Hacker News: MrBra

New comment by MrBra in "Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment"

MrBra — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:56:50 +0000

What's the genie effect?

New comment by MrBra in "Steam Machine"

MrBra — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:59:47 +0000

For me it's been super stable. I've hardly seen any bugs. And in those remote cases, it would be more correct to call them quirks than bugs, which have later been fixed anyway. I've been using for intensive gaming, AI projects, and audio production. And when I say audio production I don't say Audacity. I say recent versions of Ableton Live running on ASIO drivers with windows VSTs and Max 4 Live instruments at 5 ms latency, all of this running through Wine with an amazing Wine managing software called Bottle (hehe). As for gaming,, it's not hard to see people claming they get even more fps than they get with windows. It's not a PopOS thing, it's the Linux ecosystem that is finally getting mature enough to pull this out (this time for real). On top of this, System74, the company behind PopOS who is selling laptops with that OS, are also optimizing the kernel to make sure everything runs super smoothly... I really don't see where your "buggy as hell" is coming from.

New comment by MrBra in "Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline"

MrBra — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:00:20 +0000

we don't need an FOSS self-hosted alternative to X. We need a FOSS alternative to the cloud/hosted model such that there's distinction between the two, everything is everywhere for everyone, free. Fediverse, but better. But we're not even at Fediverse ;)

New comment by MrBra in "LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting"

MrBra — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:00:40 +0000

After switching to OnlyOffice I never looked back.

New comment by MrBra in "Railroad Tycoon II"

MrBra — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:01:09 +0000

Also, take a look at Heroic (game launcher and library with integrated Wine for GOG/Epic/Amazon Prime), available for Windows too.

What Is This Wordlist?

MrBra — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:13:02 +0000

Article URL: https://web.mit.edu/adamrose/Public/googlelist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39859862

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by MrBra in "Deploy Gemma 7B with TensorRT-LLM and achieve > 500 tok/s"

MrBra — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:47:35 +0000

Improvements in inference speed would also manifest itself on those bigger models that may only partially fit into GPU VRAM. In some cases, the improvement on the GPU side alone, is strong enough to basically turn what you would previously consider a too-slow-to-be-usable higher quality model, into a faster, usable one.

Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal

MrBra — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 06:03:38 +0000

Article URL: https://castle-engine.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39426631

Points: 327

# Comments: 99

Choose the Browser Carefully

MrBra — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:50:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/choose-your-browser-carefully.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832840

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by MrBra in "DALL·E 3"

MrBra — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:51:43 +0000

What's a peleton? Genuine question from a non native English speaker.

Video Steganography – Hide Your secret videos inside any other videos

MrBra — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:50:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Amritaryal44/Video-Steganography

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479632

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ways to Steer Network Traffic to a Proxy

MrBra — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 16:40:26 +0000

Article URL: https://aembit.io/blog/ways-to-steer-network-traffic-to-a-proxy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37371794

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by MrBra in "Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable"

MrBra — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 03:36:39 +0000

Also you can right-click a playlist and select "Exclude this from musical profiling" (translated from my native language). I did that for many older playlists I'm no longer into, and this seemed to cause a significant steer in weekly recommendations which have since turned to be much more in line with my current tastes.

New comment by MrBra in "Clone-a-Lisa"

MrBra — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 03:16:26 +0000

But the Clone-a-Lisa page does not use a native dark theme, and the problem seem to be just with the paint colors, which in my case for some reason are altered by Dark Reader. It could also be that it was a temporarily glitch as I've noticed that color manipulation by Dark Reader can be inconsistent at times (could be due to DOM loading timing and stuff like that).

New comment by MrBra in "Clone-a-Lisa"

MrBra — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 01:56:54 +0000

This doesn't work well with browser extensions which darken web pages color themes (like "Dark Reader"), as all the painting colors will be rendered to black.

I know It might be obvious but having those extension always on I tend to forget they sometime can cause some visibility issues, so I'm leaving this here :)

Physical Neural Network Can Be Trained Like a Digital One

MrBra — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 11:29:04 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2023/07/20/physical-neural-network-can-be-trained-like-a-digital-one/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825338

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by MrBra in "Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo"

MrBra — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:03:43 +0000

Or better: the web ate the OS resources. Or better: an app ate the OS resources.

Which is exactly what resources are for, when eating is performed correctly :)

New comment by MrBra in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

MrBra — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:56:23 +0000

Ok, now take the number of years during which Firefox was slower and calculate an averaged value of its speed. This will account for all the frustration it would have caused switching to it in the past. Being faster for 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, and probably even for 2 years wouldn't be enough to cause a big change in that averaged value. And that would also measure how much of a guarateed good choice would be switching to Firefox right now. As soon as it will stay faster for enough time to smooth out the differences then I'll start consider using it.

I've been a Firefox advocate and user for many years, but then about 6 years ago I had to face the hard truth of how bad it performed with lots of tabs open, and how much of a pain I was causing myself for not switching to a Chromium powered browser.

About one month ago, I've checked it out again under the same conditions... and sadly it's still not even close to competitors' memory management.

New comment by MrBra in "GPT-4 API General Availability"

MrBra — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 06:17:08 +0000

What's the best LLM I could run on a 12 GB VRAM GPU (Nvidia) ?

Engineers harvest abundant clean energy from thin air, 24/7

MrBra — Wed, 31 May 2023 04:12:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230524181948.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134375

Points: 1

# Comments: 0