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New comment by einsteinx2 in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

einsteinx2 — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:15:28 +0000

While you’re correct that FreeBSD is not a Linux distribution, the word “distro” is literally short for distribution. It doesn’t have a different meaning like smart and smartass, it’s more like repo and repository.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

einsteinx2 — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:19:02 +0000

Of course they release this just as alternative browsers like Ladybird are making great progress…

New comment by einsteinx2 in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

einsteinx2 — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:35:22 +0000

No not at all. Some of the original contributors stepped away, but they’re still active and have recently made a bunch of progress toward M3 support.

Their blog is quite active: https://asahilinux.org/blog/

Announcements have been quiet for a while because they have been focusing on upstreaming their kernel changes, but more recently they’ve been adding new features and working on new model support again.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

einsteinx2 — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:22:35 +0000

I have 4TB in mine (wish I’d gone for 8TB though now that it’s almost filled), and no I don’t worry about it at all because I have backups. Regardless of your drive layout (RAID isn’t a backup), you’re data can be gone at any moment if you don’t have good backups (lost/stolen laptop, software issue, etc). You mention already having backups so I really don’t understand this concern about having a single large drive… If it breaks, you restore from your backups. Yeah it’s annoying but it’s annoying to lose a 1 or 2 TB drive as well and the resolution is exactly the same anyway: restore from your backups and move on with life.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

einsteinx2 — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:14:21 +0000

On M1 and M2 currently yes (M3 in progress). Check out the Asahi Linux project.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Days without GitHub incidents"

einsteinx2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:18:12 +0000

Ironically I’ve never found official status pages to be all that accurate either since companies love to exclude all kinds of outages from counting towards uptime. Anthropic is hilariously egregious about that as a recent example I can think of, but I assume GitHub does the same since it’s so common in the industry.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Days without GitHub incidents"

einsteinx2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:03:29 +0000

Talented engineers shouldn’t have much problem finding another position even in this market (of course they should find one before leaving I’m not discounting family responsibilities and whatnot), so if your argument is they’re not able to leave and find another job then you’re essentially agreeing with the person you’re replying to.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

einsteinx2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:48:01 +0000

CC isn’t even limited to Anthropic models, there’s a post on the front page right now to use it with Deepseek V4 since Deepseek provides an Anthropic compatible API and CC reads API URLs from env variables so you can override them.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Ask.com has closed"

einsteinx2 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:56:14 +0000

Haha yep yahoo has been mine forever for the same reason stated by the OP

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

einsteinx2 — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:25:29 +0000

Especially considering that Apple added it as a headline feature to the latest Xcode releases…

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

einsteinx2 — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:45:26 +0000

> It is no secret that Apple operates with hundreds of siloed teams in order to maintain individual domain expertise. The teams then come together in a collaborative manner to bring together the final products.

Having worked there this is a perfect description of the organization from my experience.

> So yes, it is likely true that SOME teams use SOME LLM for SOME tasks. It is a viable argument from R&D and other perspectives.

> What is almost guaranteed NOT to be the case is that Apple is somehow vibecoding company-wide.

100% agree

New comment by einsteinx2 in "How to disable Firefox's new emoji picker"

einsteinx2 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:35:32 +0000

Another option on macOS is fn+e which I’ve always found easier to remember. I’m not sure why there’s two shortcuts in the first place, but maybe this information is useful to someone.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

einsteinx2 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:44:22 +0000

I exclusively use stars as bookmarks which is why I always found it strange when people talked about lots of stars meaning high quality or trustworthy…I’ve learned since then that I’m probably in the minority (both in using stars as bookmarks and not caring about how many stars a repo has).

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

einsteinx2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:24:18 +0000

Looks like they changed the post link to a Bloomberg article instead but kept the comments thread. So I guess he’s already aware.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

einsteinx2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:29:14 +0000

I noticed the exact same thing. I read the original, went back to read it again and it’s completely changed.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

einsteinx2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:38:43 +0000

I used to work there and can confirm this. They beat it into you during training when you’re first hired that anything you say can become viral news or be attributed as an official statement from Apple and they are strict about enforcement.

There’s also extreme secrecy both between teams on different projects and even between teams within the same project just working on different parts of it. At least that was my experience.

I did enjoy my time there, but it was a very unique/strange development culture.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

einsteinx2 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:29:28 +0000

There was just another one recently actually. It was the final straw that convinced me to stop making my Jellyfin server publicly accessible (for my family abroad) and move to a VPN based solution instead (WireGuard or Tailscale I haven’t set it up yet).

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

einsteinx2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:34:58 +0000

Or switch to using the way cheaper open weight models from various providers who don’t have to subsidize training costs so can just race to the bottom on inference pricing…

The quality isn’t really SOTA yet but at some point I assume they’ll be good enough (maybe already are?).

New comment by einsteinx2 in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

einsteinx2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:29:36 +0000

It depends on your account and seems to be random.

On my personal Max 5x account it’s not default and if I force it, it says I’ll pay API rates past 200k. On my other account that I use for work (not an enterprise account just another regular Max 5x account) the 1M model has been the default since that rollout. I’ve tried updating and reinstalling etc, and I can’t ever get the 1M default model on my personal account.

Based on other comments and discussion online as well as Claude code repo issues, it seems I’m not the only one not getting the 1M model for whatever reason and the issue continues to be unresolved.

New comment by einsteinx2 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

einsteinx2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:10:54 +0000

yes