imagine KDE would actually run well as it doesn’t need all the bells it offers and is actually a well written performant DE.

RAM usages on a 8GB system, 4 hours after boot.

• plasmashell: 312 MB
• kwin_wayland: 165 MB
• akonadi_* summed: ~2 GB
• kded5: 130 MB
• kalendarac: 119 MB
• xdg-desktop-portal-kde: 107 MB
• kwallet5: 103 MB (unused)
• kaccess: 103 MB
• kiod5: 103 MB
• polkit-kde-auth: 101 MB
• X, Xwayland combined: 202 MB
• org_kde_powerdevil: 48,5 MB
• kactivitymanagerd: 40 MB
• startplasma-wayland: 39 MB

There’s also various other things too. Now obviously, looking at the total used counter, these cannot be just summed up, there must be some overlap through shared libraries and such, because if I close my web browser and all I have open is Konsole, total memory usage drops to 2,35GB. 3rd party programs, like opensnitch and syncthing, only contribute 400 MB (opensnitch is surprisingly fat, but it’s UI is not efficient with the CPU either), so the system itself needs around 1,9 GB, but that’s a lot when all you have is 2 GB RAM.
Then, my system uses an additional 2 GB for cache purposes. Such an old system will probably have an older, much slower storage (unless upgraded, fortunately that’s often easy), and won’t have nearly any capacity to keep a filesystem cache.

I’m only using a single widget on the desktop to periodically run a command and display it’s results. Other than that, the taskbar panel has the default widgets.

I really hope that’s the case. I don’t believe in it, though. It’s too hard to resist for most.

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I think you can disable most of the toolbars in the main screen if it helps.
You can do that in the “Docks” menu in the topmost bar, unticking any you don’t need.
I think you can freely hide these, maybe more: stats, audio mixer, scene transitions, sources (after you have set up your capture source), scenes.

Then if it’s still a lot, you can untick these in the View menu besides Docks: scene/source list buttons, source toolbar, status bar.

At that point you only have the controls dock, the preview, and the thin top bar.
Don’t forget to reenable the sources dock and the audio mixer if you want to change those settings, though.

What do you mean by bloated? Isn’t it 2 clicks at most after the one time next-next-finish setup?

Ads are not just inconvenient but very often annoying and misleading, so I can’t blame anyone for that.

Micropayment donations might, though. It’s not annoying, not misleading, and there is a considerable amount of people even now that regularly donate/otherwise support their favorite content creators, and this would be even more convenient because it is automatic and the amount depends on how much time did you watch videos.
And it doesn’t even necessarily depend on cryptocurrencies.

Most importantly because I don’t want to support that wholly unethical company that google is, and I think nobody else should. They already have plenty of money, which would be enough, if they wouldn’t be a publicly traded company with endless thirst for more and more and more and more.

Privacy? You lose your privacy the moment you publish your blog anyway.

Oh, right, I’m gonna just reinstall facebook on the phone because I’ve lost everything… Oh and we have lost all of privacy by commenting on the internet and stepping out of the house! All resistance is futile! We need to close this community before people waste more of their time!

This is not at all how it works. How would you lose privacy if you only publish what you want to publish? It’s entirely your decision what to include in your blog post.

The users used ones won’t know or care about that

That’s Synapse being bad and already having a tech debt.

No, I mean the clients.

element web consumes 2-3 GB of RAM according to about:processes when my matrix.org account with membership in a few dozen public rooms is logged in.

The android client is also as slow as nearly nothing else on my phone. It lags, so much that it’s not rare that I have to wait seconds before a click gets processed to start opening a menu.
And that’s how it is when the app is synced. While it is still syncing it’s even worse.

Being worked on with syncv3. New sync is crazy fast.

I have element x. It still can take seconds until it is usable, like if I haven’t used it for a while, on a fast connection. But yeah, at least it’s not minutes.

While most of the known chat apps already work this way, I am sad that element x won’t try in any way to store a copy of my messages on the phone for offline access anymore.

Thanks! :)

Yeah you’re right, I even needed to use my distro’s live system (which is also the installer) a few times to reinstall grub after something overrode it, so that too.

What’s your use case for the gparted system, though? Systemrescue also contains gparted, and it also has a better quality environment (easier to switch keyboard layout, I think correct display resolution from the start, fewer questions on startup)

It’s interesting to see that even such sites as tomshardware are writing about it, because, at least how I see it, they are not a privacy-centric site where things like this are often a topic

High resource usage (RAM, but also CPU), slow syncs especially after being offline for a longer time with many public rooms, group chats are hard with encryption (new members can’t read old messages because secure key sharing wasn’t solved yet), if your partner did not set up key backup they’ll have problems with access to messages when moving or just switching devices

I would say though that the problems of Tox sound to be more serious

I can’t tell you what I would do for a remindme bot now to know to check back later

Systemrescue is a pretty fine live system for such tasks. It’s mostly centered around data recovery, and recovering a fucked up distro by having firefox, keepass and such. It starts in a text terminal, but it only takes a startx to start a graphical environment.

At public services too, like schools and hospitals, where admins mostly couldn’t care less?

It’s certainly possible, if not else than with the use of FUSE. But I did not see such a project yet that can do this.

It’s like BIMI couldn’t save you anyways. I’ve just read this a few days ago: https://16years.secvuln.info/

It’s the equivalent of idiots posting that wall of text on Facebook a decade or so ago saying they don’t give Facebook permission to use their pictures, posts…etc.

I think it’s quite different. On facebook, you have accepted a ToS telling that facebook now owns that data. Also, that “movement” was against facebook, the platform itself.
Here you haven’t accepted a ToS that wants to use your submissions for whatever they please (or did you?), and also, this movement is against outside parties, not the platform provider.