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MT8766 (low-end 2020) and Android 12 (2021)

https://docs.sidephone.com/en/articles/13624506-specificatio...

I've been pretty happy with Wayland for the past ~2 years of using it.

- No annoying "X11 stutter"

- FreeSync works reliably; no more fucking around with different compositors.

- applications aren't allowed permanently alter the display settings. That was particularly problematic with older Windows games and wine. Depending on the game, exiting a game could leave the display server in a very low resolution on exit. Even worse, a few games would result in the X11 gamma settings being altered outside of the game (Deus Ex was one, but there were a few others).

- display-specific scaling factors

- I could use Waydroid on my 2-in-1 finally.

- HDR support. As an added bonus beyond HDR content, SDR content looks better on my PG42UQ monitor due to the monitor suffering from severe black crush in SDR mode.

That said, there are annoyances. I recently started work on a rewrite of the Jellyfin Desktop client (https://github.com/jellyfin-labs/jellyfin-desktop-cef) and of course targeted Wayland first:

Pros:

- HDR via an Wayland subsurface works great!

Cons:

- Running CEF (Chromium) in Wayland mode does NOT respect the system scale factor. The workaround is to run it X11 mode. Not too big of a deal since I'm using CEF in offscreen-rendering mode with a Wayland SDL surface, but annoying.

- Picture-in-Picture isn't widely supported yet. It is one of those things that Wayland is building _towards_ rather than X11 just working.

- Minor, but not being able to position the window centered on startup is kinda annoying.

So yeah - tradeoffs, but currently good enough for me and it continues to get better. I'm optimistic.

I've been running Claude Code in a Docker compose environment with two containers - one without Claude that has all the credentials setup and a Claude container which transparently executes commands via ssh. The auth container then has wrappers which explicitly allow certain subcommands (eg. `gh api` isn't allowed). The `gh` command in the Claude container is just a wrapper script which bassically `ssh auth-container gh-wrapper`.

Lots of manual, opinionated stuff in here, but it prevents Claude from even accessing the credentials and limits what it can do with them.

There does appear to be progress on making CEF an option.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs

Yeah - that part is disappointing as well. I'd be glad if it included Wayland support, native touch input, full OpenGL and Vulkan support - but I'm not counting on it.

Not cross-platform, but I'm reminded of the kkrieger game for Windows which was a 96k FPS game that looked visually impressive for the time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100304155706/http://www.thepro...

Someone else did

Who?

That's too much friction - especially since managed users cannot even create Gists in GitHub Enterprise Cloud (ugh). https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/man...

As for attaching a file, I'm usually screenshotting small amounts of code - usually of the ephemeral variety.

They're giving the market the size people actually want.

No - call it what it is. They are catering to the largest market segments and ignoring the smaller segments who desire smaller phones.

Reasoning as to why is another thing, but it doesn't negate the existence of the segment who does want one.

Slack seems to always wrap code blocks. It makes python particularly shit to read.

In the professional world, I see software developers blindly copying and pasting code suggestions from LLM providers without testing it, or understanding it.

When you see that, call them out on it. Not understanding copy+pasted code is one thing, but not testing it is a whole other level of garbage.

Not a TV console, but there is a handheld "Xbox" releasing next month.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/handhelds/rog-xbox-ally

My guess is they'll continue to improve handheld and TV experiences in Windows and leverage third-parties to make the hardware.

I just bitch and moan now, because it’s better than killing myself to avoid seeing how fucked up things will become.

fwiw - I'm happy to chat if you wanna vent.

I keep bookmarks as a Markdown file so I can sync it using Syncthing. I use either Obsidian or KRunner (desktop-only, similar to mac's Spotlight) to open bookmarks. It's been working well enough for me.

The KRunner plugin I use doesn't have a comprehensive Markdown parser, but it works great with the format I've been using. https://github.com/andrewrabert/krunner-markdown-bookmarks Ex:

  # Bookmarks
  ## Code
  - [GitHub](https://github.com)
  - [GitLab - Arch Linux](https://gitlab.archlinux.org)
  ## Social
  - [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com)
  - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com)

Nowadays you have a few large companies dominating everything.

We now also have a web where ActiveX, the Windows-only IE browser engine, and Flash+Shockwave binaries are no longer exist as mainstream web technologies. As a Linux user, this is great!

There are no forums, there's reddit and discord. The are no private websites, there's uniform Meta Twitter.

Incorrect. I regularly read the VOGONS forum (https://www.vogons.org/) for retro computing related topics. Is the forum for you? Maybe, maybe not. There are plenty of others as well though many are specific to niches. Hacker News is also a kind of forum.

Focus on what you want to get out of a forum rather than a forum for the sake of a forum.

Google search sucks.

Yeah, modern Google search really sucks. I often find ChatGPT or Claude better at fuzzy-finding than modern search engines. Depends on what I'm looking for.

Everything is AI.

AI as a concept has existed in marketing for decades. The term has picked up again and todays LLM's will probably seem quite dumb in a decade. They're great fuzzy-finders though - I regularly use Claude for various dev tasks including DOS and embedded development.

Toxicity is rampant.

I have a childhood memory, early 90's, where the news was on the TV talking about a bombing/attack/similar in the middle east. It's a fuzzy memory, but it continues having a strong impact on my life with regards to negativity in the world. Things have always sucked, will continue to suck, but likewise for the opposite. Focusing on what is in my control and positive has helped me a lot here.

Pirate sites, the few are full of racists and other assholes.

I can't say I've ever spent enough time on pirate sites to bother with conversation. Plenty of these sites continue to exist and media is still aquireable. I'm amused anytime _someone I know_ finds a 10-year-plus old torrent that still has seeders.

Side note, there's even a modern, open-source keygen for older versions of Windows available on GitHub that has not been taken down (user Endermanch). It even has keygen music!

You may not speak your mind, including HN, you get censored and/or otherwise canceled.

_Someone I know_ has been a life-long pirate and has always had this problem with regards to pirating things.

And this whole thing bleeds into real life. People are edgy, dissatisfied, unfriendly, can't take criticism, even if it's constructive.

Some people suck, some don't. I was lightly bullied through my entire childhood so this was kind of the status-quo for me. However, my friends were an exception and they were and still are great! The only recent change I've noticed in my socialsphere is a change in family members for the worst. One side of my family went down the path of becoming pushy Grumpelstiltskin's, so I did have to make a choice to remove them from my life. The keyword for me was pushy, not necessiarily a difference of opinion. It was difficult to cut off contact, but doing so allowed me to spend mental energy on people who have positive impacts on my life.

The internet became less of a place for people like us as the rest of the world embraced it. This does extend beyond the web as even culture is more varied than ever (music, shows, memes, etc). It might take more work to find what fits you, but it's still out there.

mind.in.a.box's album "R.E.T.R.O." (2010) has a few songs that sound keygen-esque (aka chiptune).

Not all their stuff sounds like that, but I've been a big fan since first discovering them via a sample included in the XMMS2 media player way back in the early 2000's.

I found it worthwhile to move my desktop to another room by using long, 50ft cables (DP1.4, USB 3.0, powered USB hubs). I also have a pikvm connected to Home Assistant so I can press the power and reset buttons using a ZigBee remote. The desktop lives in a Sliger 4U chassis in a rack with my NAS, networking gear, and a UPS.

My office room is now absent of both noise and heat generated by my desktop and it's so much nicer for it.

Same for me and the Wayne, PA store. Prices are competitive and they're one of the few places I know that carries Bawls energy drinks.

Balatro is not installable from the Play Store on my Pixel 7 due to Play Integrity.

Side note, balatro-mobile-maker works really well as an unofficial port to Android. https://github.com/blake502/balatro-mobile-maker

It looks like the default search providers are not editable. I worked around with with Chromium v135 by creating a new one and deleting the old one.

Change your browsers/search URL templates to include the udm=14 query parameter. It eliminates a whole bunch of the modern noise like AI.

Ex. https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=your%20query

Another one is ps2x2pico. I've been using it in my retro machines and it works great. For my Logitech G305 mouse (1000hz), I have ps2x2pico configured to force a 100hz mouse polling rate so the cursor is super smooth in Windows 98 without needing to use a program like PS2Rate. For my Keychron S1 keyboard, N-key rollover works flawlessly.

https://github.com/No0ne/ps2x2pico

The 2025032500 release of GrapheneOS contains a backported fix from Android 16. https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025032500

As much as I - a Pixel 7 (GrapheneOS) user - would hate that, doing so would essentially put Android on equal footing as iOS and would give me a serious reason to consider switching to an iPhone. Apple's hardware is just so much sleeker, faster, and better than Google's mediocre Pixel line.

Genuinely curious - in which specific ways is GIMP better than Krita at photo editing?

Fully agreed.

I'm currently stuck on LTE due to a power outage. The page is horrible to try to read due to most of the images being either in the process of being loaded or not loaded at all.

What about it isn't working well for you?

I have ~2000 movies (21TB), 435 shows (22TB), ~26000 songs (1TB); all running on an Intel 4770k w/ 32GB of RAM, a SATA SSD for the Jellyfin database, and a Tesla P4 for transcoding. It works well now and even worked decently before switching to the Tesla P4 for transcoding.

"It runs on top of the Krypton build of kernel 4.19, and uses Halium to call Android drivers."

That's unfortunate. I'm guessing this is likely due to blobs that the Dimensity 900 SoC requires.

"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be."

I would have happily created an Arch Linux AUR package for Hollow if it were open source.

The Shin Pokemon and Pure RGB hacks both have various fixes relating to missingno. Both are based on this decompilation.

I've only played through Shin Pokemon and enjoyed the nostalgia.

https://github.com/Vortyne/pureRGB https://github.com/jojobear13/shinpokered