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M911Ton Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint

there's also the fact that google will just keep being used by nearly everyone. at the same time, for the now fired employees, having "was a google employee" in their resumes will help them land a new job

M911Ton Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

actually... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-XWayland-Frac-Scaling

M911Ton Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

yeah the kerning is bad when using that thing. It's bad on my laptop too.

M911Ton Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch

It's up to people to judge how much their money is worth. You just have a different POV compared to others.

M911Ton From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story

Offtopic, but I noticed that this website uses the SF Mono font on their code blocks, is that fine? And no, I don't work for Apple (or anytone, for that matter), I just checked because I'm searching for a (preferably FOSS) free font that looks like SF Mono.

M911Ton Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

I use pitivi for very basic stuff.

M911Ton NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments

it could be a myriad of things. Getting some features working requires searching around the internet, like getting spell checking working was... interesting.

M911Ton Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

> Flatpak and Electron don't sabotage any of these things.

Flatpak does, you need to give access to xdg-config/fontconfig to each flatpak or globally for it to respect your fontconfig settings. I've hit this, and it's one of the reasons why I don't use nor want to use flatpak.

M911Ton Ask HN: Why aren't laptops evaluated with a plot of performance vs. fan noise?

They are great, but they don't review many laptops.

M911Ton The Samsung Galaxy S23’s bloated Android build somehow uses 60GB of storage

I've heard you can do it on Pixel phones, but they don't sell those phones here in Peru, sadly.

M911Ton Btrfs in Linux 6.2 brings performance improvements, better RAID 5/6 reliability

Check both of these links, I added the configurations to my laptop with BTRFS + NVME SSD + encryption and it's snappy. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Discar... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Disabl...

M911Ton I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge

From what I've seen in IRL stores, there's no interest in dumb TVs. Everyone wants smart TVs, and I haven't seen any new TV that was dumb.