Hacker News: Dennip

New comment by Dennip in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

Dennip — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:57:56 +0000

There are SO many fundamentally bad/broken design decisions in iOS now, from simply infuriating to use elements to downright broken ones.

The amount of times the keyboard just blocks some button, a setting is nested 5/6 menus deep, things that used to be slick no longer just work.

I set alarms on my iPad sometimes, theres a floating popup, you can't dismiss it by clicking away like you would expect, you have to click the x, [image](https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/set-an-alarm-ipadec8a36...)

New comment by Dennip in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

Dennip — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:47:00 +0000

Still down for me

New comment by Dennip in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"

Dennip — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:40:50 +0000

THe settings siutation is so annoying, there are still so many options locked away inside control panel and the new settings app has a few that dont exist in control panel, its so fragmented.

New comment by Dennip in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

Dennip — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:14:44 +0000

Something you are not accounting for is that rolling stock is fully private still, and a huge huge chunk of the profits. Operators don't make much money, the govt owns and runs the rails themselves, but the rollling stock is where a lot of the money goes

New comment by Dennip in "OpenDesk by the Centre for Digital Sovereignty"

Dennip — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:39:32 +0000

A public demo or some screenshots would go a long way, imo. Even finding the comunity editiion took me a minute...

New comment by Dennip in "Moving PHP open source forward"

Dennip — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:42:27 +0000

TBH even that can be a hard sell at times

New comment by Dennip in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

Dennip — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:37:59 +0000

This is a super annoying quirk, lots of things don't work well if you're using workspace as a normal gmail account, and they don't quite warn you up front.

New comment by Dennip in "How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter"

Dennip — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:08:10 +0000

You dont even notice it at first, but when I started wearing airpods pro at work, the NOISE of the aircon etc when you have to take them out is wild.

New comment by Dennip in "Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers"

Dennip — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:13:54 +0000

What happens to purchasers if/when apple update MacOS and this no longer works?

New comment by Dennip in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

Dennip — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:41:29 +0000

For a while I was running a windows VM with the iCloud for windows utility that syncs your photos to a folder on your windows PC, iirc it worker reasonably well as an 'automated' sync solution. (under the surface the folder was a share on my NAS, which in turn fed into a separate immich instance)

New comment by Dennip in "I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D"

Dennip — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:09:21 +0000

I have a 5950X system that will just randomly shut down, I've RMA'd the CPU, tried swapping the RAM, GPU, PSU and the motherboard in different combinations. I cannot track down a specific issue and it just won't be stable. I've given up and decided to discard the PC of theseus and build a new one -_-.

New comment by Dennip in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

Dennip — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:15:55 +0000

Not sure on docker desktops specifics but usually large companies have enterprise/business licencing available and specifically do not deal with this, and do not want to manually deal with this, because they can use SSO & dynamically assign licenses to user groups etc.

New comment by Dennip in "Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility"

Dennip — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:09:50 +0000

They still regularly reference labs sourced findings & data in the current videos.

New comment by Dennip in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

Dennip — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:01:54 +0000

Why oh why can't the search default to "view as list" weeps

New comment by Dennip in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

Dennip — Tue, 27 May 2025 09:27:26 +0000

Actual: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

Thunderbird/Wikipedia intermittently

New comment by Dennip in "Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows"

Dennip — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 01:38:12 +0000

My PC if put to sleep will completely randomly just wake up in the middle of the night. Its infuriatingly annoying to figure out why/which app is causing it as its not easily reproducible

New comment by Dennip in "Calibre 8.0 Release"

Dennip — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:34:36 +0000

I use one called KyBook atm that i've got no real complaints about. If you can set up calibre-web or something similar you can get local network sync working and it can see your library when you're at home and download the books to the device for when you're away.

New comment by Dennip in "That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++"

Dennip — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:27:23 +0000

Probably just preference but I hate when apps put things in the documents folder, thats where I want to put the things I've created specifically, not automated config files etc. There should be a 'Preferences' folder or something to separate the chod in AppData from the useful stuff.

New comment by Dennip in "Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet"

Dennip — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:57:19 +0000

We already do electricity -> hydrogen generation, the hydrogen is then stored in underground pumped storage (empty gas wells), and can be used in place of natural gas.

Although presumably if you set up one of these facilities you need it running 24/7 to be profitable not just when there is a lull in demand elsewhere.

New comment by Dennip in "BMW Group Product Catalog–Historic Models"

Dennip — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:06:29 +0000

The coolant inlet flange on a friends ~2015 730d, made of plastic, cracked recently. To remove & replace it you have to pull the whole inlet manifold and a whole host of other bits off.