Nice yet…

Recently I installed an unofficial Linux desktop application for WhatsApp.

Yes, I know I should ask people to use free-as-in-freedom instant messaging based on XMPP or Matrix but far too many non technical people can’t be really convinced.

I used the nice user interface of Gnome Software.

Nice app, yet… it is a little memory hog… almost six hundred megabytes of actual RAM. Isn’t it a little too much, even for a WebView in disguise?

It’s worth

Xz may had had a huge trust-related security issue but its performance is still very desiderable:

paolo@DietPi:~/Scaricati$ wget –mirror it.aleteia.org

paolo@DietPi:~/Scaricati$ du -sch it.aleteia.org/; time tar -acf ~/archivio/data/Documenti/it.aleteia.org.tar.xz it.aleteia.org/; du -h ~/archivio/data/Documenti/it.aleteia.org.tar.xz<br>37G it.aleteia.org/<br>37G totale

real 614m8,594s<br>user 469m26,287s<br>sys 15m33,329s<br>1,6G /home/paolo/archivio/data/Documenti/it.aleteia.org.tar.xz

This humble Raspberry Pi 3 may be aging and slow but it’s still useful.

399Mb for tabby terminal… is just too much… Therefore sudo apt purge tabby-terminal

The following packages will be REMOVED:
tabby-terminal*
After this operation, 399 MB disk space will be freed.