fyi the announcement is very obviously ai-written. It’s off-putting.
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
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Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
#32fyi the announcement is very obviously ai-written. It’s off-putting.
Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post. As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through grammar polishing multiple times over the years. And i am genuinely curious now what to avoid to not sound like an LLM if you could dig out one or two examples.
Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
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What bad reputation?
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#34Damn, not even LLM copy. Frodo lives.
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#36Damn, not even LLM copy. Frodo lives.
Perfect! Our Ring is libhybris, Sauron is the binary blob drivers the manufacturers cursed us with, and we're still hobbling toward mainline Mordor one old kernel backport at a time. One does not simply upstream a smartwatch driver.
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#37Wild to see such fragmentation in such a niche space. It's an aftermarket Linux flash for smartwatches, and there are companion apps for SailfishOS and Ubuntu Touch, which are extremely niche flavors of the already very niche mobile Linux.
I am running HarmonyOS on my watch (moved from Apple Watch to Huawei GT-6 41mm) now. Turns out it doesn't matter as third party apps on watches generally suck anyway (low functionality, mostly just companions to iOS/Android app, bad/not many options for UI).
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What bad reputation?
The one thing Qt is the most attacked for is the licensing. I disagree with this sentiment, it is pretty straightforward to me.
There are other fair criticism of Qt, more specifically about Qt Quick/QML: the need for 2-3 languages (C++/QML/JavaScript), using C++, not using modern C++, not enough out-of-the-box widgets compared to Qt Widgets, and the clusterfuck that is layouts in QML.
Out of all, the only real one for me is layouts. They are painful to deal with. I never had a problem with Qt Widgets layouts though.
Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
#39This looks cool!! I have an Apple Watch that I’ve been perfectly satisfied with, but it strikes me that AsteroidOS might allow me to explore other unique smart devices relatively cheaply, by buying used/non-supported stuff and trying it out. Are there any in particular that you’d recommend to a newbie? Hopefully something that is both eBay-able[1] and fun?
[1] of course open to other sources as well
Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
#40fyi the announcement is very obviously ai-written. It’s off-putting.
What is off-putting ia this kind of comments everywhere you go.
This is the new "this has clearly been photoshoped" meme we used to see on every forum thread 2 decades ago and it is annoying as hell.