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by petabyt 8mo ago
vhci-hcd for USB has been so useful for usb development. Especially for testing usb driver code in CI.
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by petabyt 8mo ago
https://danielc.dev
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by petabyt 9mo ago
I live in the USA and my ISP doesn't support ipv6
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by petabyt 9mo ago
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 incredib
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by petabyt 9mo ago
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 -
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by petabyt 9mo ago
IMO Zulip is better than matrix in every way. But I haven't used matrix in a few years now.
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by petabyt 9mo ago
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 G
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by petabyt 10mo ago
Leaks disproved this in 2023. HLX is a single player non-vr PC game.
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by petabyt 10mo ago
IMO gamescope is the #1 most underrated project in the Linux gaming world
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by petabyt 10mo ago
I can't even imagine doing development in Windows without WSL anymore. I think Microsoft even requires it for some of their stuff.
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Ret: Online Assembly Playground and Reverse Engineering Tool(ret.futo.org)
3 points by petabyt 10mo ago|0 comments
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by petabyt 10mo ago
AI for daily life stuff. I don't want AI to summarize anything for me, write my emails, or talk to me.
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by petabyt 10mo ago
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.
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by petabyt 10mo ago
I can't stand people who say that all code comments are bad.
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by petabyt 10mo ago
Rockchip does the same thing with some of their closed source binaries
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by petabyt 11mo ago
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.
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by petabyt 1y ago
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.
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by petabyt 1y ago
If you don't want C2PA metadata in your images, there are also tools to remove it, such as https://noc2pa.com/
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by petabyt 1y ago
Prayers for Charlie and his family, violence against people you disagree with is never the answer
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by petabyt 1y ago
This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.
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by petabyt 1y ago
The real answer: it's more fun this way.
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Magic Lantern Firmware Add-on for Canon Cameras Is Back(petapixel.com)
3 points by petabyt 1y ago|0 comments
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by petabyt 1y ago
Why do pixel device trees have to be updated through different Android versions? If so the differences would be minor, right?
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by petabyt 1y ago
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.
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by petabyt 1y ago
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
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by petabyt 1y ago
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.
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Show HN: Native Immediate-Mode UI Library(github.com)
3 points by petabyt 1y ago|0 comments
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by petabyt 1y ago
In order of preference: - nextdoor - facebook marketplace - mercari - offerup - Craigslist
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by petabyt 1y ago
I use a from-scratch python script that generates a bunch of html files which are pushed to GitHub pages
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by petabyt 2y ago
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 wha

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