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New comment by cromka in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

cromka — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:45:08 +0000

Still can't help the fact memory management on macOS is vastly better with its use of pages compression and unlimited swap.

New comment by cromka in "Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?"

cromka — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:35:50 +0000

WHAT

New comment by cromka in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

cromka — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:31:55 +0000

>You have a buggy program.

As in memory leak? No.

> Zswap has been available for quite a while.

Zsawp is not Zram, which is a distant relative of the macOS on-the-fly compression I was talking about. Zram is buggy and still advised against regular use (https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1i3mdrw/comment..., https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-...). Zsawp itself is enabled by default in Asahi.

Zram and Zsawp are mutually exclusive on Linux. On macOS, both concepts coexist – except macOS is able to compress individual memory pages (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300432) on the fly. Zram is a compressed RAM block device with a hard capacity limit.

There is really no comparison here at this point. macOS is vastly superior in that regard.

New comment by cromka in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

cromka — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:13:03 +0000

I never run out of memory on macoOS on my M1 Air 16GB. Now that I use Asahi on it, I had plenty of OoM crashes.

macOS is really good at memory management, including the compression and offloading to the fast SSD.

New comment by cromka in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

cromka — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:10:24 +0000

This. People really underestimate or straight up ignore resale value of Apple products. Just because you can upgrade a Framework laptop it doesn't make it a better value over the long term.

New comment by cromka in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

cromka — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:13:33 +0000

LOL

New comment by cromka in "Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?"

cromka — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:29:51 +0000

Unironically, living on a boat and working on my own thing is my dream right now.

New comment by cromka in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

cromka — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:58:20 +0000

> all of human ingredients

Depending on who you ask, this may also sound misleading

New comment by cromka in "Ferrari Luce"

cromka — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:25:24 +0000

> sell some EV

This might be a problem, then.

New comment by cromka in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

cromka — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:01:48 +0000

There's red one as well.

New comment by cromka in "Ferrari Luce"

cromka — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:00:44 +0000

But the point made was about build quality soecifi8

New comment by cromka in "Ferrari Luce"

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:35:07 +0000

Cars like this is why restomods are getting big

New comment by cromka in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:40:04 +0000

Possibly, but try this yourself to see how irritating Google can be:

https://www.google.com/search?q=marine+nav+compass+card

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=marine+nav+compass+card

New comment by cromka in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:39:01 +0000

https://www.google.com/search?q=marine+nav+compass+card

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=marine+nav+compass+card

It's all products and ads now with Google with anything vague enough that warrants up-selling for them.

New comment by cromka in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:37:21 +0000

https://www.google.com/search?q=marine+nav+compass+card

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=marine+nav+compass+card

New comment by cromka in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:56:53 +0000

It did for me, I can no longer find any GitHub project. Duck duck returns them on first try. Absolutely ridiculous, couldn't believe my eyes when I finally realized that. I get a ton of ads and product placements on first couple pages. What I search for is literally, word for word, name of the repository and it's not ambiguous.

New comment by cromka in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:52:35 +0000

What you described only works if the manufacturers agree to price fix. Otherwise, in a free market, they'll race to increase their earnings by meeting the demand.

Europe Braces for Record-Breaking Late May Heatwave

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:12:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/heat-dome-europe-heatwave-may-summer-2026-forecast-mk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265209

Points: 4

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New comment by cromka in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:38:59 +0000

This is about green-cards for joining US military. What are you on about?

New comment by cromka in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

cromka — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:38:03 +0000

Family-based. I am quite certain everyone here talks about visas for professionals, not your mom or dad.