Hacker News: RamRodification

New comment by RamRodification in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

RamRodification — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:44:56 +0000

I'm not the person you are responding to, but Proton VPN? That's what I switched to after it turned out one of the two Mullvad founders took my money and gave it to a local lunatic politician.

New comment by RamRodification in "Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy"

RamRodification — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:24:29 +0000

Reminds me of that Michael Scott quote:

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.

New comment by RamRodification in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"

RamRodification — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:49:06 +0000

Buried? Deep down? The fourth paragraph, clearly labeled "Affected Systems", a minute or two into the read.

New comment by RamRodification in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

RamRodification — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:33:15 +0000

Just slap some solar panels on it!

New comment by RamRodification in "Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL"

RamRodification — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:06:00 +0000

Blacklist of what? I don't understand what a blacklist would be used for in this context. Specific unsupported hardware?

New comment by RamRodification in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

RamRodification — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:30:16 +0000

Having had consulting jobs working with Windows servers around 2015, this was ruined for me. Sooo many ancient out of support 2003 severs. Seeing it actually triggers some light anxiety ("oh no not another one!")

New comment by RamRodification in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

RamRodification — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:56:09 +0000

Do you know how M2 support compares to M1? Trying to figure out if M1 is the better choice for a used macbook to run Asahi on.

New comment by RamRodification in "Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months"

RamRodification — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:26:06 +0000

> Who

These dudes and dudettes playing video games

> what?

Military service

New comment by RamRodification in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

RamRodification — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:51:19 +0000

This is marketing. So probably suspected. Or somewhere in between.

New comment by RamRodification in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

RamRodification — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:51:46 +0000

That one doesn't seem to do bluetooth at all, I think?

New comment by RamRodification in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

RamRodification — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:11:59 +0000

ATM machine

New comment by RamRodification in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

RamRodification — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:03:18 +0000

Can we not allow them to continue letting you buy games (outside the launcher) and not shut up?

New comment by RamRodification in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

RamRodification — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:53:45 +0000

Thanks! I have not put much effort into mouse settings.

New comment by RamRodification in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

RamRodification — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:52:18 +0000

Thanks for sharing

New comment by RamRodification in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

RamRodification — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:55:20 +0000

The Quakes! Quake Live and Quake Champions mainly.

New comment by RamRodification in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

RamRodification — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:57:29 +0000

As a competitive old school arena FPS guy, I have also had a very hard time getting the same smoothness and low latency (input, output, whatever it is) on Linux. The games I play are very fast and twitchy, and milliseconds matter.

There seems to be too many layers and variables to ever get to the bottom of it. Is it the distro itself? Is it a Wayland vs. X11 thing? Is it the driver? The Proton version? Some G-SYNC thing? Some specific tweak that games based on this game engine needs?

New comment by RamRodification in "Linux is good now"

RamRodification — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:50:00 +0000

> It's a complete dealbreaker for competitive play

Very true, and this is the biggest issue for me when it comes to gaming on Linux. And it's not just raw FPS count. You can usually brute force your way around that with better hardware. (I'm guessing you could probably get a locked 60 in Street Fighter 6 even with a 30% performance loss?). It's things like input lag and stutter, which in my experience is almost impossible to resolve.

If it weren't for competitive shooters, I could probably go all Linux. But for now I still need to switch over to Windows for that.

New comment by RamRodification in "Linux is good now"

RamRodification — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:34:46 +0000

Are there games running at 4k 120hz?

New comment by RamRodification in "Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)"

RamRodification — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:51:27 +0000

Speaking of exaggerations, there is some hilarious marketing language on those pages. A couple of examples:

> It captures both the weight of a collapsing mountain and the whisper of tectonic tension with equal ease.

> THE100 SUB PRO PASSIVE doesn’t just play low frequencies — it summons them from the earth itself.

New comment by RamRodification in "HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)"

RamRodification — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:44:25 +0000

Right. Clients (web browsers) would have to stop using it too for it to work I guess.