mnl mnl mnl mnl mnlMar 7

I was talking about building an OS around power consumption minimization once #LLMs #llm #vibecoding make it possible to basically one-arm this stuff as a solo dev.

It's time. Linux as kernel still, but everything else is going to be based around 2 things:

- maximize responsiveness to the user
- minimize power usage

That's it. Everything else derives from these two primitives. There's no reason that my laptop, with an eink screen, should use any power while I'm typing in my editor, should barely use any power when browsing with animations disabled, nor is there any reason for me to experience anything more than ~1ms latency (well I'm not sure how bad eink is there, but you get the idea).

I'm vibing a first prototype in qemu, šŸ¤ž

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https://github.com/wesen/2026-03-07--qemu-power-tick

Well that wasn't too bad, 60% context window with gpt-5.4 medium.

Obviously the timing doesn't mean much with sleep states being faked with qemu, so while I'm first going to get wayland and chromium kiosk running and see how much fuckshit I have to intercept to really be able to batch network events while guaranteeing low latency keyboard and mouse wakeup.

Then probably get it running on a nuc and micropc? That's where I am significantly out of my depth, but I hope that having this be linux will actually make it relatively painless and I don't need to do actual board bringup. Based on my research it should actually be simpler on a PC than on a "let me muck with this device tree until I want to kill everything" arm board.

#llms #llm

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wayland prototype with mouse and keyboard, "apparently". I don't have enough brain today to properly learn from this, I'm already busy studying and playing with plan9. But this is looking promising... The fact that I can kind of clear a bachelor's thesis worth of work per day is really interesting, because the scope of projects and ideas to build becomes so much wider. The need for deeply thinking about abstractions increases accordingly. It's just weird to suddenly be able to do it all on my own.

#llms #llm

Show threadJoĆ«l FranuÅ”ićMar 8
@mnl on the topic of Plan 9 - you may find the work that @progrium is doing on Apptron to be interesting or inspiring? This video at about 1:00 shows a cool use of a Plan 9 filesystem abstraction: https://youtu.be/aGOHvWArOOE
Embed Linux software on the web using Apptron

YouTube
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@jpf @progrium that was awesome, thanks a lot. Unlocked a bunch of stuff. Also I tried to run plan9 and failed lol...
Show threadJoĆ«l FranuÅ”ić
@mnl @progrium Iā€™ve had mixed luck running it in a VM, itā€™s also underwhelming to use unless you know what youā€™re doing
Mar 11 at 3:37amPhanpy
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@jpf @progrium are youā€¦ are youā€¦ are you questioning my nerd resilience? šŸ˜‚
Show threadJoĆ«l FranuÅ”ićMar 11
@mnl @progrium I did purposely phrase it as a sort of challenge. But Iā€™m also 100% truthful! I had a ā€œnow what?ā€ moment after I got 9front working the first time