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[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

FYI this is still an issue for me. Updated to cosmic-edit 0.1.0~1715990347~22.04~f5238e1.

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is a hypermarket?

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I no longer think WGPU_POWER_PREF has any bearing on the fast/slow issue, see my other comment.

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No, I haven't updated packages in 3 or 4 weeks.

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Ok, I've narrowed down the cause of slowdown slightly. It is when my laptop is on battery only that load time takes about 25 seconds. When plugged in (mains power), load time is < 1sec.

The only change I see in journalctl -xef when switching between battery/mains power is as follows (first line battery, second line mains):

May 22 23:45:35 rosie kernel: Dynamic Preempt: voluntary
May 22 23:45:54 rosie kernel: Dynamic Preempt: full

Edit: I can also simulate the effect via sudo tlp ac (fast load time) and sudo tlp bat (slow load time).

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. Strangely, after using WGPU_POWER_PREF=high, it is always fast for me, even when I don't specify this preference. I don't understand it. In any case, I guess it's "fixed" for now, so thanks!

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Here's my take:

  1. We're built for about 150 relationships max (Dunbar number), and yet we benefit from cooperation above that threshold. Rather than make it so we have to have a personal relationship with everyone who could possibly benefit us, we accepted a ramped down version of relationship we call "transactions". This is a very weak replacement for a relationship, but it is a sort of "micro-relationship" in that for a brief moment two people who don't know each other can kind of care about each other during an exchange. Through specialization, we can do something well that doesn't just benefit the handful of friends and neighbors we have, but tens of thousands and possibly millions of people via transactions (e.g. a factory, starting an Amazon business, etc.)

  2. There is a process called "commensuration" in the social sciences, where people start to make one thing commensurate with another, even in wildly different domains. For example, to understand the value of a forest and to convey its importance to decision makers we might say "this forest is worth $100 billion". It's kind of weird to do this (how do leaves and trees and anthills and beetles equal imaginary humoney?) But slowly, over time, we have made many things commensurate to dollars at various scales. (I don't think this is a good thing, but it does have benefits). In short, more and more things that were part of an implicit economy of relationships (e.g. can the neighbor girl babysit tonight?) have entered the explicit domain of the monetary economy (e.g. sittercity).

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IMO, in order to participate in the huge value generated by this monetary economy, people sometimes lose the forest for the trees (so to speak) and forget what really matters (e.g. excellence of character, deep relationships, new experiences, etc.) because it seems like we might be able to put off those things until "after" we square away this whole money thing first. But maybe "after" never comes--and the hollow life of a consumer capitalist drains the inner ecological diversity of a soulful life.

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

"We know better than you" has never been an effective way to change other peoples' minds, in my experience.

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate your question, but I think "we know" is problematic:

  • who is "we"?
  • how do we "know"?
  • can some people know one thing while others know the opposite?

I'm not trolling, either, just asking questions from a philosophical point of view. I've changed my mind about several things I took very seriously and thought I was 100% right about. Could others be dealing with similar changing-mind-through-time processes? Could you?

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get that. I've helped contribute to Pop!_OS in the past and thought I'd give it an early run. I'm just surprised that the packaged apps are so slow. When I ran them 6 months ago, they loaded so quickly I was shocked (<50ms).

I'm not sure if it's my system, or the (new) state of the apps.

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Wolf in sheep's clothing

[–] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I just ran cosmic-edit and was shocked at how quickly it loads. Must be ~30ms between selecting it and it's fully loaded.

 

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