Prunkton (u/Prunkton)

Prunkton commented on Ten years and 100B dollars later: where is Meta's metaverse? heise.de/en/background/Te... · Posted by u/Prunkton

Prunkton · a month ago

A short(ish) review of how things are going for Facebook now Meta, 10 years after the VR / AR shift announcement.

The 2015 statement can be found here:

https://www.scribd.com/document/399594551/2015-06-22-MARK-S-...

Prunkton commented on Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/c420

drsopp · a month ago

I guess they could model the river mathematically. I would not be surprised if there are two or more "stable" stream patterns. Perhaps it resets naturally after one year.

Prunkton · a month ago

It wouldn’t be the first time they built a mathematical and physical model of the Isar River in Munich’s inner city, of which the Eisbach is a part.

https://iprpraha.cz/uploads/assets/dokumenty/sharing_experie...

Prunkton commented on WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration winboat.app/... · Posted by u/nateb2022

Prunkton · 2 months ago

I'm just here to let the internet know, if you struggle to setup Citrix on (Arch) Linux, this seems to work out of the box

Prunkton commented on Samsung 870 QVO 4TB SATA SSD-s: how are they doing after 4 years of use? ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/09/... · Posted by u/furkansahin

diggan · 3 months ago

How much have been written to each of them across their lifetime?

Prunkton · 3 months ago

very little, about 25 TB written on the always-on one. The offline one just does diffs, so probably <12 TB. Both are kind of data dumps, which is outside their designed use case. That's why I included data integrity checks in my backup script before the actual rsync backup runs. But again no issues so far

Prunkton commented on Samsung 870 QVO 4TB SATA SSD-s: how are they doing after 4 years of use? ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/09/... · Posted by u/furkansahin

Prunkton · 3 months ago

Since it’s kind of related, here’s my anecdote/data point on the bit rot topic: I did a 'btrfs scrub' (checksum) on my two 8 TB Samsung 870 QVO drives. One of them has been always on (10k hours), while the other hasn’t been powered on a single time in 9 months and once in 16 months.

No issues were found on either of them.

Prunkton commented on A cryptography expert on how Web3 started, and how it’s going spectrum.ieee.org/web3-ha... · Posted by u/warrenm

Prunkton · 3 months ago

>The term Web3 was originally coined by Etherium ...

Sure, mistakes happen, but it's hard to take an article seriously when such fundamentals are messed up 8 words into the article...

Prunkton commented on Fintech dystopia fintechdystopia.com/... · Posted by u/LasEspuelas

Prunkton · 5 months ago

so much japing, so little substance and to make a point LETS JUST SWITCH TO CAPS and round it off with a reddit comment - this is capitalism baby!

Also, what is this headline even about? Why the bashing on fintech? I worked for 4 fintechs and communicated with many more, not a single one was blockchain related.

Why is this even on hn?

If you want to read proper criticism of blockchain, read Molly White's essays instead

https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/

Prunkton commented on Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over, According to ProtonDB boilingsteam.com/distro-f... · Posted by u/ekianjo

Prunkton · 5 months ago

Since the headline is about gaming distros: I'm on a quiet similar OS for like 2 years now, Garuda. Also tuned for performance/gaming, arch based, btrfs etc. Biggest differences will probably be the zen kernel, pre installed gaming utils like lutris, fan control etc. and a probably less performant but highly customized default style.

Its a curated version of Arch, releases drop in with a ~2w delay. It's brutally stable. As I said, I'm running the first installation for almost 2y now, doing my updates (everything comes with GUI support) daily to weekly and I faced one single hick up so far. I resolved it on the most user friendly way, picked the last snapshot during the boot (it automatically created before the update) and it acted like nothing ever happened. BTRFS with Timeshift works like magic for these rare edge cases.

I wonder how it compares to CachyOS, will definitely test it in a few weeks on my laptop

Prunkton commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Prunkton · 7 months ago

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Angular, vue.js, node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL Azure/AWS, DevOps, Linux (with an interest in: Solidity, Golang and Rust)

CV: https://docdro.id/NXEQW87

E-mail: (check CV or DM me)

Former SE Manager/CTO with a 10y foundation as a full-stack developer, particularly in the financial sector. Equally comfortable leading international/remote teams or diving into hands-on coding, I thrive in roles that demand both technical expertise and strategic oversight.

u/Prunkton

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