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Spunkie··on Rivian's TM-B electric bike
My town is on the side of a volcano, a 30% grade is like the average hill here.

That combines with the heavy weight of an ebike, another 50lb+ of cargo in the saddlebags, plus my exceptionally fat ass means I burn through a pair of front brake pads about once a month if I'm running errands most days.

Spunkie··on Rivian's TM-B electric bike
I find regen exciting for it's ability to slow down my brake pads getting shredded every month. The fact that I get some energy back from it is mostly a bonus.
Spunkie··on Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset
I feel like Steam is the only legitimate option of the 4, the rest are walled gardens.

I would have been very excited about this Galaxy XR development a year ago but today I don't care to even scroll down the page. Google's recent Android bullshit(walled garden, killing roms) makes this a non-starter.

In fact I wonder if Android/Galaxy XR is secretly responsible for these horrible changes to stock android. No chance of a XR/real life adblocker ever becoming a thing if you can't install your own software and/or the largest advertiser in the world needs to OK it's existence.

Spunkie··on test-ipv6.com will stay online
Ah yeah, I misread/misunderstood. I though they were saying they are transitioning INTO an RIR, as in becoming an RIR themselves.
Spunkie··on test-ipv6.com will stay online

    > The project is now transitioning to an RIR (Regional Internet Registry)
RIR as in the orgs responsible for managing IP blocks? Huh?

What does that actually mean in the context of a website like this?

Spunkie··on KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
If I look back at it, GNOME is likely responsible for me abandoning all of my attempts to transition to linux when I was younger. I had no idea KDE or alt desktop environments even existed back then and even now distros don't make it easy to discover/experiment with them. It's to the point I have some internal bias against trusting any distro that uses GNOME as the default.

I hope in the future KDE overtakes GNOME to become the "standard linux" experience.

Spunkie··on 'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app
Ya no, not gonna work. Even I, a dyed in the wool pirate at heart, pays for Spotify. They are simply too convenient, too functional, too well priced.

Like 99.98% of the music I've ever looked up is there, even pirate sites don't have that much coverage.

Spunkie··on Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe
In general the Tahoe update has been awful for all my end users that decided to update.

It's not just electron apps that are the issue btw, just yesterday we ran into an issue with Zoom.

It was breaking prompts/popups and by extension the system settings, the Mac app store, iTouch, and a ton of other random stuff was broken in silent and inconsistent ways.

Also all my 8gb users are noticing significantly higher memory usage compared to their previous macOS versions.

Spunkie··on Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026
Ok, but what are you talking about?

The only android on Windows I know about was the subsystem but that was shackled to the Amazon app store and was killed off when Amazon finally gave up on their app store.

Spunkie··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
The fact that people continue to willingly subject themselves to the internet without using an adblocker is insane to me.
Spunkie··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

    > Player retention can often suffer over the long-term as such communities establish boundaries and rules, eventually orienting around a small clique of individuals, increasing the friction for integrating new members into the community.
This sentence applied to community moderated servers and server browsers in general is just FUD. These communites are often the exact opposite and take on the roll of getting new players up to speed and properly integrated into the existing community, they absolutely increase player retention.

Also, I find it really ironic that you can come to this conclusion and then talk about pandering to the "competitive" crowd in the same response. Pandering to the try hards has done more damage to the fun/community aspects of gaming than hackers ever could.

Spunkie··on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines

    > Trusting the client is necessary, because even a 10ms ping means that you're a frame behind, and nobody will play that.
Your entire argument against this being a possibility falls apart when you realize the simple fact that full 100% server side verification does not actually need to happen in real time, only close to real time.

Does it really matter that a server takes 10 minutes to realize something was invalid if the cheater gets caught and banned in the end? You can easily load the bulk of this processing to inbetween ingame rounds when they server is already not processing real time events or offload it to another server if it's still too intensive.

Spunkie··on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines
I mean no... there is always a large portion of players that I would never want to play with in any meaningful way, aka racists, screechers, try hards, toxic, etc.

I'm perfectly content of feed those people to the bear so me and my friends can continue to have a fun and mostly hacker free experience.

Spunkie··on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines
I mean no, good players know how and care to get into populated and well moderated servers and absolutely will find the appeals process and get through it. I speak from experience... I funded, ran, and moderated private/community/dedicated servers across many games.

Alternatively people adding servers to "their shit list" are the exact type of players server admins don't want on their servers anyways. Those morons can go play on the unmodderated corporate servers with all the hackers and leave the rest of us in peace.

Spunkie··on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines

    > However, the majority of games that have invasive anti-cheat requirements cannot simply remove the requirement, pass off the company's (usually paid!) moderation duties to a bunch of volunteers, and call it a day.
Bull, they 100% absolutely can do that and their communities would be better off.

   > Yeah, if you could just ban cheaters forever, all would be well!
Again the only reason you think this is even necessary is because of giant corporate servers where players have very little to no control over who they play with.

I used to fund, run, and moderate private/community server across many many games. I can tell you from experience, being able to ban someone for even just 5-10 minutes is more than enough to send 99.5% of hackers fleeing to another unmodderated server, aka leaving your server, players, and friends alone to have hacker free fun.

Spunkie··on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines

    The 60 bucks license doesn't matter. You just hop to another server.
That's the entire point and why community moderation servers work. Why would a hacker keep coming back to a well moderate private server where they only get 5-10 minutes of play time before their account/license get banned when they can instead go to another unmoderated server and not worry about it?
Spunkie··on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines
As someone that was there at the time and also funded and ran many servers myself I can attest that this is and will always be the only real solution to hackers.

But also judging from the other responses you got, the younger gaming community at large have let their brains rot out of their ears and have been thoroughly brainwashed that this can't possibly be a solution.

Spunkie··on I don't read your email threads
It reads as straight up intentional ragebait to me.

Especially when they say in the middle they already don't read email threads and use AI to summarize. But they still place a call to action at the end to not send email threads. Why would they want less context to feed their AI?

If mods on high granted the power I would certainly downvote this submission.

Spunkie··on KDE Linux
I've been a big fan of KDE these past few years so super excited to see this develop further.

    > Vendor-specific VPNs that require custom out-of-tree kernel modules that cannot be redistributed with the kernel due to license incompatibility
God I hope this isn't another immutable os that mullvad won't work on. The lack of mullvad vpn on my steamdeck is a constant pain in my side.

Other noticeable hiccups right now are giant updates aka no delta updates, no secure boot, no swap space.

    > Doesn't break, or at least easy to recover... KDE Linux leans on Systemd for a great deal of functionality. 
    > Updates are atomic and A/B image-based, with automatic Btrfs snapshots for the last 5 OS images...
I've been wanting to get automatic snapshot restore/boot shortcuts through the systemd-boot menu ever since I lost the feature when I switched from GRUB! Super excited to hear someone finally got it working with btrfs and systemd-boot.

Can anyone point me to any hints/resources on how I can get this added to my current arch+kde+btrfs+systemd-boot

Spunkie··on Pixel 6a gets a mandatory Android update next week with battery reduction
Alternatively I went with:

> "enter your sn in this form to see if you qualify"

> "Your pixel 4a does not qualify"

But why? Does it mean my battery is unaffected or their lawyers managed to weasel out of all the phones qualifying somehow?

Who knows? Well google certainly knows, but they ain't telling me.

Spunkie··on Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
> notorious for being basically un-cleanable

I don't really think anyone other than OCD/germaphobes thinks about toilet paper rolls in that way and it's certainly not "notorious". I'm pretty sure the general sentiment is that it's a perfectly benign material, often given to kids to play and craft with.

The same thing happened with that episode of mythbusters about the toilet ploom from flushing. A bunch of OCD/germaphobes lost their minds and have not stopped thinking about it since. Meanwhile the rest of society gave a collective shrug and couldn't even be bothered to move their toothbrush brush to another room or close the toilet lid while flushing.

Spunkie··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
With USB-C you don't actually have to pay the apple tax on cords or chargers, so in no way should it "cost a fortune".
Spunkie··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
You absolutely can do modern gaming on it. I literally have 2 friends in our gaming group that are still rocking 970 in their desktops.

They have had to replace the fans on the graphics card a few times and a repaste but other than that they are chugging away.

Also solid lol on "frame generation". Marketing fluff/features like that only exists but because they have run out of real generational performance gains to sell cards with.

Spunkie··on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
Still no headphone jack makes this a nonstarter, lame.
Spunkie··on Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly
It seems cool but haven't been able to get it working. I'm downloading terraria assets with the from steam option but its at only 5% after an hour.
Spunkie··on How my ADHD makes handling relationships difficult
I believe the initial not quickly replying is also in itself a type of coping mechanism to try to hang on to any possibility of having productive days.

I know if I "just replied quickly" to all of my personal text in a day I would almost never get any work done, and my circle of friends/family isn't even particularly large.

But yeah... once the initial chance to reply passes it quickly turns into anxiety/dread/avoidance. ADHD is a tough one to rangle, especially unmedicated.

Spunkie··on Minimum Viable Blog
> Also, if all these were so much concern, I doubt so much of the web would run on Wordpress.

I used to run a company that all we did was wordpress, joomla, and drupal maintenance, performance optimization, and hack recovery. It very much was and mostly continues to be that bad.

> Risk of breakage on update is a thing everywhere, not just Wordpress.

Ya the issue with server side rendering is that your live environment is made of up dozens to hundreds of difference software stacked on top of each other and they all pretty much need to work perfectly to actually work and or not be vulnerable. And if you use something standard like cpanel to manage your environment, add another 1000 layers of complexity to the stack.

And lets not even go into all the work it takes to have that environment have decent performance and run on reasonably priced hardware.

Where as my concerns for my SSG live environments basically amounts to, is the host publicly accessible? To be vulnerable you would need to do something very stupid like set file permissions to 777 or something.

Spunkie··on Minimum Viable Blog
I don't think I could ever go back to SSR like WordPress. My only real concern with SSG is if the build will work, and even when it doesn't it's never an emergency.

Whereas the concerns for something like WordPress is

1. Has our website been hacked and publicly defaced?

2. Has our website been silently hacked and is being used to secretly distributing malware or worse, aka the FBI randomly shows up at your business.

3. Will updating one random plugin nuke your entire live site, resulting in multiple sleepless nights? Will not updating it cause your site to get hacked also resulting in sleepless nights?

4. Or better yet something in your underlying environment changes and nukes your site, usually in the middle of a weekend out with your family, and your hosting provider pinky swears they didn't change anything. So you spend your whole weekend investigating just to find out your provider did change something, usually something stupid too.

5. Considering all the above your off-site backup solution is vital so better keep that maintained and thoroughly tested as well.

6. Plus a thousand other reasons to waste time, worry, and lose sleep.

Spunkie··on Firefox tab groups are here
I think it was just stubbornness, pure and simple.

Firefox actually had a feature like tab groups a long time ago. It was removed for "low usage" and ever since then they have been resisting reimplementing it.

Anyways it still needs improvement but I am very happy to see this finally land. At work we have been moving everyone off of chrome after the manifest v3 shenanigans and the lack of tabs groups was a long standing sticking point for some users.

Spunkie··on OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours
I'm partial to running Code - OSS and patching it with the aur/code-features and aur/code-marketplace.
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