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zamalek · 2026-01-14T22:06:59 1768428419

I started mid last year and haven't run into any problems. Haven't needed to switch off of Dark Star yet.

I was previously on Google Fi, and MVNO roaming is bloody fantastic - I always had reception.

mikeweiss · 2026-01-15T15:10:49 1768489849

What is dark star?

zamalek · 2026-01-15T15:14:33 1768490073

It's the name of their AT&T MVNO.

zamalek · 2026-01-09T18:01:29 1767981689

Games that have problems with the previous approach might have hitches or stalls, though it could manifest in many ways.

Edit: I am running a kernel with it on, as well as Proton-CachyOS which has it opt-in. I have yet to see it make an improvement of any kind. Maybe it might help on lower-spec hardware such as the Deck.

seba_dos1 · 2026-01-09T18:40:43 1767984043

You likely won't see any improvement aside of resolving some bugs in some very specific edge cases that you may have never stumbled on personally.

shmerl · 2026-01-09T19:06:56 1767985616

Cyberpunk 2077 used to stall on shutdown with esync. No such problem with ntsync.

zamalek · 2026-01-07T23:49:25 1767829765

If the old wisdom is correct then there is no issue in regurgitating it in a format suitable for a modern audience. We departed from it for a very long time, especially in regards to fat and processed foods. America has been been on a sharp decline in diet-related health.

The deeper problem is that you can feed a family with a few bucks at a fast food joint. Eating correctly costs money, money that Americans don't have.

JumpCrisscross · 2026-01-08T02:18:45 1767838725

> deeper problem is that you can feed a family with a few bucks at a fast food joint. Eating correctly costs money, money that Americans don't have

A fast-food meal is an expensive meal by global standards. The problem is partly cost. And party education and time. But it’s almost certainly not income.

oulipo2 · 2026-01-08T14:53:28 1767884008

> The deeper problem is that you can feed a family with a few bucks at a fast food joint. Eating correctly costs money, money that Americans don't have.

No you can't, in reality. It only seems so because the fast-food industry is heavily subsidized by taxpayer dollars.

Organic food would be much more affordable otherwise

zamalek · 2026-01-06T18:39:57 1767724797

So it's ads masquerading as cookie consent?

zamalek · 2026-01-06T18:17:57 1767723477

I think someone around here said: LLMs are good at increasing entropy, experienced developers become good at reducing it. Those follow up prompts sounded additive, which is exactly where the problem lies. Yes, you might have tests but, no, that doesn't mean that your code base is approachable.

zamalek · 2026-01-05T19:07:31 1767640051

Corrective votes will follow, if warranted.

EGreg · 2026-01-05T21:19:09 1767647949

I don't think automated downvote brigading is good for HN. It buries items and then by the time they are found and upvoted, it's basically been buried. Anyway...

zamalek · 2026-01-05T17:01:44 1767632504

Piracy isn't only a matter of money, it can also be convenience or outright accessibility (no way to purchase the item legally).

zamalek · 2026-01-04T23:02:32 1767567752

When I was forced to use a Mac at work I found that Nix was also just a better (mostly faster) package manager than brew. Even if you're not on the immutable bandwagon it's very worthwhile.

As a bonus I was able to achieve some semblance of uniformity across Mac and my Linux desktop with home-manager.

zamalek · 2026-01-04T19:15:21 1767554121

At the end of the day these developers are almost entirely volunteers. Codebases that are a mess, ie X11, are not enjoyable to work on and therefore convincing people to use their discretionary time on it is more difficult. If there wasn't Wayland the current set of developers on Wayland might not have been doing DE work at all.

Attracting new contributors is an existential problem in OSS.

zamalek · 2026-01-03T01:11:49 1767402709

BAR is definitely one of the stars of OSS game dev.