Hacker News: MattTheRealOne

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

MattTheRealOne — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:41:19 +0000

Same, but I would be very surprised since they have not done so already. I will settle for a better color screen.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "What I self-host"

MattTheRealOne — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:34:01 +0000

For the cash back sites, I have a separate Firefox profile that uses a public DNS over HTTPS provider to bypass my internal DNS.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

MattTheRealOne — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:35:23 +0000

Hopefully this means a new Kobo Libra before too long.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

MattTheRealOne — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:21:02 +0000

Sony uses Google TV. Doesn't inspire trust as far as spying and data collection goes.

OpenRGB 1.0 Released

MattTheRealOne — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:11:15 +0000

Article URL: https://openrgb.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671514

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "deSEC – Free Secure DNS"

MattTheRealOne — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:36:49 +0000

I have been using deSEC for a couple of years without any issues. I mostly just do not want my DNS handled by my registrar so that I can easily transfer domains without worrying about DNS as well, and I do not like how centralized the internet is becoming around Cloudflare.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

MattTheRealOne — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:41:09 +0000

Now that Fairphone officially sells phones in the United States, I am likely going to get one specifically because it supports postmarketOS. My Pinephone is so slow that I have never really used it for anything beyond testing.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

MattTheRealOne — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:23:02 +0000

The OEM is Motorola. The partnership was announced earlier this year.

You are correct about them not getting early access from Google. There was a post within the last few months saying that Google no longer releases a lot of the code via git, but instead requires submitting a form and downloading the code via Google Drive. Google are actively trying to make third-party development difficult.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double"

MattTheRealOne — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:29:02 +0000

No, as Amazon bought Goodreads. Kobo did recently partner with StoryGraph though.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

MattTheRealOne — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:25:41 +0000

Not in the United States. Only the Fold still has a physical SIM slot.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

MattTheRealOne — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:56:11 +0000

The US government puts them on the list. I don't care that they are on the list, but it does mean they can't sell the devices in the United States. If that ever happened to Motorola, and there were still no other devices that Graphene OS supports, then there would be no options left.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

MattTheRealOne — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:04:24 +0000

Can't we just build a new internet

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone"

MattTheRealOne — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:17:50 +0000

A majority of the feeds I subscribe to do not include the full text in the feed themselves which is one of the main reasons I use Miniflux which has an option to fetch the full article text and works very reliably. Of the more than 150 feeds I am subscribed to, I think there are fewer than 5 that Miniflux is unable to fetch the text for. Miniflux can also connect to Wallabag to quickly save pages to it using the full text. That is great because Wallabag is often unable to fetch text directly on its own.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

MattTheRealOne — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:47:24 +0000

Apple TV is currently the best balance of privacy and convenience. The only way to get more private is using a PC, but that limits the resolution for most streaming services to 720p or 1080p.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Self-host your mail server"

MattTheRealOne — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:33:56 +0000

The biggest problem with self-hosting a mail server is reliably being able to send email and have it be delivered to the recipient. Something I have been thinking about setting up is self-hosting a dovecot server so that all of my emails that I receive are on my system, but using another provider for sending email. I don't send that many emails, so there is not much privacy loss in regards to a third-party being able to see my sent emails, but I still get the benefit of noone but me having access to my received emails.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Back to Kagi"

MattTheRealOne — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:54:02 +0000

Same. I have been using Brave Search since its launch and it has been great in my experience. I also love that it has its own index. I have tried the free Kagi trial and it seems to work well, but I can't justify the cost for little to no benefit and it still depends on bigger search engines for indexing.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

MattTheRealOne — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:45:58 +0000

I have come across many websites that limit how many passkeys I can add. Some have only allowed one or two.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

MattTheRealOne — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:31:59 +0000

There are a couple of problems I have with that. 1) Many websites limit the number of passkeys I can link to my account. Some only allow 2 or 3. I have more devices than that. 2) If I am supposed to create a new passkey for every device, how do I login in the first place? Most websites currently fallback to password login which defeats the security benefit of using passkeys in the first place.

I currently only use passkeys for a few websites that have awkward password login workflows or do not autofill properly from my password manager. I just have a single passkey for each that is synced via Bitwarden. Currently, I see passkeys as using an electronic biometric lock on the front door while passwords are still regular locks on the backdoor. The biometric lock on the front door does not do much for security when the backdoor still exists and I have come across very few websites that support only allowing passkeys. And those that do still run into problem 2 listed above.

New comment by MattTheRealOne in "Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore"

MattTheRealOne — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:07:47 +0000

It is disappointing how much of a hassle streaming has become. Both the services themselves and the devices used to stream on. I still love the Apple TV, but I have been using a mini pc more often lately due to all of the ads streaming services are showing. Unfortunately, many streaming services limit the resolution on web browsers.

Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

MattTheRealOne — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:59:11 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/amazon-wont-release-fire-sticks-that-support-sideloading-anymore/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809912

Points: 5

# Comments: 1