foxandmouse (u/foxandmouse)

foxandmouse commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai

signal11 · a month ago

Tahoe is a macOS mis-step on par with Windows 8 or Windows Vista. If you’re from Apple and reading this, my feedback is pretty succinct: “I don’t recommend others upgrade. I wish I didn’t.”

Luckily for Apple, Windows 11 is not exactly in a position to attract switchers.

Let’s see if Apple can turn things around. iOS 8+ did improve on iOS 7’s worst bits.

foxandmouse · a month ago

> Luckily for Apple, Windows 11 is not exactly in a position to attract switchers.

Yes, but Linux is finally in that position, not to mention we're seeing silicon from intel and amd that can compete with the M series on mobile devices.

foxandmouse commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026) · Posted by u/david927

foxandmouse · a month ago

I’m working on a real-time tracker for the Canadian Parliament.

While the official data is technically public, it's practically inaccessible (buried in XML feeds and legacy sites).

Phase 1 was building a modern ingestion engine and freeing the information to make it more accessible. The goal is to make legislative data as accessible as sports stats.

I'm almost ready to launch the MVP; I'm just doing some bugfixes and testing the database now! (If you want an early look at the MVP, my email is in my profile.)

The next phase is what I'm most excited about: visualizing this data and using LLMs to provide insights.

foxandmouse commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener

dmead · 2 months ago

I've been using linux since the days of downloading slackware on a stack of 1.44mb floppy disks. I gave up on linux gaming around 2007. I've revisited it this year, but it still sucks. it's just not worth it.

just relax, install windows and late the escapism take over.

foxandmouse · 2 months ago

ugh, I remember when the comments here were better than reddit.

foxandmouse commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener

foxandmouse · 2 months ago

I've been using Linux forever (back to the mailed Ubuntu CDs days).

I installed this begrudgingly after fighting edge cases with Waydroid on Arch. It's the first "batteries included" distro I've actually liked. I usually hate the "omakase" approach, but the setup here is pretty much how I would've done it myself.

Side note: GNOME + Waydroid is the best experience I've had with a desktop OS on a tablet. Finding tools like scrcpy included out of the box was a nice surprise, too.

foxandmouse commented on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/cyclecount

foxandmouse · 2 months ago

Pretty sure this was debunked: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/115593737977641823

foxandmouse commented on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC tuxedocomputers.com/en/Di... · Posted by u/Venn1

ndiddy · 3 months ago

It's a shame that this didn't end up going anywhere. When Qualcomm was doing their press stuff prior to the Snapdragon X launch, they said that they'd be putting equal effort into supporting both Windows and Linux. If anyone here is running Linux on a Snapdragon X laptop, I'd be curious to know what the experience is like today.

I will say that Intel has kind of made the original X Elite chips irrelevant with their Lunar Lake chips. They have similar performance/battery life, and run cool (so you can use the laptop on your lap or in bed without it overheating), but have full Linux support today and you don't have to deal with x86 emulation. If anyone needs a thin & light Linux laptop today, they're probably your best option. Personally, I get 10-14 hours of real usage (not manufacturer "offline video playback with the brightness turned all the way down" numbers) on my Vivobook S14 running Fedora KDE. In the future, it'll be interesting to see how Intel's upcoming Panther Lake chips compare to Snapdragon X2.

foxandmouse · 3 months ago

The iGPU in Panther Lake has me pretty excited about intel for the first time in a long time. Lunar Lake proved they’re still relevant; Panther Lake will show whether they can actually compete.

foxandmouse commented on Steam Machine store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr

Aurornis · 3 months ago

> https://gitlab.com/evlaV/holo-PKGBUILD

So to summarize: Valve provides source code for what they distribute, in compliance with the GPL, but this person went on a personal crusade to demand they open up their private GitLab to the world?

There appears to be some interesting history here, but this takes the cake as the weirdest README I've ever seen in a git repo.

The writing is impenetrably wordy and filled with excessive bolding and parentheticals. It goes completely off track and turns into an extremely long rant that implores the reader to "abstain from procreation", among other things. There are hundreds of links and hundreds of quotes mixed into long-winded sections about the author's self-importance.

Does anyone have a link to a more down to earth, less self-important, and more importantly concise explanation of what's going on?

foxandmouse · 3 months ago

oh no, this again.. I remember checking out HoloISO when I was looking for SteamOS at launch… did a quick lookup on the creator and yeah, turns out he's a racist furry (literally)..

foxandmouse commented on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software github.com/Homebrew/brew/... · Posted by u/firexcy

foxandmouse · 3 months ago

Yeah, I’ve been noticing an alarming number of casks marked to be depreciated… at the same time gatekeeper has gotten so restrictive it won’t let me (easily) open a video files that I downloaded from the internet

foxandmouse commented on Steam Machine store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr

CobrastanJorji · 3 months ago

> Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?

From your mouth to Tim Cook's ear, friend.

foxandmouse · 3 months ago

That said, when are we going to get a public release for SteamOS? …There’s a joke somewhere about them reaching SteamOS 3