Hacker News: forbiddenlake

Mesa 26.0's RADV RT improvements

forbiddenlake — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:43:12 +0000

Article URL: https://pixelcluster.github.io/Mesa-26/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953248

Points: 26

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New comment by forbiddenlake in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

forbiddenlake — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:11:09 +0000

What do you mean by bad?

Is this an ideological question? They are still primarily closed source.

Is this an install difficulty question? If you can read you can install them.

Is this a performance question? If you're a normie they're good. If you're demanding the top fps at the top resolution in dx12 games then there is still a noticeable difference but it should be fixed this year.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture"

forbiddenlake — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:53:53 +0000

Can you link them?

It's not valetudo is it?

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Unifi Travel Router"

forbiddenlake — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:39:09 +0000

Much less expensive (barring diy and print-a-case-yourself), and most importantly to certain people, easily available in the US from Amazon. (Jetkvm also suffers from unclear import costs and delays)

New comment by forbiddenlake in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

forbiddenlake — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:03:12 +0000

Mine's in the living room hooked up to a gaming PC, and I don't watch TV/movies.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Fixed-Wing Runway Design"

forbiddenlake — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:19:06 +0000

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

- From The Guidelines

New comment by forbiddenlake in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

forbiddenlake — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:41:12 +0000

This won't hide you completely, but it will reduce log spam.

My sshd only listens on the VPN interface

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

forbiddenlake — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:24:07 +0000

This trick unfortunately falls down above a certain size, especially if you want to game at a good fps, and stay in the consumer space (price) rather than the commercial display space. That gigabyte 45 inch is too small to use above your fireplace and view across the living room.

In my case I compromised on needing 4k, and got an lg 65 inch with only HDMI.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

forbiddenlake — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:15:14 +0000

I can't vote, but calling real people "fucktards" was poor form.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

forbiddenlake — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:00:41 +0000

Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming. For example the experience on lts with this year's AMD gpus will be extremely poor if it works at all.

I run Arch and my 9070 xt experience was poor for several months after release. I can't imagine modern gaming on an lts release.

Cachy being Arch based and recompiling with modern cpu flags doesn't seem to be targeting the users who want unchanging boring software.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

forbiddenlake — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:59:46 +0000

You have other options besides leaking your home IP. You could use a VPN like Wireguard or a WG product like Tailscale, which is what I do. My Tailnet IPs are in public DNS, too, because it doesn't matter, they're not routable publicly. You could also get a cheap VPS in The Cloud and proxy requests to your home.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"

forbiddenlake — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:50:31 +0000

Tailscale doesn't support mDNS / multicast at all, making working with KDE Connect more nebulous. I attempted to add a static peer via the Tailscale hostname, but both ends report not reachable, and the Tailscale daemon is constantly dropping multicast packets. So I'm not sure how this helps, but I also don't have a use case - if I'm on my laptop, my phone is on the same Wifi network 99% of the time.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself"

forbiddenlake — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:41:45 +0000

I didn't read the article because all the moving bits were too distracting. Something also turned my cursor invisible, which is rude.

Not sure anyone lost anything here, or anyone cares.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

forbiddenlake — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:10:51 +0000

Hm, what distinction are you trying to make here? OpenDNS is also an American company, acquired by Cisco (an American company) in 2015.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down"

forbiddenlake — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:41:32 +0000

This is all true, but DNS was also down.

Signed, someone who was using 1.1.1.1 as their DNS server and hadn't configured a fallback

New comment by forbiddenlake in "The early days of Linux (2023)"

forbiddenlake — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:37:38 +0000

It's fine, dupes are allowed after an amount of time.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "No NAT November: My month without IPv4"

forbiddenlake — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:16:36 +0000

It's the argument to --resolve, not the desired URL.

    --resolve <[+]host:port:addr[,addr]...>
              Provide a custom address for a specific host and port pair. Using this, you can make the curl requests(s)
              use a specified address and prevent the otherwise normally resolved address to be  used.  Consider  it  a
              sort  of  /etc/hosts  alternative provided on the command line.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide"

forbiddenlake — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:47:40 +0000

You're logged in, they are not.

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Hyrum’s Law in Golang"

forbiddenlake — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:11:58 +0000

Are you Phillip Hallam-Baker? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

New comment by forbiddenlake in "Thunderbird for Android Now Available"

forbiddenlake — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:05:24 +0000

Why do you believe that?