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New comment by evanreichard in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

evanreichard — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:50:19 +0000

It's quite stable. Been running NixOS on my M2 Max with basically no issues (HDMI working fine as well). However the lack of adequate sleep / no support for suspend to disk led to me buying a Framework 13 Pro, and I'm now selling the M2.

New comment by evanreichard in "All I wanted was a custom domain email"

evanreichard — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:54:28 +0000

I don't think it's obvious. So, how does it not meet the criteria?

New comment by evanreichard in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

evanreichard — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:55:00 +0000

As opposed to loading it up in RAM + VRAM? Pretty much always better to split it up to multiple GPUs. My priorities are load up all available VRAM, then offload MoE experts to RAM (if possible), then offload other layers.

I use an RTX 3090 (24GB) and a GTX 1080ti (11GB). Just the 3090 for 3.8 I get maybe 60tg/s (UD-Q4 quant), for both I get around 40tg/s (UD-Q6). Not apples to apples though considering it's different quants.

Here's my config: https://gitea.va.reichard.io/evan/nix/src/branch/master/modu...

New comment by evanreichard in "iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models"

evanreichard — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:44:21 +0000

Not sure if it was the same bug, but I had a storage issue where System Data ballooned to like 200GB.

It had the most bizarre solution; airplane mode, set time to one year in the future, reboot, wait a few minutes, set time to 6mo in the future, reboot, wait a few minutes, set time to now, reboot. Went from 200GB to like 15GB. Was ridiculous.

(For anyone looking at this and considering doing it, you also need to ensure iMessage retention is forever, otherwise the iPhone will think it's a year old and delete the messages)

New comment by evanreichard in "Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete"

evanreichard — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:35:08 +0000

There's also https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim

Which I've been using with Qwen3 Coder. As long as infill is supported, that should work. I'll try later today.

New comment by evanreichard in "11% of vibe-coded apps are leaking Supabase keys"

evanreichard — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:14:26 +0000

How did you qualify a project as vibe coded?

New comment by evanreichard in "Busy Is the New Stupid"

evanreichard — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:25:38 +0000

It's an homage to MITRE ATT&CK.

New comment by evanreichard in "A guide to local coding models"

evanreichard — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:30:14 +0000

Have you tried llama.vscode [0]? I use the vim equivalent, llama.vim [1] with Qwen3 Coder 30B and personally feel that it's better than Copilot. I have hot keys that allow me to quickly switch between the two and find myself always going back to local.

[0] https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vscode

[1] https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim

New comment by evanreichard in "Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers – again"

evanreichard — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:52:53 +0000

At the end of the day it still has to open and close when you press a button. You can just wire a relay to complete the circuit on one of the remotes.

It's what I did when I got a new opener. Works fine in HomeAssistant.

New comment by evanreichard in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

evanreichard — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:07:10 +0000

It's wild. I bought 64GB (2x32) DDR4 SODIMM (CT2K32G4SFD832A) for $100 this April. Cheapest I can find it today is $270.

I picked up 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 (CMK32GX4M2E3200C16) last September for $55. Now it's $155.

New comment by evanreichard in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

evanreichard — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:08:45 +0000

The video shows both directions.

New comment by evanreichard in "Leveling Up My Homelab"

evanreichard — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:53:15 +0000

This year I redid my whole lab as well and prioritized declarative everything so it'd be easy to go from scratch if needed. So I've got nix to create RKE2 images with cloud-init for XCP-ng templates, Terraform with XenOrchestra provider, and ArgoCD for the K8s cluster.

I've got two R640's so I can live migrate, and an R720XD with TrueNAS (democratic-csi for K8s persistence). QSFP (40Gb) for TrueNAS / R720XD, and SFP+ (10Gb) for R640's linked to a Brocade ICX 6610.

So I can update the hosts, and K8 nodes with 0 downtime. Do I need it? No, but I learned a lot and had / have fun deploying and maintaining it.

New comment by evanreichard in "Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks"

evanreichard — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:36:36 +0000

I love Garage. It just works. I have Garage running on a few older Odroid HC2's, primarily for k8s Velero backup, and it's just set and forget.

New comment by evanreichard in "Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux"

evanreichard — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 04:10:59 +0000

The current version of Bitwarden straight up doesn't work in Orion [0]. I ran into this yesterday when setting it up for the first time. Wasn't a great first experience as it's literally the only extension that is a deal breaker to me.

I'm still giving Orion a chance for now... I just installed a slightly older version that works.

[0] https://orionfeedback.org/d/10197-bitwarden-hangs-on-load

New comment by evanreichard in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

evanreichard — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:03:53 +0000

FWIW I've been running a jailbroken PW5 for a few years now always connected to the internet without any issues dealing with updates.

I did rename the ota binary. I'm aware that there's always the possibility of Amazon maybe having some other way to push an update, but I haven't had any issues so far.

New comment by evanreichard in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

evanreichard — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:56:37 +0000

I've got the same generation PW and have it jailbroken running KOReader. I've considered trying other readers out, not because of issues but rather shiny new thing reasons. But at least when it comes to KOReader, it seems like the PW are the best if you can jailbreak the version you're on.

(I want / need it to run KOReader because I wrote a small Lua plugin for it that syncs reading stats (words per minute, minutes read per year, etc) to a centralized server.)

New comment by evanreichard in "CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4B"

evanreichard — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:33:29 +0000

As someone who used CrowdStike daily and worked as an MDR Analyst and Engineer at a top ranked MDR provider, CrowdStrike is a very capable piece of tech.

While the driver for purchase is almost always to pass audits, it's still a good product.

New comment by evanreichard in "Kobo announces color e-readers"

evanreichard — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:23:34 +0000

FYI I've been running multiple jailbroken Kindles connected to WiFi with KOReader for a few years now. Just install renameotabin and you're good to go. You can even register it like a normal Kindle.

New comment by evanreichard in "Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about"

evanreichard — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:46:54 +0000

The relicense doesn't bother me. That straight up lie, though.

New comment by evanreichard in "Xiaomi bets big on its new electric vehicle – targets 20M premium users"

evanreichard — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:14:10 +0000

All of my phones (except the iPhone, actually) had hard reboot issues at around the 2-3yr mark. Usually at under 30% battery charge under high load. HTC Incredible, Galaxy S4, and Nexus 6. Nexus 6 was the worst, but I also had that one the longest.

My iPhone X didn't have shutoff issues, but the battery did swell enough to push out the screen, which Apple replaced for free even with an expired warranty.