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New comment by 5G_activated in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

5G_activated — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:27:42 +0000

Who was actually using yt-dlp with bun? The primary use is to solve JavaScript challenges sent by YouTube, which uses Deno by default.

To be fair, I'm not quite sure why it would prefer either Deno or Bun when it's far more likely that a user has Node on their system.

New comment by 5G_activated in "Why High FOV Sucks – Fixing It with Panini Projection"

5G_activated — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:47:10 +0000

there is a long standing problem in Team Fortress 2 where the default FOV is 75, as it was on the console ports of the Orange Box, and it's believed to turn off a lot of new players and enrage regulars because they just don't see things in the periphery that everyone else playing at the maximum FOV of 90 does.

New comment by 5G_activated in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

5G_activated — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:23:23 +0000

i'd be surprised if there are more users of cachy than bazzite.

what gets missed is that bazzite is, to borrow video game parlance, a mod of fedora's atomic desktops. every piece created to build and maintain the system is on github. it's not rocket science, it's a collection of dockerfiles, rpm specs, config files and github actions workflows. and fedora is not going away any time soon.

New comment by 5G_activated in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

5G_activated — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:19:10 +0000

it was clearly bad enough for everyone else to decide that they didn't want to put up with him anymore. which is what happens in the real world.

online, everyone considers themselves a public figure. and because we can't seem to get shot of public figures, whether they be rapists, homophobes, or just arseholes, alleged or proven, they believe, logically, you shouldn't be able to be rid of them.

offline, if you have someone who makes your life a misery, you tell them to fuck off.

New comment by 5G_activated in "Intel will start making GPUs"

5G_activated — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:22:01 +0000

intel has been making graphics silicon since the 90s, the current discrete graphics effort has been going for at least a decade, and in areas like low power video decode and encode it could be argued intel is class-leading. the concept of the "GPU" is a quarter of a century old. this is an especially poor article, especially for a publication running as long as techcrunch.

New comment by 5G_activated in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

5G_activated — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:05:16 +0000

so its a marketing problem, irregardless of whether it's in systemd's tree because the systemd maintainers want to maintain it in-tree

New comment by 5G_activated in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

5G_activated — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:01:59 +0000

and grub is a rotting pile while systemd-boot is a simple boot entry multiplexer that rides off the kernel's capability of being run as an EFI executable, it just happens to live in systemd's tree. not a good example