neo [he/him]

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  • Unfortunately even the default Lemmy UI is pretty heavy. A clean load of this page and the comments transferred 1.92MB on the wire (6.61 decompressed). I blame Inferno. Not because Inferno is specifically bad, but because I have been convinced that anything that is React or React-like is bad.

    On Diethex it’s 204kB and 217kB respectively, and that’s because the OP’s image is 108kB.

    A comparable Reddit page https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bja5qu/robert_de_niro_80_and_his_10months_old_daughter/ initially loads about as much as Hexbear, even including all the ad scripts, but transfers megabytes more as you load and scroll comments.

    Where they super begin to differ is that one Reddit tab is currently sitting at 400MB+ RAM usage, compared to Hexbear’s 140, compared to Diethex’s 20**.

    ** I think one thing that is hard to track about page memory usage is the web browser will over-allocate to speed up page navigation and then eventually reclaim when you have mostly settled where you are. So after a few minutes it’s now:
    DietHex: 20MB
    Hexbear: 60MB
    Reddit: 160-260MB




  • neo [he/him]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.mlLXQt 1.4.0 released
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    11 months ago

    I really like LXQt for VMs. It is lightweight and fast enough to provide a very snappy environment, even beating out something like XFCE. With LXQt I get the minimally viable desktop environment with a panel, notification handler, etc.

    Though most recently I have been using XFCE specifically because its notification widget gives me more info in the preview.



  • My setup sounds very similar to terminhell’s. I have a server where the host is running Proxmox and I have a dedicated little Debian VM in it to run PiHole. It has been very reliable and stable in the four years since I’ve set this up.

    To get ad-blocking on the go I set up Wireguard for myself and my gf so that we are always on my VPN when we are off my local WiFi. This has been functionally set and forget.

    I haven’t used AdGuard so I cannot comment on it, but I have not been found wanting in the slightest with PiHole.

    I have 225k domains blocked with the combination of filter lists I use. I just use a few of the good ones. You can find good lists here. https://firebog.net/