Notes

Short thoughts and quick notes — not full blog posts.

Manjaro 25.1 “Anh-Linh” just breathed new life into my ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 (Ultra 9 + RTX 3050 + Intel Arc) — battery now lasts noticeably longer and games run way smoother, all with zero extra tweaking. Everything finally feels right out of the box.

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Chrome is dead, they killed the essential extensions and now all these vulnerabilities: Google Chrome 3-Week Update Deadline—New Warning To Change Your Browser https://g.omid.dev/oxjMG57

Pidgin confirmed today that ss-otr, a third-party plugin listed since July 6, contained a keylogger and shared screenshots with unwanted parties. If you installed it, uninstall immediately. Going forward, listed plugins must have an OSI-approved open source license.

https://pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malicious-plugin/

I had problem with Firefox freezing whenever tried to open File Dialog, tried hundred of different solution and none worked. finally a true boolean of browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite in about:config fixed it

Done ✅ All #Ubuntu servers upgraded successfully.

sudo sed -i 's/mantic/noble/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

Is it normal #KDE plasma shell is using about 1Gb RAM?

Goodbye #Debian and #KDE, Hello #Arch and #Xfce, I’m pretty much happier now! Thanks @ManjaroLinux!

Manjaro Xfce desktop

#Snap is coming to #Linux world to kill all the goods in package management, at least all the goods about #Debian and #Ubuntu , Sad to see #Chromium supports it

This is a perfect idea! Using an easy to say 3 words name for every 3m location in world instead of using ugly lang/lat addresses #what3words https://what3words.com

It look likes #FeedBurner is dying soon, Socialize is not working and links are broken, cannot connect or modify new twitter accounts and it’s a long time whole service did not receive any update, RIP!

Any suggestion for a better replacement?

It was a big challenge for us to use #GRPC in our #Angular project, but looking at the result, I’ve to admit I love this project more than the #REST API we have been using before, the compiled proto saved lots of time by creating models and #unary calls