On 2020-06-12, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 1. I prefer stable, but Zoom requires a lot of testing packages: too
>many for a mixed stable and testing system in my opinion.
Yea, after looking at what was required to install Zoom, I decided to
stick with the Kindle Fire for that. It will only
Hi!
I had the same problem with Opera. I tried this package
https://gpo.zugaina.org/www-plugins/opera-ffmpeg-codecs . It didn't work.
Finally I switched to Firefox or Brave.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 12:46 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:25:58 +0100, Michael wrote:
>
> > > In my
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:25:58 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > In my situation is is not so much about speed but not bringing the
> > system to its knees. I found the -j3 was generally acceptable with
> > 8GB, -j2 may have been better, but as long as it worked I was happy.
> >
> > I run testing on this
On 12 June 2020 19:09:21 CEST, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:17:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> I run testing on this laptop so updates were more frequent, although
>I
>> now use Chromium from stable to reduce that.
>
>I run testing on this workstation [1], and today I
On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:17:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I run testing on this laptop so updates were more frequent, although I
> now use Chromium from stable to reduce that.
I run testing on this workstation [1], and today I emerged chromium to replace
google-chrome. It took 4 hours on 12
On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:17:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:09:41 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > >> If it's only once or twice a month, it's not worth fussing with. I
> > >> swear there have been a couple times in the past few months when it
> > >> got updated
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:09:41 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> If it's only once or twice a month, it's not worth fussing with. I
> >> swear there have been a couple times in the past few months when it
> >> got updated multiple times within a week...
> >
> > So it's not once or twice a
On 6/11/20 7:45 AM, Michael wrote:
> I figured since qtwebengine uses the same rendering engine and I spend enough
> time compiling that package anyway, because KDE won't do without it, I might
> as well ditch Chromium. I haven't looked back. ;-)
Since you already have qtwebengine built, you
On 2020-06-11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:46:23 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > You may want to experiment by setting env variables for Chromium to
>> > restrict --jobs and --load-average so as to keep broadly within the
>> > constraints of the available RAM.
>>
>>
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:46:23 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > You may want to experiment by setting env variables for Chromium to
> > restrict --jobs and --load-average so as to keep broadly within the
> > constraints of the available RAM.
>
> If it's only once or twice a month, it's not
On 2020-06-11, Michael wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:32:50 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Besides the dependencies, Chromium itself is a very long build. 2.5
>> days on my oldish laptop, 1.5 days on all my other machines.
>>
> [...]
>
> You may want to experiment by setting env variables
On Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:32:50 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-06-11, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I have Chrome installed. I looked at Chromium. It wants even more
> >
> > stuff on top of what Chrome has pulled in! No way.
>
> Besides the dependencies, Chromium itself is a very long build.
On 2020-06-11, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I have Chrome installed. I looked at Chromium. It wants even more
> stuff on top of what Chrome has pulled in! No way.
Besides the dependencies, Chromium itself is a very long build. 2.5
days on my oldish laptop, 1.5 days on all my other machines.
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:45:53 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > Incidentally, I found an a reliable way of killing Firefox on this
> > laptop, run a chromium build in the background :)
>
> TBH the way Chromium has been bloating it would kill pretty much
> anything alive on a PC. With 16G RAM I had to
On Thursday, 11 June 2020 08:57:45 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 03:19:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > I don't watch Netflix on my laptop, but I've just tried it in Chromium
> > > and it seems to be working fine. I suspect it's either the widevone or
> > > proprietary-codecs
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 03:19:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I don't watch Netflix on my laptop, but I've just tried it in Chromium
> > and it seems to be working fine. I suspect it's either the widevone or
> > proprietary-codecs USE flag.
>
> I have Chrome installed. I looked at Chromium. It
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 09:35:06PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> I don't watch Netflix on my laptop, but I've just tried it in Chromium
> and it seems to be working fine. I suspect it's either the widevone or
> proprietary-codecs USE flag.
I have Chrome installed. I looked at Chromium. It
On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 10:35:06 PM CEST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:04:15 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > I've got the sinking feeling that it's c copyright management thingy
> > >
> > > that only works on Chrome. I dread building it; wish me luck...
> >
> > You
On Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:33:41 AM CEST Adam Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:40 AM Grant Edwards
>
> wrote:
> > On 2020-06-10, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > I had it working in Firefox.
> >
> > firfox or firefox-bin?
>
> Source built firefox works for me.
Same here
> FWIW i build
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:40 AM Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2020-06-10, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> > I had it working in Firefox.
>
> firfox or firefox-bin?
>
Source built firefox works for me.
FWIW i build with USE +hwaccel +lto which seem to consistently work. pgo
works sometimes, then doesnt.
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:04:15 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > I've got the sinking feeling that it's c copyright management thingy
> > that only works on Chrome. I dread building it; wish me luck...
>
> You don't actually build Chrome. You install the binary package.
>
> You can
On 2020-06-10, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> I had it working in Firefox.
firfox or firefox-bin?
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Grant
On 10 June 2020 19:41:18 CEST, Grant Edwards wrote:
>On 2020-06-10, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>>On all of my Kubuntu machines I have no problem with Netflix in
>Chrome.
>> The closest ffmpeg info I can give you with their package manager
>follows.
>
>I've nevert gotten Netflix to work in anything
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
It wasn't as bad as I feared. "time emerge google-chrome" shows...
real11m44.909s
user16m47.775s
sys 3m13.092s
What helps is that it looks like portage is installing a pre-compiled
bin file image. And oh yeah, Netflix
On 2020-06-10, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 05:41:18PM -, Grant Edwards wrote
>
>> I've nevert gotten Netflix to work in anything except Chrome. [Though
>> I don't remember trying Opera.]
>
> I've got the sinking feeling that it's c copyright management thingy
> that only
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:41:12 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I've nevert gotten Netflix to work in anything except Chrome. [Though
> > I don't remember trying Opera.]
>
> I've got the sinking feeling that it's c copyright management thingy
> that only works on Chrome. I dread building it;
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 05:41:18PM -, Grant Edwards wrote
> I've nevert gotten Netflix to work in anything except Chrome. [Though
> I don't remember trying Opera.]
I've got the sinking feeling that it's c copyright management thingy
that only works on Chrome. I dread building it; wish me
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:41 AM Grant Edwards
wrote:
>
> On 2020-06-10, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> >On all of my Kubuntu machines I have no problem with Netflix in
Chrome.
> > The closest ffmpeg info I can give you with their package manager
follows.
>
> I've nevert gotten Netflix to work in
On 2020-06-10, Mark Knecht wrote:
>On all of my Kubuntu machines I have no problem with Netflix in Chrome.
> The closest ffmpeg info I can give you with their package manager follows.
I've nevert gotten Netflix to work in anything except Chrome. [Though
I don't remember trying Opera.]
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