Hacker News: AmVess

New comment by AmVess in "Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo"

AmVess — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:16:30 +0000

Exactly this. I own the Framework desktop board. I knew all of its limitations before I bought it, and it's ok to play with on a hobby level, but it isn't much more than a Radio Shack toy.

That memory bandwidth is painful. It's like trying to fill an Olympic swimming pool with a thimble.

It is excellent as a regular PC, though.

New comment by AmVess in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

AmVess — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:21:20 +0000

Solo developer just means they developed the game themselves, not made it all themselves. I'm not sure how you could write what you wrote without that occurring to you.

New comment by AmVess in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

AmVess — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:11:02 +0000

I moved across states a few years ago. In the old neighborhood, people would be drunk and lighting that crap off for hours and hours. Completely moronic and thoughtless.

Here, it is illegal. First offense is a fine, second offense is jail.

New comment by AmVess in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

AmVess — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:42:27 +0000

Nope. Genuinely made my new Mac Mini feel broken. The only fix was going back to Sequoia.

New comment by AmVess in "Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement"

AmVess — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:10:13 +0000

The same Europe where people who criticize the rapist of their child does more time for causing offense than the rapist did for the actual rape? THAT Europe?

New comment by AmVess in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

AmVess — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:44:05 +0000

Have to pay for the pending war with Cuba somehow.

New comment by AmVess in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

AmVess — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:48:09 +0000

OP was not successful because they didn't want to fix the problems he discussed. I have been in the same exact situation, and no level of communication skills would have been successful in changing their minds.

New comment by AmVess in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

AmVess — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:40:00 +0000

That is absolutely insane.

New comment by AmVess in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

AmVess — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:04:12 +0000

Running Windows in outer space takes some pretty big balls. Gives me a cold sweat just thinking about it.

New comment by AmVess in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

AmVess — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:21:48 +0000

Yeah. I have one. People buying the Framework Desktop mainboard aren't buying it just for gaming. There are better and far cheaper options for gaming. What this does is everything, though. Good enough for 1440p gaming. 16c/32t powerful CPU, it can run LLM's. SFF main pc that can do everything in a tiny space is a win.

New comment by AmVess in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

AmVess — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:15:05 +0000

That PCI slot has low power output, not suitable for what people would plug into it. Easier to cover it than run into support problems. It won't run a GPU directly. It will run an Oculink card which will allow use of an egpu.

New comment by AmVess in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

AmVess — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:34:23 +0000

Or the mountain of returns they have to deal with on a daily basis. I signed up for Xmas, bought some things. ALL of them returned. This isn't a counterfeit issue on my end, but the simple fact that everything they sell is garbage.

New comment by AmVess in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

AmVess — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:28:11 +0000

That's not how commercial real estate works.

New comment by AmVess in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

AmVess — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:25:30 +0000

No one sells $4 lunch bowls in the US because no one wants to work for minimum wage for 12 hours a day. The article makes it seem like a great idea, but people in Japan who run these stores work like dogs and live in poverty for their whole lives.

New comment by AmVess in "2025 was the year Xbox died"

AmVess — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:06:24 +0000

80 billion spent buying game studios with essentially nothing to show for it. Pretty amazing to think that money holds 0 value to these people.

New comment by AmVess in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"

AmVess — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:32:13 +0000

Yes, it works. The state that I used to reside in has draconian DUI/Traffic laws, and not coincidentally low traffic death rates.

Driving with license revoked or suspended was a serious charge and resulted in impound of vehicle and mandatory jail time. Repeat offenders would have their vehicles seized.

DUI laws similarly brutal. 2nd time offenders faced potentially life-altering charges and penalties. Get into an accident with injury to another person while DUI? Huge jail time. Felony DUI results in permanent loss of driving privileges.

Speeding 20 over the limit? Enjoy your reckless driving charge which is as serious a dui charge.

I read that getting a license back after a 2nd dui carries and average cost of $50k. Getting 2 dui's within 10 years automatically bumped 2nd dui to felony....no more driving for you.

Lax driving laws and penalties do nothing more than get a lot of people killed.

New comment by AmVess in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

AmVess — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:08:27 +0000

Sales drove off a cliff. The larger problem is that Ford has lost multiples of tens of billions trying to do EV's.

New comment by AmVess in "The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade"

AmVess — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:11:13 +0000

I have to laugh at the absurdity of a German company evaluating quality and reliability of vehicles.

New comment by AmVess in "Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control"

AmVess — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:35:54 +0000

Perhaps not, but Linux desktop marketshare doubled in 2024. It is still minuscule, but it doesn't take much for a movement like this to take off. Microsoft continues to make Windows 11 impossible to install for the average user up to and including not all that rare scenarios where it cannot be installed at all.

Conversely, 15 minutes to install, fully patched, and ready to go Linux distro is a hugely attractive alternative to Windows. There are 3 viable gaming distros, and the underlying tech continues to evolve. It is already invisible to most games.

New comment by AmVess in "Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots"

AmVess — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:11:19 +0000

The same thing we are doing now: nothing. The poor already aren't customers, and what remains of the middle class is already being priced out of basic necessities.

Have no fear, they are gunning for the upper class, now. A quick glance at big tech gutting their ranks is just the beginning for high wage earners.

History shall repeat itself, and many of those jobs will vanish forever.