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New comment by ItsYan in "/e/OS 4.0 is here"

ItsYan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:26:20 +0000

I installed eOS on our car phone the other day so that my wife can try it out, with Fairphone in mind.

Neither one of us has used it much so far but it's uncanny how iPhone like it feels. Though I've never owned an iOS device.

New comment by ItsYan in "European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)"

ItsYan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:58:52 +0000

It's day light, not sun light. You can easily burn on a cloudy day.

New comment by ItsYan in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

ItsYan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:17:47 +0000

People can choose to use online services to game or other various ones for compute. The demand is surely more elastic than food and fuel after a natural disaster. The consumer can also forego any purchases.

New comment by ItsYan in "US strike campaign against drug boats tops 200 deaths"

ItsYan — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:17:23 +0000

Let's say what happens in a decade or to. All injustices have a weird way of hitting back decades after.

New comment by ItsYan in "I'm a project manager, to the engineers: how replaceable do you think my job is?"

ItsYan — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:34:51 +0000

People want this but I don't think it actually delivers, even if it did exactly what it promised. The issue there isn't with the tool, the issue is that the engineer doesn't want to cooperate.

The engineer will either output garbage or output nothing at all. So you will still need a human to pester the dev.

New comment by ItsYan in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

ItsYan — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:00:15 +0000

People like to hate on BMW drivers but a BMW driver was the only person in a hardware store parking lot to help me with jump-starting my car.

New comment by ItsYan in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

ItsYan — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:12:54 +0000

I am going through interviews with founders on https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ and it is indeed what happens.

It is not straightforward, however. One guy did only product-led marketing and it took him 3 years for his SaaS to make good numbers. And he's probably an outlier, since he's featured on the show.

And then you have another guy, who blogged for 5 years about Ruby and only after those 5 years using the audience from that, he built an OSS project with monetisation on top of that. But he could do that because he talked to his audience about ideas.

Listening to those interviews, I get the impression that if you know what you're doing, you can make a profitable SaaS in 2 or 3 years. But to get to a state, where you know what you're doing, you need at least another 3 years or more of actually putting in the reps in an honest way.

And I think that's where the "increase your luck" comes in. I think it's kind of shallow non-sense in the vein of motivational speaking but lots of people like this kind of content and like to be aspirational. Lots of the books sold by internet hustlers, like Rob Walling or Aaron Francis, don't get read, only bought.