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New comment by hurricanepootis in "How to turn anything into a router"

hurricanepootis — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:46:38 +0000

There is iptables-nft, which is iptables with an NFT backend.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hurricanepootis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:27:27 +0000

Yes, my bad. I totally agree with that it does indeed suck. I've had to replace the C cover of my laptop before for reasons not related to the keyboard (a screw post broke because Dell had the bright of idea of attaching a metal screw post to the body with plastic). I ended up fixing that issue, but the keyboard that was installed in the C cover was noticeably shittier than my old one.

I'm now on a Framework 13, and it's been pretty fun so far.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hurricanepootis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:54:37 +0000

This isn't an issue with macbook keyboards, a lot of windows laptops have their keyboards riveted to the C cover of a laptop.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

hurricanepootis — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:10:28 +0000

I've been on wayland since KDE had it available (like the KDE 5 days) because it offered fractional HiDPI scaling that wasn't buns. As a laptop user, it has been one of the best features of Wayland.

Furthermore, getting stuff like VRR on Wayland working is way easier than X.org. And, Wayland also supports HDR.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

hurricanepootis — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:39:51 +0000

The current situation we're facing can be traced back to, in some parts, Trump pulling out of JCPOA and Biden's tepid resistance to Israel's war in Palestine, leading to this situation.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

hurricanepootis — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:12:52 +0000

I bought a pair of IEMs. A while back, the cable broke, and I was able to repair by just buying a new cable.

Also, I enjoy not having another device to charge. I recently have been wearing a traditional Casio watch more often instead of my smartwatch.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux"

hurricanepootis — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:07:13 +0000

I wish Arch could learn some lessons from NixOS packaging. One thing that really bothers me about Arch is how many pain points there are in the packaging tooling. Furthermore, I wish AUR packagers used utilities like namcap and chroot building to check their packages before pushing their slop onto the AUR; whenever I use new software from the AUR, I check the PKGBUILD to see how well it was made.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Exploiting Iran: A Political Timeline"

hurricanepootis — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:55:31 +0000

Glad to see an accessible post of Iranian history

New comment by hurricanepootis in "How to Review an AUR Package"

hurricanepootis — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:22:24 +0000

As someone who is an AUR maintainer with at least 150+ packages, I always dread seeing new AUR packages. A lot of people don't read the packaging guidelines, don't use tools like `namcap` and `extra-x86-64-build` to test their packages, nor do they read other PKGBUILDs to write their stuff. It's pure slop, and I have wasted too much of my time fixing shitty PKGBUILDs because I wanna use that piece of software

New comment by hurricanepootis in "The dank case for scrolling window managers"

hurricanepootis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:41:24 +0000

First time I saw the word Dank in the Big 26

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

hurricanepootis — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:29:57 +0000

More like some toolkits have really poor wayland support (cough anything GTK/Gnome cough)

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

hurricanepootis — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:54:32 +0000

LibreOffice works for me on wayland lol. I don't know why you would wanna do fractional scaling on a per app basis whenever you got one screen. But, for your libreoffice woes, try using a different backend?

Libreoffice includes support for gtk3, gtk4, Qt6, and other backends: https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/vcl/README.m...

Maybe you need to try wayland with an alternative backend?

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

hurricanepootis — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:35:53 +0000

Wayland supports HDR, it's very easy to configure VRR, and it's fractional scaling (if implemented properly) is far superior to anything X11 can offer.

Furthermore, all of these options can be enabled individually on multiple screens on the same system and still offer a good mix-used environment. As someone who has been using HiDPI displays on Linux for the past 7 years, wayland was such a game changer for how my system works.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

hurricanepootis — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:24:26 +0000

You could use techniques like HPLC to determine the concentrations within the sample if you know what's in it.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

hurricanepootis — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:20:36 +0000

Couldn't WD-40's formula be reverse engineered using analytical chemical techniques? GC-MS, NMR, etc.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Iran Protest Map"

hurricanepootis — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:39:12 +0000

The clergy weren't explicitly backing the Shah, they were just fearful of anything like communism happening, since most communist countries/communists are aesthetes.

Iranian clergy as an institution starting coming into political power, really, around the time of the Russian-Persian wars, were one of the highest ranking Shia scholars in Iran issues a fatwa supporting the war against Russia.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Iran Protest Map"

hurricanepootis — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:50:31 +0000

I fear so much for the future of Iran. Iran needs to decide its future, free from outside powers. Iran's entire 20th and 21st centuries of paranoia and strife can be traced back to, partly (imo mostly), to British, Russian, and eventually American interference, meddling, and domination in the 19th, 20th, and 21st century respectively.

Iran will never have a happy store as long as it remains an "interests" for greater powers.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32"

hurricanepootis — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:04:05 +0000

Make sure you're using pipewire. If your bluetooth headphones require Bluetooth LE, make sure it's enabled in the bluez settings. Also, make sure your bluetooth adapter supports Bluetooth LE.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage"

hurricanepootis — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:46:11 +0000

I remember looking for Crucial DDR5 SODIMMS at Microcenter a month ago. There was barely any stock and only a few sticks left. I talked to the sales associate at the counter, and he let me known that RAM prices were increasing. As an aside, I was eyeing this ram for a month before getting it. Hearing what he said made me go for it.

Also, I feel bad for the aftermarket market. Crucial was always the best option for upgrades to OEM systems or laptops.

New comment by hurricanepootis in "TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped"

hurricanepootis — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:37:12 +0000

Reminds of me being a hospital resident, but instead of saving patients lives and increasing the profit of the hospital's shareholders, you're just increasing the profit of the fab's shareholders.