goosedragons (u/goosedragons)

goosedragons commented on Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility lttlabs.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/croes

alpaca128 · 12 hours ago

Apple devices work near flawlessly with third-party periphery in my experience, what are you talking about? They have some questionable limitations at times (like iPads supporting Thunderbolt but not being able to safely eject USB drives), but I don't buy Apple cables & adapters and that's because they're not needed. I can charge a Macbook with a random USB-C charger on my desk, I can turn on my third-party BT headphones and they're connected within two seconds, I can connect a screen with a third-party USB-C adapter and the only possible issue is that not all USB ports go up to 240Hz. I cannot say some of these things about my PC on which Bluetooth audio simply is not usable at all and some other basics need janky workarounds or ironically only work on Linux.

I have many reasons to be pissed at Apple but connectivity is not one of them.

goosedragons · 7 hours ago

Lightning was pretty limited. Third party companies either had to be blessed by Apple or clone them some how. For some accessories like video out this was a big limitation.

goosedragons commented on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything wsj.com/business/retail/t... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

hippo22 · 2 days ago

Sure, a cogent policy would be ideal. But you can’t let perfect be the enemy of the good. America was getting their lunch eaten well before Trump. At least the tariff policy is an attempt at rectifying the situation.

goosedragons · 2 days ago

Lunch eaten by whom? Who was eating the world's richest country's lunch? The only lunch eating going on is the American rich eating the poors', something that's only accelerated under Trump. The tariffs are a tax that is most disproportionate on the poor. And they are in no way, shape or form actually intelligently designed to help them. It's just stupid madness.

goosedragons commented on PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued social.treehouse.systems/... · Posted by u/fsflover

mananaysiempre · 4 days ago

Pretty cheap by some definitions, yes, but as best as I can tell (historical prices aren’t exactly readily available), the Micro PC 2 ($700 list price before tax) is still between 1.5× and 2× the price of the original (€300—presumably including about 20% tax—per the linked article, between $200 and $500 per the Wayback Machine, in nominal dollars before 10% inflation).

goosedragons · 4 days ago

You can get it for $513.

https://gpdstore.net/laptops/gpd-micropc-2/

goosedragons commented on PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued social.treehouse.systems/... · Posted by u/fsflover

mananaysiempre · 4 days ago

GPDs used to be much cheaper[1], and IMO made much more sense that way. Unfortunately, GPD indeed seems to have caught the expensive bug.

[1] https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2022/08/18/i-love-my-gpd-micro-p...

goosedragons · 4 days ago

The GPD Micro PC 2 is still pretty cheap. The other models are way way faster so it's not surprising they cost more.

goosedragons commented on PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued social.treehouse.systems/... · Posted by u/fsflover

hnlmorg · 4 days ago

Those aren’t netbooks. They’re another class of device which I’ve forgotten the name of. Something like umpc or something.

But the idea was netbooks were the bottom end of the market and this other class were the same form factor but at the top end of the market.

goosedragons · 4 days ago

Some of them are UMPCs, some are sub-notebooks and some arguably are maybe netbooks. The GPD Micro PC 2 is not that fast and only has a 7" screen like the original Asus EEE PC. It's got less bezel, so perhaps it bleeds the line between netbook and UMPC but inflation adjusted it's pretty comparable in price.

goosedragons commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? · Posted by u/stephenheron

bigyabai · 7 days ago

All Ryzen mobile chips (so far) use a homogeneous core layout. If heat/power consumption is your concern, AMD simply hasn't caught up to the Big.little architecture Intel and Apple use.

In terms of performance though, those N4P Ryzen chips have knocked it out of the park for my use-cases. It's a great architecture for desktop/datacenter applications, still.

goosedragons · 7 days ago

Sort of. Technically the Ryzen 5 AI 340 has 3 Zen 5 cores and 3 Zen 5c cores. They are more similar than the power/efficiency cores of Apple/Intel but 5c cores are more power efficient.

goosedragons commented on The MiniPC Revolution jadarma.github.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/ingve

aborsy · 7 days ago

Does anyone have recommendation for a mini PC with min 2 sata ports for two 3.5” HDDs, min 2 NVMe for ssd storage, one ssd or eMMC for OS, and 64GB of RAM, with the ability to power up the HDDs from the miniPC (not requiring external power source)?

The HDDs are installed in a case externally. An external PCIe slot to support those 4 mixed drives via an adapter would work too. I tend to avoid usb HDDs enclosures, since usb connection doesn’t work well with ZFS.

That would be a cool ZFS NAS.

goosedragons · 7 days ago

That's a NAS. Just get a 2 bay NAS.

goosedragons commented on The MiniPC Revolution jadarma.github.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/ingve

kccqzy · 7 days ago

> You can get MiniPCs with 4-6 internal M.2 slots that are great for building a NAS with.

Where can I find that? My current Intel NUC has two M.2 slots and a SATA connection. If I were to relax the definition of a MiniPC to include mini ITX then yes I can find these, but given how the author talks about being all-in-one, I doubt the author is talking about mini ITX builds.

goosedragons · 7 days ago

They're pretty rare, but there's some.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme...

You can also get larger ones like the Asus Flashstor that can do 12.

goosedragons 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

coliveira · 9 days ago

There's another issue: Windows keeps turning off the screen after a few minutes of idle time, no matter what I try. They have options to control this, but the hardware seems to override these options for some reason.

goosedragons · 9 days ago

Download Power Toys and use Awake. Will keep the screen on if you want.

goosedragons 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

kelipso · 9 days ago

Even the Air has a great builtin webcam, so I don’t have to carry around a webcam like I used to do with my old laptop (which is more than 8 years old and I still use because it has replaceable batteries and ssd lol).

goosedragons · 9 days ago

Somewhat unfair since it's technically a tablet, but the Surface Pro webcam is very very good.