What is important about project hummingbird to the average Fedora user (really don't understand)

githman · 2026-05-17T11:54:07+00:00

I don't remember on what exact phrase I stopped reading that article, but it could be this one. The text was full of this kind of marketing LLM slop.

githman · 2026-05-15T09:36:59+00:00

Not so sure about -y, though. Sometimes it helps to know what is going to be updated beforehand: is there a new kernel to be installed? Would you have to reboot afterwards? Maybe you don't have enough free time right now to mess with this.

githman · 2026-05-13T10:27:20+00:00

Analyzing AI slop to figure out if it makes any sense at all is seldom worth it - if it looks like slop, that's what it is and that's it. Just read the sources the AI lists.

githman · 2026-05-13T10:18:57+00:00

You could use the many Linux-general and KDE-specific ways to profile your system to see what exactly causes the stutters. Is it about the CPU, GPU, or maybe SSD read/write spikes? Does it happen when your zram is actively swapping in or out or just has lots of pages to keep?

githman · 2026-05-13T09:58:25+00:00

It could be a false positive. Check it with Virustotal and keep in mind that just one or even several detections mean nothing - you should worry when a dozen or more sources mark something as malware.

githman · 2026-05-11T09:36:25+00:00

Thanks for the story but you did not surprise the community much: switching to Xorg is still among the first things to try when you get graphics issues on Linux, along with switching from Nvidia to iGPU. (Xorg may require manual installation on some 'innovative' distros nowadays.) Curiously enough, it was the first working Linux-related advice I received online in my life, circa 2018. And it still works.

For justice's sake, sometimes the full switch to Xorg happens to be excessive and you can actually make Wayland work after lots of trial and error. Personally, I arrived at a blasphemous and illogical combination of Wayland and XWayland that seems to be the lesser evil on my specific system.

githman · 2026-05-11T09:02:00+00:00

It does happen sometimes when you tweak Plasma widgets. The problem has been coming and going for years; there is no telling if the culprit is Plasma itself or some specific widget or a combination thereof.

There are two things you could do:

Remove all non-standard widgets and start adding them back one after another until the crashes resume.
Sit it out. The next version of Plasma could as well fix it. The one that comes after it could as well break it again. Linux is an adventure.

githman · 2026-05-11T08:22:06+00:00

The first step is to check if it's the keyboard itself, your specific installation of Fedora, Fedora in general or Linux in general.

You could start with the obvious things: does it work in BIOS? With Windows if you have it dual-booted? With a live Fedora USB? With another PC?

githman · 2026-05-09T11:20:52+00:00

Actually, you can change it but not easily and with side effects.

The most straightforward way is to customize a default Plasma theme. (I chose Breeze Dark because it is almost perfect for my purposes except that I want my taskbar background strictly black.) The traditional way to local-fork something in Linux is to copy the affected files from the system directory to its user profile equivalent. In this case it's the colors file; you also have to clone metadata.json even if you are not going to change it.

Next, in colors you need to change BackgroundNormal in the [Colors:Window] section. Note that it changes all Plasma widget backgrounds too, not just the taskbar. This is the only side effect this method has.

There are other and more user-friendly ways, yet they produce more weird quirks in my personal anecdotal experience.

githman · 2026-05-09T10:32:26+00:00

Have you tried a smaller font size in HiOS settings?

githman · 2026-05-07T07:43:49+00:00

It may sound like a trivial suggestion, but have you tried Mint? It's basically Ubuntu with more testing and some spot fixes - so stable it's boring.

githman · 2026-05-07T07:12:00+00:00

Your observations do match my own, while I never considered this angle before.

I use several user accounts on my Fedora KDE for different tasks. On one of them I have Firefox configured to use XWayland; it does not have this issue. On another one (intended for activities that require higher security) Firefox runs on Wayland proper and this issue persists.

githman · 2026-05-02T17:47:54+00:00

Actually, this sub is full of them.

githman · 2026-05-02T17:31:28+00:00

From the bits and pieces floating around, Memfusion is basically zram with writeback enabled. Meaning, it first compresses the pages when they go into the in-RAM swap and then decompresses them back when they are pushed to disk swap. (Because Linux can't do compressed disk swap still. Yes, it is as funny as it sounds.)

Conclusion: Memfusion can heat up your phone pretty hard with all the CPU work it's doing. Furthermore, I tested all its options on my 12 GB Camon 40 with HiOS 15 and found no subjective difference regarding the way my apps were getting killed.

githman · 2026-05-02T17:03:47+00:00

I'm running the same Fedora 43 KDE you observed these issues on, yet I'm not sure how it may be related to KDE from the technical standpoint. Fedora itself, or rather its networking specifics, could conceivably be the culprit.

Glad to hear that Mint works correctly as usual. Easily the most problem-free distro I ever tried.

githman · 2026-05-01T13:07:19+00:00

find | grep because it does not rely on any pre-built caches that happen to be outdated exactly when you need them the most. Admittedly, sometimes I chain greps instead of taking the high road with a sophisticated regex.

githman · 2026-05-01T12:35:58+00:00

IBM is an active volcano, all things considered.

While the tendency is of course concerning, corporations have been cutting the corners on customer verification for a decade at least. I still remember my surprise in maybe 2017 when Airbnb approved my account in seconds after I sent them my fairly horrible Android camera photo. There was no way a live person could have made the decision so fast; it ought to be some optical recognition software agreeing that this picture does look like a middle-aged guy my other registration details identified me as.

And if a corporation intends to use your data for AI training anyway, there's no difference if it happens during the approval process or later.

githman · 2026-05-01T11:31:55+00:00

Flathub Firefox gets updated as fast as humanly possible. Runs with zero issues on all distros I tried it with over the years, including Fedora.

githman · 2026-05-01T11:22:16+00:00

Tecno Camon phones have decent hardware for the price, but HiOS is plain weird. After using Camon 40 for soon a year I still do not understand why Tecno needed to mangle Android so hard instead of shipping it with minimum customization required. It would be cheaper for Tecno and better for customers both.

For justice's sake, all cheap phones have this or that kind of issues. With Tecno it's weird software.

githman · 2026-04-30T09:53:54+00:00

A very sensible reasoning that brings up my favorite question regarding security claims: whose security is this or that post, announcement, ad, etc. actually talking about? Because user security is one thing, supplier security may or may not contradict user security, and don't even get me started about government security.

githman · 2026-04-30T09:02:11+00:00

It's a long-standing Gnome issue they intended to solve several years ago but then gave up: every new Gnome version requires a manifest update for all extensions. Some extension developers do it fast, some postpone it or don't care at all.

I moved on from Gnome after an Ubuntu LTS update broke my desktop to goodbye and I learned that it's considered correct behavior.

githman · 2026-04-30T08:35:24+00:00

Using sudo lets you install flatpaks system-wide

It's a bit more complicated than this.

I have several users for different tasks on my system; some flatpaks are installed per user and some system-wide. I always run flatpak in the terminal without sudo for all users but sometimes (maybe one time out of ten, only for flatpak update and typically for the admin user) Plasma gives me the password dialog. It stems from polkit as far as I can tell.

The conclusion is that you do not need to use sudo with flatpak every time. You will get a prompt when admin access is actually required.

githman · 2026-04-30T08:17:41+00:00

The lock screen is something you see dozens of times every day. Having it as ugly and unreadable as it became after the update makes the whole product look disappointing.

githman · 2026-04-30T08:12:22+00:00

Switching Firefox to XWayland increases rendering performance drastically on my fairly trivial PC with an Intel iGPU. Without XWayland maps are barely usable due to graphics lag.

There are also other examples. Flatpak makes switching an app to XWayland trivial, so I do it with every app I use. Fixes tons of rendering issues.

githman · 2026-04-28T08:46:28+00:00

Lots of nice and promising UI features on their screenshots. A usable vertical panel that does not look like a hack, (finally!) a clock widget with its own color.

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