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New comment by wronglebowski in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

wronglebowski — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:28:54 +0000

That also comes upstream from llama.cpp https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4345

New comment by wronglebowski in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

wronglebowski — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:42:26 +0000

Props to the author for putting in what looks like ton of work trying to navigate this issue, shame they have to go to these lengths to even have their case considered.

New comment by wronglebowski in "[dead]"

wronglebowski — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:40:41 +0000

The jump from 10 to 20$ a year*(correction) is fine? I’m happy to pay for a quality service I use daily, and price increases are inevitable. Zero issues on my end.

New comment by wronglebowski in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

wronglebowski — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:58:01 +0000

I don't doubt it, but what were they all doing? The Metaverse had 10k employees on it for multiple years and seemed to almost be a standstill for long periods of time. What do these massive teams do all day?

New comment by wronglebowski in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

wronglebowski — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:24:01 +0000

Everyone is missing the why here, this only happens because the whole stack is vertically integrated. Even if say LG wanted to make a box like this and update it for 10 years they couldn’t, they don’t make the chips. Qualcomm straight up refuses to support chips through this many Android releases. Even if device manufacturers want to support devices forever it won’t matter if the actual SoC platform drops support.

New comment by wronglebowski in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

wronglebowski — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:29:14 +0000

I've only used it when I'm in a pinch but it's handy. Blowing up mobile apps to a larger screen and multitasking isn't ideal certainly but I've been able to handle "email job" type activities while out of pocket. That said I've never heard of anyone else who's actually used it.

New comment by wronglebowski in "OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen"

wronglebowski — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:06:47 +0000

The RK3568 is an interesting choice, why no the H700 or something with a good amount of mainline kernel support already?

New comment by wronglebowski in "Copper thieves are wreaking havoc across America"

wronglebowski — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:56:44 +0000

There's a scrapyard right by my hometown with a fancy billboard, like the ones for the lottery that have the number displays. It's just for showing copper prices, bright copper, copper #1 and copper #2. There's so much money in it they can afford to advertise now.

New comment by wronglebowski in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

wronglebowski — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:40:10 +0000

It’s incredible how bad driver support is the ARM space. I was looking into some of the various Ambernic handhelds and their Linux firmware. Despite their SoCs being advertised as having Vulkan 1.1 support every firmware for the device ships with it disabled.

New comment by wronglebowski in "Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree"

wronglebowski — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:38:36 +0000

At what point will the massive investments into AI show a respectable return? With the literal Trillion dollars OpenAI is constantly trying to raise what type of revenue would make that type of investment make sense? Even if you're incredibly bullish I don't know how you make that math work anymore.

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

wronglebowski — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:15:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520110

Points: 5

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New comment by wronglebowski in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

wronglebowski — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:19:13 +0000

The live demo of this is brutal. https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1968469616545452055

New comment by wronglebowski in "iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie"

wronglebowski — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:31:59 +0000

The line must go up, forever. No matter the cost.

New comment by wronglebowski in "Data center projects blocked or delayed amid local opposition"

wronglebowski — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:55:46 +0000

Housing doesn’t benefit the local community(from most NIMBY perspectives). It makes housing more affordable lowering their property values, creates the need for more infrastructure and creates change in their environment.

The motto seems to be, “Neighborhoods full, I like things the way they are. No more change please.” Doesn’t matter if it’s a data center, housing, or any type of development.

New comment by wronglebowski in "Data center projects blocked or delayed amid local opposition"

wronglebowski — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:48:23 +0000

“Local opposition” and NIMBYism is the primary reason we have a housing shortage, it’s a rampant problem across the US. The few grumpy old folks that show up to local planning meetings shouldn’t hold us back as a nation. Until we can find a way to get over that hump I’m not sure how we'll move forward in many aspects.

New comment by wronglebowski in "Burrito Now, Pay Later"

wronglebowski — Mon, 12 May 2025 01:33:57 +0000

I agree entirely with this sentiment. It almost feels like it's our ages "Keeping up with the Joneses". Even if 30-50% of your social circle can afford it without incurring debt if it becomes the social norm we'll all keep doing it. It's unfortunate but I don't know how this generation learns this lesson.

New comment by wronglebowski in "WeightWatchers files bankruptcy"

wronglebowski — Thu, 08 May 2025 00:51:45 +0000

What's the argument for stock buyback programs generally? We have more cash than we know how to spend reasonably?

New comment by wronglebowski in "Asahi Linux Progress Report - Linux 6.14"

wronglebowski — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 04:26:52 +0000

As I understand it’s very unlikely to happen anytime soon as the M1/2 GPUs are very similar but M3 has a completely new architecture. With their reduced staff and the GPU in the M1/2 being notoriously simple in retrospect we’re probably years away.

New comment by wronglebowski in "AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards"

wronglebowski — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:04:38 +0000

Every Nvidia card has CUDA support from day one, regardless of who the market is for it. I wouldn't much as much if all their slides weren't covered in AI, AI, AI, and it didn't ship with some stupid LLM chatbot to help you tune your GPU.

New comment by wronglebowski in "AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards"

wronglebowski — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:34:26 +0000

No ROCm at launch? After they delayed it for months? What a joke. That's like not having CUDA available at launch.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-RX-9070-Launch-Day