Filesystem compression is dope.

I’m pretty much all BTRFS at this point

Minecraft is arguably & measurably more performant on Linux, full stop. Anything using OpenGL performs better on Linux, check any Minecraft benchmark online.

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/image-comparison/

It is a modern successor to formats like WebP & JPEG. WebP was barely competitive with JPEG

I have customized ZSH to be very similar to Fish

I’m partial to macOS and I agree, I think Windows font rendering looks like garbage. On GNOME, I’ve found things to be okay. Sucks that patents are involved in this mess

WebP images are not bad. Not great, but not bad. The lossless mode is quite good. It is on the software you use to support WebP.

I’m happy with Wayland

Chrome OS.

Go big or go home. No need to stick with anything from a large corporation if you’re already pulling away from M$

Aside from the backdoor (which is a moot point when talking about zstd anyway), there are a number of other very good reasons to use ZSTD.

Yes, it works on Wayland. I’d also give GNOME’s Console a shot.

Stopping software mainly used for piracy has equated to the inability to do what you like with what you rightfully purchase

How to steal something you can’t own? Instructions unclear /s

Mostly positive. My encoding utility Aviator can be shipped with a custom community-backed SVT-AV1 fork in the background without anyone noticing any issues like they would if I linked to system SVT-AV1. Flatpak makes this kind of thing easy, and users don’t have to think about it.

As an Android user, Android phones with Google Play Services are no better - in fact I’d say they’re probably worse

This post looks LLM generated

Just yesterday I overwrote some pacnew files and borked user authentication for myself. Very rough time

FYI, the Pixel 8’s processor is certainly less efficient than the S23’s. If it is reportedly getting better battery life, that’s likely software related.