Yepp, Hanlon’s razor: they are mostly just lazy and maybe incompetent, not necessarily evil, that’s just a side effect. E.g. in my country if you call them that you want to get out of CGNAT they’ll just do that for you. My IP haven’t changed in years, but I don’t pay for fix IP. But it may be different in each country, I have mostly good experiences with local ISPs here.

The gh thread is about the same laptop I linked in my other comment, on the arch wiki they link to some patches, maybe they work

The important part is the hardware id of the camera, you have to search for this, drivers and kernel modules use this number to check if they are needed: 8086:7d19

I found a documented laptop with this camera: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dell_XPS_16_(9640)#Webcam

They link to some patches there, it may work with that

As I see the date of the patch is this year March, I guess simply the laptop is too new. If you don’t want to fiddle, just switch to some rolling release distro, and the patches will be merged upstream soon. After a kernel update your camera will magically start working. This would be the easiest solution if you can live some more months without the camera.

Kamoso seems like the default one in KDE: https://apps.kde.org/kamoso/

Reboot than read dmesg. Start a camera app than read dmesg, journalctl. Reload the camera module with modprobe

Also lower it in the DE settings. Are you on wayland?

Why the benchmark is at 90fps? What happens if you lower your monitor refresh rate to 60?

Just my troubleshooting tips:

Can you run a benchmark, maybe this one, so we can see it it’s really a general thing not just something on that website? Also we can compare it to other computers, or you can see if changing a setting helps at all.

Can you see something strange in about:processes? Shift+Esc is its keyboard shortcut.

Can you try it in other browsers? Something Chrome like (Chromium, Brave, Vivaldi). Does this happen there as well?

Repost: https://feddit.org/post/13181375

1 up-down cycle doesn’t wear the battery, negligible. It would only count if you would do this every day. It’s recommended to calibrate a new battery

1.3 W is around 1 kWh per month. I checked on local electric company’s website, that’s around 0.2 USD per year here. Prices may be diffferent wildly worldwide, but we are definitely speaking about a less than 10 USD difference yearly.

Why does it matter?

I mean why 20W?

People are different, different people like different things, and they care about different features of a device.

I never had any apple device, but I help a lot other people with iphones and macs, and I have to tell you they are just devices. I’m familiar with their features, but I don’t care, this whole thing is only about you. If you want an iphone buy one. If you don’t want one, just move on, life is too short for getting mad about unnecessary thing like this.

Wouldn’t it be better to replace the full rom at this point? You trust other parts but not the dialer?

What I’m trying to say, if you think your built in dialer is a spyware, it’s very likely other components of the rom could be spyware as well, and you don’t gain too much by replacing only this component.

Wdym spyware? Isn’t the stock dialer comes from aosp and it’s open source? Or your rom doesn’t use that one?

This is not a well written arricle. They mixes up material design with corporate memphis, which is not necessarily related, they can exist independently.

Their actual problem with google’s ux appears only in this paragraph:

The problem? Google’s actual UI & UX design is terrible. Whether mass-market or enterprise, web or mobile, its interfaces are chaotic and confusing. Every time I use Google Drive or the G Suite admin console, I feel lost. Neither experience nor intuition helps—I feel like an old man seeing a computer for the first time. I used Android for years (stock Android on a Nexus device), yet even after all that time, I struggled to distinguish buttons from plain text.

No examples, no reasoning, no good counter examples how it should be done, nothing. I’m not super familiar with google’s web ux as I only use search and youtube ocasionally. They write here about android, but no android screenshots in the article. So is this about web ux only? Or anything google? The author couldn’t even figure out what is their problem, this article sounds like “old man yells at cloud”

Where or how did you see that? As bluetooth clients?

Bluetooth radios have unique mac addresses, so adding a relatively common first name to it doesn’t mean much, if someone wants to track you via this, it doesnt really matter if it’s 04:ad:22... or Geodad's car

I will remember this when we will want to celebrate Easter in prison in a fancy way.

But subreddits still provide an rss feed, just add /.rss at the end, like this should work with any rss reader: https://www.reddit.com/r/fediverse/.rss So theoretically it should be possible, until they shut this “loophole” down