Hacker News: away_throw

New comment by away_throw in "A Way to Manage Dotfiles"

away_throw — Wed, 12 May 2021 21:38:55 +0000

I have a `.gitignore` file with `*` in it to ignore all files, so I explicitly type `dotfiles add --force`.

New comment by away_throw in "PinePhone Beta"

away_throw — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:56:09 +0000

Hardware still uses a single band WLAN. Unfortunately, I won't be able to use it because of this. The 2.4GHz band in my apartment complex is severely degraded due to the sheer amount of channel conflicts. My Netgear router can only handle 2-5Mbps.

New comment by away_throw in "Out of the top fifty games on Steam, 70% work on Linux"

away_throw — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:26:00 +0000

While I don't think there is anything exactly like that, I believe Geary and Mailspring come close. I personally use aerc, a CLI email client.

New comment by away_throw in "Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux"

away_throw — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:58:18 +0000

The RX 480 is far from ancient and is probably one of the best cards that I've used. When I RMA'd my RX 5700XT (which still crashes after RMA), this thing was a champ. This card is still king for 1080p gaming and can handle 1440p too.

New comment by away_throw in "Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux"

away_throw — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:50:56 +0000

The restarting issue also occurs for me on Windows 10. Although, it usually occurs 80% of the time rather than half for me. I suspect it might be due to me plugging in power to the headset after starting the system, but I've seen it occur without doing that as well, so I am unsure.

New comment by away_throw in "Fish Shell 3.2"

away_throw — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:34:37 +0000

Probably my favorite feature with fish is the improved globs. I can do

  **.pdf

to recursively get all pdfs or

  *{.flac,.mp3}

to only get flac and mp3 files from a directory.

New comment by away_throw in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

away_throw — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 23:05:27 +0000

It's highly unlikely you are going to get banned on GTA even with cheats. The anti-cheat is a joke. The game is filled to the brim with cheaters. If me and my friends play, we play with cheats just to protect ourselves from other cheaters.

New comment by away_throw in "Ask HN: What websites do you visit every day?"

away_throw — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:24:23 +0000

I don't browse it daily though. I browse it nightly ;).

New comment by away_throw in "Wayland on Wine: A First Update"

away_throw — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:37:29 +0000

I have yet to experience this. Granted XWayland makes any utilities not running in Wayland work perfectly for me. The only issues that I have ran into were because of screen-sharing not being supported by Electron. OBS works perfectly though. However, keep in mind that I use sway. I've heard horror stories from KDE and Gnome running on Wayland, but, as far as I know, this is because they apparently have terrible implementations. The benefits for me are the lack of screen tearing and Wayland just feels smoother.

New comment by away_throw in "Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 savings for its lifetime"

away_throw — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:53:18 +0000

The question is where to source alternatives. It is significantly harder to find products from alternative sources. For some products, the only solution is DIY.

New comment by away_throw in "I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit"

away_throw — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:30:32 +0000

That's true. Hopefully Ozone will be officially released in Chromium/Electron which will make this as simple as that. At least in Discord, XOrg screenshare always gave me trouble.

New comment by away_throw in "I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit"

away_throw — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:23:10 +0000

I believe that this is being fixed soon if you compile Electron with "Ozone" support. Otherwise, I use the current workaround of using OBS with a "virtual webcam" which allows me to stream OBS to a webcam and just use my webcam as the screenshare. Actually ends up working better than any screenshare utility that I've used.

New comment by away_throw in "Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google"

away_throw — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:53:48 +0000

Still waiting on a Luxembourg KVM slice to come in stock.

New comment by away_throw in "Fuck Cloud Messaging"

away_throw — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:35:24 +0000

True, it's definitely not a daily driver at the moment, but the software will mature.

My friend has one with an ATT sim, and calls+SMS works just fine on postmarketOS. The UI is really sluggish though.

New comment by away_throw in "Fuck Cloud Messaging"

away_throw — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:30:00 +0000

Until the PinePhone gets 5Ghz, its unusable for me. I live in an apartment and 2.4Ghz has like 15% packet loss and only has 2Mbps downloads with stuttering and slow loads.

New comment by away_throw in "Ask HN: How many email addresses do you actively use?"

away_throw — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 21:06:57 +0000

Three Emails:

- accounts@domain.tld - Catch All for emails for services (account/@domain.tld)

- handle@domain.tld - Personal Email

- first@domain.tld - Work/Professional Email

New comment by away_throw in "Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice"

away_throw — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:43:01 +0000

This is why I always use PDFs as the slides. Even if there is no PDF viewer, the web browser is capable of opening it.

New comment by away_throw in "Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later"

away_throw — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 21:58:32 +0000

50% since they announced a third Half Life game.

New comment by away_throw in "Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming"

away_throw — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:59:15 +0000

I'm just entering the field (19-yo), and I don't have an particular experience in the field yet. From people I've talked to, jobs that you describe are the best options. I'm particularly interested in government jobs for these reasons.

New comment by away_throw in "OnePlus Hit by Data Breach"

away_throw — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 23:09:23 +0000

The great thing about OnePlus phones is that nearly all of them have LineageOS support. I just install this over OxygenOS. Also when I installed OxygenOS, I recall it asking if I wanted to provide analytics to them in the setup process.