Screens are not really that good. My 600$ lenovo has a way better screen than my m1 pro 16”
What Lenovo model + screen option do you have that is better than the M1 Pro 16 inch screen? I've yet to see anything better.
Readit Newsapfsx commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
Randomly found this while searching around about the history of Windows XP. Has anyone made a collection of sites similar to this? I've been seeing so many great ones lately like old Mac ones.
apfsx commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama
Hyper-V for a cheap solution.
But VMware still excels at running desktop Linux on Windows. Especially for distros that use 3D accelerated desktops (aka literally anything that uses a recent GNOME or KDE release).
One thing that I notice nobody mention about VMWare on Windows is what about the issues with "Virtualization Based Security"? If you have this enabled VMWare uses "Windows Hypervisor Platform" which I think is also tied in with Hyper-V for running VMs through VMware making them noticeably worse and more unstable especially when dealing with USB devices. During the installer, you'll be warned of this too if memory serves correct. Cons are you cannot use WSL2 and reduced security. How much in reality does it reduce security I'm not exactly sure but I wish it wasn't like this or there was a better workaround for VMware on Windows. VBS feature is enabled by default on all Windows 11 and I think most later releases of Windows 10.
apfsx commented on To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Collection of SciFi Stories afteramazon.world/... · Posted by u/m463
The year is 2058, I drive up to my home after working at the amazon warehouse for 14 hours, it's my 6th day of work, I finally get my day off. I drive home in my amazon basics SUV listening to "NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL AMAZON BASICS 54". After filling up my car at the amazon basic recharging station I pull into my amazon basics car shed and open my front door after verifying my prime membership to my amazon basics branded Ring doorbell. I get my amazon basics hungry man TV meal and sit down to watch some flicks on my amazon basics fire TV. Stranger Things finally entered it's 7th season, and I'm so excited I pissed my amazon basics boxer briefs on the way home. The show leaves me foaming in the mouth it was so good, I came into my amazon basics fleshlight 4 times. I go to clean it out in my complete amazon basics full bath, I'm all out of amazon basics bar soap, fuck. I walk into what used to be my home office and go to the nearest wall of amazon dash buttons. I press the amazon basics dash button and receive a notification on my amazon basics fire tablet that my amazon basics checking account has overdrawn. My account gets charged a $50 overdraft fee and I hear a knock on my door. The amazon basics SWAT came to my house, beat me to the ground with their amazon basics batons, and cuffed me with amazon basics handcuffs. They throw me into the back of an amazon basics crown vic for the next 30 minutes. The windows are tinted with amazon basics 100% tint, can't see shit outside. The car comes to a stop and the door opens. I've been brought to the amazon basics prison for delinquents. I'm now forced to work 16 hours a day making amazon basics clothes hangers for the next 35 years to pay off my amazon basics overdraft fees. I'm amazon basically fucked.
Jeff Bezo’s foaming at the mouth right now because of what you just wrote.
apfsx commented on Ludum Dare 2025 is cancelled ludumdare.com/news/taking... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev
notch should offer to wire him $200,000 for old times sake.
First thought that popped into my head.
apfsx commented on Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms saveplays.com/... · Posted by u/sanusihassan
I'm increasingly suspicious that Java applets were removed from the browser so it wouldn't be easy for non-nerds to easily run tools like yt-dlp from their browser.
How about like 10-15 years ago when everybody and their mother could spin up a RAT and do drive-by installations with a webpage?
apfsx commented on Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020) ryuuta.net/blog/diagnosin... · Posted by u/llimllib
My favorite stupid wifi thing I ever had, for some value of favorite, was a previous incarnation of my home router, which apparently had a known issue where certain Intel wifi cards connecting to the AP would cause it to start having firmware crashes randomly, which I discovered when I brought home a new laptop and my wireless on every device started being unreliable...
Nothing to be done about it other than "don't do that" or "replace AP" since the firmware is a black box. It was...maddening.
I had this exact same experience with a brand new Dell XPS 15 I purchased around 2018 I believe. It came with a killer branded Wi-Fi card and I noticed shortly after purchasing that it would literally bring down my entire home network at the time. I don’t remember what router I was running or the rest of my home network set up at the time, but it was definitely a really bizarre thing to witness, I ended upreplacing the Wi-Fi card.
apfsx commented on When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw
I have at least 2 regular cases where full power off was required to resolve the issue.
First one is dell latitude laptop with fingerprint reader, randomly after few days of operation, fingerprint reader stops responding and login screens freeze for a minute until it timeouts few times. reboot does not solve it, nor suspending machine. it needs to be powered off and on again (hibernation to disk also works).
second case is my pc with ASRock creator x570, after long time if keeping it suspended, WiFi card stopped to function and just throwed some errors in dmesg on driver initialization. here even power off and on did not help, but flipping switch on power supply for few second resolved the issue
I’ve actually had some strange anomalies happen like this on a couple laptops I have. Rebooting or even holding the power button long enough to do according to the manufacturer some kind of CMOS or hard reset didn’t work either. I had to open up the bottom, cover unplugged, the battery completely Then re-plugged in and everything went back to operational condition.