nvllsvm
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Comment · 6 months ago
MT8766 (low-end 2020) and Android 12 (2021)
https://docs.sidephone.com/en/articles/13624506-specificatio...
Comment · 7 months ago
I've been pretty happy with Wayland for the past ~2 years of using it.
- No annoying "X11 stutter"
- FreeSync works reliably; no more fucking around with different compositors.
- applications aren't allowed permanently alter the display settings. That was particularly problematic with older Windows games and wine. Depending on the game, exiting a game could leave the display server in a very low resolution on exit. Even worse, a few games would result in the X11 gamma settings being altered outside of the game (Deus Ex was one, but there were a few others).
- display-specific scaling factors
- I could use Waydroid on my 2-in-1 finally.
- HDR support. As an added bonus beyond HDR content, SDR content looks better on my PG42UQ monitor due to the monitor suffering from severe black crush in SDR mode.
That said, there are annoyances. I recently started work on a rewrite of the Jellyfin Desktop client (https://github.com/jellyfin-labs/jellyfin-desktop-cef) and of course targeted Wayland first:
Pros:
- HDR via an Wayland subsurface works great!
Cons:
- Running CEF (Chromium) in Wayland mode does NOT respect the system scale factor. The workaround is to run it X11 mode. Not too big of a deal since I'm using CEF in offscreen-rendering mode with a Wayland SDL surface, but annoying.
- Picture-in-Picture isn't widely supported yet. It is one of those things that Wayland is building _towards_ rather than X11 just working.
- Minor, but not being able to position the window centered on startup is kinda annoying.
So yeah - tradeoffs, but currently good enough for me and it continues to get better. I'm optimistic.
Comment · 8 months ago
I've been running Claude Code in a Docker compose environment with two containers - one without Claude that has all the credentials setup and a Claude container which transparently executes commands via ssh. The auth container then has wrappers which explicitly allow certain subcommands (eg. `gh api` isn't allowed). The `gh` command in the Claude container is just a wrapper script which bassically `ssh auth-container gh-wrapper`.
Lots of manual, opinionated stuff in here, but it prevents Claude from even accessing the credentials and limits what it can do with them.
Comment · 8 months ago
There does appear to be progress on making CEF an option.
Comment · 9 months ago
Yeah - that part is disappointing as well. I'd be glad if it included Wayland support, native touch input, full OpenGL and Vulkan support - but I'm not counting on it.
Comment · 9 months ago
Not cross-platform, but I'm reminded of the kkrieger game for Windows which was a 96k FPS game that looked visually impressive for the time.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100304155706/http://www.thepro...
Comment · 11 months ago
> Someone else did
Who?
Comment · 11 months ago
That's too much friction - especially since managed users cannot even create Gists in GitHub Enterprise Cloud (ugh). https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/man...
As for attaching a file, I'm usually screenshotting small amounts of code - usually of the ephemeral variety.
Comment · 11 months ago
> They're giving the market the size people actually want.
No - call it what it is. They are catering to the largest market segments and ignoring the smaller segments who desire smaller phones.
Reasoning as to why is another thing, but it doesn't negate the existence of the segment who does want one.
Comment · 11 months ago
Slack seems to always wrap code blocks. It makes python particularly shit to read.
Comment · 11 months ago
> In the professional world, I see software developers blindly copying and pasting code suggestions from LLM providers without testing it, or understanding it.
When you see that, call them out on it. Not understanding copy+pasted code is one thing, but not testing it is a whole other level of garbage.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not a TV console, but there is a handheld "Xbox" releasing next month.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/handhelds/rog-xbox-ally
My guess is they'll continue to improve handheld and TV experiences in Windows and leverage third-parties to make the hardware.
Comment · 1 year ago
> I just bitch and moan now, because it’s better than killing myself to avoid seeing how fucked up things will become.
fwiw - I'm happy to chat if you wanna vent.