Hacker News: JoeBOFH

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

JoeBOFH — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:02:07 +0000

Most of my issues were fixed when I disabled swipe to type. Not all, but most.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Glasses Got Worse on Purpose"

JoeBOFH — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:00:05 +0000

Wife and I have been using Zenni for years. She loves being able to swap out glasses every year or so without breaking the bank. Also my glasses at a normal place are 800-1200 while at Zenni they are barely 120.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

JoeBOFH — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:12:34 +0000

This is different. This shows you what in your operating system is making connections out and to where.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Linux gamers didn't do anything wrong, but they might pay for Windows piracy"

JoeBOFH — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:20:32 +0000

Probably a good thing I only play indie games and games from companies who could never afford the licensing for Denuva.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "MRI machine that's freezing tumors and saving patients from debilitating pain"

JoeBOFH — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:09:00 +0000

This is cool and all but, at least the way I read it, it’s not the MRI machine doing this but a doctor with a needle.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Proton Meet"

JoeBOFH — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:56:10 +0000

I am confused by this logic. Proton has never stated they wouldn’t comply with the law. Just that if you encrypt items in your account that they couldn’t not decrypt them.

If you want to work with a company that will ignore the law then you will have to work with an illegal entity.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Typing and Keyboards"

JoeBOFH — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:35:54 +0000

I used to love swiping to type on mobile. Then I switched to iPhone. The issue there is if you have swipe enabled, it messes with the hit box of keys and you end up typing a lot of garbage if you type to fast when not swiping.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

JoeBOFH — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:49:04 +0000

This was a what can we order under X dollar amount from Target kinda thing. We bought 2 TVs a month for several years.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

JoeBOFH — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:45:15 +0000

At my last job we bought a lot of Vizio tvs. We used them for conference rooms, hallway displays, etc. They were reasonably priced and had a good feature set needed.

They have been on a decline for years and this is a nail in the coffin.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Desk Setup: From Multi-Monitor to Single Screen with Virtual Desktops"

JoeBOFH — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:16:23 +0000

I tried many different setups and have landed on my perfect one finally.

I use 1 4k screen at 125%. This is where I primarily work. My second screen is a 15 inch 1080p monitor. It’s primarily chat/email and the screen I share when I need to screen share. I have to work on to many things at the same time so virtual desktops become to much to juggle. I do stick to either a 50/50 split on the 4k or a quad split.

At one point I had 8 monitors and now thinking back I was insane, but it was fun.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Shipkey – Stop losing API keys when you switch machines or onboard teammates"

JoeBOFH — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:06:31 +0000

This seems cool and all but a simple password manager or something like vault solves this as well.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

JoeBOFH — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:11:18 +0000

Maybe I am the odd man out here but I have a Kinesis 360 Pro and legitimately my wrists and hands hurt after using it, vs my 60% tkl that I just move around throughout the day.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

JoeBOFH — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:54:46 +0000

With my experience it’s the edge cases. The few times I had to reach out to AWS support were due to some weird edge case we couldn’t fix but AWS had to. And having a rep involved made it so much smoother.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day"

JoeBOFH — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:49:15 +0000

I am a newer iPhone user (2 years now) and I am of the same opinion as you. I see so many people crying foul, that their phone is now unusable, but I’m just hear going “eh it’s uglier” and continuing. Curious what OP thinks is fundamentally broken.

Now I have heard about issues on MacOS and things but not really anything around the phone.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

JoeBOFH — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:41:36 +0000

My old F150 had a screen in the rear view mirror. I miss that.

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

JoeBOFH — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:03:44 +0000

Hah I did the same thing. I only ever interact with it now when it appears in search results.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

JoeBOFH — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:30:20 +0000

If memory serves the launcher/ui is out of their control. It is GoogleTVs launcher and they are forced to use it.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

JoeBOFH — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:01:36 +0000

South Dakota is in the northern portion. But to your statement, historically speaking the southern states after the civil war kept trucking along in terms of power and influence.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing"

JoeBOFH — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:35:44 +0000

Was gonna say my wife is a nurse and half the terms, checklists etc are like a few letters that auto complete to a paragraph of templates text.

New comment by JoeBOFH in "The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and Nightdive"

JoeBOFH — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:46:22 +0000

I love GOG and buy a lot of games through them, but at the same time one of the things Steam provides is very easy and simple online coop support. So if I ever intend to play with others I go with Steam. I don’t see an easy way around that.