Hacker News: kop316

New comment by kop316 in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

kop316 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:15:11 +0000

Citation needed for this, as this makes no sense.

However, content shifting (i.e. ripping from CD to digital) is a thing, and that's what I do with my physical media.

New comment by kop316 in "Phosh 0.56.0"

kop316 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:04:52 +0000

I have a oneplus6 and use a mobile version of Debian called "Mobian". postmarketOS is a really good choice, and they have a wiki of supported devices: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

New comment by kop316 in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

kop316 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:03:00 +0000

The 10th amendment is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

New comment by kop316 in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

kop316 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:21:19 +0000

I have bought a Unicomp keyboard 7 years ago, had none of those problems, it works as well now as the day I bought it.

New comment by kop316 in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

kop316 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:52:20 +0000

You should look at MNT Research: https://mntre.com/

New comment by kop316 in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

kop316 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:51:34 +0000

So something that you can do with PDKs is add your own custom standard cell and tell the EDA tools to use them. This is actually pretty smart, this way you can use most of the foundry cells (which have been extensively validated) and focus on things like this "magic multiplier", that you will have to manually validate. This also makes porting across tech nodes easier if you manage only a handful of custom cells versus a completely custom design.

(I have my guesses as to what that is, but I admittedly don't know enough about that particular part of the field to give anything but a guess).

New comment by kop316 in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

kop316 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:21:06 +0000

Ohh neat! A generalized version of this was the topic of my PhD dissertation:

https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/thesis/Modern_Gate_Array_De...

And they are likely doing something similar to put their LLMs in silicon. I would believe a 10x electricity boost along with it being much faster.

The idea is that you can create a sea of generalized standard cells and it makes for a gate array at the manufacturing layer. This was also done 20 or so years ago, it was called a "structured ASIC".

I'd be curious to see if they use the LUT design of traditional structured ASICs or figured what what I did: you can use standard cells to do the same thing and use regular tools/PDKs to make it.

New comment by kop316 in "From Nevada to Kansas by Glider"

kop316 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:25:57 +0000

Look up "piddle packs".

New comment by kop316 in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

kop316 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:08:02 +0000

Agreed. Doing something about this should have been well over a decade ago, not now. Considering how long it took, this isn't going to bring me back from ordering from Amazon.

New comment by kop316 in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

kop316 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:17:44 +0000

Not really. I'd rather find out very quickly that someone doesn't know a domain space rather than having to wade through plausible looking but bad answers to figure out the exact same thing.

New comment by kop316 in "Pop _OS 24.04's New Scratch-Built Cosmic: Hands-On, with Screenshots"

kop316 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:10:51 +0000

> Since when did “scratch-built” become equivalent to “built from scratch”? As a non-native English speaker, do I need some more English classes?

As a native English Speaker, "scratch-built" is definitely not a common term (I was confused when I read this).

New comment by kop316 in "You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds"

kop316 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:26:46 +0000

ok...and? The post was about making a native GUI app, which GNOME builder is clearly able to do. By your logic, the app in the video won't work across OSes.

My point is this is still clearly possible for native GUI apps.

New comment by kop316 in "You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds"

kop316 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:57:14 +0000

I saw this comment a while ago, and even now, I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

New comment by kop316 in "It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month"

kop316 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:54:27 +0000

Here's the page: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/352475/Canon-PGI-280X...

It's honestly hard to tell, but I think the pack of 5 is for the set, not 5 of each.

New comment by kop316 in "You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds"

kop316 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:18:16 +0000

I mean...at least for GTK on Linux, you still can? It won't be 10 seconds (probably closer to 30-40 seconds) since you have to go through a couple of prompts to name it, decide a license, etc., but with:

https://apps.gnome.org/Builder/

You can do the same thing. In fact, this was the exact method I used to make a few GTK apps.

New comment by kop316 in "Half of Linux Users Stick with X11, Despite Years of Wayland Being Forced"

kop316 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:54:14 +0000

> How is it having a Linux phone? Do you use it as your main Phone?

Yes, I use it as my main phone. I like it, it reminds me a lot of the early Android days when I felt like I had complete control of the device, and I can customize it how I want to. If you want to tinker with it, I recommend a Oneplus 6/6T. They are sub $100 and its very well supported (that's what I am now using as my daily phone, with Mobian installed). I used to use a Librem 5, but it's battery life isn't great. The Oneplus 6 has no problem with a whole day's battery life with medium usage.

> How well do android apps work? what about banking apps?

I don't know, I tend not to use Android apps. Waydroid exists if you want to use them, and I have done that in the past.

> any issues that would make u NOT recommend it to other people?

Many of the devices have their own paper cuts to get it to work, and each model has their own quirks. For the Oneplus 6, calls have an audio problem with VoLTE that isn't fixed.

> Are there many apps that are made for linux phones (or have a UI that works good with phones) so that you are not missing anything?

For my use cases, it works. That includes SMS/MMS, voicemails, calls (sometimes, but I don't get many calls), email, car/bicycle/walking navigation, Signal, internet (Firefox), Matrix. Others have different use cases, so YMMV.

New comment by kop316 in "Half of Linux Users Stick with X11, Despite Years of Wayland Being Forced"

kop316 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:52:34 +0000

I have a desktop and laptop with X11 and another laptop and phone with Wayland. It's not because I prefer one over another intrinsically, it's because I use XFCE on the laptop and desktop, GNOME on the other laptop, and Phosh on the phone.

That being said, they all run about the same to me? If XFCE swaps to Wayland, I probably will too. I have run XFCE for a long time, so I have been experimenting if I like GNOME or not and if to switch.

New comment by kop316 in "Search for long-missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume"

kop316 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:23:50 +0000

Of you haven't read it, I highly recommend Admiral Cloudberg's analysis of MH370: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/call-of-the-void-seven-y...

New comment by kop316 in "Meshtastic"

kop316 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:14:27 +0000

Heh, that isn't my experience.

I created a client Linux: https://gitlab.com/kop316/gtk-meshtastic-client and even posted it on their discussion page: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99 . One of the maintainers responded positively to me: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99#discussion... .

New comment by kop316 in "Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5"

kop316 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:10:37 +0000

In the case of Linux, that issue is solely because of non-upstreamed drivers. With that, it can be a first class citizen just like any other processor.