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forty commented on Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop   blog.vaxry.net/articles/2... · Posted by u/LorenDB
GalaxyNova · 4 days ago
> This project currently has a bunch of C++ files, no docs, no tests

I think the more important thing is the protocol itself, rather than the specific implementation. As the author notes the current D-bus standards are substandard at best.

forty · 4 days ago
I think one of the point from your parent comment is that something that works for people is a powerful way of making things happen, much more powerful than rants or theory or protocols. I also noticed that with cryptography algorithms/protocol for example: design the most amazing algorithm - no one is going to use it ever if there is no great reference implementation people can use.
forty commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop   geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags
andriesm · 13 days ago
I also want it. I dislike this idea "make it illegal I don't want other people to have the freedom to do something I dislike". Of you don't like unupgradable products, then don't buy them. I like upgradability - apple makes some things like the SSD non-uogradeable without much benefit. But many other parts gain different benefits when you don't try to make everything infinitely upgradable. I really want this non-enshittified macbook alternative!!!! Shut up and take my money.
forty · 11 days ago
I don't mind people doing things I dislike (and honestly I'd enjoy changing laptop every month as much as anyone else), I simply don't want people to damage too much the planet where I and my family live.
forty commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop   geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags
PaulRobinson · 13 days ago
The half-life of Apple kit is so high, they are arguably a lot more sustainable than their repairable PC counterparts.

Apple laptops I have that boot include a 2007 iBook (my folks used it until this Summer and then bank websites would stop working with the Chrome browser they could get working on it), which I'll be putting a BSD or Linux distro on over Christmas, a 2012 Intel MBP that has Linux on it and a couple of 2015-2017 era MBPs that I inherited via one means or another.

I'm typing this on an M4 MacBook Air I picked up cheap during Black Friday sales. I fully expect it to still be functional in 10 years.

I don't think I've ever had a PC laptop last close to that.

forty · 11 days ago
My experience of being one of the only dev with a Linux/Lenovo laptop in a company where everyone else has Macs, is that my Thinkpad from 2018 outlived all the Macs from the same period, most of which had become overheating helicopters.

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forty commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop   geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags
forty · 13 days ago
I think the kind of laptop this person wishes should simply be made illegal to make. We cannot sustain having all electric devices being thrown after a year or two, these things need to last, to be repairable and make it easy to grab pieces and materials when they die anyway

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forty commented on Advent of Code 2025   adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000
PaulRobinson · 20 days ago
Advent of Code is one of the highlights of December for me.

It's sad, but inevitable, that the global leaderboard had to be pulled. It's also understandable that this year is just 12 days, so takes some pressure off.

If you've never done it before, I recommend it. Don't try and "win", just enjoy the problem solving and the whimsy.

forty · 19 days ago
The "only" 12 days might be disappointing (but totally understandable), however I won't mourn the global leaderboard which always felt pointless to me (even without the llm, the fact that it depends on what time you did solved problems really made it impractical for most people to actually compete). Private leaderboards with people on your timezone are much nicer.
forty commented on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA   heise.de/en/news/How-a-Fr... · Posted by u/i-con
bn-l · a month ago
Why is the president of the United States protecting a blood soaked war criminal? It’s weird. I mean what even does he get in return for this extraordinary service for someone so undeserving? I can’t even see how it’s valuable for him. Can someone explain it?
forty · a month ago
My understanding is that Christian extremists, who are voting for Trump, have some belief that some territories needs to be occupied by Jews so that something happens (I don't remember what, but I guess something good to them), so they are happy with the genocide and Trump is happy to collaborate with Israeli government to make his electors happy.

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