Hacker News: elabajaba

New comment by elabajaba in "Linux 7.2"

elabajaba — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:45:08 +0000

I've seen some people say that since HDMI 2.2 recently released the HDMI forum doesn't care as much about "protecting" 2.1 anymore.

If FOSS drivers support HDMI 2.2 when devices start shipping with HDMI 2.2 ports then this'll be disproven, but the HDMI forum held off on allowing AMD to implement 2.1 support in their Linux drivers for years and only relented when they released HDMI 2.2. Valve with the Gabecube probably didn't have much to do with it considering how low volume it is.

New comment by elabajaba in "Linux 7.2"

elabajaba — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:35:49 +0000

It happens on MediaTek wifi adapter cards as well (and the AMD ones that are just rebadged MediaTek).

New comment by elabajaba in "Linux 7.2"

elabajaba — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:33:56 +0000

Intel only used the converters for 1st gen Arc dGPUs. Battlemage has native HDMI 2.1 and also ran into the same issues as AMD.

New comment by elabajaba in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

elabajaba — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:17:46 +0000

Firefox has baked in adblocking (using adblock-rust, brave's built in adblocker), but it has to be enabled through about:config and not the settings UI.

New comment by elabajaba in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

elabajaba — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:12:37 +0000

Firefox started shipping adblock-rust in March (Brave's built in adblocker). It's not properly wired up in the UI yet but you can enable it and add filter lists in about:config.

New comment by elabajaba in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

elabajaba — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:17:26 +0000

Clearly you just need to buy those team members some nice programming socks so they can finally enjoy rust.

New comment by elabajaba in "League of Legends designer shares game design field manual"

elabajaba — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:52:11 +0000

IceFrog didn't create Dota, he took over maintenance of it from a long line of other people at the time, including Guinsoo (who added Roshan and the recipe system) who worked at Riot (though Icefrog was definitely the best maintainer, Dota was already hugely popular before Icefrog had anything to do with it).

Dota itself wasn't even original, it was based on a StarCraft 1 custom map.

New comment by elabajaba in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

elabajaba — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:25:22 +0000

Straight piped trucks can easily hit over 100dB (I've seen numbers as high as 118dB) which is well above the 85dB hearing damage level, and is at the level where hearing damage occurs in minutes or even seconds of exposure.

Sorry I don't want to get tinnitus just because some asshole wanted to make his truck "sound better".

New comment by elabajaba in "A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese"

elabajaba — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:12:08 +0000

360hz screens have been available for about 6 years now and you can get one for $200-300 now. ~500hz monitors have been widely available for ~3 years now, and in the last year we've had companies launching monitors with 720hz and soon 1000hz refresh rates (1000hz is needed to avoid persistence blur due to sample and hold display tech https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-law-amazing-journey-to-...).

Annoyingly, on Firefox this is locked to 60fps on my 120hz display.

New comment by elabajaba in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

elabajaba — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:20:06 +0000

There really aren't very many different tip types available for airpods, since they use a special clip attachment method that means you can't use any standard existing tips. I've been looking for aftermarket tips for my pro 3s and there's maybe 5 actually different tips available (crappy foam, decent foam, bad hybrid, basic sticky silicone, basic bad rubber). They're distinctly lacking in good quality tips with different textures (can help with comfort and keeping them in your ears) or different bore sizes (comfort and changes the sound signature). TRI clarion, Tangzu Tang Sancai, Penon Liqueur, JVC Spiral Dot are a few different standard tips that would likely be way more comfortable than the standard airpods tips if you could actually use them.

Shoes are actually a great analogy here, because the companies all use different lasts, so it doesn't matter that eg. Adidas has thousands of different shoes in over a dozen sizes, none of them actually comfortably fit my feet because the heel is always too wide and the forefoot too narrow.

Also, they only come with 5 tip sizes (4+1 on the buds) and use an oval shape which I personally find less comfortable than circular tips+stems.

New comment by elabajaba in "HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver"

elabajaba — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:19:35 +0000

I've owned 2 of these (returned and reordered thinking the first might've just been bad) and neither worked properly on Linux with an AMD 9070xt and an LG CX. They'd have black screen dropouts every few minutes, and occasionally full screen color corruption.

New comment by elabajaba in "Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop"

elabajaba — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:59:01 +0000

If it was a Ferrari it would at least be light. Considering how heavy it is, it's more like a Rolls Royce lol.

New comment by elabajaba in "Jumping into cold water can stop your heart"

elabajaba — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:24:30 +0000

> These were icelanders, around 13 years old, tough as it gets re cold.

Iceland has a famously mild climate, even during winter their average temperature is still above 0C.

New comment by elabajaba in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

elabajaba — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:27:53 +0000

You do know that both the Kobo Libra and Sage have physical buttons, right?

New comment by elabajaba in "Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?"

elabajaba — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:17:15 +0000

Part of that might be if you're using them wireless because then you're double compressing the audio which amplifies the artifacts (mp3 -> Bluetooth compression).

New comment by elabajaba in "How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)"

elabajaba — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:22:14 +0000

Apple officially deprecated GL/GLES on both MacOS and iOS 7 years ago, and only ever supported up to GL 4.1 (which came out in 2010), meaning it doesn't support essential "modern" features like compute shaders (DX11 had them in 2009), or bindless textures (supported since 2012 on AMD+Nvidia, and 2015 for Intel iGPUs, massive performance win, needed for GPU driven rendering and ray tracing).

New comment by elabajaba in "WebGPU and the Price of Compiling WGSL"

elabajaba — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:31:25 +0000

No need to transcode to HLSL, DXC already accepts SPIR-V input (and both Chrome and FF are shipping DXC).

New comment by elabajaba in "Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience"

elabajaba — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:52:00 +0000

E-CVTs are extremely reliable and are different from CVTs (CVTs use a belt attached to 2 cones, E-CVTs are just a single planetary gear set), but a lot of car guys and even some mechanics don't realize they're completely different.

New comment by elabajaba in "Alberta separatism push roils Canada"

elabajaba — Sat, 24 May 2025 06:17:08 +0000

Gas car sales peaked in 2018 globally. EVs are already >20% of new car sales worldwide, and the US is a joke when it comes to EV sales compared to Europe or China.

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

New comment by elabajaba in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

elabajaba — Sat, 10 May 2025 03:27:02 +0000

Part of the rust dependency issue is that the compiler only multithreads at the crate level currently (slowly being improved on nightly, but there's still some bugs before they can roll out the parallel compiler), so most libraries split themselves up into a ton of small crates because otherwise they just take too long to compile.

edit: Also, `cargo-vet` is useful for distributed auditing of crates. There's also `cargo-crev`, but afaik it doesn't have buy in from the megacorps like cargo-vet and last I checked didn't have as many/as consistent reviews.

https://github.com/mozilla/cargo-vet

https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev