Because they were 11. Lol.

15/21

Sort of, but for very specific purposes. I think PopOS or System76 have kernels that use different CPU schedulers, but I don’t think it affects battery life, just desktop “responsiveness.” Make sure your CPU is hitting the lowest C states. Make sure your NVMe drive can do so too or if it’s blocking the CPU from lowering its C states. Linux might be less energy efficient on newer laptop hardware because it lacks vendor optimizations that Windows has. Tried, been there. If you’re trying to optimize I’d recommend TLP/power profiles and throttled.

I think it has something to do with KDE not killing smbnotifier processes. If I kill the Samba daemon, I notice a ton of TCP traffic as the processes try to reset connections, then eventually terminating. If I then start the daemon again, those processes disappear and I can access the share through Dolphin.

This is probably the #1 reason I started using qbit and now use it in my homelab’s docker container.

1337x.to was blocked for me today! Even though it doesn’t stream content. Feels like an “enshittification pincer” is happening right now.

Deepseek flew over the cuckoo’s nest

Just use WHOIS protection (which should be free, but whatever).

I’m using Thunderbird. It’s convenient for having multiple inboxes and has a subjectively nice interface without much bloat on it. It has a calendar app which is good for planning too. For email, I have a custom domain+TLD plus an account at purelymail. If purelymail goes dicks up I’m not dead in the water.