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New comment by hparadiz in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

hparadiz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:37:57 +0000

Prefer my Konsole setup on KDE and I use both interchangeably all day tbh. Camera yea. The irony is heating issues become less of an issue with arm.

New comment by hparadiz in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

hparadiz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:35:14 +0000

Well they do have the Max+ 395 - 128GB beast https://frame.work/desktop

Which is none trivial. The laptop scene is particularly difficult though.

New comment by hparadiz in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

hparadiz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:11:17 +0000

The hardware for a Linux laptop right now is not great. Especially for an arm64 machine. Even if the hardware is good the chassis and everything else is typically plastic and shitty.

New comment by hparadiz in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

hparadiz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:10:01 +0000

What love? I think this is bullshit.

New comment by hparadiz in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

hparadiz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:59:00 +0000

Prime directive doesn't apply because they are part of our home planet. Our actions or in-actions can improve or worsen their living conditions. Their natural world is gone anyway. We've changed it already.

New comment by hparadiz in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

hparadiz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:14:37 +0000

Mint lags upstream by years. Lol

New comment by hparadiz in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

hparadiz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:11:51 +0000

I legitimately think this is exactly the type of thing that amounts to destruction of property with actual criminal penalties warranted.

New comment by hparadiz in "Generative art over the years"

hparadiz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:57:48 +0000

I used to help run an art website and had to figure out how to do taxonomy for art. Imagine if someone asked you to put all art into categories.

One major truth discovered:

Art is always in the eye of the beholder.

Show HN: GNU Grep as a PHP Extension

hparadiz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:54:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hparadiz/ext-gnu-grep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714142

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by hparadiz in "Veracrypt project update"

hparadiz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:04:01 +0000

> whatever code anyone shits out

downloading an exe is "whatever code anyone shits out" cause that's exactly what built binaries are

A lot of the programs you use on Windows are actually the exact same ones on Linux be it VLC or Chrome. If you want to download binaries directly "from the source" and run those.... well that was always allowed. But remember the entire stack delivering the entire internet to you at any time is open source code that "anyone shits out".

distros are catering to server installs most of the time. if you want a gui you install that entire stack but for most classic distros like debian the GUI is not the main thing. if you want a GUI from start to finish go with Fedora or the new KDE distro.

New comment by hparadiz in "Veracrypt project update"

hparadiz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:27:57 +0000

Folks like you need to just install Linux and use it.

New comment by hparadiz in "Veracrypt project update"

hparadiz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:24:44 +0000

Why do folks act like windows isn't full of cli commands? First thing on any windows box is running debloat in powershell. Installing apps from a gui in Linux has been solved for a long time.

New comment by hparadiz in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

hparadiz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:15:24 +0000

No because you are not changing the ledger. You are changing the authentication mechanism for transactions. It's like adding a new supported password hash.

New comment by hparadiz in "Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go"

hparadiz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:40:19 +0000

When you say +pipewire you mean just audio playback? If you are pushing video to a picture-in-picture overlay a user might expect that so yea you could write to the pipewire socket like any other program. It's usually fully open for you to do just that.

I use v4l2 regularly with OBS. In order for Chrome/Chromium to see it you need to make the device before launching Chrome/Chromium. You can start v4l2 devices automatically by setting a modprobe config for your kernel.

My v4l2 notes might be helpful http://technex.us/2022/06/v4l2-notes-for-linux/

New comment by hparadiz in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

hparadiz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:26:07 +0000

You don't really need 10 acres. My grandparents made do with 1/4 of an acre and would have yields of 350-500 lbs of potatoes per season. That's so much that they would give it away. I have fruit trees that require almost no effort to maintain once established. My neighbors give me oranges that fall to the ground and rot otherwise. It's not all or nothing. You can have a basil plant in an apartment.

New comment by hparadiz in "Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go"

hparadiz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:48:35 +0000

I made a demo recently with my Google home camera using the official API https://github.com/hparadiz/camera-notif

But your way of grabbing the stream is so much simpler.

Overlay layer is super new in KDE Plasma is the only problem. You can also do v4l2loopback and make it a virtual camera.

New comment by hparadiz in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

hparadiz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:38:20 +0000

For most folks it's just an add on. I have grandparents in Europe that have a garden where they grew potatoes and about 50 other things I'm not gonna list. They make jams, pickled things, and various other preserves. It's something to do and kept them sharp until they hit their late 80s.

New comment by hparadiz in "Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go"

hparadiz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:30:59 +0000

Would be interesting for a Wayland DM to catch this and draw to a picture in picture overlay

New comment by hparadiz in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

hparadiz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:03:17 +0000

I have a 1000 ft spool of cat6. I meant switches, router, and other peripherals. Need a new switch anyway.

New comment by hparadiz in "Which is when I got to see what it looks like"

hparadiz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:26:13 +0000

While humans are flying to the moon I tried to build an Earth orbital system simulation, and then an astronaut took the photo that showed the lighting I was trying to simulate.