Hacker News: E39M5S62

New comment by E39M5S62 in "“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow"

E39M5S62 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:44:26 +0000

That's not a very charitable interpretation of his comments.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow"

E39M5S62 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:17:02 +0000

Universal healthcare is real and human. If we can't use an article to inform how we think about current problems, what's the point of it?

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Bugs Apple loves"

E39M5S62 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:42:35 +0000

What specific phone did you actually buy?

New comment by E39M5S62 in "FreeBSD"

E39M5S62 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:33:48 +0000

ZFSBootMenu doesn't work with FreeBSD, it only knows how to boot a Linux kernel.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity"

E39M5S62 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:41:21 +0000

Ubuntu shipped with a bug that they introduced by way of a very badly done patch. While I get your point, I don't think it's fair to use Ubuntu as a source - they're grossly incompetent when it comes to handling ZFS.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

E39M5S62 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:26:45 +0000

I just switched to Lawnchair - took me quite a while to replicate the minimal look/feel I had with Nova. Thanks for recommending it!

New comment by E39M5S62 in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

E39M5S62 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:54:35 +0000

Your entire argument hinges on the claim that he's presenting himself as a journalist. He's not doing that. You're not arguing in good faith and it's clear you have an axe to grind - so I'm going to disengage now.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

E39M5S62 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:17:02 +0000

An op-ed is an outside opinion piece published by a news organization, historically in a print newspaper or magazine.

It's irrelevant if he's giving his opinion on a subject in a YouTube video; it's still not journalism (and it's not even an op-ed, since he's effectively self-publishing).

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Dead Internet Theory"

E39M5S62 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:08:59 +0000

If you can ride the Metra from your city to Chicago proper, you're in Chicago!

New comment by E39M5S62 in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

E39M5S62 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:21:49 +0000

Since when is Jimmy Kimmel a journalist? He hosts a late night talk show.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

E39M5S62 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:50:04 +0000

There's nothing even preventing the second form from working either. Just put the right shebang at the top of the script and it'll run through that interpreter. I've been on fish for a decade, but still write all my shell scripts in Bash. It's never been an issue.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

E39M5S62 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:52:35 +0000

XWayland runs on top of Wayland, and is a way for X11-only applications to still work. It does not run inside a native X11 session.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI"

E39M5S62 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:14:13 +0000

Tell that to translators.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep"

E39M5S62 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:04:26 +0000

Haiku is an open source recreation of BeOS.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

E39M5S62 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:09:04 +0000

Yeah. Unfortunately, ZFS encryption is missing a few creature comforts of something like LUKS. I've stuck with native OpenZFS mechanisms, though, to keep the complexity sprawl to a minimum.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

E39M5S62 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:31:37 +0000

Quick note on #2 - there aren't really any issues with storing your encryption root passphrase in a file. If the file is owned by root, with no read permissions for any account, only root can access it. Since it's stored on an encrypted dataset, and your initramfs is as well, it's unreadable when the machine is off. Lastly, if anybody _does_ have a root shell on your machine, they can change the encryption passphrase without needing to know the current value.

In short, I'm not sure there are any real issues with having it on disk but unreadable by anybody but root.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

E39M5S62 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:11:39 +0000

I was running it on a Dual 1.25ghz G4 with 2GB of RAM- a fairly high-spec machine for the 10.4 era.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

E39M5S62 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:39:12 +0000

I booted a G4 Mac the other day, running 10.4.something. I was thrown back in time to a period where OS X was clearly their flagship software stack. Everything was coherent and cohesive - and shockingly - fast. I'd daily 10.4 again if it could operate on the modern internet comfortably!

New comment by E39M5S62 in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

E39M5S62 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:01:35 +0000

The Wheel of Time series, start to finish. So pleased that Brandon Sanderson stepped in to finish it.

New comment by E39M5S62 in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

E39M5S62 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:53:06 +0000

Snapdragon support is decent to great these days, and importantly it's all in the mainline kernel tree.

Edit: though it should be said that what I think is good might be a far cry from you think is good. I did use a Thinkpad X13s as my primary work machine for 6 months, though.