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New comment by farmin in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

farmin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:48:02 +0000

How will you cool it? Will it be under ground? I’ve often thought about this as we have space and sunlight.

New comment by farmin in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

farmin — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:26:38 +0000

He is saying that more devices that have single use is better? Maybe that’s true but the downside is you own more stuff.

New comment by farmin in "Proof of Corn"

farmin — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:15:04 +0000

I reckon producing corn in the Midwest would be the most researched and documented crop and location ever in history. So baked into an LLM should be some very good knowledge and assumptions. Growing a different crop elsewhere may be more challenging.

New comment by farmin in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

farmin — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:55:04 +0000

That’s interesting comment. I didn’t think about that. I’ve only ever used Ubuntu flavours so I’ll search through what the popular rolling releases are out of interest.

New comment by farmin in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

farmin — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:16:56 +0000

I’ve only ever used Ubuntu flavours but maybe I should give it a try. Thanks

New comment by farmin in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

farmin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 21:43:59 +0000

Why?

New comment by farmin in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

farmin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 21:34:42 +0000

I agree. It feels like combination of peak windows UI with the ease of Ubuntu baked in. Then the little mobile app they have that gives you shared clipboard with iOS is cool.

New comment by farmin in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

farmin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 20:52:02 +0000

That’s great news thanks. I got the gen 3 so maybe some improvements. Weight is ok as I really just move it around the house. I buy used Panasonics for the workshop.

Are you running windows?

New comment by farmin in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

farmin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 20:10:20 +0000

I am giving my MacBook Air M2 15” to my wife and bought a Lenovo E16 with 120hz screen to run Kubuntu last night. She needed a new laptop and I am had enough of macOS and just need some stuff to work that will be easier on an intel and Linux. Also I do bookwork online so bigger screen and dedicated numpad will be nice. It reviews well and seems like good value for money with current holiday sales but I don’t expect the same hardware quality or portability just a little more freedom. I hope I’m not too disappointed. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-E16-G3-Review-...

New comment by farmin in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

farmin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:42:26 +0000

Can someone tell me if hibernate works on the kubuntu Focus IR14. I love kubuntu but as I’ve mentioned elsewhere really don’t like inability for my thinkpad to hibernate without losing charge. I’d buy a Linux first machine if I knew it would just work.

New comment by farmin in "Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward"

farmin — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:00:39 +0000

That’s fair. So you’re pretty confident most these very annoying Linux hardware issues go away with Linux first hardware? Suggest a couple brands for me to look into please to replace the thinkpad?

New comment by farmin in "Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward"

farmin — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:04:39 +0000

Yes I moved away from Windows to MacOS but couldnt get used to the UI and they have now sprinkled bad AI tools throughout. I use KUbuntu now which feels a bit like Windows 10 and really is all I need. But what I really want on my Thinkpad with KUbuntu is the perfect open/close screen management like the Macbook has and changing from second monitor to no second monitor often causes issues and doesnt just work argh.. Maybe one of these linux first laptops will fill the void.

New comment by farmin in "Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner"

farmin — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 07:57:20 +0000

Come to Australia

New comment by farmin in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

farmin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:52:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I watched some of canbus video and came back to say it looks really interesting. I am building a prototype diesel electric autonomous vehicle for farm applications at the moment so the videos are somewhat relevant to me.

New comment by farmin in "Bootstrap Your SaaS (The Fast Way)"

farmin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:26:04 +0000

This strategy makes sense for a large TAM. But if you are attacking quite a small niche. You don’t want half your market on some grandfathered deal that doesn’t make any money. Maybe the niches I think about are too small.

New comment by farmin in "We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara"

farmin — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:10:44 +0000

Exactly. I'm using gpt4 more than copilot as of today. I just keep adding more info and get it to write the code that I cp.

I ask it to write it in small chuncks but in the same context. I sometimes have to remind it to refer back to decisions we made earlier.

New comment by farmin in "[dead]"

farmin — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 06:51:10 +0000

What

-- ok I watched the start of the video. He says the claim is ridiculous which makes sense.

New comment by farmin in "JPL Open Source Rover Project"

farmin — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:34:43 +0000

Ardurover discourse and Endless sphere could be worth checking out. I've built a Ardurover rig many years ago for a bit of fun (https://agmapsonline.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/autonomous-veh...)

I have fun researching building something bigger in my spare time.

New comment by farmin in "Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (2012)"

farmin — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 21:27:19 +0000

> Huffman explains the strategy in a video for Udacity, an online education service.

The Udacity web development course was my introduction to coding. It blew my mind. He was a good teacher.

New comment by farmin in "Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons"

farmin — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:06:57 +0000

Well there you go. News to me.