Hacker News: rick_dalton

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.

New comment by rick_dalton in "MacBook Neo"

rick_dalton — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:18:28 +0000

I feel like the Mac lineup is still coherent especially compared to basically every other laptop manufacturer. The iPad lineup I don't know.

New comment by rick_dalton in "MacBook Neo"

rick_dalton — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:14:51 +0000

On my M1 Air I have: Percentage Used: 4% Data Units Read: 564,731,366 [289 TB] Data Units Written: 182,194,700 [93.2 TB] and I thought I was using it extensively haha.

New comment by rick_dalton in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

rick_dalton — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:20:08 +0000

Sell it on eBay instead. I saw a post today where an M4 pro MacBook that cost 4k last year has a trade in value of 1.1k now.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"

rick_dalton — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:25:05 +0000

The X925 core is used in chips like the gb10 for the nvidia dgx spark. So it is relevant to compare to apple silicon performance imo. The mac studio is pretty much a competitor to it.

New comment by rick_dalton in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

rick_dalton — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:16:49 +0000

The intention behind lockdown mode is protection for a select few groups of people such as journalists, that are at risk of having software like Pegasus used against them. It’s to reduce the attack surface. The average user wouldn’t want most of it as a default setting, for example: almost no message attachments allowed, no FaceTime calls from people you haven’t called and safari is kneecapped. Making this a default setting for most people is unrealistic and also probably won’t help their cybersecurity as they wouldn’t be targeted anyway.

New comment by rick_dalton in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

rick_dalton — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:04:46 +0000

I think you have it backwards. The new app launcher is unequivocally more like iOS. Like iOS' app launcher it: 1. does not support making your own folders which launchpad had 2. has groups per app type like "Creativity" or "Productivity" which are literally taken verbatim from the iOS app drawer/launcher page. Both designs are obviously inspired by iOS but I don't see it as a mac optimized version at all.

New comment by rick_dalton in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

rick_dalton — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:53:39 +0000

How are you so sure this will be a definite improvement? Many well-meaning policies have had a measurable negative effect.

New comment by rick_dalton in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

rick_dalton — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:46:54 +0000

Do you have any source? Googling it tells me otherwise.

New comment by rick_dalton in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

rick_dalton — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:50:38 +0000

So instead of buying ad space we can now buy catalog space and reinvent the wheel.