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int_19h commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? · Posted by u/stephenheron

mkl · 11 hours ago

Sure you can. There are a bunch listed in this article: https://www.ultrabookreview.com/6520-fanless-ultrabooks/

Fanless x86 desktops are a thing too, in the form of thin clients and small PCs intended for business use. I have a few HP T630s I use as servers (I have used them as desktop PCs too, but my tab-hoarding habit makes them throttle a bit too much for my use - they'd be fine for a lot of people).

int_19h · an hour ago

My experience with fanless Intel is that they tend to be rather sluggish for desktop GUI use, though. Which doesn't seem to be an issue with Macbook Air.

int_19h commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? · Posted by u/stephenheron

noisy_boy · 2 hours ago

To those who are using the newer MacBook pros, how easy and seamless it is to run Linux on it via Parallels etc without going all the way to Asahi etc? Like if i'm super comfortable with Linux, can I just get near native Linux desktop experience and forget that all of it is running on top of MacOS?

int_19h · an hour ago

It's pretty seamless, but you can't really get the macOS UI out of the picture entirely. You can run it fullscreen, sure, but even then there are still some shortcuts that are going to be handled by macOS, and also multiple displays etc.

OTOH if you're fine with macOS GUI but you want something like WSL for CLI and server apps, there's https://lima-vm.io

int_19h commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? · Posted by u/stephenheron

diggan · 3 hours ago

> Well, your mileage may vary, but IMHO there is no alternative to a Mac nowadays, even if you want to use Linux or Windows.

I guess I'd slightly change that to "MacBook" or similar, as Apple are top-in-class when it comes to laptops, but for desktop they seem to not even be in the fight anymore, unless reducing power consumption is your top concern. But if you're aiming for "performance per money spent", there isn't really any alternative to non-Apple hardware.

I do agree they do the best hardware in terms of feeling though, which is important for laptops. But computing is so much larger than laptops, especially if you're always working in the same place everyday (like me).

int_19h · 2 hours ago

Mac Studio is pretty good on everything except raw GPU speed. Which depending on your use cases may be completely irrelevant.

int_19h commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? · Posted by u/stephenheron

creshal · 10 hours ago

Intel stipulated the same under the name HUGI (Hurry Up and Go Idle) about 15 years ago when ultrabooks were the new hot thing.

But when Apple says it, software devs actually listen.

int_19h · 2 hours ago

Peer pressure. When everybody else does it and you don't, your app sticks out like a sore thumb and makes users unhappy.

The other aspect of it is that paid software is more prevalent in macOS land, and the prices are generally higher than on Windows. But the flip side of that is that user feedback is taken more seriously.

int_19h commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? · Posted by u/stephenheron

deaddodo · 6 hours ago

The only browser I’ve ever had issues with enabling video acceleration on Linux is Firefox.

All the Blink-based ones just work as long the proper libraries are installed and said libraries properly detect hardware support.

int_19h · 2 hours ago

When I enabled HW acceleration on my Linux laptop to see how much it would improve battery life in Linux, my automated test (which is basically just browsing Reddit) would start crashing every 20 minutes or so.

int_19h commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

geysersam · 4 hours ago

It's unfortunate they can't just explain the real reason they don't want to generate the image:

"Unfortunately I'm not able to generate images that might cause bad PR for Alphabet(tm) or subsidiaries. Is there anything else I can generate for you?"

int_19h · 2 hours ago

If you want that kind of thing, Qwen3 delivers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mx1pkt/qwen3_m...

int_19h commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass

flanbiscuit · a day ago

To be fair, he was referring to a post on Alex Schroeder's blog titled with the same name as the term from the Dune books. And that post correctly credits Dune/Herbert. But the post is not about Dune, it's about Spam bots so it's more related to what the original author's post is about.

Speaking of the Butlerian Jihad, Frank Herbert's son (Brian) and another author named Kevin J Anderson co-wrote a few books in the Dune universe and one of them was about the Butlerian Jihad. I read it. It was good, not as good at Frank Herbert's books but I still enjoyed it. One of the authors is not as good as the other because you can kind of tell the writing quality changing per chapter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad

int_19h · 2 hours ago

Those books completely misrepresent Frank Herbert's original ideas for Butlerian Jihad. It wasn't supposed to be a literal war against genocidal robots.

int_19h commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb

criddell · a day ago

> without it turning into a massive IDE-style app

Is that another way of saying you don't want to make MS Access?

I still use Access quite a bit and I think it's pretty great. It's too bad that nothing like that exists for modern databases.

int_19h · 17 hours ago

I kinda wish someone would take SQLite and make something like Access on top of it.

Many years ago, there was a project that tried to do just that using Tcl/Tk, which seems like a fine choice - Tcl is very simple and easy to understand even for on-programmers while its deficiencies aren't really important in this niche, and Tk is one of the easiest UI frameworks around to use. Unfortunately it petered out and I can't even remember the name anymore...

int_19h commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb

d_burfoot · 20 hours ago

I love this model of software development, which I think of as "artisanal", as opposed to open-source or enterprise. A small team, maybe just one person, who invests deep effort into a product that does one thing very well.

int_19h · 17 hours ago

The question is, does it actually earn enough money for the person to live off?

int_19h commented on Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed guard.io/labs/scamlexity-... · Posted by u/mindracer

red-iron-pine · a day ago

the average american cannot afford a surprise $500 expense. you think they can afford a drone swarm?

int_19h · 18 hours ago

If the average American becomes desperate enough to rig up a drone for a terror attack, I don't think they particularly care about the effect of that $500 on their credit report afterwards.

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