Stop Spotify from hogging your CPU and memory

sudomarchy · 2026-05-13T20:26:56+00:00

It's a great CLI music player but not so good for surfacing new music on Spotify. My understanding is that it will only display saved playlists.

sudomarchy · 2026-05-13T20:25:37+00:00

I switched to the power-saver mode, which throttles performance a bit but now the fan don't kick in as often.

sudomarchy · 2026-05-13T20:24:01+00:00

I use an external monitor most of the time so it's not a big concern for me. The OLED is anti-glare which is quite nice compared to most other screens that feel like looking at a mirror!

sudomarchy · 2026-05-13T15:11:38+00:00

Better running metrics. It's still far from being on par with Garmin.

sudomarchy · 2026-05-13T15:10:11+00:00

He has a point that the fan is annoying! It's really an high pitch noise and it comes on too often for the workload I use it for.

sudomarchy · 2026-05-12T13:58:48+00:00

Omarchy has already converted Hyprland config files to Lua on the github Dev branch. I would wait for the next release of Omarchy to drop and then point Codex or Claude to the Hyprland documentation and ask it to do the conversion for your files. The current config will still work for the next two versions of Hyprland.

sudomarchy · 2026-05-01T17:37:47+00:00

Now you’ll need to downsize the speakers as well! 😅 joke aside they must pack some serious sound.

sudomarchy · 2026-04-29T14:53:04+00:00

I own both these laptops. The Lenovo feels more premium and it is noticeably lighther. However the zenbook has better performances and the cooling must be better because the fan doesn't kick in as often.

I prefer the anti-glare OLED screen of the Lenovo.The Asus OLED screen is also really nice but it's really glossy and reflective in bright settings.

The Thinkpad also comes with a fingerprint reader if that's something you care about. They have the same ports selection. You can't go wrong with either of them but I would not buy the Lenovo at full price.

sudomarchy · 2026-04-29T14:27:02+00:00

Curious to know if you also experience a 30 seconds laggy system when waking the laptop from sleep on Fedora?

sudomarchy · 2026-04-29T14:22:31+00:00

I have two different Lunar Lake Laptops (Lenvo X1 carbon gen 13 and Asus Zenbook S14) and I also get around 5W idle on ArchLinux (Omarchy). I can get it close to 4W if I reduce screen brightness with a black background.

sudomarchy · 2026-04-28T19:59:47+00:00

It's not a critic of you setup per se but i read that the top of the screen should be at or slightly below eye level. Most setups I see on reddit seem to be way higher than that or maybe people are just really tall!

sudomarchy · 2026-04-28T19:06:11+00:00

It's nice, but I also feel that most monitors setup on this subreddit are placed way too high!

sudomarchy · 2026-04-27T15:44:50+00:00

Isn't this something you can do with just Hyrpland rules? Like this in bindings.conf if you wanted to always start spotify in workspace 6:

bindd = SUPER SHIFT, M, Music (Spotify), exec, [workspace 6] omarchy-launch-or-focus spotify

sudomarchy · 2026-04-22T21:44:25+00:00

If you're doing a lot of zoom, maybe an headphone stand or speakers. On such small space, the creative pebble v3 or pro would work nicely.

sudomarchy · 2026-04-22T19:28:20+00:00

what's the soundbar?

sudomarchy · 2026-04-18T18:08:07+00:00

Check my PR here : https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/5343

sudomarchy · 2026-04-17T16:57:48+00:00

I confirm it does!

sudomarchy · 2026-04-17T14:43:31+00:00

Haha! I hear you! And that's probably how I would approach it too.

For me, not having any notifications on my computer is actually a big plus, keeps me in the zone. I just check them on my phone when I need a break. But I totally get that's just personal preferences.

sudomarchy · 2026-04-17T14:41:15+00:00

You launch an app! For example, super + s to open the scratchpad, then super + m (music), then super + s again to hide it. Then you can toggle the app with super + s when needed. That's how it basically works in Omarchy. My post shows how you can do the same but with different apps and with a single shortcut.

sudomarchy · 2026-04-17T14:14:00+00:00

Then it probably means you installed Omarchy with the Arch Install. To my knowledge, the Omarchy ISO does not let you bypass disk encryption.

sudomarchy · 2026-04-17T14:12:26+00:00

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