FULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 15

did you know: foot in gnome logo stands for memory footprint

on a related note, 10mb rust program spawned by the image loader spawns a c program, parses /proc/meminfo and decides my computer is too shit to deserve a wallpaper

new laptop, or new desktop shell, lubomir

Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 15

oh the pdf viewer was replaced by a pdf viewer that takes more memory, and the old viewer was ported to a toolkit that takes yet more memory and now it's too big to read the files it read yesterday.

good upgrades all around the place

Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 15
is it now as secure as when firefox decided it's a great idea to render pdfs in javascript so the user could have a quick bong rip while the page is rendering
Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 15

gnome was always ahead of the curve, sloppin' long before ai

and sort of proved the point.

wrote a desktop shell in toy language with no type checking that is glued by the means of javadoc dialect parser in python and hacked together c parser, against like two hundred c libraries, from 80's gems, through openssl to sci fi shit like jit for fonts, graphic drivers that involve compilers, code generators all in one monumental nihilistic yolo process and they made it not crash all the time and i commend them for that

Show threadTomáš Janoušek6d ago
@lkundrak Yeah well except the "made it not crash" bit…
Show threadTomáš Janoušek6d ago
@lkundrak In related news, Eva (my lovely wife for whoever else reads this) needs to Alt-F2 r (restart) gnome-shell every other day because it either leaks so much it grinds to a halt or sometimes just gets completely stuck and refuses to switch windows.

I'm soooo not looking forward to the Wayland future where she'll have to restart her entire session every other day instead.

(On the other hand in that future it's kinda okay if everything else leaks and gets stuck as well…)
Show threadMichal Vyskočil5d ago

@liskin
That's surprising. I rarely turn off my Gnome laptop and I dont experience memory leaks related to the DE 🤷.

But yeah, the dependecy chain of Gnome itself is scary.
@lkundrak

Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿

@vyskocilm @liskin > I rarely turn off my Gnome laptop

me too ever since systemctl poweroff broke in a recent update

Mar 17 at 8:03pmWeb
Show threadMichal Vyskočil5d ago
@lkundrak
Seems like AI is trying to make sure it can't be turned off.
@liskin