Hacker News: regexorcist

New comment by regexorcist in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

regexorcist — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:55:48 +0000

You can do those things with LVM snapshots too, that's what they are used for.

New comment by regexorcist in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

regexorcist — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:14:43 +0000

LVM does have snapshots.

New comment by regexorcist in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

regexorcist — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:34:12 +0000

So this is the narrative now? Come on.

New comment by regexorcist in "AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks"

regexorcist — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:03:03 +0000

You might start with ClamAV and something like Little Snitch.

New comment by regexorcist in "macOS Container Machines"

regexorcist — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:13:32 +0000

Agreed, the Linux laptop story is pretty dire compared to Apple hardware. My travel laptop is an M1 with Asahi.

New comment by regexorcist in "macOS Container Machines"

regexorcist — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:41:19 +0000

This is a tired cliché. Today, a modern Linux desktop like KDE Plasma just works and more importantly, gets out of your way unlike obnoxious MacOS and Windows. Aside of that you get the most advanced OS in the world where the thing being discussed here is a decade old.

New comment by regexorcist in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

regexorcist — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:30:45 +0000

So the NSA baseline of Linux + SELinux (that they helped develop) does not meet your needs but MacOS does? Please educate me.

New comment by regexorcist in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

regexorcist — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:21:56 +0000

What is your point again? All of the above sounds perfectly fine to me.

New comment by regexorcist in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

regexorcist — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:13:27 +0000

Skill issue.

New comment by regexorcist in "Dopamine Fracking"

regexorcist — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:52:23 +0000

Sounds like a very small town? In general most places are filled with shops you can walk to. In southern Europe in particular it's almost overwhelming the amount of options you have.

New comment by regexorcist in "Dopamine Fracking"

regexorcist — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:57:54 +0000

> people don’t realize

Y Combinator is right there in the URL. People know and don't care because it's a well run forum with interesting discussions, the privileged posts don't change that.

New comment by regexorcist in "Dopamine Fracking"

regexorcist — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:26:01 +0000

These days, go anywhere in the world with a pseudo famous landmark and watch the same thing. I've been travelling long enough to remember people being present and taking in the experience. Now it's literal queues for the perfect spot to take 100 near identical photos of themselves, and choose a few later for social media.

New comment by regexorcist in "Dopamine Fracking"

regexorcist — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:57:57 +0000

As someone under 40 who never had any social media, I cannot overstate the negative impact it's had on my peers and their behaviours. Worst thing to ever happen to society imo, I feel for the younger ones who grew up with it.

New comment by regexorcist in "macOS needs its grid back"

regexorcist — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:45:40 +0000

Reading the article as a Linux user was almost infuriating. I can't imagine having my workflow, something I've refined for my needs over the years, taken away from me at the wish of a company. Before I switched to Plasma and Wayland I ran XFCE with the exact same config for maybe 15 years, unbothered by updates.

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

regexorcist — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:15:53 +0000

Sadly memory bandwidth, which is the bottleneck for AI, is pretty disappointing.

New comment by regexorcist in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

regexorcist — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:54 +0000

In the EU at least WhatsApp is being forced to interop with other messaging apps. I believe it's being rolled out at the moment.

New comment by regexorcist in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

regexorcist — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:16:52 +0000

It is a real option, in fact the only option for many who can't tolerate macOS, to use these devices.

New comment by regexorcist in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

regexorcist — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:32:37 +0000

Same. By the time I got back it had even upstreamed a few device drivers to mainline Linux, all on its own.

New comment by regexorcist in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

regexorcist — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:52:48 +0000

Pro motion has been working for a while, you can get 120Hz now.

New comment by regexorcist in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

regexorcist — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:04:06 +0000

A Fedora live USB should just boot on an Intel MBP (maybe you have to hold Alt? Don't remember). Then you can install it to disk. I was happily running Linux on a 2015 model until recently, still a good machine for most things.