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New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app"

shaunsingh0207 — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:53:15 +0000

now I'd spend all my time turning the dial and overengineering its replacement :(

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Game Over: Steam won’t Run on Windows 7 and 8 after January 2024"

shaunsingh0207 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 08:20:04 +0000

Did you update your macbook? Any MacOS install 10.15 and later can't run 32-bit apps, which half life is.

Anyways, get a copy of bootcamp and black mesa, then enjoy half life in all of its updated source 2 glory

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux"

shaunsingh0207 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:49:34 +0000

note that the proprietary extensions are extremely unlikely to gain linux support though, unless upstream arm adopts something similar

though amx won’t help out with emulation much

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Fake Samsung 980 Pro SSDs are spreading around"

shaunsingh0207 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 03:41:01 +0000

Whats the point of getting a 980 pro if you're going to disable the cache? Don't disable cache, prevent unclean shutdowns

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Flux Keyboard"

shaunsingh0207 — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:00:11 +0000

E-ink gets exponentially more expensive with size, and an e-ink panel in this keyboard would have to have a fairly decent resolution and refresh rate, whereas the price tags are usually 1-bit color, low res, and barely have to refresh

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Flux Keyboard"

shaunsingh0207 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:43:19 +0000

Saw your project a few days back, absolutely loved it! Same-ish setup here, a massive e-ink screen hooked up to a controller and pine64 board. I hung it up next to my bed, displays my most important emails/weather/health-notifs etc., everything I need in the morning to get up and running

The cost of the panel makes me cry but there's nothing like e-ink :)

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Flux Keyboard"

shaunsingh0207 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:30:19 +0000

E-ink is extremely expensive, especially at the size of a keyboard like that. Memory LCD would be more practical, but at that point the lcd costs the same and offers more power for those who want it.

There isn't anything stopping you from making the entire screen black except for the legends, probably

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux"

shaunsingh0207 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:01:57 +0000

In the end yes, although it was much easier to get working than the authors adventures with firefox

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux"

shaunsingh0207 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:59:07 +0000

raspotify/spotifyd aren't alternative desktop clients, they're connect clients, great if you want to modern-ify an old amplifier, but not useful for streaming.

All of the native desktop clients (psst, spot, etc) are missing quite a few features compared to the official client, and spotify-tui is nowhere near as nice to use.

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player"

shaunsingh0207 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:10:34 +0000

Spotify-tui is the only one that implements connect functionality, and even then it doesn't have the extended auto-mixes that spotify plays when you're playlist ends.

I'm glad there are options for alternative native clients, but none of them are anywhere near feature parity with the official client

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux"

shaunsingh0207 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:06:30 +0000

I was looking into this very problem yesterday! Terribly scared by widewine, I ended up building webkit with eme support enabled, then enabled the relevent setting in the nyxt browser. Seems to be working fine so far.

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust"

shaunsingh0207 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:01:52 +0000

Yes, through a `build.rs` file and crates such as `pkg-config`. Quite a few projects depends on c/c++ source and are merely rust bindings. However, the majority of crates don't require external dependencies

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money"

shaunsingh0207 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:51:02 +0000

Noone buys both versions of the pokemon game though, its always been a nice novelty. Me and my mates always used to get opposite games so we could trade everything up. Its good fun.

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU"

shaunsingh0207 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:36:42 +0000

It was originally with microsoft, to go in a surface device, then that fell through and the steam deck picked it up. Not general use persay, but microsoft's general use

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU"

shaunsingh0207 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:57:17 +0000

It was developed for general laptop use, and valve just happened to have the perfect use case for it.

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "For every 100 iPhones, Apple sells 26 iPads, 17 Apple Watches, 35 AirPods"

shaunsingh0207 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:47:58 +0000

Thats an absolutely huge phone to airpod conversion rate, though I wonder how many of those airpods were purchased by 1 user? most people I know with airpods lose them ocassionally and own more than one pair

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Tell HN: My son is being bullied for owning an Android phone"

shaunsingh0207 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:46:25 +0000

telegram doesn't come by default on my phone. getting a teenager to download telegram or duo or is hard. The power of facetime is any kid with an iphone has the ability to immediately video call any other kid with an iphone.

I'm not saying its a good thing. I despise that its practically impossible to have a social life without an iphone in a lot of urban american schools. Just know that by not budging and not getting your kid an iphone, you are causing them frustration and potentialy making them lose out on a significant part of their childhood.

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?"

shaunsingh0207 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:51:44 +0000

I bought a new 3ds and it was absolute bliss. The mario bros 3d game was incredibly intuitive to play, that 3ds has spoiled any 3d platformer for me. I tried playing the new 3d game on the switch and even though it has shadows, I kept missing platforms etc.

I think the original 3ds's lack of tracking is what turned it off for most people, though.

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?"

shaunsingh0207 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:49:45 +0000

The thing is with the wiimote (atleast with motion plus) and the switch, nintendo really tuned in the motion. I think you can give anyone age 5-99 a wiimote (or a joycon), say play bowling or tennis, and they can pick it up within a few second

Barely anyone else puts the effort into getting gestures right. Part of that is the developers spend so long developing the gestures, they don't know whats natural and whats not anymore.

Big example is windows precision drivers. In theory they should be more natural, in practice they are terrible.

New comment by shaunsingh0207 in "Tell HN: My son is being bullied for owning an Android phone"

shaunsingh0207 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 10:29:46 +0000

Facetime however doesn't, and if I was a high schooler with a girlfriend thats likely what I'd use. That and gamepigeon "games", group chats, a fair bit of stuff thats a nonissue to older people but to high schoolers is absolutely nessecary for relationships to function

... are you really going to use email or irc in high school