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A few days ago I received my DIY Framework laptop as well. I also have a MBP 15" circa 2018. The keyboard issues on the MBP was my primary gripe with Apple, also reading the 55 steps needed to replace the battery according to ifixit guide.

I first discovered frame.work on hacker news, watched a ton of youtube videos and got all jazed up and bought one, then waited for it to ship (about a month since they do it in batches). I actually never had been this excited about a product as this, and would read up on their site daily, to prepare.

Anyway, it arrived, and I assembled my first laptop! The hardest part was hooking up the wifi, but with a little thinking it worked. Took about 10 mintues, with kids running around the background.

Having a month to ponder all of the flavors of linux, I was initially jazed about NixOS as well. I'm not a daily linux user and reading through the documentation was discouraging. There doesn't seem to be a simple way to install it that I have discovered. Eventually I discovered Fedora Silverblue which has the same concept of an immutable OS. I still want to try NixOS, but I will need help with that. Another nice thing about these devices, you are free to install whatever you want on them, unlike Apple which locks it down. The Fedora Silverblue installation was about 4 minutes, minimal decisions to make. So that is what I ended up with.

At first I tried version 34. This did not work immediately with the WiFi, and that had me concerned (what if I didn't hook it up right?). LOL.

So, I tried the RAWHIDE release (which will be version 35). Mostly I did this to see if the wifi worked and it did! After playing around with it, I started getting used to it. It works with wifi, the fingerprint reader (great), bluetooth, trackpad (see comments below).

Build Quality.
The Framework build quality is excellent. It's much lighter than the MBP, and I think the reason for feeling a bit more 'flexible' ie bendable is the lack of glue. I think the glue also helps the accoustics. The speakers are definately a disapointment compared to the MBP. That said, I would trade ability to swap out battery for feeling more solid. Maybe this can be improved, but to me it's not a huge issue.

Trackpad.
I am not entirely used to linux, so at first I didn't know what was a hardware or what was a software issue. The two finger scrolling works, as does three finger navigation, but scrolling on the browser sucks. Two issues, acceleration is a little wonky (no rubber band feel), and scrollbars are always visible. The claim is that wayland does not have some universal scrolling system but relies on each application to implement it. Firefox, chrome, Ungoogled Chromium all seem to act the same. Some of this might be Fedora 35 which is still being developed. That being said, I've tried recent windows machines this experience is better than that. I think the MBP does have a smoother experience here, but this is usuable for sure.

I am now starting to get used to the linux experience (gnome). I like the screen, wish it was a bit bigger, but certainly usuable.

I have yet to get a second or third monitor working on here.
I've never heard of Johnny decimals. I'm excited to try it.
Certainly you can buy pre-made environments. There are some nice ones available.

Lots of concurrent users in one place is a tough technical problem. Improbable claimed to have solved it with Spatial OS, but it only scaled fully for limited situations, like large numbers of spaceships, and it cost too much to operate. Roblox is working on it. Their goal is a stadium of 50,000 people where you can wave to your friend on the far side and they can see you and wave back. I admire their technical ambition.

High Fidelity pivoted to spatial audio. They didn't do a big, seamless world, just something where you could have your own island. Sinespace and Sansar are other examples of that niche, which I call "game level loaders". Long loading delays of mostly static worlds, mostly running locally. Sansar did a lot of that. Ready Player One prop museum, Star Wars prop museum, etc. Turned out to be a very tiny niche. Nobody in that space got concurrent user counts past 2 digits. Second Life runs 30,000 to 50,000 concurrent users. Open Simulator, nobody knows, because it's so distributed.

I think you could take the Second Life / Open Simulator architecture, which is good for maybe 40 users/region, and get it up to 200 or so by multithreading. But to get to a thousand would need a new approach.

This is a real problem, because social 3D worlds need crowds. You can build a city, but it feels empty.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of ideology, because it destroys what the site is supposed to be for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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It doesn't follow from an application or use case for blockchain technology that I should pay you millions of dollars for the service of having previously owned some Bitcoins. For one thing I could transact on some cheaper altcoin, or make my own. I still have to pay for hashing power and liquidity. Those guys are smart. But their business is competitive and in the long run profits will be thin. Bitcoin's dwindling supply is a clever trick, but in reality the supply of tokens with which to make blockchain transactions is growing all the time.

For another, payments infrastructure is a problem but not a huge problem. There is a ceiling on how much it's worth to solve. And the traditional banking system remains a competitor. Not to say you can't get paid for helping me with a payments problem, but orders of magnitude profit? For such an ancillary contribution of having the currency prior to me (or my customers)? Color me skeptical.
Yep, much of the same team, with a different strategy (more tech-focused and participation in more energy market programs). Regulation of DERs largely killed EnerNoc, now Enel X, and the like. Voltus' CEO helped repeal the order[1], ensuring DERs make parity with conventional generators.

> if you can scale and reach profitability

I don't know what I can actually reveal, but scaling is our focus right now.

[1] https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Order-745.p...
This is a big problem that needs to be solved. You business FB pages or stripe or ecommerce can get shut down anytime by an algorithm and there is not much you can do about it. No matter how good their algorithms are ,there are gonna be a lot of false negatives if the userbase is large enough.
Hey all, I just looked at your comments! As critical as these comments were, it was obvious constructive feedback was the intention, which I really appreciate. Good time to realize it's time for a massive re-engineering and redesign of this miserable failure of a project, quite frankly.
Ask HN: Do nimble companies like Tesla use TOGAF?
Yep, contact me at leo@voltus.co
Do sharks (or other sea predators) respond to sonar? Is this more likely to make you prey or would it actually help with annoying them away?
It might just be nostalgia to the first computers I used, but the shear complexity, mystery, and stability that allows this stuff to accrete in Windows fills me with a sense of Wonder, even if it is also terrible.

Unix is very less bloated, which is better, but also means there is basically no sense of Wonder. So Linux, my daily driver, I gripe about, but Windows, which I thankfully never have to use, makes my eyebrows raise and lips smile from a safe distance.
This is fantastic news.

We don't know much about Sarah, but we do know this:

She may not have given consent for this treatment; it may have been given by someone else on her behalf.[1]

Her current disease has no objective tests.[2]

Now if she wants to pursue the defence of her legal interests then oopsie! Looks like she's got a little remote-controlled electroshock device in the brainsie!

We would like to thank the NY Times for publishing this article and the commenters on Hacker News for allowing the psychiatrists to continue pursuing these activities.

Remember, it's not rape if you penetrate and deeply stimulate someone's brain directly!

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305338320_Seeking_a...
This one appears to have been created by a real people person.

https://www.anish.io/
Depending on where you are, it definitely is.
> The Biden laptop, well FoxNews & Co. have covered that to death. The right side of politics talked about it endlessly for months. They're still talking about it.

Fox is talking about it because it's one of the most important political corruption stories of our time:

- why did several top US generals collude to lie about the computer's authenticity? They said it wasn't Hunter's, yet the Biden family never denied that it was.

- how can a useless family member who's a drug addict go on tour with a sitting US VP and collect $1 billion from the CCP and Ukraine? The CCP doesn't donate money to anybody (see the BRI debt traps), so what did the CCP get in return?

- why won't the IRS investigate that $1 billion, including the 10% kickbacks that went to Joe Biden as documented on the laptop?

- why was the story suppressed by the MSM before the Presidential election?

- how old were the girls in the photos with Hunter?

- how can the CCP leverage the above against Joe Biden, now that he's President?

- who is buying Hunter Biden's "artworks" for up to $500,000 each, and who is overseeing the sales for conflicts of interest? They were supposed to be blind sales managed by the White House (lol), but Hunter showed up at the art gallery launch, so knows some of the possible buyers.

None of the above should have happened in a Western democracy without jail time.

After dealing with that, why did the Clinton Foundation receive over $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, and why did it stop when Hillary failed to win the Presidency?
https://archive.is/fFxG9
I loved TW, but stopped using it years ago since it no longer works in Firefox.
Who is actually using it? I know a lot of people that have like 100-200 € in it as an experiment and they spend 0€ .

It's 2017 all over again.
As fraudulent as being able to lend at an arbitrary multiple of your reserves.

A run the bank would bring it all down.

Just like in real life.
TOGAF?
Do you mean there haven't been major economic crisis related cryptocurrencies or we don't know what happens to cryptos if (and when) a major, general economic crisis happens in the world? I'm interested in what would happen in the latter case. Probably cryptos would crash even harder but are there cases where people would trust cryptos more than cash in crisis?
> DeFi and NFTs on Bitcoin

There are DeFi and NFT platforms on Bitcoin? I haven’t heard of those. Are you talking about Ethereum?
The exact same thing happened with Ethereum (and crypto in general) in 2017. But look how much it's rebounded after that crash. I still don't think it's a good long term investment, but it's been an amazing way for some people to make life-changing money. Sadly, I'm not one of them.
Their frontpage sucks, but that's not related to the code really :)

For a quick intro to new services, see the examples here: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.ser... (they should cover most basic needs) then read above for the details on the parameters. You stick the file in /etc/systemd/system/your_thing.service and enable/start it.
> It has honestly surprised me that a bunch of people I thought were smart...

Nobody is universally brilliant. Newton spent as much time on alchemy as he did physics. Maybe NFTs are just the modern alchemy, as they do seem to turn random items into digital gold.
Aww, what a great idea. I'd love to use a self hosted version of this for work, but there's no way I could pipe my shell output to a 3rd party site, too many juicy secrets.
Tether can temporarily keep the peg to $1 so long as a lot of people don't cash out at once. Given that they have cash reserves, they can buy back tethers that cost less than $1 themselves to keep the peg afloat. If they are legit, (lol) this would make great business sense since you are literally given a dollar and only have to pay back 99 cents. Everyone would love to be in the business of paying back loans for less than the principal amount.
Super cool!

P.s. it seems the repo with the code is private.
As far as I'm concerned, this is the current gold standard for out-of-box experience desktop Linux.

There are things I would do differently if I were building a system myself, but PopOS "Just Works", and is more polished than Win10 imho.
Wokeism is not something that can be put to good use. It's a universal recursive destruction algorithm. It's every bad attitude and self-disempowering way of looking at things anybody ever heard of, combined into a comprehensively self-defending mental neutron star. Every useful way of looking at the world will be inverted in order to produce a harmful result.

One example out of millions: if the goal is to save the lives of black people, almost any activity would be better than trying to decrease the number of black people killed by police. But that's exactly what BLM focuses on. It's so ineffective that I personally, a single person working alone might be able to save the lives of more black people per year than BLM.

> Almost every other country now has its own version of woke

Not at all. One of the main reasons I choose to live abroad is that locals simply cannot understand wokeism without mastering English and studying it. Wokeism is so insidiously evil that it's not something most people will ever imagine on their own; they have to see over and over what it does, how it operates, to gradually accept that yes, it really is real and as bad as it looks. Imagine watching the protests at Evergreen State College without being fluent in English. It would just look like angry people, not evil insanity.

> What exactly is wokeism a substitute for? If the woke didn’t believe in wokeism, what would they believe in?

It has been suggested to me that the human mind has a religion slot in it, and if it's not populated on purpose by oneself or family, it will most likely have something installed there by societal forces or bad actors. The big difference is that old religions, while flawed, have been tested for thousands of years, whereas Cultural Revolution type religions haven't. Installing a CR type religion is a recipe for turmoil (personal, societal, national)

I think I probably understand why so many young people threw out religion. I did it myself for decades. But I think the baby was thrown out with the bathwater. I think we're probably about to go through hard times that rekindle our appreciation for religion.
> But why would you lay it to UK when you could do US, hence supply sun energy at night? My estimates was about 40% loss tho.

This is a most wonderfully HN-ish of comments.

Someone mentions a mammoth infrastructure project, that's doubtless involved many hundreds of person-years of effort to realise, and with the scale and money involved everything from the business case through to the final engineering proposals would have been reviewed, vetted, considered, analysed, checked, and audited dozens of times over.

The reactive response is - why didn't they do something totally different?

FWIW, absent any research, my responses to that question included scale (it's huge, but still a much shorter distance), they could skirt the coast, so they wouldn't have to contend with a famously deep trench in the middle of the Atlantic, they'd probably been at this for some years and the USA leadership <sic> has been famously against renewables for 4 of the last 5 years.

With a few minutes research, I now know xlinks is a British start-up - so they'd probably not be interested to just be a deal broker for renewables between Morocco and the USA. A straight-line (routing around Iberia) path according to google from Morroco to Cornwall is ~ 2350km - so if they're citing a 3800km path it looks like they're staying close to the coast (as I expected). Morroco to the USA is ~6,000km (as the sardine swims) so even a direct route path would be twice the everything.

I can't find definitive answers about power cables over ocean trenches, but it looks like the (predominantly comms) cables that go that way are tiny - several cm diameter at most - and relatively lightweight. I'd guess they're a tested tech in those environments, have lots of existing redundancy, and are (relatively) inexpensive to re-run if they break.

In contrast, these 4 x power transmission cables are 150kg / metre, and no one has any long-distance experience with them. They'll be extremely expensive and time-consuming to repair or replace, and a failure of one of them will cause protracted, huge disruptions.
It's not irrelevant. Obesity is an epidemic. "One of today’s most blatantly visible – yet most neglected – public health problems" according to the WHO.

Someone above pointed out to you that the majority of COVID deaths are in specific populations -- the elderly, the obese, the diabetic, and that "maybe we should think about that", which you replied with "you can't vaccinate against obesity".

Vaccination is just one way to deal with an epidemic.

The WHO coined "globesity" to describe the escalating global epidemic "taking over many parts of the world".

"Its health consequences range from increased risk of premature death to serious chronic conditions that reduce the overall quality of life."

https://www.who.int/activities/controlling-the-global-obesit...
You don't seem very consistent here. Either "all" developers have ethical standards, meaning that there are things they will stand up and fight for, or they're people who are much more concerned for their jobs and will do whatever managers say. But you can't really argue for both at once.

You also talk as if you aren't at risk of losing your job now. People lose their jobs all the time. It's something any responsible adult has to be prepared for.

And yes, of course when I say "we used our power to fix process and organizational issues" I definitely meant the "we" part of it, not some half-assed random individual behavior. A suggestion for happy dialog: try assuming the person you're talking to has thought of the obvious implications that just occurred to you.
Pop is my new favorite. I started using it at the urging of friends, and love it. I've written a couple reviews of it on my blog, as it's been my "daily driver" for my laptop for nearly a year.

I've been a Linux user since 1995/96, and a die hard Arch user for about 10 years. So why would I want a Linux distro that's super hands-off and easy to use?

It's incredibly stable. "Set it and forget it". If I want a bleeding edge version of software I can add it. It's performant, easy, and all my hardware works. It really just "stays out of my way" so I can get work done instead of tinkering. It's nice.

I still keep an Arch install around, but when I want to fire up a laptop and get to work without a single problem, Pop has been fantastic for it. I recommend it to new users, as well as old neckbeards like me.
> A plain text file, kind of a "flat wiki", that you can search with your text editor may be the grail of note taking.

Dokuwiki stores its pages in plain text, with a syntax designed to be readable in a text editor, outside the wiki.
Floating point is deterministic, but it has limited precision, which introduces arithmetic errors depending on the specific values of the data. For example with full precision fp do: a = 2^25; b = 1; c = a+b; and you will just get c = 2^25. This is because there are 24 bits of precision but the +1 is 25 bits away from the most significant bit when representing 2^25+1 in binary, so the 1 gets lost in the fp representation.
I was thinking, nuclear-powered drone submarines armed with conventional torpedos and possibly SAMs.

Much cheaper to build and operate than crewed subs. Could be deployed in numbers against anyone wanting to invade...Taiwan, to choose a random example.
I'm not sure favorites are all that useful. Personally, I've used them to bookmark comments I'd like to go back to, and/or when someone says something really nice.

I don't favorite submissions (or at least, I haven't yet), so I dunno if that would be useful. Very sparse data eitherway.
The C++ Priv idiom: an alternative to Pimpl
Ah, I can also use my own machine.

> Enough space to store the current Lotus chain (preferably on an SSD storage medium). The chain grows at approximately 38 GiB per day. The chain can be synced from trusted state snapshots and compacted or pruned to a minimum size of around 33Gib. The full history was around 10TiB in June of 2021.

Ugh. OK I will pass then
Silicon Valley always has an answer to that problem: import the labor you want, give them the values you want them to have. If they don't like it, you can always send them back. Most quickly learn to value what they're told to value.
This is funny, I am literally in the middle of writing an ISO of this OS to a USB stick to try installing on my laptop. I've been trying to find a good linux distro for a "2-in-1" laptop that has a stylus (Surface, Yoga, etc.)... Pop!_OS came up as a strong contender in discussions/posts I could find online. Guess I'll find out shortly! :)
Maybe there is. Second Life and Open Simulator don't have much advertising. There's signage for stuff in world, and some billboards along roads. That's about it. I don't think Roblox has much.

Like in-game advertising in MMOs, it's possible, but not popular.
It gives you the tools to build an archive.org equivalent using volunteer storage though, rather
Than asking for monetary donations. All you need is a database of known content hashes and a database of volunteers and you randomly distribute content among volunteers and periodically ensure a minimum number of clients are replicating each known hash.
We're still waiting for the first application or use case.
When btc becomes overleveraged, we simply see a -25% flashcrash. They happen every couple months.
Is employment law forbidding firing people who did not show up to work? If it does not then you are trying to make a false equivalence, not I.
One key Joplin feature missing, if I haven't overlooked it - E2EE for syncing. Is there a plugin that can do this with Obsidian?
> If people had been quite literally blue, it would have been widely written about.

Some of the Hindu gods have blue skin, maybe they just had Methemoglobinemia.
And VR?
Linux is like using a constructed language. It's precise, constantly pared down, and optimized. It's effective and boring.

Windows is like English. A mishmash of different languages with no perfect rules. It's a pain in the ass to get right. Lots of fun nuggets to find amusing though.
Just like in real life.

Real life has safeguards in place to prevent a bank run from "bringing it all down".

Crypto has no safeguards.
Interesting, that is very good to know. I have yet to try external monitors (will be plugged in tomorrow morning for work), but have been waiting on switching to Wayland to see if it’s necessary or not.

Great to hear about the 8 hour duration as well, I’m absolutely loving this new toy!
What surprises me is the constant negative drum beat against Bitcoin on Hackernews. Mostly based on speculation.
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