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postcert··on Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface
The design on this watchface is great, I've found myself going in the same direction but with a super dense more excel like custom watchface. Even "very busy" showcase while visually extreme is still legible and interesting.

It's been nice to have a small piece of technology that's designed to be this modifiable.

postcert··on Open SWE by LangChain
What are some alternatives? I've been tinkering with langgraph as of late and frankly the whole space is so polluted with SEO and vibe-coded systems the old "classics" were the safe bet for me.
postcert··on Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
Those little cube world blocks were neat: https://corporate.mattel.com/brand-portfolio/cube-world

Maybe I grew out of the age range or maybe the whole market of silly knick-knacks has died out but they definitely drove my interest in all things electronic.

postcert··on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?
As a US citizen I can only hope that this kickstarts alternatives and paid for options in the spaces big (ad)tech dominates here. These bloated monopolies with short lived products or soon to be acquired competitors are getting old. (And these constant layoffs and shareholder/promo driven development to a smaller degree)
postcert··on [dead]
“Death Machine” was from the perspective occupants of other vehicles and pedestrians. Pretty stupid spin on pretty big box that’s clearly safe for passengers.
postcert··on Create a QubesOS Gaming HVM with GPU PCI passthrough (2023)
Not that I’ve seen or heard of but my assumption is that it is mainly due to the relative rarity of partial/vgpu offerings outside of organizations. (Other than Blender render farming and some smaller upstart p2p gpu time reselling.)

I’d say Intel’s 12th gen igpu has “best supported” consumer vGpu offerings available and it’s through sr-ion I believe as well. I’ve had it on the back burner on my homelab until a recent performant gui need had come up.

postcert··on Create a QubesOS Gaming HVM with GPU PCI passthrough (2023)
I'd be curios to try vGpu with Qubes. It's definitely a security issue and has been left behind on newer NV consumer hardware but would be neat for low-risk qubes. I do have to admit that the performance is still great w/o hardware acceleration.
postcert··on If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad
I forget how many PE sessions I had with cup stacking but it’s definitely ingrained somewhere in my head. If anything I thought at the time it was for hand-eye coordination without having a ball flying at you and it was surprisingly easy to pick up with those competition cups.

Nowadays it makes for a fun free for all drinking game as everyone fumbles stuck together red cups.

postcert··on Nobody cares
Does anyone have the time to care anymore? I searched for "time" in the comments and found a few unrelated hits.

Good enough is going to be the output when nobody has the time or people's time isn't valued.

postcert··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
What's the implication? That we as a society and/or government have a more just consciousness?

There are certainly are issues in China but are these "popular headline" talking points worse than the suffering we have here? And that's even after assuming they are factual.

We sell prison labor for pennies. We allow individuals to create epidemics and slap them on the wrist. We allow the future of our next generations to be squandered for today's profits. We allow our government to be just as captive to the desires of private parties in a way that's effectually reduced elections to a non-choice.

I don't think anyone with a conscious can say we're any better and that's without taking into account our worst contributions of genocides/wars/instability to the global community.

But in the end w/e, you have your freedom tinted glasses on (it must be nice) and the average american is screwed on our current trajectory.

postcert··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
The most disheartening part of this ban is that it’s just about the only thing the government can agree on. IMO Mitt Romney slipped the truth in saying: “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians, relative to other social media sites — it's overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts."

TikTok is the first and just about the only place I’ve seen content about corporate greed, the accelerating disappearance of the middle class and the real downstream effects of US foreign policy that hasn’t been whitewashed.

The ball is in China’s court now, if they can provide a space where this class consciousness can continue to grow they’ll easily get equal/better (though I think magnitudes greater) returns than Russia’s recent social campaigns.

postcert··on Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
It wasn’t that bad creating some new derivations my first week with Nixos, I was so used to Arch where I had maybe a handful modified pkgbuilds over a decade.

For better or worse it was a positive experience, especially when you usually already have a pkgbuild to go off of.

postcert··on Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
The key terms don’t change so I usually just grep Nixpkgs in nvim and usually have a lead on where to start. Obviously it’s a bit more work than copy/paste from the arch wiki but generally more popular config changes will have an nixos option available.
postcert··on Free Your Vacuum from the Cloud
Nice to see they’ve made some great progress on the application side, had seen the firmware component years ago. I simply just reach under my cabinet and press the start button on my 1st gen Xiaomi vacuum but looks like it’s time to flash it. It’s crazy to see how xiaomi got it right with lidar from the beginning. I’ve looked for upgrades over the years and the cost effective variants have all been incremental upgrades in firmware and performance or just straight downgrades with things like mopping.

If anyone is interested in these things mine has been great for 5 years now and would recommend a lidar based one at a minimum. Got a Wyze for my now wife on sale for $75 (a steal) 1-2 years ago and it’s a cost reduced update of mine but performs just as well as mine and I think may use US servers (being a US company?)

postcert··on Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
There's actually a page on their site under resources for that: https://www.neotokyo.com/anime-cel-dealers-and-resources

Yahoo Auctions is more popular over there and proxy services (I use Buyee) make it pretty simple bid/buy and not too much more expensive if you wait for their (Buyee) coupons.

postcert··on Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
You have some awesome cells, thanks for sharing them online. Had completely forgotten about Robot Carnival and neat to see you have a few pieces from some of the shorts(episodes?)

Also the resources->galleries was useful, found some new but actually old sites to check out.

postcert··on NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
I was going to say specialisations might be useful for you to keep a previous driver version around for testing but you might be past that point!

Having the ability to keep alternate configurations for $previous_kernel and $nvidia_stable have been super helpful in diagnosing instead of rolling back.

postcert··on NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
I've been having a similar flakiness with plasma on Nixos (proprietary + 3070 as well). Sadly can't say whether it did{n't} happen on another distro as I last used Arch around the v535 driver.

I found it funny how silently it would fail at times. After coming out of a game or focusing on something I'd scratch my head as to where did the docks/background went. I'd say you're lucky in that it recovered itself, generally I needed to run `plasmashell` in the alt+f2 run prompt.

postcert··on Puck
Adding notifications to an Ansible playbook is just adding a task with the discord module or uri in the case of nfty.

I do agree and lean towards using golang to have an easy binary but there's a lot of work already in this space for managing instances. I have a similar ansible task running on AWX to check instance updates but have had a backlog task to actually move it to Prometheus so the notifications and information are sitting in Grafana.

postcert··on Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's Core i9 chips
Kind of seems like both Motherboard and Chip manufacturers are pushing the higher end processors a bit too close to the limit. As easy as it'd be to point at motherboards pushing all-core boosts and bumping power limits and/or boost durations up 50%+, these 13/14 gen chips also act up (though less often) on Workstation/Server boards.

My recent AMD build (5950x) also had a similar high-end part instability where it would lock up under Linux when downclocking to a very low idle. Replaced the processor but it still needed a small voltage bump to keep stable.

postcert··on Ask HN: Those who got layed off. Have you found a job?
Thought I was reading my own comment from the future. Very similar situation, layoff + great severance starting around mid-year then wedding. Took some time to veg out, other to figure out what I need to improve, etc. I only have a few data points (~6, 2 in flight) as I ramp up but there’s definitely a split in responses. It’s either a fast response and productive conversations with a recruiter or just a black box that emits a canned email response anywhere from 48 hours to 2 months later.
postcert··on Kubernetes-Native Retro Game Streaming Written in Go
Referenced in one of the dockerfiles: https://games-on-whales.github.io/gow/overview.html is certainly the more reasonable approach to streaming games off docker/kubernetes.

Their sunlight alternative https://github.com/games-on-whales/wolf adding multiple tenants is neat as well. Definitely going to give it a spin on some intel iGpu nodes.

postcert··on Coffee in a Can
One aspect I rarely seen mentioned is The price of these canned coffees in Japan. I remember most ranging from 100-250 yen ($1-2 when I last visited). As a tourist that was the biggest selling point for me, getting pretty good coffee warm or cold in seconds.

Sadly every time I see some mention of UCC or Boss coffee I spend a few minutes browsing to see if it can be imported near that price. Lately though it has been getting better with occasional sale on Amazon making them a nice treat.

postcert··on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy
Came here to say the exact same thing. Manjaro has a history of issues and oddly provide their own repos (with differing packaging version to mainline Arch) when arch's repo + aur more than suffice.

On the endeavouros side they only have their DE customization packages + nvidia helper packages + ZFS + small helper applications (I'm assuming wgetpaste and such are for users to easily upload error logs, etc) https://github.com/endeavouros-team/repo/tree/master/endeavo...

postcert··on KDE Plasma development switches to Qt 6 tomorrow
Thanks for the link! I had found a few pieces of the repo's Readme but this looks solid, I'll have to give it a try.
postcert··on KDE Plasma development switches to Qt 6 tomorrow
The one thing holding me back from switching to KDE in full. The hacks and Kwin scripts just simply aren’t enough.

If you find out more on this (solutions or ticket to sponsor) please update!

postcert··on Finally fixed my PC’s persistent graphics and audio stutters
The random crashing at low usage sounds very similar to an issue I had with my previous 5950x. There seems to be a real problem with 59{00,50}x’s where you either need to disable PBO (I think that’s the name) or bump voltages. After finding out it was a silicon lottery thing I sent my cpu right back to Amazon and the replacement has been perfectly fine from first boot (outside of figuring out the upper memory clock for 4 dimms)
postcert··on uBlock Origin Suggested Settings
Disabling Javascript and cosmetic filters doesn't make any sense. The suggestions to add some more of the privacy filters is reasonable, but why are these settings any better than someone else's?

The website's other articles are spammy conspiracy crud anyway.