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vhci-hcd for USB has been so useful for usb development. Especially for testing usb driver code in CI.

https://danielc.dev

I live in the USA and my ISP doesn't support ipv6

I've spent the past 8 years going back and forth between Linux and Windows. When I switched back to Linux last year I was shocked how well steam/proton/wine worked compared to a fe…

There's a loneliness epidemic in our generation. I'm 20 and share the same situation. I've heard scattered bits of advice from older people: - travel as much as you possibly can - …

IMO Zulip is better than matrix in every way. But I haven't used matrix in a few years now.

Windows market share drops below 90% (On steam) The great recession of 2026/2027 (AI bubble pop) Sam Altman arrested OpenAI sold or split up in some way Bitcoin drops under $50k Uk…

Leaks disproved this in 2023. HLX is a single player non-vr PC game.

IMO gamescope is the #1 most underrated project in the Linux gaming world

I can't even imagine doing development in Windows without WSL anymore. I think Microsoft even requires it for some of their stuff.

AI for daily life stuff. I don't want AI to summarize anything for me, write my emails, or talk to me.

Visual Studio Code. I don't have a rational explanation but I feel like there's something deeply immoral about writing assembly in a text editor running inside a web browser.

I can't stand people who say that all code comments are bad.

Rockchip does the same thing with some of their closed source binaries

Bad advice. Counterpoint: Wine works really well (especially for old applications) and there's nothing wrong with using it. If people restrict themselves to arbitrary rules then ma…

Not related to UI translation but I've been using Sumatra PDF on Linux through wine and it's worked really well. Using it to read and search through 50k page TRMs and it's very fas…

If you don't want C2PA metadata in your images, there are also tools to remove it, such as https://noc2pa.com/

Prayers for Charlie and his family, violence against people you disagree with is never the answer

This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.

The real answer: it's more fun this way.

Why do pixel device trees have to be updated through different Android versions? If so the differences would be minor, right?

Some of the compilers they use (msvc) are not open source and are not allowed to run in wasm. And porting entire compiler toolchains to wasm would be a gargantuan task.