Hacker News: AndroidKitKat

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

AndroidKitKat — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:35:48 +0000

Trash Guides [1] is your friend. Requires a bit of understanding whats going on but if all of these are going to be on the same computer this makes setting it up where data doesn't have to get copied around and waste time.

[1] - https://trash-guides.info/

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

AndroidKitKat — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:50:15 +0000

Kai Lentit on YouTube has been doing these mock interviews and some of them hit too close to home for me.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/@programmersarealsohuman5909

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

AndroidKitKat — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:00:53 +0000

In Maryland I received my car's title, but it just shows the lien holder's information on it. I've never bought a car in any other state so my information is limited.

Is this different from what you mean?

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

AndroidKitKat — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:41:31 +0000

You can, at the very least, retrofit the Juniper suspension onto the old car [1]. I haven't ridden in the new Performance yet, but I recently got a 2026 Model Y and the suspension is night and day compared to my 2024.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahoyTgkkyU

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "My Self-Driving Car Crash – The Tesla was driving perfectly–until it wasn't"

AndroidKitKat — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:45:49 +0000

Also have your same concerns / complaints with lane change hesitation on the latest FSD in a Juniper Model Y; the car puts the blinker on and then acts super-duper nervous, almost as if it were driving for the first time.

That said, I only notice this behavior in the "Standard" FSD profile. When I bump it up to "Hurry" or "Mad Max" the confidence is 100x. Not sure why, exactly, but this may help you. The only downside is that "Hurry" loves to speed and "Mad Max" even more so.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "MacBook Air with M5"

AndroidKitKat — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:24:23 +0000

It's not worth the hassle, but for the Windows machines in my house I set up Windows Server and have all the machines provisioned to an Active Directory domain where I turn off all the crap via Group Policy. You can get by with just editing Group Policy for a standalone Windows Pro copy, but for more than one machine I really didn't want to fiddle with having to update each machine's policy whenever Microsoft does something stupid.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

AndroidKitKat — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:35:20 +0000

I set up this exact combo (thelounge + mumble) for my friends last night after this news. It's not a complete 1:1, but I think it'll meet our needs. I'm going on a road trip and as a fun experiment I'm going to try to get Claude to churn on integrating Mumble into thelounge, somehow, to mimic the Discord client. I'd really prefer something other than Jitsi for screen sharing, since I'm a weirdo and don't like the UX of making a 'call' and much rather prefer the 'hop in' style VC like Discord or Mumble.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Agent Skills"

AndroidKitKat — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:25:54 +0000

I see it similar to browser user-agents all claiming to be an ancient version of Mozilla or KHTML. We pick whatever works and then move on. It might not be "correct," but as long as our tools know what to do, who cares?

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

AndroidKitKat — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:00:54 +0000

The latest Windows 11 Pro for Workstations builds appears to still support workgroup or domain joins without requiring a Microsoft account. In terms of the OS still shipping with crap, it is still there but since there's no Internet connection the crap is largely useless.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

AndroidKitKat — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:19:03 +0000

When using Claude Code in Ghostty on macOS, I get notifications if it is waiting on my input (accept changes, questionnaire, run bash command). Dunno what combination (if any) of my setup is needed for this to happen, but I certainly didn't configure anything special. Maybe I'm giving CC too much free reign to do things.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Raycast for Windows"

AndroidKitKat — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:43:16 +0000

I'm a pretty happy Alfred user and the only thing keeping me off of Raycast is the VC funding, the AI-down-throat shoving, and I prefer Alfred's licensing scheme. Over 90% of my Alfred usage is to quickly Kagi search something, access clipboard history, or launch an app. I'm by no means a power user, and likely the new Spotlight in macOS 26 could meet my needs, but Alfred just keeps chugging away.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

AndroidKitKat — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:44:53 +0000

Mirrors my experience very closely. I really /want/ to use Linux since I really do like GNOME over the Windows Desktop, but if half my peripherals don't work (in this case an Elgato mic where my friends would say I'm either exploding their eardrums or too quiet, and my CREATIVE USB DAC) I'm just very demoralized when trying to use Linux to play games. I've tried the dual boot route, but a spontaneous Discord message of "hop in loser, we're going gaming!" turns into "let me reboot my machine and then Windows update and now my game has to update and it's now 10pm I have to go to bed" just makes me stick with Windows full time.

I'm still really rooting for the Year of the Linux Desktop, and it does continue to get better and better, but I'll keep rooting from the sidelines.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "You can now buy used Ford vehicles on Amazon"

AndroidKitKat — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:19:00 +0000

You can buy (almost?) any part directly from Tesla as a plain Joe [1], but you may need a VIN for certain parts (mainly the actual computers?).

In the event you want to DIY a repair, Tesla publishes all their service manuals they use at their service centers (e.g. [2]) and you can can even use the exact same software their technicians use for the deeper repairs, albeit at a price that is expensive if you're a plain Joe, but for a repair shop it doesn't seem to be terribly expensive.

On the topic of 3rd party parts, there isn't quite as robust a marketplace.

[1] - https://epc.tesla.com/en-US/landingpage

[2] - https://service.tesla.com/docs/ModelY/ServiceManual/2025/en-...

[3] - https://service.tesla.com/en-US/diagnostic-software

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Steam Machine"

AndroidKitKat — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:52:47 +0000

In addition to what others have said, a group of friends still plays enough League of Legends that I don't both dual booting. Also if you play RuneScape (RS3, not OSRS) the best 3rd party add-on, Alt1 Toolkit, only works on Windows.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Tesla unveils cheaper versions of its Model 3 and Model Y"

AndroidKitKat — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:28:26 +0000

These cars exist purely to be a rung in the price ladder to get you to spend $5,000 more on a car with actual features. They did the same thing with the RWD Cybertruck and I don't actually believe they ever shipped any before cancelling it.

If people do end up buying these I really hope they know what they are giving up. Something as simple as "seat controls" were deemed too costly and are now driven by software on the touch screen. I used to give the "software defined car" a bit of leeway on some of the omissions / transition to screen, but these cars are the extreme and I wonder if legislators are going to allow this. For example, I checked on the Tesla Japan and Tesla Europe websites and it doesn't look like these are for sale.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Framework Laptop 16"

AndroidKitKat — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:39:27 +0000

I keep Windows on my Framework (11th gen Intel) because using Linux on it makes it suffer from inability to sleep and terrible battery life. I've tried all the tricks to make Linux work and I've only eeked out an extra hour of use, if that.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Until the End of the Internet"

AndroidKitKat — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:36:14 +0000

I interpret it as "we won't kill our stuff if people are using it" which is a common enough practice we have webpages dedicated to the Google Graveyard and whatnot.

I don't think anyone has or is going to build a product and advertise "We plan to stop letting you use it (even if you want to pay for it!) whenever we feel like it." This pledge existing (which, I agree, is a 'trust me bro') tells me that there is a thought-out effort for the support window.

New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Until the End of the Internet"

AndroidKitKat — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:32:57 +0000

While poking around to see if HEY email is right for me, I noticed this at the very bottom of the FAQ page about expected support for HEY. I think it's a pretty noble goal to support your products until every other customer has left or until the internet is over, whichever comes first; I wish more services were like this.

Until the End of the Internet

AndroidKitKat — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:28:19 +0000

Article URL: https://37signals.com/policies/until-the-end-of-the-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44734708

Points: 2

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New comment by AndroidKitKat in "Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default"

AndroidKitKat — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:01:36 +0000

This is what stops me from dual-booting. I don't enjoy Windows as much as the next person, but dual booting inevitably requires me to just duplicate logging into services and installing the same programs in both OSes, and then if I don't boot into one of the OSes for a while, I end up having to wait for updates (admittedly this is a much worse problem on Windows, but it's not not a problem for Linux) and any other things that need to happen just so I can use the computer.