I've been trying out different distros, but still using windows 10 ltsc as my main OS. I've got 2 additional partitions containing popos with cosmic and kde fedora that I've narrowed it down to, but both need just a little more bugfixing to to become perfect for me. LTSC is still supported for a while, but if my computer stopped working, I feel like macOS would be a no-brainer for most people.

hopefully fractional scaling in linux becomes more efficient in general. I stopped using linux because no amount of playing witht font sizes could make the gnome ui look decent at 100/200% scale coming from 175/225 percent scale, and the cpu penalty was twice that of windows. not a huge deal unless you're like me and rearrange windows all the time.

You should probably try KDE instead; I've been doing scaling for a couple years now, since I moved away from Windows, and it's excellent.

I've noticed the same thing- I thought it was just me. a 17 pro's animations felt less smooth than on my 15 pro with ios 18.

wblock seems to have youtube script injection in the app

isn't 1blocker a subscription service?

Yes, kind of. It has a subscription option, but you can also pay for a lifetime plan. They've done several major upgrades/redesigns and the lifetime plan is still honored.

Why would you need testflight? This app is on the app store

Oh, I somehow missed that. On their comparison page it still talks about signing up for TestFlight to install it, which was the case the last time this extension made the rounds on HN.

Is it? I searched wBlock in the ios app store and found nothing.

The github page has a link to the app store

Just downloaded this and it seems to be everything I've wanted on an ios safari adblocker. I was using ublock origin lite before. Its completely free like ublock but you can use your own filter lists. Thanks!

There is some value to the idea as Apple was a single manufacture with a somewhat high end image vs Android being on every random company, some who were decidedly budget/low end. So we seem some real tacky advertising for Android devices vs more polished ads for iPhone. But there is more to the story than just this factor

Their whole marketing campaign was basically "You've never seen anything like this before, no one has made a phone capable of all this". You can't really copy that marketing if you're the second company making such a product unless you want to be laughed at.

They had a deal with AT&T with a data plan that no one else could get. It made every other what phone useless in comparison.

anyone know if fractional scaling works without a performance hit in this new iteration? or any other de that fractionally scales without performance dips? All i can see is adding debugging tests for fractional scaling.

I use fractional scaling on the desktop (150%) and haven't noticed any performance degradation or unexpected slowness. Do you have any information on what someone should be looking for?

Overall, fractional scaling is the killer feature on KDE Wayland, especially with its XWayland integration. Whenever I use fractional scaling in GNOME, XWayland gets a resolution that is way higher than my actual display. I believe it is done so in a way (I could go be wrong) where XWayland gets a 2X resolution of whatever the fractional scaling resolution is, so it can be down sampled to the fractional scaling resolution simply. This results in me having to change the resolution in my games, which a lot of them don't support custom resolutions. Then, I have to use gamescope, which has shitty mouse input and increase performance degradation, especially on a laptop APU.

I was specifically referring to the down sampling that you refer to on GNOME. I don't think I've seen a linux desktop environment where this isn't the case. The result is that when you drag or resize windows (or have any movement on your screen in general) your cpu/gpu spikes. While I'm sure it's not a huge deal on modern hardware, The performance penalty on my dell xps 13 from 2015 is pretty significant, and it looks like the cpu usage when dragging/resizing windows doubles on linux compared to windows 10, which makes sense. battery life also takes a serious hit. Since no one has seemed to be able to figure this out, I wonder if it's a compositor specific thing? like there's no way to change this behavior without rewriting wayland or something.

I use fractional scaling on both of my screens and didn't notice any slowdown. I guess scaling is very cheap and fast on GPUs of today so it does not cause any noticable slowdown.

ublock origin lite is now available on the app store- could be woth a look if you want safari ad blocking

Thanks! I'll give it a try. Sad it doesn't seem to work in Firefox