Hacker News: 71bw

New comment by 71bw in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

71bw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:02:31 +0000

>And despite all of this, I am still stuck playing IT boy with my parents’ computers because they refuse to use an operating system that isn’t complete dogshit.

There is no such operating system.

New comment by 71bw in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

71bw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:05:08 +0000

Anything modern (as in, released within the, let's say, last month)

Run full-blown macOS on iPadOS 16

71bw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:01:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nfzerox/VirtualMacOniPad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180655

Points: 24

# Comments: 7

VPhone Workstation – create and use virtual iPhones on Mac

71bw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:38:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zqxwce/vphone-ws

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179328

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Nokia DCT3 Emulator

71bw — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:05:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/djr-747/nokia-dct3-emulator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889791

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 71bw in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

71bw — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:14:49 +0000

But it's how the people outside of our circles see it. We tinker with our devices, which is not understandable to them - their phone just works, why would they change anything about it?

New comment by 71bw in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

71bw — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:13:48 +0000

...and the iOS 27 features are not anything actually important, while China never was an established market for Google since 2009. Things have changed.

New comment by 71bw in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

71bw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:09:32 +0000

...how does that align with what the EU government is doing? The whole point is for you NOT to be sovereign!!!

New comment by 71bw in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

71bw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:41:44 +0000

But this does not allow tracking nor marketing, so why would they do that?

New comment by 71bw in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

71bw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:40:59 +0000

Oh they sure do, because Google/Apple have to bend over backwards for the EU as they are not stupid enough to suddenly lose 500 million users.

New comment by 71bw in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

71bw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:38:42 +0000

The lawsuits, sadly, won't matter. "Security" (or, rather, totalitarian control!) is more important than the 1% of nerds who care enough to tinker with their phone.

New comment by 71bw in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

71bw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:59:28 +0000

...attendance? I landed a spot in likely the best economics uni in Poland while having 52% attendance in my final HS year, out of which perhaps 10% of the absence was due to illness.

New comment by 71bw in "Identity verification on Claude"

71bw — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:53:36 +0000

And yet it is China who has, for the last 40+ years, successfully used the "start cheap, destroy competition, rise prices" tactic.

New comment by 71bw in "Sakana Fugu"

71bw — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:44:19 +0000

And yet, as per usual...

     Not yet available in the EU/EEA while we work toward compliance with GDPR and EU-specific regulations.

New comment by 71bw in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

71bw — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:21 +0000

Truth be told, the Wii U gamepad is basically h.264 and Wi-Fi as well.

New comment by 71bw in "Siri AI"

71bw — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:02:44 +0000

I can't even get Gemini to properly call somebody - it is a mess.

The Polish government approves a law banning all phone usage in primary schools

71bw — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:32:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gov.pl/web/edukacja/rada-ministrow-przyjela-projekt-ustawy-dotyczacy-korzystania-z-telefonow-komorkowych-w-szkolach

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48370052

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by 71bw in "macOS needs its grid back"

71bw — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:18:45 +0000

Does it work nowadays? Back in High Sierra days whenever I tried turning this off it did absolutely nothing and still reordered my shit.

New comment by 71bw in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

71bw — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:29:27 +0000

We seem to work in very similar fields. I tend to work on the back-end line. To put it lightly: it is all a big shitshow. Vendor lock-in, non-standard communication, network admins who have no idea what they are doing, radiology imaging clinics with no IT staff at all (even on-call external people) or places that had their network set up 15 years ago by a guy who is now long dead or otherwise MIA. And then, inevitably, you have to guide the innocent girl sitting at the front desk to somewhere in the local backrooms just to reset a server remotely.

New comment by 71bw in "Chuwi Minibook X"

71bw — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:16:43 +0000

Switch to a backpack or just leave the laptop in your car...?