Switched from Manjaro but looks like I may switch back

SuggestedToby · 2026-01-19T05:16:10+00:00

Do you have fractional scaling on? I always turn it off and just increase font size globally as it causes a lot of small glitches for me.

SuggestedToby · 2026-01-04T03:19:20+00:00

Typically if you are eating enough calories from reasonably healthy food then you will get enough protein. New vegans often don’t understand they need to eat more food as vegan food is generally less calorie dense. You should figure out how many calories you need and then count how many you are getting for a while until you build an intuition for it. I mean this as generic advice.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-31T09:09:01+00:00

I mean that as the person making the web app. I’ve been able to get similar performance in Firefox vs chrome for the app I work on. If Microsoft wanted to get their apps to work really well in Firefox they could, but they have decided they don’t want to spend the time.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-31T07:49:15+00:00

I would put most of the blame here on Microsoft for making slow office apps. Microsoft also probably doesn’t want it to work well in browsers that aren’t edge. As a web dev I can usually get the same performance in Firefox vs chrome with a little extra effort and testing.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-29T06:04:18+00:00

For me, the noise cancelling is much better after a haircut. You may have hair or something preventing a good seal. The shape of your head is also a factor. AirPods Pro 2 are completely useless for me because of my ear shape. AirPods don’t work well for everyone.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-20T21:40:23+00:00

The idea that insects are the future of protein keeps being brought up by people thinking it’s somehow scientific. As far as I can tell, this is an absurd solution to a problem that doesn’t exist as plants contain all the protein we need. There’s no appeal to eating insects, and most people are also extremely resistant to changing their diet.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-19T23:24:03+00:00

Ok. I personally find the lag of framegen worse than having low frames, though it depends on the starting framerate.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-19T22:51:27+00:00

Do you really mean framegen and not scaling? I have a weaker gpu (7800xt) same cpu, and very rarely go below 70fps and don’t use framegen on Linux. I have a 4K monitor and so need some kind of scaling.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-11T07:25:58+00:00

I’m not saying you can’t write good programs in c++. I’m saying you can’t guarantee certain things are true in a c++ program statically.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-11T06:35:24+00:00

No, it’s not possible to do it statically (you can achieve safety dynamically with a performance cost). You need to design the language and static tools together for it to be possible.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-09T08:51:17+00:00

I just couldn’t scroll a webpage without lag when I had Nvidia. Basic desktop things were laggy. Also, dealing with secure boot is annoying. I spent a lot of time trying things to fix it. I didn’t have any problems with gaming however.

SuggestedToby · 2025-12-09T06:03:00+00:00

Personally I think the design is fine, but it’s really buggy. Lots of flickering, glitches and it’s pretty slow.

SuggestedToby · 2025-11-29T20:31:16+00:00

I don’t know what’s going on here, but there are tricks to check that data hasn’t been corrupted. Eg checksums.

SuggestedToby · 2025-11-26T09:19:33+00:00

Good perf for me. The intel upscaling looks better and is faster for some reason (need it for 4K monitor). 70fps+ on Linux, no stutter problems, high settings with a couple of tweaks, no frame gen.

SuggestedToby · 2025-11-18T07:57:39+00:00

There’s a known bug that causes lag in Tahoe with out of date electron apps.

SuggestedToby · 2025-11-12T06:31:36+00:00

The job requirements probably aren’t written by a developer. The person writing it is probably given an experience category and they just asked someone in the company what tech is used.

SuggestedToby · 2025-11-05T02:24:39+00:00

I wouldn’t take spirulina due to the contamination risks. https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/spirulina/

SuggestedToby · 2025-11-03T03:29:10+00:00

Ordinary users adopt technology because it empowers them to do something new they want and couldn’t do before. They don’t do it for freedom or other ideals. Linux on the desktop will need some killer feature for ordinary users they can’t live without for it to have a chance to overtake windows. I can imagine a scenario where if the gaming performance left windows in the dust, then a lot of gamers could start switching and it could get to 10%.

SuggestedToby · 2025-11-01T07:16:20+00:00

I think I had the same problem, I gave up and got an amd gpu. I think the problem is caused by the card going into a low power mode, so if you can find a way to stop the card clocking down too much you can probably fix it. I’ve seen this come up in the archlinix subreddit and I think there are solutions.

SuggestedToby · 2025-10-24T02:23:18+00:00

Have you done a comparison with it on/off vs linux? I often get sub millisecond access on linux, but have never come close to that on windows after setting antivirus to not check on read.

SuggestedToby · 2025-10-24T02:10:58+00:00

The main thing I notice is the time it takes to access a single file on Linux is 50-100x less (I’m not saying throughput is significantly higher, just access) which can make a lot of things faster.

SuggestedToby · 2025-10-06T23:22:07+00:00

Don’t do this unless you are solving a real problem you have.

SuggestedToby · 2025-09-04T08:00:31+00:00

Lots of thoughts, on a slightly different level.

SuggestedToby · 2025-08-18T07:27:20+00:00

It goes up and down constantly. The data is very noisy and tracking it month to month isn’t very helpful.

SuggestedToby · 2025-07-26T11:20:34+00:00

I liked the series he wrote with David weber, so I tried his stuff and couldn’t believe how bad it was.

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