Hacker News: rick_dalton

New comment by rick_dalton in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

rick_dalton — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:53:36 +0000

You basically don’t use sudo on macOS though. Maybe once in a blue moon

New comment by rick_dalton in "How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?"

rick_dalton — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:11:50 +0000

This makes no sense? How is one even correlated with the other? Data centers obviously have much different requirements than office buildings for people. On a very small scale this works but not on a larger scale.

New comment by rick_dalton in "AI Is a Bad Tool"

rick_dalton — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:57:12 +0000

This article feels weirdly anachronistic with talking points I haven't really heard anyone mention since like 2023.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

rick_dalton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:12:41 +0000

I agree, I keep mine pretty minimal, most are basically there as ads to remind you they exist cough cough ms teams.

New comment by rick_dalton in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

rick_dalton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:50:46 +0000

This doesn't actually prove your original comment. It just says that it could happen, not that it is happening.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

rick_dalton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:19:32 +0000

I think this is one of the things they're fixing in macOS 27 golden gate, took them long enough. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/1u0lhyz/macos_27...

New comment by rick_dalton in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

rick_dalton — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:20:37 +0000

Why do you care? It’s a hobby like anything else.

New comment by rick_dalton in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

rick_dalton — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:08:11 +0000

Canada passed a similar bill a few years ago causing meta to stop showing Canadian news content on their platforms. It didn’t really impact them financially or user wise. So the same thing will probably happen in Italy.

New comment by rick_dalton in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

rick_dalton — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:35:56 +0000

Ourworldindata basically just uses data from published research papers and makes interactive graphs that are easy to understand. They also cite their source in every graph and every article. Trying to paint them as disingenious is pretty baseless, you would have to take it up with the authors of the source data and not owid.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

rick_dalton — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:07:28 +0000

The 20h figure is specifically for streaming 4k Netflix in the app on Windows. Netflix doesn’t even support 4K streaming on Linux as far as I know.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

rick_dalton — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:51:56 +0000

They would have definitely advertised if it was something special like mini-LED but it seems to be a pretty standard display.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

rick_dalton — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:41:08 +0000

In his presentation, Nirav compared it twice to a MacBook. Even saying they want to build the MacBook of the Linux world iirc. While I also agree with you, it’s still a valid comparison.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

rick_dalton — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:41:40 +0000

Claude and opencode aren’t natively supported but there’s a Claude code package in the FreeBSD repos. For cursor, I have no idea.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Tiny Corp's Exabox"

rick_dalton — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:12:20 +0000

He’s also been shipping the smaller petaflop tinyboxes with either nvidia or amd.

New comment by rick_dalton in "DDR5 RAM prices fall by as much as 30%, but memory shortage likely far from over"

rick_dalton — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:29:23 +0000

I’ve read this a couple of times now but when I check the pcpartpicker price trend for ram it is flat.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

rick_dalton — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:00:40 +0000

Gemini-cli is much worse in my experience but I agree

New comment by rick_dalton in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

rick_dalton — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:00:33 +0000

My problem is that I don’t use the majority of these functions at all. Command I can use for almost everything no matter how frequent or infrequent. It also replaces most “ctrl+shift” binds which is a great plus for me.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

rick_dalton — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:04:08 +0000

Super key for most keybinds is much nicer than windows in my opinion, where it is entirely wasted on opening the start menu. On Linux it gains a few functions based on the desktop environment but not much.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

rick_dalton — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:53:54 +0000

Sorry for even mentioning astroturfing, haha. It’s just because the promotion of the device is based on trying to fool people it was made by tiny corp.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

rick_dalton — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:02:00 +0000

That thing is NOT related to tinybox or tinygrad in any way. It is basically copyright infringement. Unless you’re astroturfing here I suggest you get your money back.