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nocoffei.com
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nocoffei.com is a personal blog at nocoffei.com about hardware and programming. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “My Accessibility Stack and the Future on Wayland”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog by a KDE and Linux accessibility developer about the move to Wayland and its effect on X11 users, including accessibility software. It also covers hardware hacks such as Thunderbolt over eGPU links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- My Accessibility Stack and the Future on Wayland5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-05-31
- AI on the Nintendo Switch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
What Hacker News says?
The article buries the lede halfway to the earth’s mantle so here it is: > The Titan Ridge card creates a Thunderbolt 3 link given a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. An eGPU connector provides a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface given a Thunderbolt 3 link. Could it be possible to drive one off the other in a demented daisy-chain? Could I create a Thunderbolt-over-Thunderbolt connection? This diagram explains the setup: https://nocoffei.c…
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on “Meta-Thunderbolt”Submitted Meta-Thunderbolt as a story · 25 points
HN discussionA KDE developer commented: https://nocoffei.com/?p=451#comment-736 Quote: >As a community, gather together, and successfully implement the entire API surface needed for Talon on GNOME, KDE, and wlroots, Can you help find where we can work out this list? An all or nothing probably isn’t going to work, but we can chip away at this. There are definitely people who want to help.
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on “Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release”Submitted AI on the Nintendo Switch as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> the things that really need X are things you shouldn't do anyway. I had just finished reading the link in the first post and, frankly, I'm grateful for.the insight it gives. I think we all should have more perspective than what we have around things that we take for granted. Wayland itself would be better if its own devs had done the same. https://nocoffei.com/?p=451
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on “Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release”Submitted My Accessibility Stack and the Future on Wayland as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat is good to hear. But the third post down on acidiclight's mastodon page is a link to another user's blog post: >As a KWin developer and KDE's accessibility engineer... > https://nocoffei.com/?p=451 >This is a problem. We need to solve it. Fast. And this is a quote from the page intro, > As the Linux Desktop transitions to a Wayland-only future, I will be locked out of my computer, as the accessibility software…
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on “Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release”Submitted Running LLMs on the Nintendo Switch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI read this yesterday wanted to raise awareness for it - https://nocoffei.com/?p=451 It describes the regression in accessibility software for Linux from x11 to Wayland. Unfortunately, judging by the pace of protocols being accepted, I think we're years out from having a solution. The most notable thing not working is Talon, which is a voice input system that lets you insert speech to text, manipulate windows, call…
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on “Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release”Submitted RustDesk with Tailscale on Arch Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe problem is that Wayland just isn't a compelling alternative for many people, so they don't move. For me, I see no benefit because I got used to avoiding HiDPI and don't have a mixed-DPI workspace. For some bizarre reason they made each compositor implement input-handling separately, so for example artists might have to switch compositor just to use their tablet of choice. And worse yet, some people with input ac…
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on “Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC”Submitted Gacube Emeleter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Itanic, part 1: running a dead architecture on modern hardware as a story · 1 points
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