Hacker News: exographicskip

New comment by exographicskip in "Zed 1.0"

exographicskip — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:10:34 +0000

Been following zed for at least a year now.

Tried switching multiple times from vscode but it's just not feature complete for my use cases. Off top:

- no expanding tabs to fill the window until another one is clicked

- file picker hides .gitignored files

- vertical terminal tabs would be nice

- restart doesn't automatically load the previous window (most recent project)

- while faster/more responsive than vscode on large codebases, still pretty heavy compared to its AI-averse fork, gram; thus I can't use it on the macbook neo

Until some/all of that is improved, it's just uncanny valley territory with no particular killer feature to migrate. Appreciate all the work they've put into it (especially remote ssh parity!) though and like what they're doing in broad strokes

New comment by exographicskip in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

exographicskip — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:58:52 +0000

I remember the OG XPS 13 had what Dell called "project sputnik". To my knowledge, it was the first time a Dell laptop shipped with Ubuntu, if not Linux.

Really wanted one, but was a poor recent college grad at the time.

New comment by exographicskip in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

exographicskip — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:56:57 +0000

Chaos agent hahaha

New comment by exographicskip in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

exographicskip — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:56:13 +0000

> I think it would be unhealthy for Linux in the long term

Mostly agree until this line. MS enshittifying their ecosystem is the resting state and if you believe in the free market (I don't btw), customers voting with their money or data (since they're the product) should be applauded.

TBF Apple does this too on macOS and arguably iOS. I think a lot of their longstanding pushes to merge the two OSes is hostile to their user base who want stronger separations of concerns; a desktop OS has different requirements and capabilities than a phone or a tablet.

Would love to have a Neo with Sequoia which in itself is a step back from Sonoma, but I haven't truly loved any of their OSes since Mountain Lion.

New comment by exographicskip in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

exographicskip — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:45:30 +0000

100%

With ssh access to the underlying arch/fedora fork, it'd be an easy fix with AI

New comment by exographicskip in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

exographicskip — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:43:26 +0000

The only two moats MS has for desktop OS usage are:

1) Kernel-level DRM for multiplayer games (looking at you, Marathon)

2) Intentionally nerfed MSO 365 apps on web and macOS

You could make a strong case that MDM (which InTune uses as well) negates the AD + GPO advantages of the past 20+ years in enterprise.

New comment by exographicskip in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web"

exographicskip — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:33:16 +0000

browserstack might be a good option to test a bunch of browsers and their different versions on real devices.

Never used it personally, but might get some mileage out of the free plan before their time-based usage expires.

https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate-self-hosted/getti...

New comment by exographicskip in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

exographicskip — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:04:01 +0000

Been running cachyos for months, drama-free

New comment by exographicskip in "Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw"

exographicskip — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:19:31 +0000

Are you me?? I'm literally building highly personalized and/or idiosyncratic software with claude to solve personal and professional problems.

Thanks to tauri, I've now made two desktop apps and one mobile app for the first time in the last two months.

None of this was nearly as feasible just a year ago

New comment by exographicskip in "I'm addicted to being useful"

exographicskip — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:20:14 +0000

I've also used "do you need affirmation or advice."

I like your 3 H's though!

New comment by exographicskip in "Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing"

exographicskip — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:37:11 +0000

Thanks for the excellent comment! Now excuse me while I go export my spotify history to play around with duckdb <3

New comment by exographicskip in "Go away Python"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:01:34 +0000

Works on macos too (unix by way of bsd)

New comment by exographicskip in "Go away Python"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:47:15 +0000

bitfield/script has some nice abstractions for bash builtins and coreutils

https://github.com/bitfield/script

New comment by exographicskip in "Go away Python"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:41:47 +0000

By default, it's `~/Library/Caches/uv/environments-v2/` on macos.

Can find via `uv cache dir`

See: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/cli/#uv-cache-dir

New comment by exographicskip in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:50:34 +0000

Get the feeling with the pending IPO, there might be some challengers to discord that get more traction due to the protracted enshittification of the platform (cf. bluesky)

New comment by exographicskip in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:38:41 +0000

I run a lot of small form factor (SFF) machines including NUCs, Minisforums, and a Mac Studio.

At idle, they aren't loud or consuming much electricity compared to sleep/shutdown.

Fruit co devices in particular are extremely efficient; the Studio is rated at 6W idle, 145W max consumption (cf. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102027 )

New comment by exographicskip in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:29:00 +0000

Your username checks out re: moving to Scandinavia haha

New comment by exographicskip in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:27:03 +0000

Love cachyos. Such a great OS. Wanted to love bazzite, but it's got too many opinionated takes and rpm-ostree is a PITA. pacman does have its pitfalls, but aside from upgrades, it's been appliance-level stable for a 100% gaming laptop docked to my tv

New comment by exographicskip in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:24:46 +0000

cachyos has been nearly flawless for a non-steam deck (gpd win mini 2). Upgrades broke my tv being set to the primary display under gamemode but that was an easy fix.

The other game changer (heh) was going all in on amd: cpu, integrated gpu, and discrete gpu via oculink.

Nvidia may be the best overall performance for gaming and ai workloads, it still doesn't play nice with linux gaming

New comment by exographicskip in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

exographicskip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:21:21 +0000

I mostly agree with you. Now with proton/steamos, the only games that need windows are multiplayer games with kernel-level anticheat mechanisms (e.g., destiny 2).

Otherwise, spot-on to my MO