Hacker News: paines

New comment by paines in "My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed"

paines — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:45:24 +0000

Tuxedo is a german company relabling Clevo Laptops so far, which work out-of-the-box pretty good (I might say perfect in some cases) on Linux. They have done ZILCH, NADA, absolute nothing for Linux, besides promoting it as a brand. So now they took a snapdragon laptop, installed linux and are disappointed by the performance....Great test, tremendous work! Asahi Linux showed if you put in the work you can have awesome performance.

New comment by paines in "The best programmers I know"

paines — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:14:08 +0000

> Read The Error Message Yes thats right for most things, unless it's your beloved GNU C++ compiler. You might just have forgotten a const in your template method and it will give you 5 pages of hell for that.

New comment by paines in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

paines — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:39:32 +0000

God how I hate these arguments. You have this especially with Gimp. "But my beloved multibillion company worth product can do X sooo much better and easier. Also it has 16bit bla bla bla." You don't say?!?!?!? Any tips how to get a thicker skin, or it grows on you over the years ? Also, thanks for Ardour. I am a hobby cellist and record sometimes myself using Ardour and to cut down samples for an app I am working on. I tried doing that with my iPhone which worked like crap. Yup!

New comment by paines in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

paines — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:01:47 +0000

> Personally I'm a bit disappointed that it's based on Rockchip.

Why would you?

You mentioned Raspberry where, compared to the competition, you pay more for the name while they deliver even the same capabilities or more bang for the buck... Don't get me wrong. Huge Raspi fan here. I have 3 models laying around here, because they are the easiest to purchase. But the competition is not to be overlooked.

Also, aren't the compute modules strandarized or compatible? So it should be interchangeable, no?

New comment by paines in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

paines — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:12:54 +0000

That was a pretty boring annoucement. Yeah its cool how the elements on the device appear, but it gets boring when this is shown for both sides of the attachebles controllers. They have the opportunity to show e.g. exclusive games which would now look and perform super duper on the new hardware, because of a better resolution opr maybe HDR, but nothing like that? Or a comparison of the old one with the new? I think its a bit thin...

New comment by paines in "Why I Chose Common Lisp"

paines — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:23:18 +0000

He cannot use Emacs and then goes to ... Vim ?!?! Nothing against Vim or Emacs, I love both but they had their time which is long gone. I am using Linux ans OSS technolgies since 95 and would have never imagined to advocate a MS product, but just use VS Code. It's awesome. VS Code managed to by-pass the qualitiy and amount of extensions/plugins in a fraction of time Emacs took decades.

New comment by paines in "New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120"

paines — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:02:20 +0000

The use cases get born once you have such amount of ram...

New comment by paines in "Embedding Scheme in Rust"

paines — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:38:21 +0000

Intresting. I know of two projects from the past where people used Gambit and Chicken and couldn't recommend it, because of the garbage collection. So the games runs, bullets fly, monsters move, etc... and at some point gc kicks in and you would notice a minimal halt or lag which for games is a big NO NO. Now that you mentioned a shmup, where a lot I going on, I am wondering how you or Chez handled that?

New comment by paines in "Wine 10.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS"

paines — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:52:02 +0000

Can't that be run via browser on any OS which has an up-to-date browser? That was at least my impression...

New comment by paines in "Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs"

paines — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 13:07:19 +0000

what ?!?! NTFS has no case sensitivity no compression. And I guess a couple of more things I do not want to miss.

New comment by paines in "Arvo Pärt's Journey"

paines — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:39:13 +0000

Fuck man. Didn't know about Gorecki's Symphony No. 3. I found a version with Beth Gibbons(Singer w. Portishead) singing in Polish?!?! Unbelievable goose bump symphony and performance. THANKS!

New comment by paines in "ZX Spectrum Documentary 'The Rubber Keyed Wonder' Gets London Premiere"

paines — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:42:51 +0000

IIRC correct there is a speccy museum somewehre in West Portugal.

New comment by paines in "Arvo Pärt's Journey"

paines — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:26:02 +0000

I would never have imagined to read something about him here. I absolutely love his 4th symphony "Los Angeles". And recently "In cantus memoriam Benjamin Britten" was used in a movie. He wrote that piece after learning about Benjamin Britten and being absolutely delighted by his work, only to then find out he passed away shortly before. What a fruitful friendship and cooperation this could have been....

New comment by paines in "Apple Approves iDOS Emulator"

paines — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:41:59 +0000

This should be much higher up. Thanks! How about controllers? Playing Archimedean Dynasty with an 360 joypad would be pretty cool once Voodoo/GLIDE graphics is in.

New comment by paines in "Forget about the gym Chicken-sizing will keep you fit"

paines — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 08:25:04 +0000

Maybe op doesn't have a fenced area? Also I saw some chickens here in Germany getting lost from their flock roaming around.

New comment by paines in "CPS in Hoot"

paines — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:27:55 +0000

Your site is unreadable.

New comment by paines in "BatFi 2.0.0 Is Out"

paines — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:35:28 +0000

Cannot tell much about the app itself as I just learned about it and has to see how it performs. However I wanted to comment on the buying process. You can pay any amount which you think is fair and get a download link. Later on you can donate more if you like. This is, for the Apple eco-system, really refreshring, and I very much miss this for iPhone Apps. I do not know how often I have installed and directly after de-installed apps because I cannot use them until I payed x bucks, which is completely rediculous because I do not know if the app will do or work in my setup / use-case.

New comment by paines in "Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports"

paines — Thu, 16 May 2024 10:52:49 +0000

Does that mean I could have rolled an OS for my n64 together with game? l

New comment by paines in "Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab"

paines — Sat, 04 May 2024 10:55:43 +0000

Is this country filtered? iOS->latest Update->not available in Germany...

New comment by paines in "Descent: A classic 3-D first-person shooter (2012)"

paines — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:59:25 +0000

A few years ago Descent3 was modernized by Icculus(Ryan Gordon) to play on modern hardware running Linux and released thru Steam. The old version was unable to run on modern distros. The new released version uses SDL2 and runs nicely on modern hardware even the SteamDeck. Anyway it has some bugs which hopefully can be addressed if more people chime in. Find the bugtracker on github: https://github.com/icculus/descent3-bugs/issues