Ryan Collins

I lost one follower they need to try harder there’s no way they’re all real

inventing religion from first principles

Philosophy is a personal responsibility

The new Dell XPS Linux battery test and HOLY COW, the battery life is EXCELLENT. A little background: Intel + dell + omarchy team worked together to get everything working perfectly for the new XPS. I am honestly shocked that I am having a "mac" experience with linux as far as battery life goes. Here is my test timeline: Saturday: 99% - 10:07am computer fully charged and on, walking to gate, suspend mode in backpack 99% - 11:00am - compiling rust, running agents, MiMo running on youtube, writing this tweet 80% - 2:00pm - forced to shutdown due landing the plane :( No more work, almost done setting up my machine! Very excited. Vim is there and so is tmux and zsh, but not my wall paper :( And i want to try Aether 75% - 2:30 - 3pm - i watched the new moist critical videos on the guy who threaten to kill people via ring doorbell. woah that was weird. Sunday: 5PM 75% -> 62% - Sat in suspend mode in my back pack for ~14 hours. I wanted to see where I was at, will open back up in another ~14 hours. Monday: 7AM 55% -> 5% - Monday: 3 hours of work. Agents are coding, neovim motions flying, youtube playing MiMo. Even took a 40 minute discord team video call and the microphone worked FIRST TRY?? Did... Linux just get a computer where you don't have to worry about battery life? It honestly felt better than my way back in the day Mac Air experiences. ---- Things I did not like: * when the computer wakes up from suspend, its "chunky" for about ~30 seconds. * the touch pad is annoying. the right click seems like its ~95% of the touch pad and i have a bit of a trouble getting left click regularly. The new Dell is actually good. I am shocked right now. Omarchy also took 3 minutes to install and I was up and running in 5. The primary reason why I am using omarchy is because 2 reasons: 1. everyone on my team is using it, makes certain aspects of life easier when everyone is on the *almost* same distro 2. intel + dell are working with each other and omarchy has a seat at the table to make things happen. this means i am using the super latest hardware with it perfectly integrated. pretty awesome. Thanks Dell for sending me the computer for Omacon! I am genuinely stoked for the computer.

I’m a big fan of AI. Ancient intelligence.

My dog after eating my philosophy book

@esha_hq A World Without Time, Palle Yourgrau

what’s the best thing you’ve read in the last yr? updating my reading list

Not that it didn’t change, but it got actively worse

Most OS break over time. NixOS doesn’t. • nothing is overwritten • upgrades are atomic • rollback anytime • system = reproducible • packages are isolated (no conflicts) • dependencies are fully declared Plus: • dev environments in one file • run tools without installing them • identical setup across machines • rebuild systems from scratch in minutes If it works once… it works everywhere. Even governments are noticing. France is already experimenting with NixOS-based systems to move beyond Windows.

Laptops on microslop lost the battle before they were unlocked

chuds, if you're designing something and it has an injection molded case you can use "laser direct structuring" to LITERALLY embed the antenna elements into the case. for basically free, and possibly larger than could be achieved on your PCB. better performance. it's nuts.

It’d be a real shame if this went super viral. Share it and share it often.

I’m a parent. I parent my kids. I never let my kids use social media until they were older - it’s not hard if you do your job. But that’s another conversation because this is not the government protecting your kids. This is the government wanting….. 1) YOU to show your ID before you access the internet 2) The kids to be kept in the dark about real events in the world

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I received this email today... Like clockwork, the world is descending into total mass surveillance. One country after another. Sadly my country is not safe. But we are fighting to make Switzerland a beacon of digital privacy and freedom.

No to Age Verification FOREVER WORLDWIDE No to Age Based Social Media Bans FOREVER WORLDWIDE No to Digital ID FOREVER WORLDWIDE No to CBDC FOREVER WORLDWIDE Yes to the right to use Cash FOREVER WORLDWIDE Yes to the right to Online Anonymity FOREVER WORLDWIDE PASS THIS ON !!

Reject both, embrace the Wizard’s Abode

@GloriousEggroll If it‘s panther lake battery life and a touchscreen with high memory options I would be in

You're gonna wanna watch this one!

@_prestwich @josephdelong @gakonst just put that in your claude.md and tell it to always use that for cleanup

@josephdelong @gakonst haven't tested yet but git() { if [[ $@ == "push" ]]; then command git push -f elif [[ $@ == "commit" ]] command git reset $(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD) --soft command git add . command git commit -m "initial commit" else command git "$@" fi }

I’ll resolve all of my technical debt by making a massive blob of a commit labeled “cleanup”

Whoever is advising @EFF on social strategy should be fired. Their reach on their X account is 13.3x larger than on their Instagram account—and on 228x larger than their TikTok account. If they want their foundation to have an impact on the global conversation, the only place is on X.