Hacker News: 71bw

New comment by 71bw in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

71bw — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:20:04 +0000

How much of your current knowledge would you simply lack were it not for the Internet?

New comment by 71bw in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

71bw — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:14:28 +0000

...unless they go and visit Mikey over the fence, whose parents are cool unlike you and let him – willingly or not – wank to hardcore porn at 11.

New comment by 71bw in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

71bw — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:26:02 +0000

What did you use to ship the laptop?

New comment by 71bw in "When the cheap one is the cool one"

71bw — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:36:01 +0000

I presume the 968 was chosen because it all seems like the Neo is only the first hurrah into this whole entry-level field for Apple.

New comment by 71bw in "When the cheap one is the cool one"

71bw — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:33:12 +0000

My 2015 MacBook Air, purchased new in 2017, was already practically dead by 2021.

New comment by 71bw in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

71bw — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:30:59 +0000

Not even a month ago, according to my IM logs it was during the last week of March 2026.

New comment by 71bw in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

71bw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:37:41 +0000

I have my iPhone set up in a way where I have "Apple Intelligence" and that, somehow, manages to pick up Polish VERY well. Might want to try it. Never have expected "play "Oddałbym" by Slums Attack from Spotify" to work - and yet it did first try, way better than any attempt I made on Google Assistant in the past decade.

The pronounciations, though, are indeed something that leaves no other option but to laugh. Expect "Rogozińska" (ruh-goh-tzeen-ska?), recieve something I fail to comprehend :-)

New comment by 71bw in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

71bw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:14:57 +0000

So does my father - but then again, it is important to remember the context. It's not going to be an issue if you only drive in big cities or on main roads. The only time I really need to use GPS to navigate is going out into the complete boonies, and Waze does that expertly. Apple Maps, meanwhile, helps me remember my Mercedes' stock navigation, which is forever locked in 2011 and runs in 256 colors. :-)

New comment by 71bw in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

71bw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:17:30 +0000

>And Apple Maps today is absolutely amazing.

Perhaps that is the case in the US, but in Poland, I haven't had a single app guide me into the literal bushes as many times as Apple Maps does. The straw that broke the camel's back was when, I shit you not, the navigation aspect literally expected me to drive through a lake.

New comment by 71bw in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

71bw — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:22:19 +0000

Would not trust any of these tools in the slightest.

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

Points: 1

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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.