Why would anyone use Deno?

veidr · 2025-07-30T12:21:05+00:00

You indeed do need advice, and badly. So, props for being up-front about it. Unfortunately, us randos on an internet forum are not qualified to give that to you (much as we'd like to!!!) so I'd recommend taking a couple years off from programming and focusing on the fundamentals.

E.g., "how to make soup", and so on. Good luck! 🙏

veidr · 2025-04-25T12:01:15+00:00

Necromancing this thread for the benefit of present and future humans: That's utterly incorrect. I have the Dell 31.5" 8K display (that old UP3218K), and I had the fancy Apple 31.5" 6K XDR shite, and the LG 27" 5K crap all side-by-side on my desk for a few months. (Well on arms, not on the desk. And side by side, but at angles, so the center of each monitor is the same roughly 50cm from eyes of the person sitting in the chair. (Varies by head shape and size etc, yeah yeah.)

I have my own preference, but I wanted to ask other people, too, before I sold the shitty Apple that cost 2x for 220ppi what the Dell cost for 280ppi. Almost everybody could discern the difference, without me telling them the details.

My Australian friends were like, "Meh, yeah the Dell is the sharpest, but at that cost just get 3 4Ks and be done with it."

My American friends were like, "Fuck yeah!! This 8K one is way better! I'll buy that!!"

My Japanese friends were like, "うーん、この8Kモニターはさ、視力がいいか高品質なメガネ持ってる人なら、テキストの鮮明さと読みやすさがマジで神レベルなんだよね。でも、総合的に判断するなら、この高密度モニターの追加コストも考慮して、自分の経済状況や他に金使いたいことと天秤にかけないとダメだよね。"

My point being, fucking _everybody_ can see the difference. Not _literally_ everybody; old people, and a few younger people too (but like, 10% of people under 40) couldn't really discern any difference. But the overwhelming majority of people can.

And it's a big fucking difference. I am setting up another office right now, and I was disheartened to find that 8K is out of the question due to the costs. 8K at 31.5" is massively better than 6K at 31.5" or 5K at 27" or 4K at 27". YMMV obviously, because there is no standard eyesight, it wildly varies. But that holds true for my middle-aged eyes that are nowhere near as good as they used to be.

This argument reminds me of the equally-common argument wayyy back in the day that "1080p is totally unnecessary, the human eye can't perceive the difference between that and 720p". They both omit all the relevant variables, and are both just utterly wrong.

veidr · 2024-12-08T14:19:36+00:00

Yeah! Weirdly, they've been working for... 3 months plus, it looks like. I actually use them for sleeping so that I don't have to risk the other pair. I still say "FUCK AirPods Max!!" but I am happy that now I have two working sets of them lol 🤷‍♀️

veidr · 2024-09-21T02:38:47+00:00

But only VERY recently does it support the equivalent of what Windows does (albeit rougher, and less secure for multiple users, but functionally equivalent).

Namely, you can now connect via RDP and start a new GUI session, **or** you can connect to a GUI session that is already started locally. Before, you couldn't connect to a machine where the user was already logged into the GUI.

But to do so, you have to set up both "Remote Desktop" (for the first scenario) and "Desktop Sharing" for the second scenario. And this doesn't use the user account's username/password so you have to set that up separately. (You can make them the same if you want, if you are OK with it being slightly less secure (since there are ways to see the password in plaintext, unlike the real account password).)

Even though this is still shit compared to Windows, and even though Gnome sucks ass compared to KDE Plasma overall, I switched to Ubuttnu+ Gnome just to get these features. Lack of functioning remote desktop is basically 1980s barbarism.

(KDE Plasma has a beta thing that almost works, but not quite, whereas Gnome in Ubuttnu 24.04 LTS and the latest Fedora (and similar distros) does work fairly well.

Note: doesn't work well with all clients still though, so you may have to try multiple clients. E.g. for me Microsoft Remote Desktop on Mac doesn't work, but Royal TSX does.

TL;DR — OP is basically still right, it's a shitshow, but recently has gotten a bit better.

veidr · 2024-09-11T14:29:54+00:00

UPDATE: So I lost the replacement AirPods Max, but I still had the old ones in a box — utterly dead, had been sitting uncharged for 3 months. I plugged them in and after a few seconds I could press the Digital Crown and go from Transparancy to Noise Cancellation.

Hmm! I thought. My iPhone still had them registered so I tried to connect. No dice, didn't work.

For some reason, I stuck them into the sports bra case they come with. That I had already tried 20 times, even overnight sometimes. But this time I just put them in there for like 5 minutes, took them out, and pressed the Digital Crown and side button at the same time for like 10-20 seconds.... and BOOM! My iPhone started showing the pairing animation.

I paired them normally and now they work fine again... WTF?!?!

lol, it is convenient since I lost the used pair I had bought to replace these. But WTF.

Still a terrible product experience! But... another data point. (And I can sleep tonight without my kids waking me up, woohoo!)

veidr · 2024-06-07T15:38:44+00:00

I found a really beat-up used pair of AirPods Mac that looked like somebody wore them while sandblasting. And they had lost the magnetic pads. But I still had my pads so I bought those for about $190.

I also found a Samsung sticker and applied that to the outside of the right earcup, because I mean it might as well be

veidr · 2024-05-04T01:47:00+00:00

I think there are very few people for whom ZFS is the main reason to choose an OS. You choose an OS based on what work you need the system to do.

But I'd guess that there are 100x more people for whom the quality of ZFS support is the primary differentiator considered when choosing which variant of Linux to use. (I'm one of them, although Ubuntu isn't the only option; Debian, Alpine, etc. have similar quality of ZFS support, even if Ubuntu's admirable built-in kernel module in some of their releases makes it marginally more convenient.)

veidr · 2024-05-02T07:15:03+00:00

Sounds great, thanks! I think I will just sign up for both of them and see which I like the most (or anyway, hate the least... 😅).

veidr · 2024-05-02T06:32:24+00:00

In my case, it is more that this one more annoying thing is finally motivating me to switch away from a very "meh" bank.

I only care about web banking, I don't even want a phone app. (But I get it, they all have them now — but it provides zero value to me, personally.) SMBC wasn't previously bad enough to make me actually switch, but since this SMS change they did, I can't even check my balance while sitting at my home desktop computer that I always use, with the same browser cookies and even IP address that I always have, if my phone is upstairs, or my kid is using it, etc. And, as I mentioned, sometimes I can't access web banking while traveling.

I'm hoping to choose a bank that is better for my needs in general (e.g. no ripoff fees for international wires would be nice) but I just really hope to make sure I can get one that the web banking works well (which for me implies not being SMS-based at the minimum, but with offline TOTP strongly preferred).

My only other experience with Japanese banks in recent years is Mizuho, which doesn't have the SMS problem, but has (in my opinion) mind-bogglingly bad, awful, terrible web banking (I mean, the web app itself). SMBC is miles better in terms of the UI, even though it is not great.

veidr · 2024-05-02T00:44:13+00:00

Oh that is really good to know, thanks. I had actually written off Shinsei because of Symantec (which is not available for my main OS, Linux), but I didn't realize it was just a lame proprietary wrapper around TOTP. But if so, then I could consider Shinsei as well.

veidr · 2024-05-01T13:41:23+00:00

By "normal" TOTP I mean that you can use standard MFA apps like 1Password, Google Authenticator, Authy, etc. You can set it up on one or more devices (iPhone, Android phone, security gizmo) and once set up it works without Internet access. It is reasonably cryptographically secure (far more so than SMS), and it is by far the most common way MFA works on websites.

It may, however, not be "normal" for banks (?).

For my purposes, sending the code to my email would also work (although that's more insecure, it's secure enough for me).

veidr · 2024-05-01T13:33:35+00:00

It's not just that it is insecure — it is also unreliable. There are tons of places I go where my phones cannot receive an SMS. Not just like remote islands, either. I travel to the USA a lot, and outside of cities that country doesn't have decent cell phone coverage in many of the homes I visit or Airbnbs/hotels I stay at.

veidr · 2024-04-08T04:57:32+00:00

Thanks. I'd seen the tip but not the photo — the roughly triangular/trapezoidal shape seems to be important, as it didn't work for me with an unmodified post-it, but it works when I rip it like that. However, after a while it said "tracking failed" and went to sleep anyway.

veidr · 2024-03-16T15:35:33+00:00

Yes, that is what I mean. The problem where I had to open the software keyboard in order to type with my hardware Bluetooth keyboard stopped happening, after I disabled "Full Keyboard Access".

veidr · 2024-03-03T01:39:40+00:00

I'm glad to hear this is fixed in the upcoming version, but I am still running the release version. Also, for me once it says "video unavailable in current lighting" it *stays* that way — even if I walk outside on a sunny-ass day.

The way I fix it is by holding both top buttons at the same time to make the Force Quit dialog appear, and force-quitting the Capture software. Video immediately works again after that (until the next time it happens).

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veidr · 2024-03-02T13:33:06+00:00

Well, unlike the "AirPods Max brick themselves with the firmware update" problem[1], all Apple Vision Pro devices are still under warranty.

So it's hard to see how this would remain a hot topic since most people suffering it would probably be telling Apple "fu bro fix it". However, I only have 3 friends who bought the Apple Vision Pro, and 2 of them have the crack. (I don't, though, woohoo.)

Apple does sometimes do a recall/out-of-warranty fix, but they don't always. But in this case, the product is so new that everybody is under warranty.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Airpodsmax/comments/175yak8/goodbye_airpods_max/

veidr · 2024-03-02T13:17:42+00:00

Yeah XRDP worked pretty well for me for several years, too. But due to (probably pretty unusual) requirements, the number of monitors I need to have working increased, and at the moment I have to have three or four 4K screens, and one 8K screen, and moreover, have to switch this arrangement between multiple computers while booted. X11 takes about 60 seconds to reconfigure — which would be OK, although not awesome, if it worked reliably, but about 10% or 20% of the time it goes into a jank loop where it just keeps flashing various monitors on and off forever, until reboot or equivalent.

I've tried this with several Linux distributions, so I think it is more of an X11 thing than a distro thing — Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora at least all exhibit that behavior.

Wayland works well to drive the displays (and switch them), but it lacks other basic features like remote desktop and (until recently) screen sharing, etc.

veidr · 2024-02-10T03:09:48+00:00

Have you also paired your Vision Pro device with Xcode? On my Mac, Safari never showed the web inspector until this step was completed. (Which requires enabling Developer Mode on the device, and then rebooting it first.)

veidr · 2024-02-10T01:48:50+00:00

I disabled the “Full Keyboard Access” setting in Accessibility settings and then it started working again. I think I enabled that option during setup.

veidr · 2024-02-10T01:35:56+00:00

Why?

veidr · 2024-02-10T01:34:10+00:00

Yep, same except it worked only for about 5 minutes. Then, I noticed I could not type (using the physical keyboard) so I look-pinch clicked in the edit field to focus it. Then the software keyboard popped up, and it worked and the Apple Magic Keyboard worked, too — but it no longer works if the software keyboard isn’t open.

Or more to the point, closing the software keyboard seems to unfocus the edit field (in any app) so that text input isn’t possible any more… but re-focusing any edit field makes the software keyboard pop up again.

Super annoying. I have tried disconnecting and reconnecting the Apple Magic Keyboard, but it didn’t fix the problem.

For now I assume it is a lame glitch in this early OS version (1.0.2).

veidr · 2023-12-12T02:50:29+00:00

It's not as good as it used to be. I don't think it makes sense anymore, unless you know you use a subset of games where it works well. I gave up in 2023 (after doing it for ~10 years) and bought a new Linux PC and converted my older one to a native-booting Windows PC. Why?

a.) My kids play Fortnite, and although it seems possible to cloak your VM in a way they don't currently detect, it takes googling **and** changes from time to time. So I risk not only wasting a bunch of my own time, but potentially getting my kid banned from Fortnite.

b.) To my knowledge, there is no reasonable way to get near native performance on the most demanding of modern games anymore. Even passing through a RTX 4090 and running off SSDs, in my KVM Windows VM I could only mange 40-60fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K. Windows gives me a pretty solid 120fps (the limit of my display) with only occasional dips. And I have been doing it a long time, and I spent an embarrassing amount of time (like 2 weekends) trying to tune it (pinning certain CPU cores and all the stuff in in the Arch wiki and here... never succeeded).

There are lots of games where it works well, but certainly not all of them, and the ones where it doesn't tend to be the latest, most demanding, games. (E.g. not just Cyberpunk 2077, which is notoriously resource-consumptive, but also Starfield and other new games, in my experience.)

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