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darcien commented on The state of Linux music players in 2026   crescentro.se/posts/linux... · Posted by u/signa11
hnthrow31 · 2 months ago
Switching from winslop to linux last year (thanks Satya) I did expect some teething issues. The reality was a bit different than what I imagined: fedora kde the OS is rock solid, but the software choices are a bit lacking. Just finding a good audio player can be a pain, and eventually I settled on some foobar clone fooyin, which while lacking built-in audio conversion mostly does what I want it to.

MacOS however truly takes the cake. An OS that’s great for creative softwate, working with images, video, audio and so on, and every single music player is something designed by aliens and/or buggy and/or missing some basic features. I went through ~five different players just to find one that has a waveform seekbar, eventually finding it in quodlibet, which while somewhat functional fits in the designed by aliens part. Baffling.

darcien · 2 months ago
I also can recommend fooyin[0]. I really miss foobar2000 after switching away from Windows, and fooyin fills that hole in my heart.

Technically fooyin also builds on macOS, but it's not officially supported yet, there's some works here[1] and there[2].

[0]: https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin

[1]: https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin/pull/476

[2]: https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin/pull/579

darcien commented on Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games   github.com/bquenin/interp... · Posted by u/bane
darcien · 2 months ago
Nice, I wonder how the banner would work for menu or any complex screen that's not a single sentence.

In the past, I've used MORT to play some Japanese MMO game. In-place overlay makes it easier to actually play the game instead of doing dictionary lookup on the side.

These days I stopped using realtime translator and just embrace the slow pace of learning these languages while enjoying the game story.

MORT: https://github.com/killkimno/MORT

darcien commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming   bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener
akmittal · 4 months ago
Bazzite also mention

> improved CPU schedulers for responsive gameplay,

on their homepage https://bazzite.gg/

darcien · 4 months ago
Oops you're right, I was searching the docs and couldn't find it, maybe it's time to snoop around in their repo...
darcien commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming   bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener
darcien · 4 months ago
Recently I learned about CachyOS, it has custom scheduler to run things smoothly, including games. And SteamOS is also doing the custom scheduler for games. From what I can find, Bazzite doesn't seem to use custom scheduler.

Does these custom scheduler bring noticeable gains during usage? My previous linux desktop was a non-gaming distro, so I'm a bit curious on these fancy stuffs.

- BORE, CachyOS scheduler: https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/#advanced...

- LAVD, SteamOS scheduler: https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

darcien commented on Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for   idiallo.com/byte-size/app... · Posted by u/luismedel
theshrike79 · 6 months ago
IMO the actual reason for Liquid Glass is that they can do it natively. 3rd party UI frameworks can't copy it without a massive performance hit.

This brings a more clear divide between fully native iOS applications and React Native -style "build once and cross-compile" -platforms.

darcien · 6 months ago
I get where you're coming from but React Native(RN) is a bad example. RN is actually native and uses native components. So any native view will be supported, including Liquid Glass. e.g. https://expo.dev/changelog/sdk-54-beta#ios-26-and-liquid-gla... or https://github.com/callstack/liquid-glass
darcien commented on Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters   nothing-to-watch.port80.c... · Posted by u/bj-rn
alexalx666 · 8 months ago
how to go back to device selection? I clicked hi-end but its slow on MBP M4 Max 64Gb
darcien · 8 months ago
There's a gear icon in the top right corner to change the settings.
darcien commented on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsl... · Posted by u/franky47
dfabulich · a year ago
A WASM runtime in TypeScript types is impressive in its own right, but I think I can dimly see how it could work with a lot of effort. https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-...

What I don't understand is how this thing does keyboard input.

At 3:42, the video simply says, "And, yes, there's a way to do keyboard input," without elaborating on how. What sorcery is that? There must be something outside the type system translating keyboard input into TypeScript types…??

darcien · a year ago
I haven't checked the DOOM one, but for the Pong example, the keyboard input is prerecorded. As in the sequence of the keyboard key press are sequenced in a TS array[0].

[0]: https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-...

darcien commented on Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design   games.productartistry.com... · Posted by u/rohandehal
darcien · a year ago
Nice game! Seems like someone already gave the feedback about the lack of time to read the explanation before the game progressed automatically.

BTW something on the game is making my CPU go 100%. I'm on Firefox, Linux and in the JS console I can see "Unexpected value translate(52.460687992082626%, 52.24894125700998%) scale(1.0398801892701597) parsing transform attribute." warning being printed nonstop.

darcien commented on PeaZip 10.0.0 Released   peazip.github.io/changelo... · Posted by u/thunderbong
echoangle · a year ago
Is there an elevator pitch why PeaZip is better than 7zip?
darcien · a year ago
PeaZip beats 7zip by 3.4s in drag and drop extraction speed.

> 7-Zip, Bandizip and Winrar are tightly packed around very similar performances of 17 seconds, while PeaZip fast drag and drop implementation shows a clear performance advantage in this scenario completing the extraction in 13,6 seconds. WinZip provides an intermediate performance at 15,5 seconds.

https://peazip.github.io/peazip-compression-benchmark.html

darcien commented on Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first   onestack.dev... · Posted by u/nwienert
moomoo11 · a year ago
This is cool and I’ll definitely try it out some time.

Serious question though. Who is this for?

I’ve done mobile app dev in all the popular ways - native, flutter, and react native.

Both flutter and react native bring up a ton of issues anytime the app becomes more complex than rendering a list with some detail pages.

I wrote so much custom code bridging gaps.

Swift and Kotlin make native dev so easy and straightforward.

With flutter (which I have the most experience with along with native) I had to anyway write bridge code for handling both platforms.

I think considering how easy it is to write APIs, isn’t it better to just use native for both platforms to deliver a fantastic user experience built on those APIs?

Is this another project that’s suitable for simple apps or will it actually be useful for very complex UIs and deep device integration. I mean flutter still has open issues around scroll to top breaking which I fixed with custom bridge code. It’s impossible to get issues addressed.

Like say it takes 3 days to make a complex UI. Then a week or more to write and test the bridge code. I’d rather take 6 days writing platform appropriate code and save a day or more of pain. And when that breaks fix it. Over time this adds up to a lot of saved time I think.

darcien · a year ago
> Who is this for?

Speaking with my experience with Expo, this kind of framework works great for their purpose in enabling a small team of engineers working closely with products and business analyst to deliver features as fast as possible.

From business perspective, turns out not everything needs to be a blazing fast native code. That means if you can write code once and it will run in other platforms with minimal changes, you save some time. More time to ship more features!

In a zero sum market where every extra features could bring more customers, this could become important factor when picking the tech stack. More so when you're running on investors money and need to make profit ASAP.

u/darcien

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