Hacker News: aruggirello

New comment by aruggirello in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

aruggirello — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:46:46 +0000

> It had a weird 1024x600 display panel, and a lot of applications expect you to have at least 1024x768

On Debian at least, Alt+grab, or the window menu "move" could save your day.

New comment by aruggirello in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

aruggirello — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:30:11 +0000

The rich swe has no children, he only has AI agents.

New comment by aruggirello in "Show HN: Ustps (UDP Speedy Transmission Protocol Secure) and USSH"

aruggirello — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:32:25 +0000

Sounds interesting, and promising! I'm no expert in streaming videos, but your shell reminded me of mosh [1]. Mosh's auth approach is also interesting - it leverages ssh for authentication, something that you might consider too. Mosh unfortunately has shortcomings though - mainly, it lacks tunneling ability.

[1] https://mosh.org

New comment by aruggirello in "Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M"

aruggirello — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:03:17 +0000

> With its "wayland-only" future it will leave behind several linux users.

This is so sad. Something like this already happened two decades ago - when GNOME 3 arrived, and KDE 4 - rough times, things broke and I had to do some distro (and DE) hopping - before settling again. Whenever you start to see a project mature and stable enough in Linux land, maybe even starts to gain unexpected traction, soon somebody decides it's time to "move fast and break things".

I sincerely hope KDE reconsiders X11 support; IIRC they proposed to keep it if the community showed still enough interest. Of course maintaining a dual stack requires double the effort, but if funding comes in, come on, maybe there's enough resources to keep X11 support alive - if feature freezed - a couple years more. There's still a few rough edges around Wayland that prevent me and others to switch.

New comment by aruggirello in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

aruggirello — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:49:04 +0000

Sorry, you're right. My assumption was that, given meteorites are metal rich, and two orders of magnitude more mass, the human contribution was negligible. It turns out I was wrong.

New comment by aruggirello in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

aruggirello — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:39:08 +0000

LEO satellites come down on their own in a few months/years. 100 tons of metal burning in the atmosphere seems a lot, but it's barely the total mass of meteorites falling in 24-48 hours, actually.

New comment by aruggirello in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

aruggirello — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:55:13 +0000

Smooth scrolling also worked on the Amiga Cygnus Editor in 1986 - yes, 40 years ago - on a computer with 512Kb RAM and a ~7MHz 68000 CPU, and from keyboard too. And Zed complains at launch if it doesn't find a suitable Vulkan GPU driver, since the fallback CPU driver does not provide a smooth enough experience, despite 4-5 orders of magnitude more RAM, and a ~3 orders of magnitude faster CPU, than a 40 years old Amiga...

New comment by aruggirello in "Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts"

aruggirello — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:15:26 +0000

I tried it with Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B UD-IQ3_XXS on an RTX 5060 Ti with 16Gb - the convert step succeeded, but upon loading the converted model I encountered:

    Model load deferred: 'Qwen3_5Config' object has no attribute 'vocab_size'

My transformers version is up to date, and using AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained() should not raise this exception - what's going on here?

New comment by aruggirello in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

aruggirello — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:12:44 +0000

Thanks! I'm... unimpressed.

New comment by aruggirello in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

aruggirello — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:01:54 +0000

Minisforum, Gmktec also have Ryzen AI HX 370 mini PCs with 128Gb (2x64Gb) max LPDDR5. It's dirt cheap, you can get one barebone with ~€750 on Amazon (the 395 similarly retails for ~€1k)... It should be fully supported in Ubuntu 25.04 or 25.10 with ROCm for iGPU inference (NPU isn't available ATM AFAIK), which is what I'd use it for. But I just don't know how the HX 370 compares to eg. the 395, iGPU-wise. I was thinking of getting one to run Lemonade, Qwen3-coder-next FP8, BTW... but I don't know how much RAM should I equip it with - shouldn't 96Gb be enough? Suggestions welcome!

New comment by aruggirello in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

aruggirello — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:34:38 +0000

Debian Testing isn't really unstable - the dev wasn't exaggerating. But I'd also suggest Kubuntu (you can remove snap and all of its packages, and install Firefox and Thunderbird .deb's from the Mozilla repo)

New comment by aruggirello in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

aruggirello — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:20:56 +0000

> That is curated search done right.

Adding keywords in the relevant .desktop files should be enough to make this work in other DE's too. I just tried it in KDE (by adding a 'comment=... (like notepad)' line in ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop), it works as expected

New comment by aruggirello in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

aruggirello — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:46:13 +0000

Not much? Google would still have cloud services (which unlike Azure adoption depending on Windows/Office, only basically depend on the Internet), Gemini and Google Drive paid subscriptions, their flagship Pixel line...

New comment by aruggirello in "What has Docker become?"

aruggirello — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:40:29 +0000

I'm replacing Dropbox with Unison [0] over ssh, BTW. It's a great piece of software (multiplatform, and it even has a GUI).

[0] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison

New comment by aruggirello in "GitHub Incident"

aruggirello — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:59:16 +0000

Clippy to the rescue! :-)

New comment by aruggirello in "Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)"

aruggirello — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:09:28 +0000

WinXP in a (properly configured) VM boots, runs faster than Win7, Win10 - at least under Linux. It is plagued by compatibility issues though - eg. no modern HTTPS, no modern browser, .NET issues, insecure SMB... you really need to know what you're doing.

But armed with TuneXP 15, a recent AVG, CCleaner XP 1.38, sdelete, and WinKeyFinder175 (to be used together with UMSKT, basically the only way to reactivate it when your tweaking efforts inevitably trigger the - now broken - activation), you can start your adventure. No modern browser, mind you, though eg. "supermium 122" works, and don't forget read-only VMs or snapshots are your friends. I couldn't get virtio working, because VirtualBox 7 had a regression with it, so stick with emulated AHCI since VirtualBox 6 is so ...passé

New comment by aruggirello in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

aruggirello — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:14:21 +0000

Yeah the real mistake was starting with Endeavour. I wonder just how many people are turned off by their initial Linux experience because they choose stuff like Arch, Gentoo, or some obscure variant rather than Fedora, Kubuntu or Mint. Even stuff like Bazzite is probably an odd choice for a novice - though it would have handled that failed nVidia upgrade nicely.

New comment by aruggirello in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

aruggirello — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:02:50 +0000

Not so sure :(

https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy...

New comment by aruggirello in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

aruggirello — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:17:27 +0000

Not really equivalent to Lightroom, and not remotely a replacement, but there's Corel AfterShot Pro [1] (source: about 15 years ago, I was one of the (1?) proud Linux users of Bibble 5, its predecessor)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_AfterShot_Pro

New comment by aruggirello in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

aruggirello — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:10:57 +0000

Right, but it's a minor annoyance, get rid of it with:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge unattended-upgrades

(doesn't trigger removal of anything else, and you'll enjoy 420kb of additional disk space).

OTOH the real issue with Ubuntu is snap(d). Snap packages definitely do auto-update. You may want to uninstall the whole snap system - it's (still?) perfectly possible, if a little bit convoluted, due to some infamous snaps like firefox, thunderbird, chromium, or eg. certbot on servers

Or just use Debian or any snap-free fork for the matter.

Edit: fixed