Hacker News: MrSouth

New comment by MrSouth in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

MrSouth — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:26:53 +0000

Owning a Lenovo X1 Carbon 7th gen, 2019, 4K screen, 16GB RAM. extremely impressed with the hardware, running Linux Mint and going to move to Manjaro. Initially i tried PopOS! but they removed from Gnome the intermediate scaling (1.5X) of the UI, just like in MacOS you have Display - Scaled options. I really like the per monitor setting which you don't have in Linux. (or i didn't research enough); e.g. More space on main display (external 4k monitor) and Larger Text on the macbook screen. I'm also jumping ship due to the worst experience i had in 25 years dealing with technology, 1 month to replace a swollen battery with a 3rd party repair service. Apple throws now all this "complex" hardware issues to 3rd parties since their employees are pressuring them not to execute hazardous repairs in their own "centers"

New comment by MrSouth in "Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days"

MrSouth — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:56:01 +0000

This move is just a solution in search of a problem. We still have better internet than you in ALL places, including mobile connectivity, literally everywhere. I can say fiber to the home 250/250 & coax 500/500 dominate the market. There is pumped up ADSL everywhere country-side. This move is coming unilateraly from a person who doesn't understand internet and woke up and had to be busy with something. Many IX report a slight increase in capacity, from 10% to 20%.

New comment by MrSouth in "Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?"

MrSouth — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:31:35 +0000

yes. to the op, did you find the line between what you want or think is reasonable to achieve vs. what the person wants? that's a great act of communication.

New comment by MrSouth in "A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory"

MrSouth — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:11:18 +0000

just fyi, in "communism" E-Europe everybody was forced to have a job. Vocational or not, efficient for the system or not, was there, mandatory. Thus the "guaranteed" income.

New comment by MrSouth in "Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent"

MrSouth — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:37:37 +0000

i also find attractive the idea of cultivating the 'maker' & 'tinkerer' in a kid. why? Like for the 70s-80s born generation i recognize the 'need' to understand the underlying 'structure' up to a point where it may sparkle interest in or not. Legos, mechanical tinkering, household tinkering, entry level electronics, modeling etc. did the same for us imho.

Of course, has to be balanced with other things like arts, sports etc. I don't think anyone is capable of correctly identifying the 'calls' of one's kid unless you see their reactions. If that reaction is biased because the kid sees your passion into something a parent is doing, than be it. (s)he will try to overcome the master in an appropriate setup.

New comment by MrSouth in "Critical vulnerabilities in numerous ASUS routers"

MrSouth — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:24:40 +0000

I'd recommend http://tomato.groov.pl/ running it on a RT-N66U, it's brilliant

New comment by MrSouth in "Mihai Pătraşcu 1982–2012"

MrSouth — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:48:48 +0000

Pleging HN upvote no-matter any of today's news as sign of respect for him and for his work.