Very impressive work, WireGuard is a phenomenal piece of software, congrats on getting to 1.0

I can see Raymond Chen’s eye twitching at some of those (clever and necessary!) undocumented workarounds though :D

Windows is just a different world I guess

People forget that macOS and even Windows (well, pre-11) excel at swapping. There are all sorts of hacks and tricks they do to make sure the system remains responsive when under severe memory pressure.

This compared to Linux, where desktop environments seem to get noticeably bogged down and stressed out when swapping (the cursor starts stuttering and the shell becomes unresponsive).

Although even KDE does OK on 4gb of RAM in 2026 as long as you only have one instance of Chromium loaded.

I feel like a lot of this is that Macs come built in with very fast SSDs (although App Nap, when implemented by apps, is one of the best low-RAM features to ever exist)

It's definitely the software. My M1 Pro macbook running Fedora behaves very poorly under memory pressure.

Win 11 is actually way better at memory management than Windows 10. It's just more bloated.

That's only true for M Macs. Intel Macs with 8 GB of RAM perform pretty poorly.

My Intel Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM has always seemed fine on the rare occasions I use it.

Other states that do this well don't start counting mail in ballots until after polls closed. They know if someone voted in person, so their mail in ballot is rejected before being opened and verified.

I ought to complain about YouTube more often, #47 with an average of 1200 points per post

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

Unfortunately I don't have pictures from before this change, but you used to get 5-6 videos I believe. Now you get two (and maybe one is an ad).

The point is that I made a joke projection in my last post in April that by next May there would be only one video on the homepage, because obviously that would be ridiculous, right? Then I turned on my TV and it happened.

See the previous blog post: https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses....

On my Apple TV I get 2.5 thumbnails per row and 2 rows. I honestly think that's appropriate for a TV interface and I basically like the UI. I find YouTube's Apple TV app to be the least clunky of all the carousel-of-videos apps that I use.

Satire is dead

1070 TI works perfect on Arch for the past ~6 months with latest drivers (better than Debian stable!). This card is old enough that only the closed source drivers are supported, but it seems to work fine.

Tangentially related: once I bought a no name Amazon HDMI switch that would cause FM interference but only when the screen was mostly white: https://youtu.be/n2DPLEvwO-k

Another reason to use dark mode I guess

What's interesting is that HDMI is supposed to have a scrambling system that prevents any repeating pattern from causing EMI. I wonder if there was an unshielded, unscrambled raw data path somewhere in the switch.

In which the Gmail team lampoons the agentic AI future 16 years in advance.

Clearly you’d never want a computer reading and responding to your emails unsupervised - right?