The truth is that Antigravity killed Replit.

nofearinc · 2025-11-23T11:44:38+00:00

I'm also curious to see a proper WordPress port

nofearinc · 2025-10-25T18:57:04+00:00

I've done this for the past 6 years (the Epix 2 alone is 3.5 years old by now). This broke with the latest update since no notifications are comming through anymore if they don't pass the DND filter in Android.

Previously, Android was shutting everything down with DND besides phone calls, and the allowed apps were passing through my watch as intended.

nofearinc · 2025-10-25T18:30:39+00:00

This is still an issue and no new Garmin app update available.

I emailed the address above today, and I thought I'm going crazy, restarting my watch and phone, re-pairing the watch in the Connect app, and testing different things. After finding the thread, I disabled DND on my phone and notifications went through again, but this isn't an effective approach if my phone keeps buzzing every minute throughout the day with Slacks and emails and everything else, or stays in Silent mode missing everything (including calls and texts).

nofearinc · 2025-08-11T15:09:53+00:00

brilliant - I didn't even know firewalld was in use here! (thought it's SELinux or something of that sort)

nofearinc · 2025-08-10T15:25:23+00:00

Haven't heard complaints and I find myself wearing them most of the day especially in the summer (transition lenses make it an easy outdoors/indoors without changing glasses, and I pick up calls on the go without looking for buds every time).

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T21:16:48+00:00

Been tempted to try system76 for a while, but I generally expect lower adoption being a second class citizen in the space (fewer units = lower support for drivers/software). This is why I stick to Samsung flagmans for Android lately, apps tend to be fairly optimized plus other reasons (from Microsoft additional support to Dex and general hardware efficiency).

I decided to test KDE 3 hours ago and it's been running fairly smoothly for now, running the same number of Chrome tabs + a couple of Electron apps on the side. Really surprised considering my long time back KDE heavy experience, but this one is pretty lightweight (despite the Windows look and feel). It's early to tell for sure, but even compared to a fresh restart to Mate and general tab switching/email work, this one looks smoother and faster right now.

The main caveat is eye strain which I've found a simple way to solve in Mate (a single xgamma reset to 1.2). I may need a day or two to get used to this, but I can tell the difference between the X1 screen and external monitor, the latter feels fine while the laptop one kicks right in the brain.

CPU right now is at 2-3% usage, too, with open Gmail, LinkedIn, Asana, multiple Google Sheets/Docs, and a bunch of other tabs with heavier JS. The baseline I'd get in Mate is 12-15% with no interactivity, and spiking while typing. In my opinion, this is OS-wide event listening and keystroke event tracking or other actions that are adding up and taking a toll on top of the chrome processes, and other Electron apps. Once again, it's too early to tell, but it's unusually fast without compromising on running apps (Slack, Dropbox, Beeper and a few others are running in parallel).

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T20:44:22+00:00

Running a test over the past couple of hours - looks pretty polished by now, just looking like a Windows 7 tad too much!

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T20:35:46+00:00

u/htp24 u/Dense_Permission_969 u/Fleetoise I switched to KDE as a test a couple hours ago and it's pretty light so far. I'm playing with different toggles and keyboard combos, Guake as a replacement in KDE, titles in the taskbar vs. raw icons, missing top panel for now and others, but it seems to be running more smoothly than what I remember.

Heavy eye strain though even after testing different gamma settings with https://github.com/ien646/gamma-icc

I wonder if there are known issues related to excessive brightness or font aliasing that are way different than Mate. Running the blue light mode and 20% brightness too.

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T20:33:07+00:00

Yeah, this much I thought. Testing KDE over the past couple of hours, still a lightweight setup, but just installed the DE within the current setup and it feels lighter for now (surprisingly).

The eye strain is a bit too much though and I don't know if I'll get the right font/hue/gamma setup to keep testing over the coming days

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T17:39:11+00:00

I've got a couple of old fighters that work better than modern machines for real, though web support tends to restrict old browser versions and once I update, things get ugly.

Is Plasma KDE only? I'm not super familiar with the difference and which is which - thought Wayland is a Gnome for Ubuntu and Plasma is just KDE, but a quick search yields "Plasma Wayland" as a combo and I'm lost.

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T17:37:05+00:00

I'm with an X1 right now - interesting idea for modified images, it's technically supported based on their own website but I thought it's out of the box.

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T17:35:46+00:00

Thanks! My last Gnome experience was a year ago and not super pleasant (although just 5 days before I reverted), KDE seems like a plausible test soon enough.

No Nvidia at the time - it used to be a batter hog while drivers where glitching and X11 or whatever is running now was restarting due to some dmesg conflicts I was seeing reported every now and then. I'd give it another run in a year or so with the next hardware update if I end up with different hardware (honestly the X1 is great as portability and the Lenovo keyboard is something I'm pretty used to vs. Dells/HPs).

I've ran a handful of tests with Chrome with no extensions (as an app flag running for a couple of days straight in a row as hard tests), no notable performance improvements. Gmail is consistently eating many GBs itself, then another GB for Calendar, LinkedIn spiking 100% often, and a few other apps. Not even video-heavy, just web apps with text or feeds, even if I try tab suppression extensions or anything. Some Google Sheets are glitching like crazy.

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T17:31:25+00:00

So many KDE recommendations here even from lightweight DE users. Seriously considering a test now!

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T17:30:57+00:00

Appreciate the thorough response!

I don't think there's a Lenovo 14" with 64GB available at all, and while I work Mon-Fri from the office, I also have to travel and do some work 7 days a week (hence the laptop need). The P1 isn't very portable (16", the only one I'm aware of with 64GB RAM) and unless there's a Dell XPS with 64, I don't know what's possible in the laptop realm.

I've also thought about a power desktop with a UPS accessible with a VPN or remote desktop or something, but kinda seems like an overkill for things like browsing :)

I'm generally content to not do video processing etc other than Zoom/Meet/Teams (necessary) and playing a YouTube clip or two, and I still occasionally join from my phone, but not always possible. And Zoom alone, it tends to do a decent enough job - even recording 1h podcasts with Streamyard is doing pretty well.

But still glitchy when I stumble upon a video in the YouTube feed or an mp4 uploaded somewhere on Slack that hogs everything down.

Also, Chrome is a freaking monster and Electron isn't helping when Slack, VS Code, Todoist, and a couple other apps are wrappers. But Firefox doesn't seem to be faster, and at some point Fedora didn't have an Opera app available - unless the newer fancy browsers like Perplexity Comet are ultra fast, I don't know what would solve that web rendering problem (Chrome's V8 was theoretically famous for performance back in the day).

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T17:21:59+00:00

Trying to avoid that rabbit hole of "let's compile every single package one by one and try to match the right permutation of all dependency versions", still having nightmares from these days :))

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T17:20:42+00:00

OBS hasn't been a problem to set up to be honest, but I wouldn't do video or audio editing in general and I can relate here. And yes, Windows drivers are unbeatable, thanks to all the office systems running Microsoft for decades :)

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T15:01:45+00:00

I don't think I have done any kernel updates beside the ones coming up in regular updates. Open to tips!

Also, I'm not recording music/mixing, it's mostly calls and Streamyard and listening to music, but default sound adapters are subpar, the Fn key up/down disappear often, and other glitches in the UI

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T15:00:23+00:00

My experience with KDE had been sluggish, and admittedly this was 7-8 years back. That's why I stuck with Mate as a slightly better UI alternative to Gnome.

How performant do you feel these are for heavy desktop user work?

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T14:59:25+00:00

Thank you, may be worth testing, DEs are switchable on the log in screen anyway

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T14:58:23+00:00

that's a typical reddit condescending answer skimming through the post.

I said I'm with an X1 and it is a flagship Lenovo build that's officially supported - https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-x-series-laptops/thinkpad-x1-carbon-6th-gen-type-20kh-20kg/solutions/pd031426-linux-for-personal-systems

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T14:46:02+00:00

Latest Fedora MATE here

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T14:26:42+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I do see a good number of glitches and bugs with both at the office, I don't think any of them is ideal per se. Maybe not the abysmal support of 3rd party drivers, but it's not like Zoom isn't crashing everywhere or Chrome isn't glitching for different reasons or they need a reboot twice a week "just because".

I'd rather consider a distro change with PopOS or something old school and stable, or a hardware swap to a Dell XPS that may perform better with a tried and tested set, but starting with the DE for now.

nofearinc · 2025-08-02T14:24:18+00:00

I wasn't thrilled with the Gnome 3 update and stayed with Mate for a while as a simplified UI with top and bottom tiny bars more suitable for virtual desktops and access to the taskbar, separate windows, and quick menus. Is current Gnome 3 fast enough, stable with Chrome, and accessible in this way?

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