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New comment by jonkoops in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

jonkoops — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:57:58 +0000

Unless Qualcomm steps in and makes every laptop with their chip work flawlessly, I don't see a reason to step into their ecosystem. Right now it is basically flipping a coin when you buy an X1 or X2 product, as you are basically locked to the vendor's idea of 'support'. Qualcomm should coerce and collaborate with vendors to ensure their products are synonymous with great Linux support so that when I see their brand I know it is a good product.

New comment by jonkoops in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

jonkoops — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:53:41 +0000

Space really should be a neutral ground like Antarctica. Especially since the consequences of space debris might trigger the Kessler effect [1], denying humanity future access to low-earth orbit for the considerable future.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

New comment by jonkoops in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"

jonkoops — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:32:48 +0000

I really don't see why you'd disable WebAssembly and allow JavaScript instead. Expecting developers to make a fallback for a baseline-supported feature for any reason but backwards compatibility with runtimes that do not so support WASM is extremely silly.

New comment by jonkoops in "Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons"

jonkoops — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:41:14 +0000

1Password can't even include ARM builds of their app in their existing packages [1]. I am highly skeptical of anything DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) is the benevolent dictator of, and for good reason [2]. Perhaps that money would be spent better elsewhere in the ecosystem.

1. https://support.1password.com/install-linux/#arm-or-other-di... 2. https://thelibre.news/lets-talk-about-dhh/

New comment by jonkoops in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

jonkoops — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:45:44 +0000

They all want a stable currency, though, and the Euro is certainly that. To the point that even non-EU states have started to adopt it over their own.

New comment by jonkoops in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

jonkoops — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:43:56 +0000

The new agreement basically being the same thing as being in the EU, and aligning further with EU institutions, without actually having a say.

New comment by jonkoops in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

jonkoops — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:36:08 +0000

You clearly have no idea how the EU works; she is the head of the Commission, which is nominated by the Council (27 elected heads of state), and needs to be approved in by the Parliament (directly elected). So sure, yeah, she isn't directly elected, but she still needs a massive amount of multinational political support.

Even then, all the power is in the Commission; the Commission is split in areas (competition, energy, trade, etc.), and each country nominates a commissioner in each area, and the total Commission gets approved once again by democratically elected Parliament. The head of the Commission has only one single vote, and a majority vote decides if anything passes, and even the Parliament has to approve it. That said, I think we all want Parliament to have the ability to propose legislation.

So don't take this ignorant take in here and present it as some kind of dictatorship and a fundamental flaw of the EU that undermines it all; the EU has been a massive positive force for the continent, and people like you just like to shit on it.

New comment by jonkoops in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

jonkoops — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:29:46 +0000

The Euro is actually one of the reasons they want to join; even their prime minister stated it explicitly. It would be a more stable currency than their own.

New comment by jonkoops in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

jonkoops — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:11:34 +0000

It really should be required for manufacturers to publish full details about how the hardware works so that alternative software can be developed. I'd wholly support that.

New comment by jonkoops in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

jonkoops — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:09:40 +0000

There is plenty of gas in the EU; we decided that it was undesirable to extract. Honestly pathetic; strategic autonomy and energy security is much more important.

New comment by jonkoops in "Rust SIMD on the GPU"

jonkoops — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:02:19 +0000

Pretty common for Rust to cook things in nightly for a very long time; I wouldn't consider it a bad thing, tbh.

New comment by jonkoops in "Zed DeltaDB"

jonkoops — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:35:01 +0000

This isn't trying to be a replacement for Git. Maybe read up first?

New comment by jonkoops in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

jonkoops — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:24:36 +0000

ASML doesn't make state-of-the-art machines without Cymer. What is your point?

New comment by jonkoops in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

jonkoops — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:29:36 +0000

ASML doesn't make chips.

New comment by jonkoops in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

jonkoops — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:36:12 +0000

EU chip industry: best I can do is eat glue in the corner.

New comment by jonkoops in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

jonkoops — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:15:41 +0000

Same goes for io.js, which got so popular it actually got merged back into Node.js

New comment by jonkoops in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

jonkoops — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:47:00 +0000

> And also he implied he doesn’t even want to engage with anything relating to this since Jarred is toxic and there is no value in the debate.

If he doesn't want to get involved, then why even write this piece?

New comment by jonkoops in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

jonkoops — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:34:31 +0000

What I have been missing in all this debate is substance. I don't care that Bun was ported to Rust; I don't care that Andrew wrote a hit piece about it; I don't care that Anthropic sells shovels in the gold rush.

What I do care about is technical details. Jared shared some motivation as to why they ported to Rust, and I think they look valid (even if provided with sparse evidence). But I have not seen any sort of refutation from Andrew that these are not actually issues or how they should be solved in Zig canonically. I'd really like to see an exploration of these arguments, specifically pertaining to the Zig code as it was written for Bun.

New comment by jonkoops in "Should European housing politics be Americanized?"

jonkoops — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:38:50 +0000

I live in Amsterdam; nobody wants to live in the city center. There are plenty of ways to keep an old city center AND build out the surrounding areas in a way that people actually would like to live there.

We do really need to have a serious conversation about single-family homes; you will even find them right next to metro stations. Some of these low-density neighborhoods really need to be demolished and reconstructed into higher-density housing that can still reasonably house a family.

New comment by jonkoops in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

jonkoops — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:33:04 +0000

Ahhh the American mindset.