Hacker News: ajvs

New comment by ajvs in "Yggdrasil Network"

ajvs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:08:12 +0000

Was evaluating this recently, the lack of NAT busting was a dealbreaker.

New comment by ajvs in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

ajvs — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:20:27 +0000

They know their software and update story sucks, so partnering with a company which promises to handle all that and they have an existing audience means they'll sell a lot more of that model.

New comment by ajvs in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

ajvs — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:42:09 +0000

Do you do that for Android?

New comment by ajvs in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

ajvs — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:37:08 +0000

It's likely just a codename for now.

New comment by ajvs in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

ajvs — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:24:23 +0000

Just think about how few Android devices have an open bootloader right now, there's no reason to think it'd be any different on larger hardware.

New comment by ajvs in "Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC"

ajvs — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:10:38 +0000

A big part of it is chipmakers deprecating S3 sleep in favour of Modern Standby.

New comment by ajvs in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

ajvs — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:17:38 +0000

> Unfortunately it seems supporting Linux natively is pretty quickly moving target

With the container-based approach of the Steam Linux Runtime this should no longer be a problem. Games can just target a particular version and Steam will be able to run it forevermore.

New comment by ajvs in "I don’t need a Steam Machine"

ajvs — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:14:13 +0000

And this is due to Valve's big investments in Proton, Steam Deck and the new Steam hardware to get game compatibility working from both the Linux/Wine side as well as making game developers aim for compatibility.

New comment by ajvs in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

ajvs — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:28:15 +0000

The anti-cheat creators other than Valve aren't bothered to invest into making a Linux kernel anti-cheat, and most Linux users would be unwilling to allow one to be installed either.

New comment by ajvs in "Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta"

ajvs — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:34:37 +0000

For several days it wasn't viewable to many people, even if you specifically searched for it[1], YouTube later addressed the outrage and resolved this[2].

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1850982018064269423 [2] https://x.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1851016296269242434

New comment by ajvs in "Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta"

ajvs — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:22:08 +0000

> the pervasive myth that conservative voices are somehow being censored or silenced, despite lots of evidence that conservative rage-bait gets disproprotionately more distribution on recommendation algorithms

It can be true that both conservative content gets more widely shared AND that they're still being censored.

There were countless high-profile conservatives banned from pre-Musk Twitter, YouTube and other social media. Likewise there's clear and obvious cases of conservative content being silenced like Donald Trump's interview on Joe Rogan kept off the YouTube trending page as the most recent example.

But these are specific cases, you claim there's lots of evidence that conservatives on the whole get more distribution. I'm not sure I believe that without seeing your purported evidence, but even if studies proved that were the case it doesn't negate the fact that simultaneously there's a large amount of conservatives being censored on top of that, preventing their distribution from going even further.

New comment by ajvs in "DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]"

ajvs — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:01:13 +0000

Or just don't fork Chromium at all and Google can make the upstream their recommended browser.

New comment by ajvs in "DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]"

ajvs — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:59:11 +0000

A huge amount of their products require browser access, having a good UX to access them off in their best interest.

New comment by ajvs in "Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds"

ajvs — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:54:38 +0000

If you're going to the official domains linked from their Wikipedia article then there's definitely no malware.

New comment by ajvs in "ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives"

ajvs — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:36:05 +0000

How do you set this up? I found this relevant issue[1] but it doesn't explain how to get it working.

[1] https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/211

New comment by ajvs in "Restic: Backups done right"

ajvs — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 06:10:56 +0000

Relevant: Borg 2.x now supports rclone to allow S3-compatible hosts.

New comment by ajvs in "Restic: Backups done right"

ajvs — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 06:08:37 +0000

Not sure but I know that Vorta (borg GUI) does automatic consistency checking using `borg check ` regularly.

New comment by ajvs in "BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH"

ajvs — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 08:08:46 +0000

Vorta (GUI for BorgBackup) will also opportunistically backup if it's overdue for a backup.

New comment by ajvs in "Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%"

ajvs — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:00:03 +0000

The new Nexus Mods App is cross-platform https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App

New comment by ajvs in "Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%"

ajvs — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:46:09 +0000

It really hasn't got it still unfortunately. Been waiting for hot-unplug support for years, eGPU gaming is still not viable on Linux https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1081