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E39M5S62··on “Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow
That's not a very charitable interpretation of his comments.
E39M5S62··on “Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow
Universal healthcare is real and human. If we can't use an article to inform how we think about current problems, what's the point of it?
E39M5S62··on Bugs Apple loves
What specific phone did you actually buy?
E39M5S62··on FreeBSD
ZFSBootMenu doesn't work with FreeBSD, it only knows how to boot a Linux kernel.
E39M5S62··on Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity
Ubuntu shipped with a bug that they introduced by way of a very badly done patch. While I get your point, I don't think it's fair to use Ubuntu as a source - they're grossly incompetent when it comes to handling ZFS.
E39M5S62··on Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
I just switched to Lawnchair - took me quite a while to replicate the minimal look/feel I had with Nova. Thanks for recommending it!
E39M5S62··on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
Your entire argument hinges on the claim that he's presenting himself as a journalist. He's not doing that. You're not arguing in good faith and it's clear you have an axe to grind - so I'm going to disengage now.
E39M5S62··on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
An op-ed is an outside opinion piece published by a news organization, historically in a print newspaper or magazine.

It's irrelevant if he's giving his opinion on a subject in a YouTube video; it's still not journalism (and it's not even an op-ed, since he's effectively self-publishing).

E39M5S62··on Dead Internet Theory
If you can ride the Metra from your city to Chicago proper, you're in Chicago!
E39M5S62··on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
Since when is Jimmy Kimmel a journalist? He hosts a late night talk show.
E39M5S62··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
There's nothing even preventing the second form from working either. Just put the right shebang at the top of the script and it'll run through that interpreter. I've been on fish for a decade, but still write all my shell scripts in Bash. It's never been an issue.
E39M5S62··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
XWayland runs on top of Wayland, and is a way for X11-only applications to still work. It does not run inside a native X11 session.
E39M5S62··on Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI
Tell that to translators.
E39M5S62··on Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep
Haiku is an open source recreation of BeOS.
E39M5S62··on 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
Yeah. Unfortunately, ZFS encryption is missing a few creature comforts of something like LUKS. I've stuck with native OpenZFS mechanisms, though, to keep the complexity sprawl to a minimum.
E39M5S62··on 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
Quick note on #2 - there aren't really any issues with storing your encryption root passphrase in a file. If the file is owned by root, with no read permissions for any account, only root can access it. Since it's stored on an encrypted dataset, and your initramfs is as well, it's unreadable when the machine is off. Lastly, if anybody _does_ have a root shell on your machine, they can change the encryption passphrase without needing to know the current value.

In short, I'm not sure there are any real issues with having it on disk but unreadable by anybody but root.

E39M5S62··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
I was running it on a Dual 1.25ghz G4 with 2GB of RAM- a fairly high-spec machine for the 10.4 era.
E39M5S62··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
I booted a G4 Mac the other day, running 10.4.something. I was thrown back in time to a period where OS X was clearly their flagship software stack. Everything was coherent and cohesive - and shockingly - fast. I'd daily 10.4 again if it could operate on the modern internet comfortably!
E39M5S62··on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
The Wheel of Time series, start to finish. So pleased that Brandon Sanderson stepped in to finish it.
E39M5S62··on I'm returning my Framework 16
Snapdragon support is decent to great these days, and importantly it's all in the mainline kernel tree.

Edit: though it should be said that what I think is good might be a far cry from you think is good. I did use a Thinkpad X13s as my primary work machine for 6 months, though.

E39M5S62··on Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died
Looks like the post was neutered, but this is another source. The speed of the car was well in excess of what the road conditions could tolerate. Horrible crash, but the fault can be placed squarely on the driver of the car.

https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/what-happened-to-vince-z...

E39M5S62··on Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
Very interesting. I was a bit out of the loop on Intel mobile CPUs; I looked up the benchmark specs for it when purchasing and saw that it generally trounces the 255U.

I've been really quite happy with it - most of the time the CPU runs at about 30 deg C, so the fan is entirely off. General workloads (KDE, Vivaldi, Thunderbird, Konsole) puts it at about 5.5 watts of power draw.

E39M5S62··on Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
Don't forget the V series in there. I have an Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 258V in my Thinkpad. I think they're still being made. I bought an open box Thinkpad T14s Gen 6 with it - they come with a nicer GPU than the Ultra 7 255U.
E39M5S62··on Is Firefox Firefucked?
That's a fascinating bit of sleuthing! 1.5 watts is a substantial amount of energy when you're in the 4 to 5 watt overall usage range. You're not crazy and nitpicking.
E39M5S62··on The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project
Apple is struggling to make MacOS functional, why would they contribute engineering time to another OS?
E39M5S62··on Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
I can't say that I've ever seen that on mine, but it seems to be a real crap-shoot with the x13s. Some people in #aarch64-laptops have random crashes all the time, others (like me) have a completely reliable system. It could be something weird that Ubuntu is doing with the kernel.
E39M5S62··on X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
A mobile core2duo system struggles under the weight of the modern web. If you live outside of that though, it's more than adequate for virtually anything. These days it's basically an SSH terminal with a fantastic keyboard that floats around my house and boots up quickly.
E39M5S62··on X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
I also have an x200s that I got new in 2009. I've replaced the keyboard, battery (multiple times), palm rest, upper shell, and probably a few other things I'm forgetting about. I haven't put new parts on it for a few years, but as recent as ~2020 they were very easy to get and affordable. My little x200s is a dedicated HaikuOS machine now and I hope it keeps running for another two decades!
E39M5S62··on A Love Letter to FreeBSD
Same as anything else installed as a binary package - you trust the people packaging/providing the binary. If you don't, build it yourself. The source is publicly available.
E39M5S62··on Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Interesting. What kernel and distro are you running? It's been my stable daily driver with Linux 6.15/6.16/6.17 under Void Linux. It happily runs KDE and Vivaldi for me, with a few PWA's (Slack, Zoom) to bridge the gap of no closed-source software targeting aarch64.
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