It's good to see you guys on Lemmy :)
I tested it a bit a few days ago, but I'll see if I can give it a more rigorous go today. The ones I've found Mojeek to be weak in are bug strings that programs I'm working with spit out. Although I think I've had more luck in the past few months.
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Kagi is the only search engine I use which has really good results and no junk links. ...and you have to pay for it, of course. It's a meta search engine but they use their own indexes for news results and Teclis, which indexes small commercial sites with fewer than 5 trackers. One of the cool features it added recently was an icon for identifying paywalled articles.
I'd like to recommend Mojeek, my default search engine, but it still has a way to go. If you're just looking for an "answer engine" rather than a general search engine...I guess an LLM probably isn't a bad place to start?
I've been getting stutters for a long time. I've kind of come to accept it as part of the Proton / NVIDIA experience :) Though the stuttering has finally receded to almost nothing since running KDE Wayland. It's actually a lot worse on X11 for me.
Hm, odd. I'm playing Rocket League with Proton fine with no flickering. I'm using KDE. Proton 8 shouldn't have any of the Wine Wayland stuff yet...
And yeah, I had a massive flickering problem for my entire monitor on 535, but the problem is now localized to XWayland programs on 545, so it's an improvement for me.
I'd completely forgotten about that. I do that for Signal already. Thanks for the tip! Bitwarden finally doesn't lag (that was annoying the hell out of me) but Freetube is still a stuttery mess. FreeTube is an Electron-based program, so no idea...
(I just remembered I could startup Thunderbird with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 too)
It's mainly just Steam that's horrible...really, the worst one of the lot by far. Massive flickering in the client. Games themselves work fine though.
I recognize this is an odd comment to make, but I'm glad to see this screenshot tool supports capturing a window in Wayland. My next question is, can the screenshot tool be invoked from the command-line or via a script?
Gaming still works fine for me on 545. It's just that every other XWayland program flickers endlessly. Thunderbird, Freetube, Bitwarden...
God I hope NVK is the driver I'm using happily by the end of this year.
So if GNOME does something everyone else is not doing, they're "fucking up", but if they follow what someone else has done that you like, they're just creating a "cheap copy"? How do they win?
Is not it true with Windows? Plug and play? And while I did not study this, I strongly suspect that it is more true for Windows than for Linux.
I don't use Windows much, but recently I booted it up and found my graphics tablet didn't work. I needed to install a driver from Wacom, then reboot. It got very confused about whether my tablet or my monitor was the primary monitor, and moving between screens was somehow worse than Linux. On Linux, the tablet driver worked out of the box, but I had to adjust display scaling for both my monitors to co-exist peacefully. I also had to switch from GNOME to KDE and switch to Wayland on my NVIDIA card to get Krita to work properly (interface was split across both monitors and couldn't resize it). GNOME's multi-monitor handling was bad, regardless of whether I used Wayland or X11. Multi-monitor handling on KDE was better than Windows...in the end.
I'm not really sure which of these is worse.
PHP 8.0 is no longer supported so I hope they update the “really, really old technology” to at least PHP 8.1 today.
Most likely. This blog was written in February 2022; support for PHP 8.0 was only dropped in November 2023.
That would be the logical conclusion, but I believe Debian uses the old version for years after it's unsupported and might backport security fixes depending on how severe they are. Either way, I personally wouldn't trust Debian or Ubuntu to properly fix security issues with a program (or in this case, programming language) that they do not actively develop or maintain themselves.