powermaker450

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I'd say that bloat is whatever you define it to be and can vary depending on the power of your system.

I care less about how much resources apps are taking up on my desktop (32GB RAM, Ryzen 7700X), but I do bring my concerns over to my laptop (8GB RAM, Ryzen 4500U).

the one thing I cannot stand are electron apps and anything similar. they are a whole browser bundled with an unoptimized interface, and will eat up what used to be a decent amount of RAM for a laptop back then, as well as my battery life. for this reason I always try to find native apps that use less power and less RAM, which in turn improve my battery life.

this is just one example of where you can draw the line for bloat, although you are completely correct in saying that it is subjective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

yeah none do. dev behind opencord tried to do it but it's been on hiatus ever since

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Aliucord is a good client mod, not of the new react native version, but the old 126.21 version. much faster than the laggy react garbage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

in my personal experience of using it, it doesn't feel very polished in most places + strange bugs like being unable to install certain packages. doesn't have the comforts of a distro like Pop OS or Mint (i.e. automatic timeshift setup on first time boot, checking for missing dependencies for other packages). that's just my personal opinion on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

although definitely not as configurable, I like the "set it and forget it" idea of DockoVPN

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

downloads the "app"

looks inside

web wrapper

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the only way to get an open-source Discord is to recreate discord (their backend).

https://spacebar.chat/

granted it's a slow process but it can pay off if done right. I contribute what little I can to the project, as my Typescript is not the best and Discord knowledge even less.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

kitty terminal + zsh shell, two fast and customizable tools

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