petabyt

vhci-hcd for USB has been so useful for usb development. Especially for testing usb driver code in CI.

I live in the USA and my ISP doesn't support ipv6

I've spent the past 8 years going back and forth between Linux and Windows. When I switched back to Linux last year I was shocked how well steam/proton/wine worked compared to a few years prior. Valve is truly making incredible progress.

There's a loneliness epidemic in our generation. I'm 20 and share the same situation. I've heard scattered bits of advice from older people:

- travel as much as you possibly can

- get out of the house and as much as you can

- talk to strangers more

IMO Zulip is better than matrix in every way. But I haven't used matrix in a few years now.

Windows market share drops below 90% (On steam) The great recession of 2026/2027 (AI bubble pop) Sam Altman arrested OpenAI sold or split up in some way Bitcoin drops under $50k Ukraine war 'ends' Half Life 3 announcement GTA6 delayed again

Leaks disproved this in 2023. HLX is a single player non-vr PC game.

IMO gamescope is the #1 most underrated project in the Linux gaming world

I can't even imagine doing development in Windows without WSL anymore. I think Microsoft even requires it for some of their stuff.

AI for daily life stuff. I don't want AI to summarize anything for me, write my emails, or talk to me.

Visual Studio Code. I don't have a rational explanation but I feel like there's something deeply immoral about writing assembly in a text editor running inside a web browser.

I can't stand people who say that all code comments are bad.

Rockchip does the same thing with some of their closed source binaries

Bad advice. Counterpoint: Wine works really well (especially for old applications) and there's nothing wrong with using it. If people restrict themselves to arbitrary rules then many won't be able to use Linux.

Not related to UI translation but I've been using Sumatra PDF on Linux through wine and it's worked really well. Using it to read and search through 50k page TRMs and it's very fast.

If you don't want C2PA metadata in your images, there are also tools to remove it, such as https://noc2pa.com/

Prayers for Charlie and his family, violence against people you disagree with is never the answer

This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.

The real answer: it's more fun this way.

Why do pixel device trees have to be updated through different Android versions? If so the differences would be minor, right?

Some of the compilers they use (msvc) are not open source and are not allowed to run in wasm. And porting entire compiler toolchains to wasm would be a gargantuan task.

I've been working on a Virtual DOM in C. Basically like dear imgui but it uses a retained-mode toolkit like GTK instead of rendering manually.

https://github.com/petabyt/rim

People have been doing hackintoshes and macos VMs for years... And apple hasn't really done anything. So I doubt this tool will provoke them.

In order of preference:

- nextdoor

- facebook marketplace

- mercari

- offerup

- Craigslist

I use a from-scratch python script that generates a bunch of html files which are pushed to GitHub pages

Unrelated, but me and a bunch of very young friends from scratch.mit.edu tried to make a website builder called dragondrop: https://github.com/dragon-drop-scratch We were really young I think, aged maybe 11-14, no idea what we were doing

Surprised nobody has mentioned https://copy.sh/life/

I don't use Rust much but I think there's a lot going on in terms of UI:

- https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

- https://github.com/emilk/egui

- https://github.com/slint-ui/slint

- https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus

No idea if these are actually good or not, but it looks interesting.

> I'm convinced that using an embedded browser engine to render app UI is the future.

I think Facebook had the same thoughts at some point and they invested heavily in web tech. Later when that backfired (because of performance issues) they started the React Native project.