sandreas (u/sandreas)

sandreas commented on Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case darkcoding.net/software/p... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

sandreas · 18 hours ago

This is an interesting overview, thank you. Different tasks, different models, all-day-usage and pretty complete (while still opinionated, which I like).

However, checking the results my personal overall winner if I had to pick only ONE probably would be

  deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

which is a good compromise between fast, cheap and good :-) Only for specific tasks (write a poem...) I would prefer a thinking model.

sandreas 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

Retr0id · a day ago

    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad accel-profile 'default'
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers'
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad edge-scrolling-enabled false
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad left-handed 'mouse'
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad middle-click-emulation false
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad natural-scroll true
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events 'enabled'
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad speed 0.0
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag true
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag-lock false
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-button-map 'default'
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false
    org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad two-finger-scrolling-enabled true

I have a feeling the magic here is happening in apple firmware, rather than driver or software.

sandreas · 19 hours ago

> I have a feeling the magic here is happening in apple firmware, rather than driver or software.

Either the

  disable-while-typing false

(which is the only difference besides speed) or as you said the firmware / hardware. Thank you very much.

sandreas 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

Retr0id · a day ago

I performed your test and mouse movement and two-finger scrolling still works if my palm is there. Even 3-finger window switching gestures. My palm is effectively ignored.

sandreas · a day ago

So this would mean that either my configuration is bad or it might be a hardware limitation. So if you don't mind I would love to see your

  gsettings list-recursively | grep 'peripherals\.touchpad'

Here is mine (before you ask, disable-while-typing=false does not fix my problem) :

  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad accel-profile 'default'
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers'
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing true
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad edge-scrolling-enabled false
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad left-handed 'mouse'
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad middle-click-emulation false
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad natural-scroll true
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events 'enabled'
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad speed -0.044999999999999998
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag true
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag-lock false
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-button-map 'default'
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click true
  org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad two-finger-scrolling-enabled true

sandreas 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

Retr0id · a day ago

I use Fedora+Gnome on a 2021 MBP and the hardware+firmware+driver+software combination is perfect as far as I'm concerned.

sandreas · a day ago

How does the Palm-Detection work? To test this, you can do the following: Place your palm where the X-es are, then try to scroll with two fingers or move your mouse. I don't like that the mouse does not react anymore if the palm is placed there - it should just be ignored.

  ┌─────────────────────────┐
  │XXX                      │
  │XX                       │
  │X                        │
  │                         │
  │                         │
  │                         │
  │                         │
  │                         │
  └─────────────────────────┘

sandreas 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

throwmeaway222 · 2 days ago

I don't know if anyone else agrees, but for some reason no one can replicate the smoothness of the Apple trackpad. And now with that PLUS the heatless apple silicon - I don't think I could go to another OS and the x86 hardware world. I would just feel like I'm in clunky-land. Now don't get me wrong, I like a lot about Linux desktops, but Mac gets a lot of things right. I don't want to take anything away from people migrating from Mac, but the PC didn't kill Desktop Linux, Mac did.

sandreas · a day ago

I did a lot of research regarding the trackpad situation on modern Linux and there are several reasons the macOS experience feels better for most people.

The most important one is indeed SOFTWARE/DRIVER implementation. Using a hackintosh, the feeling is not the same as a MacBook, but close (depending on which Hardware is used). Furthermore there is ONE UI framework (AppKit?!) which makes implementing things like inertial scolling and rubberbanding pretty easy in one Place. On Linux you have multiple App Frameworks (GTK, QT, ...), which is significantly harder to coordinate and the backwards compatible X11 stuff. Did you know that libinput has only one permanent maintainer (Peter Hutterer)?

Of course the amount of Hardware to support is significantly lower on apples side, which makes optimization easier.

Still, all in all I think the Linux touchpad experience is very close to macOS on my Lenovo T480s with a glass touchpad from a yoga 7 in Arch / GNOME. The only thing that really is not as good and what bothers me From time to time is Palm detection.

sandreas commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

dsissitka · 2 days ago

Something to be aware of if you're considering mailbox.org:

https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-cus...

sandreas · 2 days ago

Oh, thank you. I recently considered moving from posteo.de to mailbox.org, but I think I won't anymore regarding such an issue took so long to even be considered as a problem and as I understand is still not solved.

sandreas commented on What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? seangoedecke.com/model-on... · Posted by u/ingve

mhogers · 10 days ago

Any reason to upgrade an M2 16GB macbook to a M4 ..GB (or 2026 M5) for local LLMs? Due an upgrade soon and perhaps it is educational to run these things more easily locally?

sandreas · 10 days ago

For LLMs, VRAM is the requirement number one. Since MacBooks have unified RAM you can use up to 75% for the LLM, so a higher RAM model would open more possibilies, but these are much more expensive (of course).

As an alternative you might consider a Ryzen Pro 395+ like in the Framework desktop or HP Zbook G1a but the 128GB versions are still extremely expensive. The Asus Flow Z13 is a tablet with ryzen 395+ but hardly available with 128GB

sandreas commented on OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution openindiana.org/... · Posted by u/doener

sandreas · 11 days ago

AFAIK the interesting thing about these Illumos Forks is ZFS support together with a kernel based SMB server ability using it as file server.

After enabling a share, connect as root and set NTFS alike ACL via Windows. The SMB server is using Windows SID (not uid/gid) as ACL and Windows-ish SMB groups on Illumos (not Unix groups)

See https://illumos.org/man/8/smbadm

sandreas commented on Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying chameth.com/fixing-a-loud... · Posted by u/sprawl_

sandreas · 12 days ago

Interesting article and great results.

PSUs are probably the only piece of Hardware, i DO NOT fiddle around with, not even for saving lots of money or time.

PSU Capacitors are no joke, especially in (older) TVs. However, I expected more like an instruction manual why PSUs are dangerous and how to properly discharge capacitors before taking them apart less than how to replace a fan although it's dangerous and getting away with it with a simple hint to not touch the capacitors (no offense).

BTW I would recommend to use electrical tape and shrink tube instead of simple adhesive tape (as it looks in the pictures) to prevent lose cables touching the spinning fan.

sandreas commented on Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects? · Posted by u/pillefitz

sandreas · 18 days ago

My goto practise is to automate the shipping first and then do small increments.

In the past i used a simple 'build-release.sh' whereas lately i tend to use Github actions or other CI/CD workflows.

Another habit is to focus on stuff that you need or want for yourself and if you are in the flow finish it, then switch to other requests. As soon as I Start with something that feels boring but was often requested, I lose interest very quickly and get distracted.