Hacker News: lnx01

New comment by lnx01 in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

lnx01 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:38:29 +0000

I doubt it, SLS and Artemis predate 'For all mankind' by many years.

New comment by lnx01 in "Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away"

lnx01 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:21:52 +0000

In the context of an online marketplace "Unlocked" means "Not carrier locked". This has _nothing_ to do with the bootloader.

New comment by lnx01 in "Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home"

lnx01 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:52:09 +0000

*Asterisk

New comment by lnx01 in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

lnx01 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:09:08 +0000

Running X11 on Ubuntu 22.04 - I have a 2650x1600 main at 150% scale and a 1920x1980 secondary at 100% scale. Essentially they're the same virtual size side-by-side. This _only_ works on my nVidia GPU...

New comment by lnx01 in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

lnx01 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:17:46 +0000

The "enriewu" thing wasn't a misspelling of "en route", it was someone's name who had arrived in Miami with Jean-Luc and Peggy. It's probably a misspelling of Henry pronounced in French.

New comment by lnx01 in "Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases"

lnx01 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:02:53 +0000

LLMs are so good at telling me about things I know little to nothing about, but when when I ask about things I have expert knowledge on they consistently fail, hallucinate, and confidently lie...

New comment by lnx01 in "Charles Proxy"

lnx01 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:59:22 +0000

MacOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux

New comment by lnx01 in "Making Google Sans Flex"

lnx01 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:16:44 +0000

It should not be possible for a webpage to change my mouse cursor.

New comment by lnx01 in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

lnx01 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:50:16 +0000

25 years ago my 3.5mm jack headphones would buzz whenever I moved the mouse... Bzzzzzzzzz,tk, tk, tk ,tk, bzzzzzzz, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk....

New comment by lnx01 in "Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon"

lnx01 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:23:44 +0000

The vast majority of carbon in trees is pulled from the atmosphere during growth. A dead tree is still made of organic molecules, which have carbon in them. So trees are not "Carbon Neutral", they're "Carbon Negative" until the wood is burned, or it decomposes enough to become crude oil and then, well...

New comment by lnx01 in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

lnx01 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:00:29 +0000

The most fun I've ever had in a museum was at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. The exhibits are interactive, educational, fun... mostly for kids...

I was 33 years old... I'd love to go back and do it all again.

New comment by lnx01 in "Dancing brainwaves: How sound reshapes your brain networks in real time"

lnx01 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:48:10 +0000

green-needle/brain-storm would disagree with you!

New comment by lnx01 in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"

lnx01 — Thu, 08 May 2025 08:50:13 +0000

I really hope they bring back the Denon AK-DL3

New comment by lnx01 in "Making a smart bike dumb so it works again"

lnx01 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:32:22 +0000

I would imagine it's minimal. I'll never forget a demo I played with at a Science museum as a kid. A dynamo with a crank you can turn, and set of switches that allow you to turn on one, two, or three incandescent bulbs. The crank turns freely without load, and is increasingly more difficult to turn as load is added.

New comment by lnx01 in "Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser"

lnx01 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:37:38 +0000

Waterfox isn't new, its first release was in 2011. I used to run it because they had an x86-64 build when Firefox didn't.

New comment by lnx01 in "Turning Off Zen 4's Op Cache for Curiosity and Giggles"

lnx01 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:41:08 +0000

I ran mitigations=off on my Zen4 until I saw that phoronix article and realised that in most workloads it made essentially no difference, and even harmed performance in others. I no longer run mitigations=off. But on my old i7 7700HQ mitigations=off improved performance by 10-20% depending on workload.

New comment by lnx01 in "How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”"

lnx01 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:42:45 +0000

*heroes

New comment by lnx01 in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

lnx01 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 06:42:57 +0000

It runs at Ring 0, there's no lower ring (besides maybe IME and the like).

New comment by lnx01 in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

lnx01 — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:54:15 +0000

Removing snaps is trivial.

New comment by lnx01 in "MOnSter 6502: a working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502"

lnx01 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:17:14 +0000

The Apple A8X, found in the iPad Air 2, contains about 3 billion transistors. (This is comparable to the number of transistors in modern desktop computer CPUs as well.) At the scale of the MOnSter 6502, that would take about 885,000 square feet (over 20 acres or 8 hectares) — an area about 940 ft (286 m) square.