Hacker News: Aleklart

New comment by Aleklart in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

Aleklart — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:25:33 +0000

Of course if you have root, you can make other programs work as you please.

They need to go further to outlaw hide root apps, and then install special app to track the status of the phone to make sure it is not rooted. Then allow police to randomly check the presence of this app on people phones. Every phone needs to be registered and pass hardware inspection every year. Even better, make so called offices where people can come and deposit or transfer money, it will be super safe.

New comment by Aleklart in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

Aleklart — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:15:54 +0000

don’t need sim card on second one it is even more secure that way it is very common to have different phones for people who work with money transfers (including crypto)

New comment by Aleklart in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

Aleklart — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:14:02 +0000

You can use mac, ipad and iphone without apple account at all. You can use app store without logging to icloud. You can install apps without app store. There is no nagging to use icloud after initial setup. There is no spyware and adware integrated into standard apps or OS itself. Apple does not sell user data.

New comment by Aleklart in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

Aleklart — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:36:39 +0000

rpi is owned by broadcom since the begining the moment they stop selling them their closed source firmware’s cpu, be the end of rpi project anyway, rpi is just a PR stunt to push brand recognition among nerds, so they buy real business broadcom products for real profits

New comment by Aleklart in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

Aleklart — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:33:42 +0000

It was a bald strategy move, but market was just not ready for the innovation

New comment by Aleklart in "Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy"

Aleklart — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:06:00 +0000

I am user of Microsoft Nuclear Cloud Plant Manager Xp SP3 and after update my control panel restarted causing power outage. Now every time i click power status it is crashing, while power output is rising, making pipes hot.

I already tried msreactor /scannow but don’t want to reinstall reactor as last time I did it I lost my city (and support only told to use boron or move to another area).

Please help!

New comment by Aleklart in "SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker"

Aleklart — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:46:00 +0000

No it is not, it just shows what Chinese bot farm emulators are configured at the moment.

New comment by Aleklart in "Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December"

Aleklart — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:47:47 +0000

Finally, Japanese will experience popups, location requests, notifications and constant tracking along with battery drain and zero days as glorious first party android users. IOS don’t need more spyware in form of chrome or firefox. If you need it, get spydroid with ios theme.

New comment by Aleklart in "Mozilla site down due to "overdue hosting payments" [fixed]"

Aleklart — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:25:47 +0000

Please tell guys who is responsible for js engine to fix handling of large cookies that google is using to slow down youtube on firefox. It is impossible to watch youtube logged in because of that. God bless you sir.

New comment by Aleklart in "AMD Will Need Another Decade to Try to Pass Nvidia"

Aleklart — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:43:18 +0000

AMD should be much more successful with Tesla, Microsoft and Sony all using their chips exclusively in their top devices, but look like big corps milked the deals to the point AMD have no profit at all. Nvidia salespersons and marketing department are clearly decade ahead.

New comment by Aleklart in "AMD Will Need Another Decade to Try to Pass Nvidia"

Aleklart — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:34:28 +0000

no, of course not, it will be used to cheap out on game and graphic designers, as UE5 is used to avoid hiring actual game engine developers.

New comment by Aleklart in "New Mac Mini with M4"

Aleklart — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:08:16 +0000

It is not more than 60 Gb/s for extreme overclocked DDR4-4000 and sometimes much less than 50Gb/s for regular 3200 DDR5 is reaching 100 Gb/s overclocked for Intel, and 50-70 Gb/s in stock.

New comment by Aleklart in "Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel"

Aleklart — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:59:33 +0000

Everyone in MS consider it a amazing, awesome innovation that makes most popular OS in the world even more intuitive and user friendly. If someone (non-FTE) suddenly not thinking this obvious way, he is better to shut up, or he is not going to work in MS starting next financial quarter.

New comment by Aleklart in "Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel"

Aleklart — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:50:47 +0000

unattend.xml file can be used to skip this screen, knowing ms, probably in pro edition only

New comment by Aleklart in "Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel"

Aleklart — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:22:59 +0000

Installing codecs, drivers (several times by different guides usually) and disabling Red Hat telemetry from command line is what user have to do to make it usable for something more than running neofetch

New comment by Aleklart in "EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years"

Aleklart — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:14:24 +0000

Luis Rossmann is a professional repair shop owner is known to lobby right to repair laws.

New comment by Aleklart in "How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?"

Aleklart — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:51:37 +0000

Windows 12 will be able to detect your country by analysing your room furniture with ChatGPT.

New comment by Aleklart in "Microsoft Security-101: Open-Source curriculum"

Aleklart — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:59:36 +0000

101 consuming azureopenai more likely

New comment by Aleklart in "VMware vSphere ESXi free edition is dead"

Aleklart — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:50:43 +0000

wdym not crippled and powerful? it was always a literal cripleware that not only lacks of basic VM flexibility (usb/devices passthru etc) and cant run any guest except windows and linux, but also hard to mange due to lack of basic cli / gui. It has no advanced features that were added for datacenter edition back in 2016 and in fact pretty much dead as windows server itself

microsoft virtualization is long stuck in the past and forgotten, iykwim

if you need something more or less sane luke esxi, proxmox or even xen are way to go.

New comment by Aleklart in "AMD 8000G APUs launch Jan 31, $329 8700G competes with desktop GTX1650 in gaming"

Aleklart — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 21:55:02 +0000

Nothing to praise AMD about: 1. Same greedy strategy to sell 8 cores with top igpu while put heavily cut down igpu to 4 and 6 cores. Nobody need 8 cores for this little gpu performance. In fact you have to disable half of cores to get better fps and most users of RDNA handhelds already did it. Steam deck have 4 cores for the same reason. 2. 780M is rebranded 680M released 2 years ago with same performance. Before it, AMD had been rebranding vega for 3 years. 3. Intel igpu is already on pair in laptops. 15 gen will have same igpu performance and same cuts as AMD while having cheaper 2 and 4 cores for casual players. 4. AMD drivers still awful and most gamers switch to Nvidia just because of it and never look back. 5. “Insane gaming performance ” is equal to performance of 8 years old 1060 that can be bought for 30 euros. New parts like 6500, A380 or 1650 GDDR6 are available for 100-150 euro. Gaming PC for kids with performance of 300+ euro 8700g can be built for 100 euro (chinese LGA 2011-3 Xeon + RX 570 refab). 6. Non gamers have no reason to buy APU at all. It will stay as niche of SFF and corporate boxes.