Ivan @crescentro.se · 30/09/2026absolutely in awe how carryable that thing was though, great purchase 011
Ivan @crescentro.se · 30/09/2026bough an AYN Thor for a trip and wtf you can play Steam games on Android??? even switch games work well! fuck kinda dark magic is this? 121
Ivan @crescentro.se · 27/09/2026coding is solved and no one writes code anymore and there are no bugs because agents solve them all, yet in the year of our lord 2026 i still cannot connect an Android device to an iOS device with a cable and transfer files in either direction 011
Ivan @crescentro.se · 26/09/2026compose is not really meant for deployments, they kinda pivoted to dev environments :( 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 17/09/2026adding system specs to steam reviews was a 300 IQ move from valve because you really get to see people with 2018 GPUs complaining about "lazy devs not optimizing their game" and internalize these people's votes count the same as yours 130
Ivan @crescentro.se · 16/09/2026it's a complex topic i thought about this quite a lot recently so i could be correlating things wrongly. but i really think the obsession with trying to serve up reheated "familiar" experiences set the entire Linux desktop back by a decade. 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 16/09/2026regarding WMs, even if you select for nerds (Arch users), you can see the recent explosion in hyprland is the most popular tiling WMs ever were. and if even Arch users were majority DE users, I don't think tiling WMs were ever a major factor (probably due to config complexity) 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 16/09/2026that was my first instinct too! but gnome2 was following the windows UX, they pivoted with gnome3 which was "we have OS X at home", and they continued to chase iOS to try and win over nonexistent mobile users. and look i respect it, i like gnome, it's a nice system, but it's still a rat race. 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 15/09/2026somehow, throughout all this, a unit that does actively use the NFS mount stays running!! and it properly automounts if the unit requests it!! but systemd magic didn't infer a dependency so it's fine! at least log a message saying "unit was deactivated because it requires a unit that went away"!!!! 120
Ivan @crescentro.se · 15/09/2026why does my systemd unit randomly terminate? process opens a file on a NFS mount during ExecStartPre ⤷ systemd infers a dependency ⤷ the mount has `automount` and `idle-timeout` ⤷ after some time the mount times out ∴ systemd HELPFULLY deactivates the service WITHOUT an explanation 220
Ivan @crescentro.se · 15/09/2026people wonder why David HH got morbillions for his dotfiles. Yeah technocratic reactionaries searching for a tax writeoff is probably a reason. But it's also likely the first time many people were exposed to the experience of a computer that goes beyond "Windows 7 with GNU coreutils" 0130
Ivan @crescentro.se · 15/09/2026this is something that annoys me greatly about the Linux desktop: vast decades of work sunk into designing clones of proprietary experiences from ages past, clinging to the notion that everything beyond Word 2003, the Start Menu and the App Store is not understandable to the mythical Average User 2260
Ivan @crescentro.se · 12/09/2026she will have a different kit girl it'll be fine. it's like the 10th sombra rework anyway, give it a few years and she'll be a tank 180
Ivan @crescentro.se · 09/09/2026this thread is making me feel like i am insane so i'm gonna go play video games, thank you for your time and sorry for the confusion 100
Ivan @crescentro.se · 09/09/2026iirc 45% of ipad owners have a pro, 30% have the base model and the rest are split between air and mini. and i don't see someone buying a $400 ipad and a $800 iphone splurging another $800 on the duo. and those who buy the pro likely have a reason to 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 09/09/2026does it have nanotexture? i didn't see it but maybe i missed it it's the same size as their least popular ipad model by far. multitasking on ipads is more capable i don't see it as apple cannibalizing the sales of anything but perhaps the mini, but we'll see i guess 100
Ivan @crescentro.se · 09/09/2026i use my ipad a lot and i wouldn't really consider the duo to be a replacement for it. no pencil pro support, smaller screen, can't put a matte screen cover/nanotexture, limited multitasking, no kb folio... it has a lot of catching up to do 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 07/09/2026The state of European cloud providers in 2026. crescentro.se/posts/euro-c...crescentro.seThe state of European cloud providers in 2026Old man yells at cloud. The cloud yells back. 083
Ivan @crescentro.se · 07/09/2026discord could release its entire code under AGPL3.0 tomorrow and fuckall would change because everyone would still use the same centralized platform owned by one company because that's where all their friends are. 170
Ivan @crescentro.se · 04/09/2026i am genuinely so confused, how do you source a brand new in box oven that's not been sold for EIGHT years 010
Ivan @crescentro.se · 04/09/2026landlord installed a new ikea oven, the sticker is in cyrillic and the oven has not been on market since 2018 130
Ivan @crescentro.se · 30/08/2026check out new html featuers as well! you can do autocomplete, collapsible elements, dialog boxes etc. without writing a single line of javascript which is awesome 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 29/08/2026"do the Antwerp hack and then fly to JFK from AMS via CDG for 120XP rather than direct from AMS to JFK which only gives you 60XP" we should send airline loyalty program managers to do an internship at blizzard so they learn about paid battle pass tier skips and stop doing this shit 120
Ivan @crescentro.se · 29/08/2026like at that point clearly the airline should just let you pay them a yearly fee for the status and be done with it? wouldn't that be more efficient and less damaging for literally everyone? 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 29/08/2026recently got algorithmed into people who pointsmaxx on airlines and i'm impressed by the exploits they find, but also slightly horrified that there are genuinely people who book short haul connecting business class flights just to get their status up 120
Ivan @crescentro.se · 28/08/2026it never hurts to try! you can always go back if you dislike it. zed also has pretty good vim/helix emulation so that helps as well 010
Ivan @crescentro.se · 28/08/2026i spent countless hours configuring (n)vim for a decade, just to end up using helix and zed with minimal configs. it's fine guys, let it go. there are better ways to spend your time than to fix your LSP setup every weekend. 2102
Ivan @crescentro.se · 22/08/2026yes i've been running 16gb so far and to be fair i haven't noticed many issues yes i think 32gb is more than sufficient and if you need more than 64 you're probably larping #truthnuke 000
Ivan @crescentro.se · 22/08/2026i can finally run all 32GBs of RAM i bought over a year ago in anticipation of The Current Situation and all it took was getting a 7mm taller heatsink for my comically overpowered 9900x 100
Ivan @crescentro.se · 20/08/2026wait but how did you get zen's sidebar to be so ✨ 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎 ✨ and glossy? 100
Ivan @crescentro.se · 20/08/2026~18.5 on an iPad, though that was so much easier it should probably not count 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 12/08/2026give up. uninstall app. install it again. refuse to log in. purchase day ticket as guest. it works. masterful work as always kojima 030
Ivan @crescentro.se · 12/08/2026no biggie, real EU-heads like me have digital IDs from several countries. find croatia, log in. they tell me it requires the use of a card reader in the year of our lord 2026. ok.jpg. open HSL website on pc to complete auth there. can't find auth. look around more. auth only possible in app. 3/ 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 12/08/2026scroll down to look for your country's ID portal. click digid. discover that the HSL app is running the in-appbrowser in some cursed sandbox so the govt auth app on your phone is not recognized. try auth with username/pass. this also fails, because fuck you. 2/ 110
Ivan @crescentro.se · 12/08/2026problem: you want to use public transport in helsinki 2025 solution: you download an app and purchase a day ticket. 2026 solution: log in. decline always on location tracking. decline it again. you can only buy a day ticket if you "strongly authenticate". you need to log in with your govt ID. 1/ 131
