pixx

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I don't know who I am, and neither do you.

Personal site (WIP): https://pixelhero.dev

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2026-03-22 20:01:48 UTC

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That it is :3
I probably have a wifi card for it somewhere (I've a few of the mobile ones from old dead laptops) but generally the power consumption isn't worth it for me with how low battery life already is
Better to plug in to ethernet when needed and be more focused the rest of the time :)

2026-03-22 19:03:34 UTC

I wonder how many other times a diesel engine has been used to charge sodium cells?
Mnt reform
...On a stick^W train!
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2026-03-18 18:37:48 UTC

[@cinap_lenrek](https://hj.9fs.net/cinap_lenrek ) having trouble finding a minimal repro of the linker bug :/
I've got one that works on fossil but that's not sufficient. I'll dig into it later. I've definitely run into it on smaller project multiple times, I'm sure I'll find it again

2026-03-18 00:30:59 UTC

Fossil actually has some of the most useful comments I've seen in code.
Paraphrasing but
/* here's a weird thing were doing
Here's why
Here's the assumptions that other code is doing
Here's how we're satisfying them temporarily
Here's why this approach is wrong, we should revisit this even though it technically works*/
These comments are actually saving me time in reading and understanding the code. That's pretty rare for code comments

2026-03-17 20:03:00 UTC

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There's a few nice reds and blues and the very occasional other color but it's so awful now in general
@npub1lym…fqe3

2025-01-04 22:38:13 UTC

"25 cat 6 headers is enough forever"
> cables not working at all
> cable limited to 100mbps
Okay, now that I know what I'm doing after having wasted like 15 of them, the 10 remaining are a lifetime supply 😅

2024-12-13 04:00:13 UTC

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Micro Center is a good option, buuuuut that's a two hour bus / 20 hour train at the moment (annnnd the FRA has direct train service as "acknowledged request" from four years ago, which is a polite way of saying "hahahahaha no.")
(which isn't unreasonable, they only have so much resources and they're trying to stretch them as far as they can. Objectively, using them in more important places now is the smarter decision; this way they _MIGHT_ manage to have enough to do this in, I dunno, 20 years?)
but yeah, that's... very much a no, unfortunately :(

2024-12-02 11:54:58 UTC

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yeaaaaah realizing that the sensors were _part of the battery_, not the laptop, is what made me go from "sensors are useful but inaccurate" to "meh, what's even the point" on a lot of machines.
With third party batteries, it's just noise :(

2024-12-01 00:22:12 UTC

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(it's like, uh, one sec to use normal units uhhhhh 15 degrees in my apartment right now)

2024-12-01 00:21:10 UTC

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What are you, the fashion police? 😂

2024-12-01 00:17:41 UTC

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Right but I don't think I want to be wearing three pairs of sweatpants :(

2024-12-01 00:16:10 UTC

What's a hoodie but, like, for the legs?

2024-10-15 03:02:30 UTC

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GAH JEALOUS

2024-10-02 20:58:28 UTC

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...
% echo $sysname
?
(i'm being ridiculous. ignore me.)

2024-09-02 03:15:18 UTC

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Not really. A lot of it is with fundamental design decisions, and a love for abstractions that would make a C++ programmer blush.

2024-09-02 03:12:41 UTC

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It's not. From conversations I've had with others, I'm not alone in finding the Linux code to be worse than useless as a reference.

2024-09-02 01:01:59 UTC

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useful context: in my experience, and that of some other plan9 folks I've talked to, the BSD code can be a useful reference for e.g. driver development, Linux code is not

2024-09-02 01:01:14 UTC

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Oh no no no that's not the entire issue
a lot of it just bad design, regardless of when it was made

2024-09-02 00:59:16 UTC

(disclaimer: this is mostly jokes)
As a C programmer who likes C and uses it deliberately for their own projects all the time, the Linux codebase is _so terrible_ that my normal distaste for the "Rewrite it in Rust" folks is overwhelmed by the desire for a Linux-compatible replacement in _any_ language.
Hell, I'd go for a Linux rewrite _in C_ if it existed
*OpenBSD: exists*
oh yeah

2024-08-20 18:56:59 UTC

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(actually I kinda doubt OpenNIC has a robust abuse handling system, either.)

2024-08-20 18:56:08 UTC

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That is... certainly not ideal.
When their competitors are Google and Cloudflare, though, "not preventing bad things" might still be the least bad option :(
Maybe I just pivot into promoting OpenNIC and democratic DNS :/
(before I found out that they're corrupt in a different way, maybe :( )

2024-08-20 18:49:22 UTC

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Relatedly, if anyone knows any reason _not_ to use porkbun, I'm currently leaning towards it :P