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New comment by krs_ in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

krs_ — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:20:07 +0000

And get rid of soldered RAM while we're at it as well.

New comment by krs_ in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

krs_ — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:47:10 +0000

And then they got larger again.

New comment by krs_ in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

krs_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:49:25 +0000

The last part about it breaking can of course be true, although knock on wood has not happened to me in quite some time. But I don't find myself spending all that much time on my selfhosting setup day to day. Once a week I do a backup to external storage and upgrade software and that's it most of the time. Once everything's set up it is mostly quite hands off.

That said, I also don't think selfhosting is a realistic solution for most people.

New comment by krs_ in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

krs_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:59:23 +0000

Overall agreed. I think a more interesting look at this is the tracker which GamingOnLinux keeps (not yet updated with the new numbers as of writing), where they also have one graph that shows usage among only English speaking users. Overall it is trending upwards, and English Linux Steam users are approaching 9%.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

New comment by krs_ in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

krs_ — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:23:10 +0000

I'm in Europe and I did the same as a child because it just felt the most natural. But you better believe our teachers in school would try to force the opposite. The argument was that imagine if everyone cuts with their right hand, but then you cut with your left and cause a lot of annoyance by bumping your elbow info your table neighbor's elbow.

Absolutely a non-issue in reality obviously. But nowadays I do hold my cutlery "properly" as a result. To me it now feels natural to bring the fork to my mouth with the left hand. Or the right one, really, but I default to holding it in the left.

New comment by krs_ in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

krs_ — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:39:50 +0000

BankID was working just fine when I was experimenting with LineageOS without Google apps (incidentally, on a Motorola phone) last year. It is something I worry about though, seeing as they could easily stop that from working and there's no real alternative.

New comment by krs_ in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

krs_ — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:04:53 +0000

Not the original poster but possibly lsix[1], which looking at the readme should work in certain terminals on Windows as well but I haven't tried it.

[1] https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix

New comment by krs_ in "Rise of the Triforce"

krs_ — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:28:23 +0000

Not that you shouldn't put a picoboot or whatever in there anyway, but it's getting increasingly common for the caps on the drive board to fail at this point, causing the disc drive to fail.

New comment by krs_ in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

krs_ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:48:39 +0000

Interesting, I didn't know that! Thanks.

New comment by krs_ in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

krs_ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:23:57 +0000

While I agree it's unreasonable, it's also kind of a chicken and an egg thing. These things won't change until Linux becomes big enough to ignore. I'm not sure what the solution is though, as I don't think it's realistic to make people give up what they enjoy to get there. That's not gonna happen. But Valve has at least made a dent with the Steamdeck and Proton in general, and maybe more with the upcoming Steam Machine. Devs actively target the Steamdeck nowadays for games where it makes sense, so it is taken into consideration at a whole new level compared to years past.

New comment by krs_ in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

krs_ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:10:16 +0000

There have certainly been issues (I've been on Linux with mostly nvidia GPUs since 2004) but it's almost always been caused by the module being outside the kernel, and a kernel update breaking compatibility sometimes, understandably. This has always been fixed quickly on nvidias end though. And early Wayland issues and the current DX12 -> Vulkan translation performance issues in more recent times.

But overall I've also had a mostly stable experience during that time. New hardware is supported mostly at release. Not always supporting all the latest features straight away mind you, but still. Meanwhile I seem to hear about issues with support for Intel and AMD cards at release frequently in comparison.

New comment by krs_ in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

krs_ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:59:52 +0000

Technically PS5 and I think Switch 2 is based on the BSD kernel probably because of the license. Xbox is not exactly Windows but it's using an NT kernel.

New comment by krs_ in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

krs_ — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:18:59 +0000

With the Nextcloud app I remember having to enable full file permissions to preserve the GPS data of auto-uploaded photos a couple of years ago. Which I only discovered some months after these security changes went into effect on my phone. That was fun. I think Android 10 or 11 introduced it.

Looking now I can't even find that setting anymore on my current phone. But the photos still does have the GPS data intact.

New comment by krs_ in "ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with"

krs_ — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:43:50 +0000

Would it be technically possible for these anti-cheat companies to make third party proprietary kernel modules I wonder, a bit like Nvidia does with their driver for example, and then require that to be installed and loaded to play? Although with the user able to make custom kernels that'd be a bit of a nightmare. Probably would have to be only supported with specific distro's kernels or something.

I agree with you and I wouldn't want to install that myself but just something I've thought about.

New comment by krs_ in "ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with"

krs_ — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:30:05 +0000

It means that at the very least the Nvidia specific performance loss of 10-20% will disappear. That is already not an issue with AMD cards as I understand it.

If it'll further increase performance beyond that remains to be seen. I suspect there will always be some amount of overhead, although at least with earlier versions of DirectX it is quite minimal already.

New comment by krs_ in "ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with"

krs_ — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:28:24 +0000

The general performance loss with the DX12 -> Vulkan translation on Linux especially with Nvidia hardware recently had the cause identified and will hopefully get solved in the near future. It has to do with descriptors and how Nvidia handles it is the general gist of it. A new Vulkan extension will be developed that more closely resembles how DX12 does things as I understand it, and then Nvidia and others can use that to hopefully solve this once and for all.

Here[1] is the full presentation and the slides[2] from it.

[1] https://video.tuwien.ac.at/events/xdc/v/OlwauRVEIGa

[2] https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/10/contributions/402/at...

New comment by krs_ in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

krs_ — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:29:05 +0000

That's a fair criticism, although once you learn how to access the documentation and where to look for/expext it I find that most things, including add-on packages and whatnot, can be learned from within Emacs itself just fine. But it does take some knowledge to get to that point in the first place for sure.

Nintendo Reportedly Lobbying Japanese Government to Push Back Against Gen AI

krs_ — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 05:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twistedvoxel.com/nintendo-reportedly-lobbying-japanese-government-to-push-back-against-generative-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479090

Points: 4

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New comment by krs_ in "YouTube views are down (don't panic)"

krs_ — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:23:11 +0000

Huh interesting. I'm guessing it might be one of my clients then because I haven't actively enabled it again myself, fine print or not.

New comment by krs_ in "YouTube views are down (don't panic)"

krs_ — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:40:07 +0000

You can only "pause" your watch history, as they call it, for some reason. And I keep having mine become unpaused constantly which I find interesting. I'm not sure if it's one of my clients doing it automatically or if Google just reenables the setting from time to time.