Sort of, but for very specific purposes. I think PopOS or System76 have kernels that use different CPU schedulers, but I don’t think it affects battery life, just desktop “responsiveness.” Make sure your CPU is hitting the lowest C states. Make sure your NVMe drive can do so too or if it’s blocking the CPU from lowering its C states. Linux might be less energy efficient on newer laptop hardware because it lacks vendor optimizations that Windows has. Tried, been there. If you’re trying to optimize I’d recommend TLP/power profiles and throttled.

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I think it has something to do with KDE not killing smbnotifier processes. If I kill the Samba daemon, I notice a ton of TCP traffic as the processes try to reset connections, then eventually terminating. If I then start the daemon again, those processes disappear and I can access the share through Dolphin.

My “IT” employer is still using hardware from 2017-2018 and we have maybe a handful of actual desktop PCs. This Windows 11 thing is kind of hilarious since we are totally unprepared financially.

This is probably the #1 reason I started using qbit and now use it in my homelab’s docker container.

Ayyy

1337x.to was blocked for me today! Even though it doesn’t stream content. Feels like an “enshittification pincer” is happening right now.

Did the same with Biden. I’m tired, boss.

I like flatpaks, kinda. If something is in the standard repo, I install it. If it’s a library or CLI tool, I add the repository. If it has simple build instructions, I build it. If all of those things are too complicated or they want me to run a script, I just install the flatpak.

Just saw the mentaloutlaw video. Graphene OS has a “duress pin” that wipes the phone when given a certain pin.

Representative Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, wrote on X: "This is absurd on its face. The United States has not declared war since 1942 and has conducted over 125 different military actions since that time, including in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Presidents of both parties have relied on Article II authority, as well as AUMFs [Authorizations for Use of Military Force], to conduct targeted strikes and have not been subject to impeachment. In 2011, Barack Obama conducted an 8 month campaign in Libya to topple Gaddafi."