I thought the "written by human not AI" badge was kind of cute, then I clicked on it. It seems like people pay for the "right" to put that badge on their page? The author was scammed.
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Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
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Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#22IMO the best part of the foot client/server setup is not lower memory usage, but faster terminal opening time. Starting alacritty is kinda slow. Maybe not a second, but noticeable. Starting foot standalone is definitely faster. Opening a foot window via an already running server is near instant.
> Starting alacritty is kinda slow. I keep seeing comments like this popping up on HN. Do you guys have some funky esoteric configs? In my case, where I only changed the color scheme and font, the limiting factor when starting alacritty is how fast I can move my fingers to the i3 shortcut. And I'm not running this on some exotic, fast hardware, just your standard crappy corporate HP laptop from a few years ago. The o…
I think the concept of slow is relative here, for a no configuration start (from a fresh install) alacritty is slower by a factor of 4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40559084
However the absolute times are still probably not noticable unless you often cold-start terminals.
| Alacritty | Foot | Foot Client |
Absolute time (ms) | 99.0 | 37.2 | 22.8 |Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#23I thought the "written by human not AI" badge was kind of cute, then I clicked on it. It seems like people pay for the "right" to put that badge on their page? The author was scammed.
OP here, I guess things have changed? AFAIK there was no pricing when I set it up... I just put the image with the link, certainly wouldn't pay for it :D
EDIT: So the payment is to have a little space on their own website, which they call a "project page" e.g. https://notbyai.fyi/hi/not-by-ai/
They suggest "linking to it for verification", but it really seems both unnecessary and optional
Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#24I thought the "written by human not AI" badge was kind of cute, then I clicked on it. It seems like people pay for the "right" to put that badge on their page? The author was scammed.
OP here, I guess things have changed? AFAIK there was no pricing when I set it up... I just put the image with the link, certainly wouldn't pay for it :D EDIT: So the payment is to have a little space on their own website, which they call a "project page" e.g. https://notbyai.fyi/hi/not-by-ai/ They suggest "linking to it for verification", but it really seems both unnecessary and optional
I see, thanks for the clarification
Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#25The title is kinda odd. "Lowering resource usage of foot with systemd" sounds more appropriate. Not knowing that foot is a terminal emulator, I assumed that foot is some kind of improved resource manager that allows for a general lesser resource usage.
Yes - agreed.
Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#26> foot is a lightweight terminal emulator designed for Wayland, focusing on minimal resource usage while maintaining performance.
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
For those out of the loop
Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#27IMO the best part of the foot client/server setup is not lower memory usage, but faster terminal opening time. Starting alacritty is kinda slow. Maybe not a second, but noticeable. Starting foot standalone is definitely faster. Opening a foot window via an already running server is near instant.
> Starting alacritty is kinda slow. I keep seeing comments like this popping up on HN. Do you guys have some funky esoteric configs? In my case, where I only changed the color scheme and font, the limiting factor when starting alacritty is how fast I can move my fingers to the i3 shortcut. And I'm not running this on some exotic, fast hardware, just your standard crappy corporate HP laptop from a few years ago. The o…
I can say personally that I switched away from alacritty because I would press my key bind and start typing, and it would consistently miss letters because I hadn’t waited for it to fully load. Foot does not.
If it was an app I opened by pressing Super and typing “terminal”, I probably wouldn’t need the speed increase. But the shortcut is easily accessible from home row, so I press it often and quickly.
Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#28Still no ligatures support in foot, which is critical in dev environment.
Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#29Still no ligatures support in foot, which is critical in dev environment.
I think there are still dev environments where ligatures in terminals are not so critical. Especially those of devs who do not use in-terminal editors for most of their editing.
Re: Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
#30Still no ligatures support in foot, which is critical in dev environment.
Do you mean "critical" literally or hyperbolically? I disable ligatures in any editor/terminal I use, because I find them confusing and want to know what the actual characters in the code are.