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Today, I’ve decided to try and improve the boot time of my laptop, running EndeavourOS. There was no special reason for it other than “Why not?”. The first thing I made was disabling or masking the following systemd services: systemd-resolved disabled tlp disabled NetworkManager-wait-online disabled lvm2-monitor masked org.cups.cupsd disabled packagekit masked bluetooth disabled (I rarely use the laptop’s bluetooth) blueman-mechanism disabled With this, I was able to save a few milliseconds and decrease the enabled systemd units to 15, but the impact was negligible....

Quer no meu portátil, quer no da esposa, temos um problema irritante com o microfone de cada equipamento quando usamos o Jitsi Meet, Skype, Messenger e outras aplicações do género. A situação é a seguinte: quando o volume do micro está baixo, não se ouve nada; aumentando, só se ouve distorção que dá uma dor de cabeça horrível. Andei uns dias de volta do alsa ou do pulseaudio, porque pensava que o problema era aí, até que descobri a solução no askubuntu....

Lately, the repository has been taking +10 hours to compile all the packages. I think that’s a lot for a little more than 250 packages, most of them small utilities and/or _-bin_ files from AUR, built in a DEV1-L (4 cores, 8 Gb RAM) virtual machine from Scaleway. After investigating the matter, I found out that 12 of the packages took four hours and sixteen minutes to build. Pkg Hours Minutes ....

In the start of July 2019, I wrote about using the spare CPU cycles in my VPS to contribute to Folding@home (F@h). Since then, when not building packages for Arch Linux, the virtual machine has been crushing numbers as a peer in this project. Today, I’ve switched to Boinc with the Rosetta@home project. This change was due to the fact that Boinc is a free software application, whereas F@h is proprietary....