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  • bruce965@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat's with the cross?
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    4 days ago

    For reference, this is what the “Checking for Updates” page on the Pop!_OS store looks like for me. This icon feels out of place, that’s why I assumed this is a placeholder that replaced the correct icon that went missing due to some kind of minor problem with my installation.






  • You should install Rethink and see how much garbage your phone constantly transmits and receives. And this is not even a kernel-level firewall, so who knows how much data Google actually exfiltrates…

    I don’t know about a constant audio stream, nor about keywords, but I noticed that Google Keyboard sends out some data every time you type anything. It’s not even that subtle.




  • I am not sure… in the case I’m referring to, they were lagging also when scrolling. But it was React, so native browser rendering. And they were actually very large tables, so we had to do some funny things like viewport culling (see react-window).

    For what it’s worth I’ve never had any similar performance issues with tables in Flutter (web with the canvas-based render engine, not Android) when applying the same culling technique, they just ran fine at any resolution. Different hardware, though, so it’s not an apple to apple comparison.

    In any case just to be safe I would personally assume less pixels = less work = less power = more battery life. My opinion is very unscientific though.







  • I thought so. Although almost nothing for modern standards, 60MB is not exactly tiny. Sorry about that.

    On a different note, a repository is always a good thing imho. If you’d rather not have to worry about the dependency-pull step you can always include the dependencies with your sources, or just limit your code to using features included in the standard library.


  • bruce965@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlRecommend me a scripting language
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    3 months ago

    JavaScript through Node.js, or TypeScript through Deno if you like typed languages. They both check all your boxes (just check the size of the executables to make sure that it’s what you would consider “small footprint”).

    Both languages and runtimes are quite popular, so you will find any answers on StackOverflow.

    They are both single-executable with little dependencies, and Deno can also compile your scripts to self-contained executables.

    As a bonus, both support the vast and extensive NPM package repository where you can find all sort of libraries for even the most complex tasks.

    And they work with your favourite IDE or editor, not just syntax highlighting, but also contextual suggestions.