Wow the ads are killing this page
Wayland Nvidia
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally agree. Every time I see someone complaining about ads, I think "What ads?"
Their adblock shamming overlay is also blocking part of the screen (on mobile) by the way
brave seems to have some special sauce since it appears to be able to hide the fact that ads were removed. I am guessing they are doing so without triggering dom events.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
My browser automatically blocked something that's triggering an overlay to "Disable any DNS / Extension Based AdBlocker to Continue" with no option to dismiss. So the people on Hackernews with adblock aren't reading this.
interesting, on brave such popup never came up.
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#44Careful there, I was almost able to see some parts of the article through the ads
The terminal screenshots are terrible, too. They're using a non-monospace font and the kerning is messed up, making everything double-wide.
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#45Interesting coincidence, yesterday I was using a similar article to hopefully fix kwin starting to slow down after 10+ days of uptime.
I noticed this myself, both gnome and kde. It turned out to be that leaving Firefox open for long periods of time caused this.
I think for me jetbrains applications cause a memory leak in KWin which actually is becoming less of a problem now that I am switching to neovim slowly but surely.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux isn't a single OS. It's hundreds of different and weird combinations. There are Linux distributions that are better than Windows or iOS for grandma to use as well as distributions where you need to be an expert to do anything.
It doesn't matter, your options are either X11 or a Wayland-based compositor, both of them come with their respective headaches that a regular user has NO IDEA how to fix.
>both of them come with their respective headaches that a regular user has NO IDEA how to fix.
Unlike Windows, right? Right? Guys?
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your grandma doesn't need to know what wayland is to use linux. This is an enthusiast forum for people interested in this exact topic.
This post shows that she does, if she is unfortunate enough to own a device with NVIDIA graphics, because without this fix Wayland will be broken. Of course, this is only one example of probably hundreds where an average user would have no clue how to fix their broken computer.
It doesn't. And you shouldn't install Arch on your grandma's computer.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
My browser automatically blocked something that's triggering an overlay to "Disable any DNS / Extension Based AdBlocker to Continue" with no option to dismiss. So the people on Hackernews with adblock aren't reading this.
I did not get this on Firefox mobile using uBlock and JavaScript disabled.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux isn't a single OS. It's hundreds of different and weird combinations. There are Linux distributions that are better than Windows or iOS for grandma to use as well as distributions where you need to be an expert to do anything.
It doesn't matter, your options are either X11 or a Wayland-based compositor, both of them come with their respective headaches that a regular user has NO IDEA how to fix.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came to say something about the ads too. Ended up not even reading the article it was so bad.
It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
HN has many ad-apologists. It's more ironic than surprising that there's complaints.