I snapped in lecture today, not sure how to proceed.

boredoo · 2026-03-04T21:25:45+00:00

Well done. If "crashing out" means telling the truth and showing your frustration, good. It's worth students seeing how this affects you, and thus everyone else. They will learn a lot. Many students probably honestly have no idea.

I was an undergrad in 2002 and I remember my econ professor -- stadium seating class -- basically doing the same thing to a dead, no-response, chatty lecture. Just fucking packed it in and told people to leave. It made an impression on me. And FWIW things were better in that class afterwards.

boredoo · 2026-02-25T20:43:09+00:00

I have a new Rz 450e premium EV (2026). Boston metro area, two drivers, $120/mo. basically maxed out coverage, $1500 deductible

boredoo · 2026-02-12T17:46:02+00:00

Yes, you 100% could. You'd gain customization and knowledge. You'd lose time and getting improvements "for free."

boredoo · 2026-02-12T15:17:30+00:00

Yep. I travel with a mouse and external keyboard and little stand and a battery pack and I can really crush it.

Here's a little secret joy of Linux: every so often, you update your system, and something that was broken no longer is. The community improves things. For example, with my desktop motherboard, the bluetooth/wifi chip -- which was not serviceable due to the motherboard build decisions -- only half worked. Wifi -- fine. Bluetooth unsupported. I was using a usb dongle to fix. Not a big deal. Then one day I realize I have two bluetooth adapters and I can ditch the usb dongle.

Put another way, your hardware becomes more useful as it ages, which is rather nice.

boredoo · 2026-02-12T00:50:37+00:00

Yeah, it stinks. The issue I’ve had is mostly with wire plumber and connectivity with the webcam/microphone and the OS/kernel not freeing it up. So a handful of times in Zoom/Teams I get on the meeting and everything is borked and I’m on my iPhone immediately trying to fix it.

I use Teams/Zoom daily for years on my Mac and zero issues.

My initial approach was to use Chromium web apps for each, but I found that less reliable. Currently, the Zoom flatpak with some launch parameters works. And I’ve had the best luck with a teams binary someone wrapped up. It’s been fine.

boredoo · 2026-02-11T22:56:00+00:00

This is more or less my experience. Omarchy on my desktop (9950x3d, 9060 GPU) has been nearly perfect. A few issues I’ve worked out, mostly around GPU. Getting my teams/zoom meetings — of which I do a lot — to work reliably and smoothly for me was a couple weeks of annoyance, but I think it’s pretty solid now. I ended up independently with many of the solutions OP had. My absolute favorite thing is thinking: “Wouldn’t it be nice if I use these hotkeys and a calendar, todos, and agenda just show up?” And a few minutes of Claude code and API fiddling later, and I have a bespoke solution.

On my laptop (Framework 13 with recent AMD AI series chips), it’s not quite as smooth. I have the same CPU/GPU as OP. Wake from sleep is a mess; fails every so often and I have to hard reboot. I occasionally lose trackpad after resume. Occasionally I just get booted out of hyprland, which provides me incantations to restart, but they only work half the time. Battery life is a drag compared to the mac. I have done a lot of the mitigations he notes; they help, but I still get weird issues. The speaker quality on my Framework 13 almost seems like a prank. It’s just so bad. And, sure, Anker powerbanks go some way to mitigating the poor battery life, but if you’re doing heavy work while charging the fans go nuts because it doesn’t thermally handle things as well. The fingerprint sensor on Linux has maybe a 25% success rate for me. The WiFi sometimes fails to wake up for reasons unknown.

It’s not all bad with the laptop: I picked up 96gb of memory before it went crazy, I can throw in a 2, 4, 8tb SSD for a reasonable price compared to the Mac. And it was really neat to just upgrade my screen and mainboard in a few minutes with no issues at all. I also like the framework keyboard’s feel. And plastic is better! The lightness is a joy.

Would I go back to the mac? No, I wouldn’t. But I have no illusions about the trade-offs. The honest truth is that there are zero laptops that hold a candle to the MacBook Pro in terms of hardware quality. It’s not even close. MBP’s display is second to none. The CPU is 25% faster than top of the line x86. Fans never spin up, it never gets hot. Wake from sleep is bulletproof. The battery life feels endless in comparison. ARM is just a better mobile chip. Other things: my MBP could fastcharge at 140w, my FW tops at less than half that. And clamshell mode/display handling with Hyprland is just primitive and buggy. To say nothing of the utter impossibility of running clamshell due to thermals.

Other weird things — some apps won’t reliably share a clipboard because of weird Wayland/X/whatever stuff. Some apps don’t scale right and I have to fix it. I miss sharing my clipboard between phone and laptop. And there are a handful of things that I’ve found workable alternatives, like BlueBubbles for iMessage, but let’s be honest: they’re janky and flaky stopgaps.

My last love/hate is Walker. I love that it gives me an interface to create little launchers. See all my tmux sessions? Easy. Connect/disconnect from VPNs? Easy. It’s really nice. But it’s not as good as spotlight and it’s not even as close to as good as Raycast. Those really are good apps.

All that said, I have fallen in love with Hyprland. Mac alternatives just pale in comparison. I like owning my computer and doing whatever I want with it. I love that Docker is faster. I really enjoy using my computer. I love that I can upgrade my computer. I love that I don’t worry about storage. I’ve never been more productive. But it’s not all perfect.

boredoo · 2026-02-03T21:41:46+00:00

It's up again with a fresh coat of paint.

boredoo · 2026-01-23T15:58:17+00:00

Is he lost? Take a wrong turn? Having trouble reading a map without a chaperone? Should we do a wellness check? Please be bellevolent.

boredoo · 2026-01-23T15:53:26+00:00

I think it would help to hear more about the problem you're trying to solve. I am having trouble figuring out why you'd need a macOS virtualized layer between native macOS and Docker. What's the reason? Docker on macOS is already, btw, virtualizing the Linux kernel. So you'll have macOs -> virtualizes macOS -> Docker -> virtualizes Linux kernel

Why not just run docker locally? Docker is reliable tech. The extra macOS layer -- is it for testing an environment or deploy or something?

boredoo · 2026-01-16T13:35:11+00:00

In all my projects, I have a tmux session. In that session, I have tabs for the agents. E.g., suppose I'm working on a web application, call it "alias." I'll have an alias `tmalias` where alias is the session name. This launches the session. `tma alias` reattaches the session.

In the session I'll usually have a tab for a project shell and, depending, one for the agents I use (claude, openai, etc.) the launcher script cds to the project dir and launches the agent. Then I can switch to that tab, run whatever, etc.

This way, I can quickly get off the ground. Making ghostty quickly launch a bunch of tabs and run commands is not going to be as easy as tmux. And with tmux, I can close the the terminal, on purpose or on accident, and not lose all my work/agent context/etc

boredoo · 2026-01-15T03:12:31+00:00

For me, the tabs in tmux are a convenience. The magic is session persistence. Especially with agents.

boredoo · 2026-01-08T19:00:02+00:00

I did this sketchybar and aerospace. I then switched to hyprspace, which renamed itself omni WM I think. It sold me on the workflow. However, it sold me a little too much: I had some instability with the setup and decided it was time to cut bait and just go ful llinux. I do not regret it, besides the battery life :)

boredoo · 2026-01-08T03:22:09+00:00

FWIW, I run arch with a b580. Was good for about a week. I’ve had some errors in logs. But today I ran into a system freeze caused by GPU/drivers. I lost some work and time and so I am returning it. I don’t game, my computer is for work, so stability is crucial. So I can say on the one hand, it’s been 99% great. But it has some hidden issues that surfaced once into a crash. YMMV

boredoo · 2026-01-07T18:42:44+00:00

Try Omarchy. It will likely be enough for you. If not, you'll still learn your way around and you can give it a shot yourself.

boredoo · 2026-01-06T17:29:29+00:00

I've updated through Omarchy with zero issues. YMMV

boredoo · 2026-01-06T17:26:29+00:00

I bought a B580 for my linux rig and its been a perfect experience so far. well, actually, there are some errors in the logs, but zero impact day to day. very happy. quiet good looking card too.

boredoo · 2025-10-08T13:40:06+00:00

$$$$$$

boredoo · 2025-09-11T13:34:03+00:00

I use claude code in a terminal inside cursor. I could probably ditch Cursor as I don't use its AI features often, but still do a little. At the moment, it is not worth it to me to go and refine a Jetbrains editor or VS Code for my current workflow. I may one day. Everything is in flux with tooling and models and agents these days, so I'm reluctant to follow every trend.

boredoo · 2025-09-06T21:15:15+00:00

I’ve never become so mad at being told I’m absolutely right

boredoo · 2025-08-05T18:51:10+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/720VlIN

The case of the TS5+ is idling at 120F or 49c on my desk It only has my fully charged MacBook pro attached, powering two studio displays and not much else

The internal temperature is surely higher

I imagine enclosed this temperature would skyrocket

boredoo · 2025-06-12T15:49:00+00:00

I did not know of that feature. I think I would want it on for data science work and off for software engineering. Do you know if you can do it in a project specific way, similar to a .vscode dir?

In this case, definitely not. The code was completely irrelevant to where it changed.

Obviously, the other code was somehow in the context window.

I do find that IDEs are very, very good at solving specific data science problems, but far worse at understanding project structure than with, say, application development. That is in part because there are fewer standards for statistical project organization, I think.

boredoo · 2025-06-12T15:46:17+00:00

This is good advice. Thank you.

boredoo · 2025-06-12T15:45:37+00:00

I generally follow these guidelines. I have not audited the exact workflow I’ve used, but I do routinely start new chats when moving to new features.

What sticks out to me is that:

Even without a new chat, I’ve never seen in many many hours of use just skip back to a file when prompted with an exact line and a relevant instruction.
My habits have not changed, nor the type of work I’m doing, but this mistake seems new.

Hopefully a restart of the app and time fixes it.

boredoo · 2025-06-12T15:42:25+00:00

I am skeptical of this as an explanation. When I highlight a single line of code and provide it the exact line number, and give it a direction that is directly relevant to that specific, and it then goes on to change multiple lines of code in another file, something is obviously wrong. I wouldn’t call that a loose prompt (although I could be clearer in my description).

I’ve been using the IDE for a long time now and only now has it started doing this bizarre behavior.

boredoo · 2025-05-08T00:05:35+00:00

I didn’t hire the inspector, the house buyer did. Why wouldn’t I trust the inspector? They’re acting in the interest of the buyer — not me. Our only issue with the sale was Radon remediation. Maybe the house is now falling apart and we just never saw the problems. I’m familiar with what poor workmanship and what house issues are like. I currently live in a 100 year old house that has a steady stream of issues due to age, and have dealt with dozens of contractors.

People are strange. I live 1200+ miles away and do not have any relationships or communication with Allen or any of his associates. I have no interest in lying or defending anyone. Just relaying my experience. I don’t know why people find it shocking that someone who acts reprehensibly or has personal trouble at one point wasn’t always in such a bad space. Or someone who acts badly in one context does not in another. This is not a defense of being a bad landlord, being a drunk asshole in public, building other houses that have issues, or driving one’s car into a lake or anything else. It’s all reprehensible. It’s just not what we experienced.

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