apatheticonion

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by apatheticonion 9d ago
Sadly, I know it'll never happen. I run Asahi on my old M1 MBP and it makes me sad that Apple won't contribute to the Linux use case.
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by apatheticonion 9d ago
Wake me up when Apple releases Linux for Macs
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by apatheticonion 10d ago
I had a dedicated router plugged directly into my PC's second ethernet port. That was the best wireless experience I had - but it still wasn't a great experience. Again, my Quest felt like a hot, heavy Rift 2 rather than a wireles
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by apatheticonion 11d ago
I agree but, my experience with wireless has been so bad that I'd rather be able to play games with a wire than avoid them without one. I liked shooters and going from the G2 where I could actually use sniper rifles to barely being abl
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by apatheticonion 11d ago
At least with the Quest, the video quality over cable was only slightly better than wireless. The heat and weight of the extra hardware also becomes noticeable when sitting for a while. For example, there's no way I could do an 8 hour
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by apatheticonion 11d ago
I know everyone is singing the praises of the Steam Frame's wireless capabilities but honestly, I just want my wired VR experience back. I had a Rift 2, Reverb G2, then Quest 2 and eventually Quest 3. Despite the Quest 3 having a resol
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by apatheticonion 11d ago
Would be great if the Meta Quest could be jailbroken to run SteamOS
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by apatheticonion 15d ago
Performance isn't really the selling point for me. It's the fact that runtime errors are essentially impossible, making writing, reviewing, testing code very easy. It also means LLMs can spin it out with the compiler, and if it co
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by apatheticonion 15d ago
I do have fond feelings towards winforms and wpf from years ago, but I can't use it to write cross platform applications. There really isn't anything other than web that covers that use case, sadly. C# still has runtime exceptions
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by apatheticonion 15d ago
From a software design standpoint, it certainly takes some adjustment going from OOP to the compositional architecture and structural trait system used by Rust, but it's not that big a shift. The biggest downsides are the poor standard
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by apatheticonion 15d ago
I know, haha. It's a bit of an absolute statement but as far as all of the features I look for in the context of creating scalable and maintainable software (especially in the age of agent-assisted coding) - Rust has been the most prod
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by apatheticonion 15d ago
Yes, that contributes to the "if it actually worked" sentiment. It doesn't have to be slow, if the browser exposed C-like ABI for DOM access and web APIs like LocalStorage, the FileSystem API, ServiceWorker, etc - Rust bindin
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by apatheticonion 15d ago
I've been writing Rust professionally for the last 5 years (where my first decade of professional experience started in frontend, then moved down the stack TypeScript/Node, Go, C# and so on). From the perspective of high level app
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by apatheticonion 19d ago
I'd love to. Want to join?
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by apatheticonion 19d ago
> The market for people who want to install Linux on a Mac laptop is very tiny. I suspect there would be an element of induced demand here. IMO the MacBook range are the only laptops on the market worth buying - but not having support fo
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by apatheticonion 19d ago
I'd imagine it's for IP protection. There's a lot of documentation required to write drivers for hardware; for the GPU, they'd need to share the instruction set of the GPU along with the specifications of the controller.
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by apatheticonion 19d ago
Right!? Linux can be configured to idle at less than 500mb of ram - by contrast, with some aggressive shenanigans, MacOS can idle at 2-3gb. When running inference, I would love to use all of my hardware please Apple.
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by apatheticonion 19d ago
On the topic of browsers, I feel your pain. There were a good few years where they were shipping new and useful features, but they plateaued and started removing features. I can't remember the last time I was excited about browser feat
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by apatheticonion 20d ago
Yes, that's what I'm saying. 200t/s is more than enough to 5 - 10x my productivity and the intelligence of current open weight models covers 90% of both my guided and software factory workflows
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by apatheticonion 22d ago
Too new, but my old M1 MacBook Pro runs Asahi and, while I love it and everything the team has done, it's not really daily drivable for work (due to a lack of external display support and other issues).
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by apatheticonion 22d ago
I just want an API that takes these crazy small / cost effective open weight models and charges peanuts for access. Think, DeepSeek Flash (before the price hikes) prices. If I can run this on a 32gb card while they have a datacenter wi
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by apatheticonion 24d ago
Not true. Apple, for instance, does not provide low level device documentation sufficient for creating open source drivers - for instance - publishing documentation on the Apple GPU and coprocessor would have reduced the development effort
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by apatheticonion 24d ago
I know it's unethical, but when I read this, I can't help but hope a pseudo-cleanroom/ai-laundered Linux GPU driver appears for MacBooks. What I wouldn't give to run Linux on my Apple hardware.
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by apatheticonion 24d ago
It's rarely sunshine, but there are a lot of rainbows!
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by apatheticonion 29d ago
Agreed. I've been "guide coding" in my editor (Zed / VSCode) for a while now and it's really enjoyable. DeepSeek v4 flash has been dirt cheap and so fast that my development loop is; - small prompt - review - small
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
Unfortunately they decided not to proceed despite glowing feedback in the other rounds
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
Nice! Linux Please. My M5 MacBook Pro, while amazing, is basically relegated to being a thin client with amazing battery life that exclusively SSH's into my desktop PC for work. I could spawn a Linux VM / use Docker/Podman lo
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
I am on that team and REALLY want it to be the case - but GNU/LInux devices are usually a significantly worse hardware experience than their walled garden cousins. For example, there is literally no laptop on Earth as nice as the MacBo
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
Even then, it tends to code itself into a corner. Code tends to be ridged and difficult to expand. One shot benchmarks that have exhaustive prompts are impressive, but benchmarks that emulate real software development (iterative changes ove
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
I had a job interview at Canva where they had an "AI coding round". They wanted to see how I used AI in my workflow. Because I was using DeepSeek flash, the interviewer was confused at how fast I was getting edits - he'd only

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