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New comment by bfrog in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

bfrog — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:42:24 +0000

Nah they'd rather try to continue to force snapdragon on windows where no one actually cares about this and the experience is trash.

AArch64 is dead for Windows and client Linux, and the knife is in Qualcomm's hands.

New comment by bfrog in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

bfrog — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:38:53 +0000

Ah yes, the qualcomm way. Rather than upstreaming things so it just works make a Qualcomm Linux, perhaps with NDA and laywer speak to sign off on to get access to anything at all, all to use their mediocre hardware.

Qualcomm you suck, upstream your drivers, make it open. Stop faffing about with closed proprietary junk. Somehow Intel, Tenstorrent, and AMD understand this but you don't. You aren't NVIDIA! Even if you were NVIDIA know that people absolutely despise that model.

New comment by bfrog in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

bfrog — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:28:31 +0000

Sitting in a modern pickup is worse than a school bus for visibility. You cannot see in front of the truck at all. Real blue collar work seems to mostly have moved to work vans like the sprinter which have much better visibility, much more friendly height for storing, can still tow, etc.

Pickups are 1000% pointless now

New comment by bfrog in "Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack"

bfrog — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:21:58 +0000

I’m moving all my machines to NixOS. I’d done this before but ran into time constraints creating ports for convoluted binary software. With LLMs now as good as they are it’s quite possible this isn’t a problem anymore. I’ll be finding out.

New comment by bfrog in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bfrog — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:49:40 +0000

Wild. A great book by Clive had this exact sort of scenario where an AI so powerful it could break into any system. In typical Cussler fashion there was some Indiana Jones/Laura Croft mysticism around it but still…

The modern world is a wild place!

New comment by bfrog in "Claude Fable 5"

bfrog — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:09:22 +0000

How do you measure the performance of people? This is subjective and biased every time.

New comment by bfrog in "C constructs that still don't work in C++"

bfrog — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:13:55 +0000

There is no inherit in Rust. If you choose to try and do OOP horror Rust makes this fairly painful

New comment by bfrog in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

bfrog — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:06:31 +0000

Isn’t this effectively a mediocre MediaTek SoC glued with an over priced GPU with an OS that’s barely usable and I guess the ask is $5k? What a deal!

New comment by bfrog in "C constructs that still don't work in C++"

bfrog — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:59:26 +0000

C++ the good parts is essentially C. If C had the concept of traits and generics or something like them like Rust there’d be no need for C++ and its ideas of mediocre inheritance and macros (templates).

New comment by bfrog in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

bfrog — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:17:47 +0000

Xilinx has often thought of the software as the special sauce that sets them apart it seems like.

At this point its a net negative. Nothing like a massive bloated Vivado that now requires a slow spywareOS to run its rotting carcass of gigabytes (100's) of java.

About the only good thing Vivado does is fail to synthesize correctly... oh wait that's a mystery bug that I and many others have run into. And impossible to understand why.

FPGA tooling desperately needs open source tooling like C needed GCC.

New comment by bfrog in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

bfrog — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:08:05 +0000

Why would customers trust a company that does rug pull penny pinching moves like this? Tells me a lot.

New comment by bfrog in "Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git"

bfrog — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:23:23 +0000

radicle is awesome and Just Works from what I've tried of it

New comment by bfrog in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bfrog — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:40:54 +0000

Funny, I need an LLM to figure out what most people consider "readable" python as its highly unreadable to me. The lack of types, top to bottom flow, and more tends to make it all very confusing for me to read anything python that's > ~1000loc

New comment by bfrog in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

bfrog — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:45:16 +0000

I asked claude if it thought openclaw was better. It said it didn't know what openclaw was.

New comment by bfrog in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

bfrog — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:53:04 +0000

I mean best of luck policing this is all I'm going to say. We will soon be back to the "core contributors only" kind of policy in many projects I imagine to avoid the slop spam. The verification will be at the conferences.

New comment by bfrog in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

bfrog — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:05:43 +0000

I'm not sure how you could really take a stance on this. If someone used the tool to expedite work its unlikely you'd ever know it.

If you use the tool to yeah, go one shot a ton of garbage then it will in fact be garbage.

New comment by bfrog in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

bfrog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:26:03 +0000

radicle.xyz also does the distributed/seeded forge setup and I think does a nice job of it already.

New comment by bfrog in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

bfrog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:54:17 +0000

I wonder if radicle.xyz will start taking off, as there is no corporate entity hanging over its head, and never likely will be.

New comment by bfrog in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

bfrog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:53:33 +0000

GitHub lost its way right around the time it was bought by a large corporate entity.

Had they remained independent I have no doubt it'd be a very different story.

New comment by bfrog in "Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM"

bfrog — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:31:46 +0000

It all runs better with Linux, Linux isn’t wasting cycles spying on me.