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m3adow commented on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading f-droid.org/2025/10/28/si... · Posted by u/rom1v

pr337h4m · 2 months ago

Why are OEMs like Samsung just letting this happen? A lot of power users who buy flagships will leave for iPhones if Android ceases to be an open platform. (This segment is what is preventing the “green bubbles = poor” narrative from taking over.)

m3adow · 2 months ago

> This segment is what is preventing the “green bubbles = poor” narrative from taking over.

In the US maybe. In Europe, not so much. With Apple having a market share of "only" about one third and WhatsApp being the de facto default messaging app, this discussion never happened here.

Therefore your argument doesn't apply to Europe at all. Android is more than the "hacky" part. Albeit I'd really love to keep that.

m3adow commented on German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/c420

BurningFrog · 4 months ago

Depends a lot on how law-abiding and civic minded the specific immigrants are.

m3adow · 4 months ago

In these regions of Germany it has very little to do with that, as there's hardly any immigrants in Eastern Germany, except Berlin of course. It's about prejudice and xenophobia due to the unknown.

m3adow commented on How much EU is in DNS4EU? techlog.jenslink.net/post... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

lpcvoid · 7 months ago

I have migrated domains from Cloudflare to deSEC.io the past days, and it's been going very well. It's a German nonprofit which is part of DNS4EU as a consortium member.

m3adow · 7 months ago

Never heard of them before, but they look interesting, thanks for that. I'll transfer one of my .eu.org domains for testing it out.

m3adow commented on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? · Posted by u/skarat

bluehatbrit · 8 months ago

I'd be really keen to know more about what you're using it for, how you typically prompt it, and how many times you're reaching for it. I've had some success at keeping spend low but can also easily spend $4 from a single prompt so I don't tend to use tools like Aider much. I'd be much more likely to use them if I knew I could reliably keep the spend down.

m3adow · 8 months ago

I'll try to elaborate:

I'm using VSC for most edits, tab-completion is done via Copilot, I don't use it that much though, as I find the prediction to be subpar or too wordy in case of commenting. I use Aider for rubber-ducking and implementing small to mid-scope changes. Normally, I add the required files, change to architect or ask mode (depends on the problem I want to solve), explain what my problem is and how I want it to be solved. If the Aider answer satisfies me, I change to coding mode and allow the changes.

No magic, I have no idea how a single prompt can generate $4. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm only scratching on the surface with my approach though, maybe there is a better but more costly strategy yielding better results which I just didn't realize yet.

m3adow commented on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? · Posted by u/skarat

beacon294 · 8 months ago

This is very inexpensive. What is your workflow and savings techniques! I can spend $10/h or more with very short sessions and few files.

m3adow · 8 months ago

Huh, I didn't configure anything for saving, honestly. I just add the whole repo and do my stuff. How do you get to $10/h? I probably couldn't even provoke this.

I assume we have a very different workflow.

m3adow commented on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? · Posted by u/skarat

Oreb · 8 months ago

Approximately how much does it cost in practice to use Aider? My understanding is that Aider itself is free, but you have to pay per token when using an API key for your LLM of choice. I can look up for myself the prices of the various LLMs, but it doesn't help much, since I have no intuition whatsoever about how many tokens I am likely to consume. The attraction of something like Zed or Cursor for me is that I just have a fixed monthly cost to worry about. I'd love to try Aider, as I suspect it suits my style of work better, but without having any idea how much it would cost me, I'm afraid of trying.

m3adow · 8 months ago

I'm using Gemini 2.5 Pro with Aider and Cline for work. I'd say when working for 8 full hours without any meetings or other interruptions, I'd hit around $2. In practice, I average at $0.50 and hit $1 once in the last weeks.

m3adow commented on Google Gemini has the worst LLM API venki.dev/notes/google-ge... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

egamirorrim · 8 months ago

I love that you're responding on HN, thanks for that! While you're here I don't suppose you can tell me when Gemini 2.5 Pro is hitting European regions on Vertex? My org forbids me from using it until then.

m3adow · 8 months ago

Yeah, not having clear time lines for new releases on the one hand, but being quick with deprecation of older models isn't a very good experience.

m3adow commented on A single line of code cost $8000 pietrasiak.com/one-line-o... · Posted by u/lordfuckleroy

spaqin · 8 months ago

I would also put into question if you _really_ need to check for updates every 5 minutes. Once per startup is already enough, and if you're concerned about users who leave it on for days, it could easily be daily or even less often.

m3adow · 8 months ago

First thing I thought as well. Every 5 minutes for a screen recording software is an absurd frequency. I doubt they release multiple new versions per day.

m3adow commented on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing horovits.medium.com/lidl-... · Posted by u/taubek

mkesper · a year ago

Open Telekom Cloud has at least a great part of the functionality you expect when talking about a cloud provider: VMs (even GPU ones), VPCs, managed databases, block storage, Logging, IAM, API Gateway, Container Engine etc. https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/

m3adow · a year ago

That's only on paper though. I know a couple of people who founded a startup in the medicine sector on Telekom Cloud and most of their backend engineering work in the first years(!) went into circumventing Telekom Cloud issues like slow API, servers not starting or plainly disappearing.

Haven't talked to the guys for two years, so it might have improved in the meantime, but it's Telekom, so I heavily doubt it.

m3adow commented on Fntastic announces shutdown four days after releasing "The Day Before" fntastic.com... · Posted by u/rightenant

m3adow · 2 years ago

Up until now they released:

- The Wild Eight (Metacritic: 63; Steam: "Mostly Positive" with 6,161 reviews)

- Dead Dozen (Metacritic: TBD; Steam: "Mostly Negative" with 579 reviews)

- Radiant One (Metacritic: 82; Steam: "Mostly Positive" with 166 reviews)

- Propnight (Metacritic: TBD; Steam: "Mixed" with >15,000 reviews)

- The Day Before (Metacritic: TBD; Steam: "Mostly Negative" with >19,000 reviews)

Scores don't look good, but they also don't look as bad as I expected them to be after the train wreck of The Day Before. I wonder how this would've played out if they hadn't overhyped the game as much as they did.