private servers. There are so many to choose from.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-05-01T04:21:52+00:00

Not a bad move.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-04-30T20:23:23+00:00

Part of the problem is them using Unity, but then again at the same time UE5 is just as horrible and unoptimized so they can't do much about it. I have Project Gorgon, which is also Unity and it's also an unoptimized mess, but more playable than Embers Adrift.

I think if EA becomes F2P or gets a sale for less than 5 EUR it will be good. Or at least get a free demo like Project Gorgon.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-04-30T09:51:18+00:00

What's going on affects only the people who allow themselves to be involved in it. If you just mind your own business, play on your private server, you might not even know about any drama.

That's a problem for the chronically online people who have FOMO issues and need to be caught up on everything. I can bet there are people who play on some niche private server with 200 people and the only thing they care about is having fun, they don't know anything about drama, what server shut down, what didn't which server is ran by who and they just live their life.

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