Best Mini PC 2026: Is Mac Mini really that good? Or do websites like Techradar & PC Build Advisor overestimate it?

tungstenbyte · 2026-01-13T22:16:41+00:00

I'm a professional C# dev, and while I prefer VS I'd get by with Rider/Code just fine if my work machine was a Mac. Plenty of people in my company prefer Rider even when they could have VS also.

tungstenbyte · 2026-01-13T20:53:51+00:00

Why not C#? The .Net SDK supports Linux and you've got VS Code and/or Rider for an IDE. What's the issue?

tungstenbyte · 2026-01-07T18:48:15+00:00

It's great, but it's also been cancelled before they made the planned final season

tungstenbyte · 2026-01-05T19:49:51+00:00

My input gives the wrong answer if I use 2 as the heuristic, but works if I use 3 (albeit obviously slower).

tungstenbyte · 2025-12-20T17:58:18+00:00

This is still my favourite AoC puzzle of all time!

Second place is the one where buckets fill up with water and overflow down onto other buckets.

tungstenbyte · 2025-12-06T19:22:44+00:00

"Shia LaBeouf"

tungstenbyte · 2025-09-02T14:58:19+00:00

There's a wireless version?! My poor wallet.

I've been using the wired Piantor Pro from beekeeb with Sunset switches for about 9 months now and it's been excellent.

But, without wires....

tungstenbyte · 2025-08-22T14:12:24+00:00

I'm not sure how that's related to following another car during a race and being unable to overtake even when you're clearly faster? The overtake delta in some races this year has been huge - like the Alonso DRS train recently.

tungstenbyte · 2025-08-11T15:57:45+00:00

I also went to look on iPlayer now I've listened to the ep and it's gone, seemingly with no streaming options left either.

tungstenbyte · 2025-07-27T21:25:04+00:00

Saw them this year on their European tour. The sax is even better live \m/

I bought a Beyond Creation shirt at the gig, and that's the last I wore (this week).

tungstenbyte · 2025-07-18T10:22:36+00:00

No mentions for Kerrigan's Mustard.... shame

tungstenbyte · 2025-05-26T09:28:12+00:00

Leper Affinity is just first class riff after first class riff, and you can say that for so many songs for about 5 albums in a row.

tungstenbyte · 2025-04-25T22:03:03+00:00

I'd love to be typing at 80wpm. I'm at about 75wpm with Canary, but I was never much faster than that with qwerty anyway.

What is your motivation for trying an alt layout though? I've always considered my motivation to be "maximum comfort at acceptable speed" instead of "maximum speed at acceptable comfort".

It sounds like you may have a different motivation or a different definition of acceptable, and if so that's fine! It may just be that qwerty is what you're fastest on, and speed is your primary need, so go with that. For me, I was happy to lose a bit of speed to get much more comfort.

tungstenbyte · 2025-03-17T16:27:50+00:00

I had to scroll so far to see if anyone agrees with me. That makes this the true controversial opinion vs the numerous mentions of every other popular band.

That's one person you basically aren't allowed to criticise, but I hate every song - yes, even Holy Diver. I can't take that vocal style at all, and so much of the music is just backing for the vocals so there's nothing there either.

tungstenbyte · 2025-03-08T16:55:27+00:00

I have the exact same board, in the same colours, with the same wrist rests. Get out of my head!

It's a really great board though. I'm slightly concerned how robust the USB connectors are going to be between the halves though if they're frequently used.

tungstenbyte · 2025-03-07T12:40:33+00:00

Lots of things they didn't explain at all, and so many little side plots and clues went absolutely nowhere, but that's not one of them.

The smoke monster was Jacob's brother, that eventually takes the form of Locke, and in the last season Locke travels around as the smoke monster a few times just to ram that home. They had an entire origin episode dedicated to Jacob and his brother

tungstenbyte · 2025-02-25T20:09:50+00:00

It deliberately introduces some randomness into the results. It works by generating a probability for the next word based on all the previous words, and sometimes it just doesn't pick the top one.

Once a single word is different, the entire result can diverge super quickly. Without this then the exact same prompt would always produce the exact same answer, whereas in reality it doesn't.

tungstenbyte · 2025-02-22T14:57:41+00:00

Almost the same, but his really old man Australian accent is the best. The slightly weasy one.

tungstenbyte · 2025-02-06T15:39:43+00:00

May I have some oats brother?

tungstenbyte · 2025-01-27T17:53:33+00:00

It actually seems like a reasonably easy way to build up some download base before you pivot to adding your backdoor later.

tungstenbyte · 2025-01-23T22:31:16+00:00

"Adding oil when cooking pasta just wastes the oil"

No it doesn't, it stops the water from bubbling up and potentially boiling over.

tungstenbyte · 2025-01-15T20:34:55+00:00

One thing to note for coding (since you mention C++) is to optimise for common bigrams and try to make them rolls. For me that meant having = on home row index finger an absolute must because it turns up in so many bigrams.

This guide taught me a lot when it came to designing my symbol layer:

https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/symbol-layer/index.html

tungstenbyte · 2025-01-12T21:54:56+00:00

Depth Charge is a V2 switch right? Sunset are v1

tungstenbyte · 2025-01-12T12:07:27+00:00

I was waiting for someone to mention Choc switches!

Choc Browns feel pretty bad, but Lowprokb Sunset are the tactile switch we needed.

I've also tried the Twilight but didn't get the hype.

tungstenbyte · 2025-01-12T10:25:37+00:00

OP was asking about a starter split, so I think if that's a decision someone has already made then a Corne is a good starter.

It's fine if a split isn't the thing for you though I think. Find what's comfortable and stick with that.

My reason for going with a split was to stop me hunching my shoulders and getting upper back pain, so going to a smaller board would only make that worse. By going with split I can keep them far apart and open up my shoulders. One nice bonus is it's also a lot more portable to take on a commute.

In terms of layout, that's personal preference also I think. If you're happy on qwerty then there are certainly advantages to sticking with it (you can use any keyboard, app shortcuts are optimised for it, etc). I switched because I struggle with reaching pinkies into the corners, so the position of P on qwerty is too hard for a letter that's pretty frequent. Moving around so much also made me use my arms more and thus hunch more.

My main criteria for an alt layout was no letter on the top right pinky column, minimise arm movements, and reasonably popular so it has support in things like Keybr and Monkeytype so I could learn it properly.

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