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New comment by iknowstuff in "BBEdit 16"

iknowstuff — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:04:20 +0000

Don't you think that if people preferred it strongly, a competitor would gobble up that opportunity if the model was viable?

Regarding your last point, there's plenty of software offering both options ($$$ lifetime vs $ monthly). I don't have the data but I bet they see a TON more sales for $ monthly.

E.g. Final Cut Pro for macOS is available as a one-time purchase for $299.99. Alternatively, you can subscribe to Apple Creator Studio for $12.99/month or $129/year

New comment by iknowstuff in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

iknowstuff — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:06:46 +0000

Eh nix flakes are a nightmare to configure. Far more verbose than a docker compose. They rely on some caches which keep pre-compiled packages and you better make sure you have the caches with the particular flakes you need set up. Yikes

New comment by iknowstuff in "BBEdit 16"

iknowstuff — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:32:56 +0000

Hmmm I can’t think of a subscription app that truly doesn’t have a free/upfront/unupgraded alternative - its just that usually they come with quality issues or poor support, so people choose the better, subscription-based, auto-updating ones.

New comment by iknowstuff in "BBEdit 16"

iknowstuff — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:28:07 +0000

I think you’re in the minority. There are products out there that suit you. They are not mainstream products.

New comment by iknowstuff in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

iknowstuff — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:47:41 +0000

No legs. Gotta verify the vehicle can land with the precision necessary for a tower catch

New comment by iknowstuff in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

iknowstuff — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:19:10 +0000

Hmm I share your concern but we do regularly develop new economies? The EU pumped a ton of money into eastern Europe, the west collectively did the same by outsourcing to Asia which is now the largest market for very significant industries.. Latin America and Africa have been abused and hollowed out for centuries but seeing decent growth now, so I'm more optimistic

New comment by iknowstuff in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

iknowstuff — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:28:24 +0000

Isn’t codex in rust?

New comment by iknowstuff in "Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks"

iknowstuff — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:48:37 +0000

I had it running on my 128gb strix halo - it ran around 40 tokens per second I think but I found it to be obnoxiously lobotomized.

An uncensored qwen3.5/3.6 is more fun

New comment by iknowstuff in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

iknowstuff — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:49:31 +0000

Their recent post about explorer performance was “we raise clocks when you launch explorer” rather than an actual fix

New comment by iknowstuff in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

iknowstuff — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:37:10 +0000

TIL thx

New comment by iknowstuff in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

iknowstuff — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:23:05 +0000

Asahi is easier to install on Macs than distros for Windows PCs.

You just run a CLI command and follow simple prompts.

On Windows PCs, you have to go buy a flash stick, download a tool for flashing it for your BIOS/UEFI (and maybe learn MBR vs GPT), wait while that happens, maybe learn about partitions and repartition your disk ahead of time, mess with your BIOS to change boot order, hope you don't wipe your data by selecting the wrong partition etc

(the fact that this is still the status quo is crazy. The nerds need to pay more attention to the funnel)

New comment by iknowstuff in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

iknowstuff — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:36:09 +0000

Just buy a magnetic usb-c cable if it’s very important to you

New comment by iknowstuff in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

iknowstuff — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:16:44 +0000

Can’t they use some push payment methods where a qr gets scanned to send money, like venmo/cashspp?

New comment by iknowstuff in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

iknowstuff — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:41:13 +0000

well it also made macOS the nicer platform with modern, well maintained apps for the past 2 decades.

New comment by iknowstuff in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

iknowstuff — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:04:41 +0000

Its population will halve this century thanks to their autocratic policies so we’ll see how that unfolds

New comment by iknowstuff in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

iknowstuff — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:00:07 +0000

Exactly how do you believe their borders are more strict given that they’re in Schengen? And how is the EU to blame for Belgium’s immigration policies but not Poland’s?

New comment by iknowstuff in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

iknowstuff — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:53:33 +0000

> Why else would MS not support BTRFS/ZFS/Ext or whatever?

You seriously can’t think of another reason? File systems are complex. Maintenance is a huge burden. Getting them wrong is a liability. Reason enough to only support the bare minimum. And then, 99% of their users don’t care about any of those. NTFS is good enough

New comment by iknowstuff in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

iknowstuff — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:49:31 +0000

Its literally the best selling car these days and it’s a well known fact. That you didnt know speaks to your bubble

New comment by iknowstuff in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

iknowstuff — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:07:52 +0000

It’s hard to participate in any gaming communities because you quickly realize they’re all kids who have no idea about markets but they all talk like foremost experts on every subject

New comment by iknowstuff in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

iknowstuff — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:44:46 +0000

Kurzgesagt predicted this, Germany is OVER