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New comment by nbf_1995 in "AirPods 5"

nbf_1995 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:15:55 +0000

Tim Apple stepped down. It's John Apple now

New comment by nbf_1995 in "They Killed Old Reddit"

nbf_1995 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:24:27 +0000

I'm not logged in and I still get old reddit. It depends on where you are.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend"

nbf_1995 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:56:48 +0000

Ryzen 5000 cpus are extremely cheap right now. I bought a 5900xt (16 cores) to upgrade a server a few weeks ago for ~$250. If you already have DDR4 you could put together a system for pretty cheap if you need it soon.

The downside is that AM4 is basically EOL, so no upgrade path.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues"

nbf_1995 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:06:39 +0000

I can only hope RISC-V's displacement of ARM at the low end will force them into competing more at the high end in servers / high end consumer hardware.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads"

nbf_1995 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:51:27 +0000

This site does not like being on the front page of HN. ~7MB for pictures of graphs that probably should have html or svg.

This is an interesting article though. Bookmarking since my dual e5-v4 system is unplugged until summer is over.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

nbf_1995 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:58:22 +0000

There is but it lags behind the latest apple hardware.

Asahi only supports M1, M2, and alpha support for M3.

Not that I blame them for the lag, there's a lot of reversing work because apple doesn't document this stuff.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

nbf_1995 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:41:09 +0000

Not defending the default behavior of zed, but it is possible to disable this. Setting `"lsp..binary.path": ` will stop zed from trying to install that server.

On my machines, the "languages"/"node" directories for zed are empty and owned by root and the lsp servers are provided by nix. But you could also pin known good versions with npm.

As far as I know Vscode has no equivalent way to do this.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security"

nbf_1995 — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:22:53 +0000

Humans are famously rational and ego-less.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "GrapheneOS isn't vulnerable to the 3 recent Linux memory logic vulnerabilities"

nbf_1995 — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:57:44 +0000

I had the same idea. My understanding is that Android isn't vulnerable to these because it doesn't have a user accessible setuid binary.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

nbf_1995 — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:51:46 +0000

I can't help but wonder what this cost in USD assuming you paid standard rates from Anthropic. Can someone even ballpark the price?

New comment by nbf_1995 in "Zed 1.0"

nbf_1995 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:40:14 +0000

> There's no View menu

Control + , > Window & Layout > Show Menus = true

This unhides the menu instead of hiding everything behind a burger. This should be the default. The defaults are awful in many ways and they've only gotten worse with the recent panel rearrangement.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

nbf_1995 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:56:12 +0000

I have never heard of ethernet cables getting hot to that degree except when PoE is involved.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux"

nbf_1995 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:01:24 +0000

The server is configured as a caching reverse proxy (just nginx with cache.nixos.org as upstream) which I think is similar to squid proxy.

Outside my LAN I do have the ability to tunnel home, but depending on the connection and the updates I just deal with the timeouts, or just wait until I get home.

I think technically you can override substituters using cli options but its not ideal. There are several proposals for configuring timeouts per substituter but none of them are merged yet.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux"

nbf_1995 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:00:21 +0000

I think this is a mostly fair criticism of nixos. Nixos has a lot of powerful tools, but if you don't need them, they can get in the way. Some assorted notes:

> unless you run nix-collect-garbage periodically

    nix.gc.automatic = true;
    nix.gc.options = "--delete-older-than 10d";

> the constant cycle of rebuild → fix → rebuild → fix → rebuild

I've found this useful to eliminate the rebuild loop: https://kokada.dev/blog/quick-bits-realise-nix-symlinks/ It lets you make the config of the program you choose a regular mutable file instead of a symlink so you can quickly iterate and test changes.

> In contrast, Arch Linux simply downloads prebuilt binaries via pacman or an AUR helper

If a binary exists. A lot of AUR packages I used to rely on didn't have a binary package (or the binary package was out of date) and would have to build from source. On nixos my machines are set up to use distributed builds (https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Distributed_build). Packages that do need built from source get built on my server downstairs. The server also runs a reverse proxy cache so I only need to download packages once per version.

Distributed AUR builds are possible on arch, but they require a lot of setup and are still fragile like regular AUR builds, your only choice of dependencies are what's currently available in the repos.

> On my machine, regular maintenance updates without proper caching easily take 4–5+ hours

It sounds like the author may be running the unstable release channel and/or using some heavy unstable packages. Which might explain a lot of other problems the author is having too.

Back when I used arch, I found that as time went on, my system would sort of accumulate packages. I would install $package, then in the next version of $package a dependency would be added on $dep. When I updated, $dep would be installed, then eventually $package would drop the dependency on $dep, but $dep would remain installed. I would periodically have to run pacman -R $(pacman -Qtqd | tr '\n' ' ') to clear out packages that were no longer required.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

nbf_1995 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:09:53 +0000

Title says "S4" solar radiation event, but the linked page says "G4" geomagnetic storm

New comment by nbf_1995 in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

nbf_1995 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:31:49 +0000

Can you expand on how you use Zellij? I tried it and I understand you can use it for splits, and tabs similar to tmux. But I might revisit it if it allows an IDE like workflow with Helix.

New comment by nbf_1995 in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

nbf_1995 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:46:24 +0000

> Maybe someone ports Vanadium to desktop linux

https://github.com/secureblue/Trivalent

New comment by nbf_1995 in "I made a quieter air purifier"

nbf_1995 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:32:10 +0000

I think it's because there are no grills on the outside. If the fans were sucking air out of the box, dust would build up on the outside, and bumping it would dislodge dust back into the environment.

With the fans blowing in, all the dust is on the inside of the box (and on the fans).

The box fan version also blows air into the box

New comment by nbf_1995 in "State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview"

nbf_1995 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:34:36 +0000

The solidrun LX2 offers 4x SFP+, but that board is getting quite old at this point.

There are a couple of bananapi router boards that have 1 maybe 2 SFP+

New comment by nbf_1995 in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

nbf_1995 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:02:07 +0000

Just curious, what did you switch to?