Hacker News: Daunk

New comment by Daunk in "Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)"

Daunk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:34:53 +0000

This happens to me when I brush off my mousepad too fast with my palm. It will also cause my wireless headset to "reboot".

New comment by Daunk in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

Daunk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:20:30 +0000

Heh. American funny

New comment by Daunk in "Why I love NixOS"

Daunk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:46:56 +0000

What would the in between be?

New comment by Daunk in "Xfce is great"

Daunk — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:10:11 +0000

I recommend changing the key to Super. As holding down Alt and clicking/dragging is often used by many applications and simply won't work then.

New comment by Daunk in "Xfce is great"

Daunk — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:07:56 +0000

That is not XFCE itself, that is up to your theme. I'm on the Dracula theme and have about 16 pixels.

New comment by Daunk in "Xfce is great"

Daunk — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:43:31 +0000

I've been using XFCE for a long time now. I often give GNOME and KDE Plasma a try, but I have to tweak GNOME so much to make it usable, and KDE Plasma keeps crashing and has weird issues (Steam friends list being delayed for example), which just got worse when they switched to Wayland. I really do feel like XFCE on x11 is the logical choice, it "just works" and every app runs well (Discord has broken hotkeys on Wayland), it's stable, and whenever people see my XFCE setup they think it's something like KDE Plasma because it looks so "good" (or different at least). It even works well even on my 32:9 aspect ratio monitor, which isn't something I can say about some other desktops.

New comment by Daunk in "Linux is good now"

Daunk — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:26:31 +0000

Spot on.

New comment by Daunk in "Linux is good now"

Daunk — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:25:48 +0000

They started with Hyprland, GNOME or KDE Plasma. Most of them have ended up using Cinnamon, and the rest use XFCE.

New comment by Daunk in "Linux is good now"

Daunk — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:51:54 +0000

I'm not against Wayland, but I think Wayland is currently not good for the Linux ecosystem. I've had lots of friends try Linux, and they've had issues with Discord global keyboard shortcuts not working, and window positions not restoring at application start, and lots of other small issues, which add up in the end. But once they switched to X11, they've all been very happy.

New comment by Daunk in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"

Daunk — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:14:42 +0000

I don't understand how Wayland is becoming the norm when it can't even restore window positions yet.

New comment by Daunk in "European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers"

Daunk — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:35:03 +0000

This is my go-to site!

New comment by Daunk in "Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client"

Daunk — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:32:13 +0000

I've tried to use this, but I'm on multiple servers with tons of channels, and it gets a bit unwieldy without tabs. I also can't get it to minimize to tray, and having to "keep it open" at all times is somewhat annoying. I'll stick with Quassel for now.

Really impressive work though, you should be proud!

New comment by Daunk in "Quicksort explained IKEA-style"

Daunk — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:06:30 +0000

Seeing a random Ö hurts my Swedish brain. Especially when "Sort" is Swedish already.

New comment by Daunk in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

Daunk — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:27:23 +0000

I've tried to run KDE Plasma for years, but it's just so unstable and buggy (I also think it looks bad, but that doesn't really matter). I recently had a friend that said "KDE Plasma is great now, give it a go!" so I did, and instantly broke it by installing a theme via the official themes manager, and I had lots of smaller issues, like the Steam notifications appear above the taskbar and the Steam Friends List being slow to open. I told my friend and he said "Oh, that's KDE Plasma and not just Linux being weird?" and he ended up switching desktop, realizing so many minor issues was due to KDE Plasma.

New comment by Daunk in "Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text"

Daunk — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 07:16:32 +0000

Same on my end, no audio in the video.

New comment by Daunk in "Our European search index goes live"

Daunk — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:40:12 +0000

Every time I link someone Ecosia, they always complain that it doesn't have a "clean start page", and I do agree. That, and not having the ability to see less or more of certain pages is why no one I know uses Ecosia.

New comment by Daunk in "Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference"

Daunk — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:24:45 +0000

I feel like D is such an underrated language.

New comment by Daunk in "A look at Firefox forks"

Daunk — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:08:29 +0000

You can use the Stylus extension to get HN to look any way you want. There are some good community made styles for HN as well.

Ask HN: Best Way to Store Files in the Cloud Without Third-Party Sync Apps?

Daunk — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:55:40 +0000

I recently lost a lot of data due to issues with my cloud provider, so now I’m looking for a more reliable way to store files in the cloud—something that includes automatic backups but doesn’t rely on third-party sync apps like Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive.

I have multiple server computers that need to upload and download files reliably, preferably using standard protocols (SFTP, WebDAV, rsync, etc.) rather than a dedicated syncing client. Keeping the data at home isn’t an option, and I don’t want to have to think about it—I just need to know my data is safe.

Ideally, the solution should:

- Allow direct access from multiple machines

- Support automatic backups (whether for individual files or full disk images)

- Be cost-effective and scalable in terms of storage size

- Not require installing proprietary syncing software

What are the best options for this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301135

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by Daunk in "Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows"

Daunk — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:13:54 +0000

I'll ask you the same as below: "... I have to ask, do people really use Flatpaks for something like a process monitor? It feels like a process monitor should launch almost instantly. Waiting ~3 seconds for a Flatpak sandbox to spin up just to check system stats seems pretty frustrating."