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New comment by 71bw in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

71bw — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:07:51 +0000

There is a major difference between losing your power and having to constantly fight the UI to keep your power. And, for example, window management on Mac is clunky as all hell.

New comment by 71bw in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

71bw — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:56:56 +0000

I'm also wondering whether or not it would be beneficiary for my workload to switch over to Parakeet. Problem is, I'm using a lot of lingo - and in Polish, as well! - so it's not exactly the best case and whisper (v3), so far, works.

New comment by 71bw in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

71bw — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:31:42 +0000

Exactly. We won't have "hardware integrity" and other such freedom-limiting factors going the way of the dodo anytime soon if we keep handing the organizations trying to estabilish those systems ourselves lubed and ready to go.

New comment by 71bw in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

71bw — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:35:48 +0000

How is this better than trying to eliminate the problem between the keyboard and the computer? The user won't learn if the computer handholds them through everything.

New comment by 71bw in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

71bw — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:56:05 +0000

The truth is that Gatekeeper should go the way of the devil.

It is my machine and I paid for it, why does the OS care about what I do with it? The only thing this leads to is making sure your customers grow into good little lemmings.

Virtualizing an iPhone on Apple Silicon Macs Using Virtualization.framework

71bw — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:06:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332840

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New comment by 71bw in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

71bw — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:09:18 +0000

>and completely devastating the labor market.

? lol

New comment by 71bw in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

71bw — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:57:30 +0000

...and yet overall its done better than on Mac, because in full-screen apps or 3D games it doesn't start covering your view:-)

New comment by 71bw in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

71bw — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:51:37 +0000

It's a bit slow for me, in my experience. Sometimes doesn't want to copy the image to the clipboard. Saving is also wonky. Really wish I just had sharex on Linux

New comment by 71bw in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

71bw — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:49:49 +0000

> That machine takes 30 sec to decrypt the disk encryption key (stupid proof of work functions!),

I think my Ryzen 7500F takes a similar amount of time and it is, by no means, old nor underpowered.

New comment by 71bw in "MacBook Neo"

71bw — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:31:36 +0000

>If the brand equity wasn't there, the Galaxy S would have out sold the iPhone 4, but it didn't, it sold half as much.

Which means just *one* of the Android flagships - which are a much, much more segmentated market! - sold half as much as the iOS competitor.

New comment by 71bw in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

71bw — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:58:09 +0000

Battery life and thermal performance.

New comment by 71bw in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

71bw — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:57:07 +0000

Adults do not waste their time arguing about the "superiority" of one platform - based on subjective choices - online.

New comment by 71bw in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

71bw — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:42:35 +0000

Can't use my bank.

New comment by 71bw in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

71bw — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:23:42 +0000

Off-topic, but thanks for hosting all the gcam ports for all these years.

New comment by 71bw in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

71bw — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:18:24 +0000

...and then you look into what devices they are using and what they are ignoring that could have been resolved by tinkering.

My father-in-law has just had an issue where Xiaomi's camera app took up 95GB of space on his phone. Not the photos - just the camera app. Uninstalling updates for the app resolved the issue, all the space was magically back.

New comment by 71bw in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

71bw — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:17:02 +0000

>What is it in your life which makes it 'impossible' to use free software, Google-free AOSP-derived Android distributions being part of this?

Play Integrity and Google's monopoly on providing "hardware attestation".

New comment by 71bw in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

71bw — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:55:16 +0000

It's because the 8sg3 is a terribly botched chip, to the point where it requires comically overengineered cooling to function properly.

New comment by 71bw in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

71bw — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:37:39 +0000

Both Gemini models answer correctly for me in Polish: https://i.imgur.com/1QbK9eU.png

New comment by 71bw in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

71bw — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:44:52 +0000

HSTS issue, can't access.