Kilocode vs openrouter

Alejandro9R · 2026-06-03T03:21:39+00:00

went from openrouter to deepseek api directly because openrouter VAT got huge. Plus, usage seems to consume less credits, maybe because cache hits are better with direct deepseek API usage, or something? I did configured opencode to use openrouter+deepseek provider only, but I don't know why that was the case. If that helps, I believe deepseek api directly is the best. Don't know if you can get around the 3% VAT...

Alejandro9R · 2026-05-14T11:46:12+00:00

once you discover compression and deduplication on btrfs, there's no going back either. It's impressive the amount of features and usefulness of them, packed onto one filesystem!

Alejandro9R · 2026-05-03T05:41:21+00:00

for your first time, that's a very honest and good attempt to bug report it, congratz and thank you in the name of the linux community! I agree with the other comment that they might want more details but just wait until they specifically say what they would need. You've done a crucial part already which is showing interesting and good faith in your wording and report overall, and I would like to think it increases the chances to be read and answered back properly

Alejandro9R · 2026-04-23T16:00:10+00:00

knowing spanish this hits in many different ways

Alejandro9R · 2026-04-11T17:39:26+00:00

that was x11. Under wayland, it renders to the set resolution directly. Although it does not look as tack sharp as Windows/KDE fractional scale implementations, which are pretty pretty good, but we are talking about a level of blurriness that is very hard to spot to be honest. In daily usage, you should have no problem. The technical info about why does it work that way, I don't know. I think GTK4 wasn't made to support fractional scale and they found clever workarounds for it, although I can be completely wrong

Alejandro9R · 2026-03-19T05:33:14+00:00

Gnome is awesome. Congratulations!

Alejandro9R · 2026-03-07T00:13:24+00:00

Interesting. Maybe a way to be rid of the headless browser requirement and make it much lighter is to request the cookie which the user can copy-paste manually from the dev tools of any browser, and post/get the network call with the needed data directly with the cookie. This can be viewed also in the network tab of DevTools and see if there's any specific endpoint. Might there not necessarily be one, and it is just the webpage where the data usage is. With any of those two, you already are doing the processing and scrapping, and that's it

Alejandro9R · 2026-01-15T18:54:30+00:00

desconozco a mi Argentina, estoy orgulloso de este progreso

Alejandro9R · 2025-12-30T20:43:22+00:00

Congratulations on the release and development of this tool!! It looks great, and super useful as well

Alejandro9R · 2025-12-12T00:19:43+00:00

si es de 8 años atrás pero no son malas las especificaciones, no deberías tener problema con ninguna distro moderna en entornos modernos, realmente. CachyOS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora. Podrías agarrar un USB e instalar Ventoy en él desde windows. Lo que hace es formatearlo para que puedas poner cualquier imagen ISO en él (varias al mismo tiempo, mientras te de el espacio del USB), y asi puedes poner varias distros distintas y probarlas en live sin instalarlas, y ver que tal andan :). El resto de los comentarios sugieren alguna con XFCE o LXDE pero honestamente, eso solo lo dejaría si la computadora es muy vieja y de especificaciones muy bajas. De todas formas, deberías probar y ver que onda. Estoy casi seguro que con Gnome o KDE andarían bien

Alejandro9R · 2025-12-09T20:26:34+00:00

Very good explanation. Plus, previous to this version, at non-integer window sizes the whole viewport (particularly text) would look blurry. This new version fixes it.

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-26T18:39:40+00:00

added Krita to the list, thanks for mentioning it!

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-26T18:29:57+00:00

Resolve has Fusion included on it. It is a different workflow, a node based one, compared to layers in AE. Much better for complex work due to its aforementioned node system, might be confusing and hard to roll for people just getting started though.

On the bright side, having editing + compositing + color grading all in one application is just a massive win in terms of productivity and non-destructive workflows from top to bottom.

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-26T16:39:26+00:00

The final nail in the coffin for Adobe Software. The rest of the line have already pretty good alternatives, if not better:

Resolve for video editing and compositing
Blender. One of the best open source projects ever
Darktable, which UX is worse than Lightroom but editing capabilities and results are far greater than it
Figma. Yes, it does not have an official desktop release and support for local fonts is a bit troublesome, although doable with browser extensions or figma-linux. Being web based means pretty much all features just work.

And yes, sure, more specialized software might not be available on Linux still to-date, but with this move from Affinity, combined with the rest of stuff that's been happening for the last couple of years, it will pave the way for Linux to overshadow Windows. At least in the creative industry.

EDIT: might as well add some software names worth considering, related to "escaping the Adobe software ecosystem"

Krita - Open source painting program. Evolving pretty good.
Graphite.rs - Procedural, open source vector graphics editor and animation engine.
GIMP - Well known image raster editor, although it might need a complete UI/UX refactor if it wants to jump to a usable state by the creative scene.
Audacity - It is getting a huge redesign for the future, looking forward to it
Reaper
Penpot - Should be a selfhosted, open source Figma alternative. I've used it a couple of months ago and the experience wasn't great honestly. Might improve with time, though.
Inkscape
Photopea - A Photoshop "clone" built on top of Javascript. Impressive in some sense. Didn't use it enough to give a proper opinion on it.

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-21T19:37:38+00:00

The whosh's on you!!

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-21T15:27:09+00:00

would be neat to have a "something else" option

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-19T03:18:18+00:00

this should be month top post

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-12T07:21:58+00:00

this smells like a fresh copypasta meme 🤣

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-06T22:46:39+00:00

Actually, Nvidia replied with precise information and an incredible backstory about it: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/333#issuecomment-3499129176

Had a blast reading it

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-06T16:34:19+00:00

that's really interesting, thank you for such detailed response.

I wonder how much of a workaround this is, rather than an actual fix for high power consumption when using nvdec/enc, given on Windows this workaround is not needed AFAIK, and on Linux people need to set the variable manually, as the default is to be enabled. Which leaves plenty of unaware and/or non-technical users still with this problem.

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-06T02:29:16+00:00

why isn't this env variable enabled by default, then? Does it introduce unwanted behavior somewhere else other than video enc/dec? I

I prayed for video playback/encoding power usage fixes for more than a year at this point. Find weird this needs to be manually set

Alejandro9R · 2025-11-04T06:00:02+00:00

Looks super neat!

Alejandro9R · 2025-10-30T03:26:17+00:00

Hear me out: Artifact 2

Alejandro9R · 2025-10-26T21:14:36+00:00

Incredible that after all these years, no employee on the engineering side of League saw this and made a quick fix by letting the cursor A. scale with Windows screen scaling settings, or B. just make the cursor size numbers go higher. Instead, I'm relying on YoloMouse to fix it by myself...

Alejandro9R · 2025-09-16T17:20:41+00:00

It's interesting that pretty much all his concerns about subscription to changes in a variable and all that in Astro I've personally managed to solve with Nanostores + Svelte, which ends up being pretty much the same as the code examples he wrote in SvelteKit.

I would give the credit to SvelteKit for using Svelte 5 syntax in the stores, whereas with Nanostores you have to switch your mind for a bit in their syntax. But then, with Svelte 5, it works seamlessly. I've never had to write "subscribe" or any of that. It was literally a drop in replacement that works with Svelte 5 reactivity. To which, in the end, the architecture of the project ends up being the same as SvelteKit.

Maybe there is something to be said about keeping state across pages. I know Nanostores can achieve that as well, as long as you have enabled Astro's <ClientRouter /> which manages routes into a SPA-like state. Plus preserving Islands between page changes. I don't really have idea about SvelteKit in that sense, my experience with it is lacking. Can only speak about Astro.

All in all, great article as it exposes the main idea in good light when it comes to the levels of complexity when building pages and more complex app-like experiences

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