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wongogue··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
To add in the fun, “noctalia” process which is the shell, widgets (including weather :), wallpaper, app launcher, dock etc for my niri-wm setup is using 52MB.
wongogue··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Has anyone hacked a scroll-lock based signalling solution for this.
wongogue··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
I also realised that qwerty will always be required. So I use colemak-dhm on split-columnar-blank-keycap keyboards with less keys and qwerty on unibody-rowstaggered-printed-keycap full-size keyboards. It helps my brain to switch.

It is very similar to using both bikes, ebikes and motorcycles all having different controls. Your brain can have different muscle memory if it thinks of them as different things.

wongogue··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
Even smaller ISP have done that. But I switched to JioFiber last year and it loses its IPv6 network every week for a few hours. Diagnostics tell me that everything is okay and the customer support just doesn’t understand the problem.
wongogue··on Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
They are owned by Anthropic. They have virtually unlimited Claude credits.
wongogue··on Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
There are a lot of them (like Celestia, DMS etc) and they look very good too. They are all based on QuickShell which provides the actual building blocks.
wongogue··on Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
Paneru is a new thing for macOS made specifically to emulate niri.
wongogue··on We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
I have 488 tabs in the session with more than 50 loaded. The running session has 72 processes.
wongogue··on Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
Do you call water “steam juice”?
wongogue··on AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy
Are you running ARM servers?
wongogue··on OpenSUSE Kalpa
For the uninitiated, it’s another UniversalBlue project just like the popular Bazzite. It focuses on a general computing usecase instead of gaming.
wongogue··on Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
Centre-left doesn’t mean the Left. It just means it’s to the left of the other centrist party (Tories). Just because they lean left doesn’t mean they are the Left, Radical Left, Commies etc
wongogue··on MacBook Neo
Neo will at least help in ensuring that macOS doesn’t become too heavy for a few years.
wongogue··on iPhone 17e
The base model has 120hz ProMotion display.
wongogue··on iPhone 17e
At the moment, the camera is almost the main point of getting the Pro. And battery for the Pro Max.
wongogue··on iPhone 17e
The standard screen size market is so big that every year there are enough people looking for an upgrade. Apart from enthusiasts or the fashion-minded, most people upgrade every 2-3 years.
wongogue··on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
The narrator. It doesn’t matter to the law the kind of intimate relationship you have with your tool.
wongogue··on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
With no encryption, this isn’t a problem.
wongogue··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
Green is “Zoom window to fit content”, not Maximize.
wongogue··on Pentagon cutting ties w/ "woke" Harvard, ending military training & fellowships
Improvement is subjective. They are terrified of warriors (shrug) who don’t think exactly like them.
wongogue··on Do you have a mathematically attractive face?
Those are added by the author themselves. Scrub the test data perhaps?
wongogue··on How not to securely erase a NVME drive (2022)
It has been software encryption for a many years now.
wongogue··on The dank case for scrolling window managers
There are more. Jay, cosmic and even xfce is writing their new compositor in Rust.
wongogue··on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
If you include the tip, you can do base 16.

Let’s go hexadecimal all the way.

wongogue··on IP Addresses Through 2025
The official one isn’t but there are a lot more in support of it. They are just named differently. Local language (we have a lots of them) or endonyms etc.
wongogue··on 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop
People like his technical opinion because they like his politics. That’s the whole grift-influencer economy. If someone is good at one thing (and validates some of my views), then obviously he’s right about everything.
wongogue··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
Universal blue images are built via public GitHub Actions runners. If you don’t trust them, fork it and use your own image.
wongogue··on Australia's social media ban in chaos as youths flock to Chinese alternatives
They have access to messaging and interest/group based social media. Just not public algorithmic feeds.
wongogue··on CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy
A Pelican fond of Cycling.
wongogue··on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
Do you have any proof about Chrome? It gets slower nonetheless.
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