I have a question: wtf is javascript doing in a modern desktop?

I can’t come close to that number, 7-8% overnight. do you have suspend to disk enabled?

not important for this use case. I’m referring to the fact that I can close it shut and leave it for a week. I open it and it’s ready to go and the battery has barely lost a percentage point. that’s 2010 tech and something completely unattainable to me 13 years later. I’ve moved on from macOS but can’t help being envious.

my laptop is comparatively old (t480s, 8th gen) but had the same issues with battery drain on F38. I’ve switched to debian and the situation is way better, overnight drain percentage-wise is in the single digits range. still nowhere close to my old macbook, but workable.

edit: no it isn’t, tested F38 and D12 on separate partitions, both lose same amount; ~1 %/hr of standby (regardless of deep or s2idle setting), so 7-8% overnight.

edit 2: looking into making suspend-then-hibernate work, that should fix everything; sleep for 30 mins and hibernate afterwards.

yes, I understand, you installed LOS and turned the raspberry into an android box. but you can install a normal linux distribution on it and then you can run both of those tools. then, your phone or tablet becomes the primary browser and remote control. right now, your raspberry with remote is the browser - you use it to browse/play media and control it (play/pause/etc).

e.g. you scroll lemmy and see a video you like; instead of watching it on your phone, you share it to e.g. AllCast (maybe there’s a better app, that’s the one I’m using) and that one transmits the youtube url to macast and voila - full screen video that you can control from your phone. same thing with reddit videos and other popular video sites (macast uses yt-dl behind the scenes, so whatever site yt-dl supports works in macast as well), as well as media that’s locally on your phone.

same thing with jellyfin-mpv-shim - you connect your phone’s Jellyfin app with JMS (click cast, select, make it default). you browse your library on your phone, press play and automagically full screen video on your TV while you control playback from your phone - pause, skip, stop, switch subtitles, volume, etc.

the remote you’ve been using with android becomes superfluous - the raspberry becomes just a dumb sink that plays whatever you send it.

I imagine you can rig up some screensaver with rotating wallpapers and clock and weather and whatnot when it’s idle.

don’t know what this is in reference to, but if you’re using a raspberry it can run python, so both of those (macast, jellyfin-mpv-shim or plex-mpv-shim) can run on it.

I’m using macast and jellyfin-mpv-shim. I can send almost anything to my PC from my phone and have it played in full screen.

it’s a false dichotomy; the issue is not whether you do or don’t have something to hide, the issue is you choosing what you share and with whom.

the fact that I don’t blast the quality of this morning’s stool accross all my social media outlets doesn’t mean that I’m hiding it, it means that I choose not to share it.

that’s my decision and I don’t allow my hardware, software, service provider, government, or whoever-the-fuck to make it for me.

is there anything out there in the $200 range that can take lineageOS? only ones I’ve found were some ancient samsung 3GB models

it’s a lackluster experience which ever way you turn. plasma has a better touch experience and consistency but its keyboard (maliit was it?) is horrible. GNOME’s keyboard is better but still crap.

everything feels like a proof-of-concept, something that was shipped in this sorta-works state and left. if you’ve ever used an android tablet, this is a long, long way off.

GNOME terrorized us for a decade with those comically gigantic UI elements because it’s supposedly touch friendly but the moment you start touching them it feels like utter crap.

try running android x86 on it, I had some good experiences with bliss OS. old kernels there, so hardware support is hit n miss.

*affect.

thanks for the humorous takes, but what’s the verdict…? and what’s the next step, download posts and settings and move elsewhere?