porkloin (u/porkloin)

porkloin commented on Software Survival 3.0 steve-yegge.medium.com/so... · Posted by u/jaybrueder

meisel · 14 days ago

> Gas Town has illuminated and kicked off the next wave for everyone

That sounds pretty hyperbolic. Everyone? Next “wave”?

porkloin · 14 days ago

The guy is high on his own supply. This entire thing reads like a fever dream.

porkloin commented on The dank case for scrolling window managers tedium.co/2026/01/29/niri... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

turboponyy · 14 days ago

I'm currently using niri (was previously using Hyprland).

Having used dwm-like tiling window managers for most of the time, I don't really care for the scrolling or dynamic workspace aspects of niri at all - in fact, I kinda dislike them (or haven't gotten used to them, at least). To me, it kills the point of a keyboard-centric desktop environment - which is the speed and lack of friction in making the window you want appear in front of your eyes.

Despite that, I still really like it. Mostly because I have so much more faith in its development. The documentation is excellent. The configuration file is sane, and not as arcane and ad hoc as the hyprland.conf format. The source repository looks well-maintained. Being written in Rust rather than C++ means onboarding new developers is easier. The discourse is more measured, owing to the lack of a somewhat stubborn lead maintainer in the case of Hyprland.

The surrounding ecosystem seems to be flourishing as well, with projects like Noctalia Shell, DankMaterialShell, and niri-flake natively supporting niri.

And perhaps most importantly, the out-of-the box experience is really nice. You have proper monocle and tabbed layouts without any compromises - features Hyprland has still not developed, where they are only possible with scuffed C++ plugins, or where its BDFL has stated they will never be introduced. Most features one would expect from a WM are already there and well-documented, which can't be said about Hyprland.

porkloin · 14 days ago

1000% agree - you said everything better that I was trying to say in my comment. Likewise coming from conventional TWMs I had some of the same struggles initially but the whole thing is just so smooth and config is so stupidly easy to work with. The docs are amazing and the community seems pretty boring in a good way :)

porkloin commented on The dank case for scrolling window managers tedium.co/2026/01/29/niri... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

tvshtr · 14 days ago

Also Pinnacle

https://github.com/pinnacle-comp/pinnacle

porkloin · 14 days ago

The majority of the projects in this comment chain don't actually independently implement a compositor in Rust - which is a good thing IMHO. Cosmic and Pinaccle at least come from a common core written in rust that is associated with the cosmic project: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/

porkloin commented on The dank case for scrolling window managers tedium.co/2026/01/29/niri... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

porkloin · 14 days ago

Currently using Niri and DMS via https://github.com/zirconium-dev/zirconium which is fedora bootc atomic + niri + dms. After taking a year or so away from tiling WMs where I was using KDE for a bit, I'm enjoying it quite a lot.

Super impressed by the "out of the box" experience given that it took a ton of sweat and tears to get these types of setups 10+ years ago when I posting stupid screenshots of my awesomewm and bspwm configs to /r/unixporn.

I wasn't so sure about the scrolling wm thing but I'm enjoying not having to worry about switching layouts constantly to "make room" like I always have in traditional tiling wms. Dynamic virtual desktops has taken some getting used to since I was a long-term adherent of the "10 static virtual desktops" way of thinking, but again it's been a good experience to just get used to the idea that each virtual desktop isn't as limited as it is in other WMs since you can have some content off screen.

I think an underrated aspect of Niri is that it's a cousin to System76's cosmic desktop: they share a base compositor through https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/. I think a big part of why Niri has been able to pull off such a polished experience has a lot to do with smart design from folks working on Smithay.

porkloin commented on Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in mcsweeneys.net/articles/p... · Posted by u/randycupertino

Froztnova · 16 days ago

It's that brand of humor that isn't really humor anymore because the person writing it is clearly positively seething behind the keyboard and considers the whole affair to be deadly serious.

I've never really been able to get into it either because it's sort of a paradox. If I agree, I feel bad enough about the actual issue that I'm not really in the mood to laugh, and if I disagree then I obviously won't like the joke anyways.

porkloin · 16 days ago

For me I guess I don't really see what it's adding. You can watch an actual video clip of Jensen begging people not to "bully" or say "hurtful" things about AI while wearing a stupid leather jacket. It's a million times funnier to watch him squirm in real life.

I find it unfunny for the same reason I don't find modern SNL intro bits about Trump funny. The source material is already insane to the point that it makes surface-level satire like this feel pointless.

porkloin commented on Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in mcsweeneys.net/articles/p... · Posted by u/randycupertino

porkloin · 16 days ago

I hate LLMs as much as the next guy, but this was honestly just not very funny. Humor can be a great vehicle for criticism when it's done right, but this feels like clickbait-level lazy writing. I wouldn't criticize it anywhere else, but I have enjoyed reading a bunch of actually good writing from mcsweeney's over the years in the actual literary journal and on their website.

porkloin commented on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 bsky.app/profile/did:plc:... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

volemo · 18 days ago

Dunno, I don’t care about ProMotion (I’ve got it and I don’t see it), but sleep and battery life are very important to me.

porkloin · 18 days ago

Are you sure you've actually used the higher refresh rate? It might not be enabled by default. I'd be surprised if you can't tell the difference comparing 60hz to 120hz back to back.

porkloin commented on Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB starlink.com/support/arti... · Posted by u/bahmboo

class3shock · a month ago

Has anyone used starlink for remoting into a work desktop? If so was the latency bearable?

porkloin · a month ago

I work remotely and use a starlink mini for work and general internet usage since I road trip in the summer a lot. For work I'm not using doing RDP/remote desktop stuff since I have a company-issued laptop, but I have some experience using it to stream graphics-intensive games from my home PC with a nice GPU to my phone with a mobile controller attached to it.

I saw around 50-100ms of latency in ideal conditions with a clear view of the sky. There are distinct large latency spikes every 30ish minutes, which I think is due to the dish switching between different satellites.

I think the latency would be fine for working, but it will hardly be transparent. When using it to play games, I've mostly stuck to stuff that doesn't require fast responses or parry mechanics, etc.

Even without RDP-ing into another workstation, the latency spikes on video calls can be noticeable. Moment-to-moment video conferencing latency is totally fine, given that most of the major players in the space have pretty good latency compensation baked in.

A few details/complications:

- I'm usually within ~500 miles of my home, which is relevant because starlink satellites communicate with ground stations, and being closer to home will still have a meaningful impact on latency

- host PC is on a wired fiber connection

- I live relatively far north (~65N) and starlink's network isn't biased toward polar orbiting satellites, so my coverage probaby isn't representative of behavior further south. You can see a map of satellites and note the relatively poor arctic and subarctic region coverage here: https://satellitemap.space/

porkloin commented on Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? · Posted by u/chriswright1664

chriswright1664 · a month ago

I agree. Even worse if you actually use an em dash in your day to day. I think we are in a transition period. People are uber sensitive to “oh this is AI slip, I must call it out”. It will course correct.

porkloin · a month ago

Yep. I've stopped using them after years of em dash-ing. It just wasn't worth continuing to use them once that became everyone's default "written by LLM" heuristic. I think now I understand the pain the boomers and gen-x went through during the "double space after period means you're an oldster" era.

porkloin commented on Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas? · Posted by u/chriswright1664

chriswright1664 · a month ago

Tough. I think this is thoughtful.

porkloin · a month ago

I fucking hate responses like the one you're responding to. I'm someone who writes long comments, and I've always been that way. The last few years have been awful because it doesn't take long for someone who disagrees with me to just accuse my writing of being an LLM because it's longer than a few sentences and reasonably well written.

I don't ultimately really care if the person they were accusing of using an LLM was actually using an LLM to write it. But people who accuse any comment longer than a paragraph of being LLM content are asses.