Hacker News: azzentys

New comment by azzentys in "Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0"

azzentys — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:49:20 +0000

MN is the reason I'm there. It's pretty fun.

New comment by azzentys in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

azzentys — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:02:02 +0000

Sadly, that's not a great answer where most banks are going towards the same direction. It's also convenient to use a phone for banking.

New comment by azzentys in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

azzentys — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:32:23 +0000

There are farmers who join agricultural co-ops to do similar things. I've seen few operate differently - the co-op owns the machines and maintains a bunch of operators. These are requested by farmers who want work done - spraying, tilling, harvesting, etc.

New comment by azzentys in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

azzentys — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:40:06 +0000

That's untrue. I know a farmer, who buys a John Deere combine before harvest. It stays unused until his harvests are done, and returns it by end of harvest season incurring $30k on this entire transaction. Why does he do that? Because he has two weeks to finish up harvesting or start incurring losses on his harvest. Farmer does care about saving costs/losses AND getting the job done in time.

New comment by azzentys in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

azzentys — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:43:49 +0000

This is a great initiative. However, I feel that "no-tech" shouldn't be a target and that isn't necessarily good. Ex. Precision tech helps reduce operator fatigue and increases efficiency with respect to equipment operation time and material used.

This isn't to say that tech can't be shoved in every other panel on the tractor - but hope this drives Big companies towards considering where tech is necessary and where it's not.

New comment by azzentys in "Working example of a Yocto setup without unnecessary complications"

azzentys — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:30:53 +0000

> However, I don't like new files as patches. I really prefer to have my device tree be a dts file that I bring in instead of bundled into a patch. Maybe I'm not following the guidelines, but I think it's nicer to be able to search for dts things in .dts files and I get nice syntax highlighting and whatnot.

This is what I do on custom boards. It's better to "look" at files and link to others when they're files and not patches.

New comment by azzentys in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

azzentys — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:14:42 +0000

https://rust-for-linux.com/ shows a list.

New comment by azzentys in "Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand"

azzentys — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:42:00 +0000

I'd start from this - https://www.coursera.org/specializations/advanced-embedded-l...

I studied under him at the university. He's also active in open source communities around embedded space.

New comment by azzentys in "Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand"

azzentys — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:39:13 +0000

A lot of work here is working on vendor provided BSP (which can range from esoteric mix of ancient kernels/bootloaders to top-quality community maintained mainline kernels) to work on your custom board/product.

New comment by azzentys in "I've Soured on Open Source"

azzentys — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:33:03 +0000

> I just cannot see trading away these to maintain software.

That's fine. Not everyone has to do OSS. It's similar to volunteering for charity (weak analogy).

New comment by azzentys in "Nginx has moved to GitHub"

azzentys — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:28:25 +0000

Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see.

Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser.

Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?

New comment by azzentys in "Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)"

azzentys — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:54:00 +0000

Curious: What does "writer's mind" mean with respect to deepening meditation practice?

New comment by azzentys in "MessagEase decided to go subscription-based, here's some alternatives"

azzentys — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:35:44 +0000

Thanks for this thread. It's sad that I will have to switch to another keyboard.

New comment by azzentys in "PostmarketOS in 2024-01: Infrastructure and bug reports"

azzentys — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:42:05 +0000

Thanks a lot! :)

New comment by azzentys in "Forget spaceships; I just want my music"

azzentys — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:33:09 +0000

Thanks, that's valuable

New comment by azzentys in "Wine 9.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS"

azzentys — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 04:41:28 +0000

The day Altium ends up running properly under Wine - is the day I remove the Windows installation on my device.

New comment by azzentys in "Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023"

azzentys — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:05:28 +0000

This is true. I think I stopped pirating games - as soon as I could afford Steam games. Only rarely pirate games to "try" them out - then buy it on Steam. It also helps that they've gotten easy to run on Linux.

New comment by azzentys in "Enums in Rust – and why they feel better"

azzentys — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:38:03 +0000

I think that's one of the important features why I LOVE Rust! I recently wrote a Chip-8 emulator and creating an enum with all commands = AMAZING!

(I come from C/Embedded world)

New comment by azzentys in "Linux and TPMs with systemd measured boot [video]"

azzentys — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 17:51:12 +0000

I'm curious if open source TPM would mean easier side-channel attacks. What's the reason everyone is super hush-hush around how their Hardware Security works?

New comment by azzentys in "Good times create weak men (2019)"

azzentys — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:51:23 +0000

and boredom, so the kids would venture into the field of interest on their own vs forced to do.