Hacker News: Nexxxeh

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Linux 7.3"

Nexxxeh — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:26:52 +0000

Yeah, it feels "not ND friendly" too. Totally breaks my reading flow.

I am the person addressed when someone says "you", not "yu". Why is that person changing how I'm addressed?

It's also confusing because it feels initially like it's some new Linux command or user, like "su".

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity"

Nexxxeh — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:28:13 +0000

Opposite for me. It seems to noticably improve my sleep quality.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

Nexxxeh — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:29:43 +0000

I'd have assumed Qualcom are looking at the Steam Deck / Steam Machine and Steam OS, and thinking: "I might want some of that."

And looking at the direction Microsoft is going, and thinking: "Shackling our laptop and desktop chip sales to this is a bad idea."

The entire landscape outside of the Raspberry Pi is a shitshow in terms of "Just download a distro for your device class and arch and it'll work."

Arm SystemReady appears to be a slow push in the right direction from the opposite end.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

Nexxxeh — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:15:36 +0000

To save anyone the Google, there's an S missing from the URL.

https://museum.syssrc.com/

New comment by Nexxxeh in "CUDA for AMD on Windows"

Nexxxeh — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:10:09 +0000

You'll be doing gamers a favour, coz the AI boom has be a slaughter for PC gaming. The price of RAM, storage, and graphics...

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

Nexxxeh — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:33:33 +0000

I loved my Netbook. Acer Aspire One.

The early ~2008 Linux-supplied dirt cheap Acer Aspire One A110L netbooks came with small (8GB?) and horrifically slow SSDs.

Back in the days of such things, we'd upgrade the RAM and use Windows XP with the write filter to make them great little machines. There was an SD card slot in the side that would happily store files.

The SSDs were very limited in read-write cycles from what I remember. More noticeable they brutally slow at writing. By shoving all the writes into RAM instead of direct the SSD, everything ran more smoothly.

If you wanted to keep any changes (usually due to OS or software updates) then you ran a batch file that wrote out the changes to the SSD before shutdown. Otherwise you shut the machine down and all your changes were immediately forgotten.

RAM Upgrade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3WVb1dL--o Enhanced Write Filter: https://www.prime-expert.com/articles/a04/speeding-up-ssd-ba...

It was more than fast enough for the time, the form factor was perfect for my teenage hands (not that they're much bigger now) and it was cheap and small enough to drag everywhere with me. (I copied and pasted some of that from a previous comment of mine about it.)

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute"

Nexxxeh — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:21:07 +0000

If you ask any British person in my generation, "Badger badger badger badger?" they'll probably join in. I don't think you appreciate how viral and beloved it is.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute"

Nexxxeh — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:21:55 +0000

Weebl is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weebl

And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeblsstuff/

Original Badgers on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxXXjZVdEA

Hilarious piece on "20 years of Badgers" ft interview and historical footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOISnUd7WE

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

Nexxxeh — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:48:11 +0000

The process uses the depth of the toner layer to make a mould of the physical ridges, which you use to generate a a gelatine cast of them. It's like a single-layer depth 3D print where the medium is fused toner from the laser printer.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

Nexxxeh — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:19:39 +0000

There's also the issue that the device is covered in fingerprints, and if you can build a clean image of the print, you can likely manufacture a gelatin copy of that fingerprint that will work on most fingerprint scanners.

I can't speak to the current generation of Apple fingerprint scanners, but historically iirc you can grab a print, clean it up in Photoshop, print it on OHP transparency using a laser printer and use it like a mould to copy a fingerprint.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "DIY Soft Drinks"

Nexxxeh — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:39:14 +0000

Before the plague shut down the place I got my larger bottle refilled, I got a mid-size standard CO2 to SodaStream adapter from Ali Express. Saved me a fortune hooked up direct to the SodaStream, especially as sparkling water was intermittently surprisingly difficult to get hold of during those times. I should contact the gas supplier, see where the nearest point is now.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

Nexxxeh — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:47:31 +0000

Looks smooth, but holy motion sickness.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund"

Nexxxeh — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:09:20 +0000

Given the impact of international terrorism and crime on India, minimising illicit money flow in and out of the country seems an inherently sensible precaution.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "Delphi is 31 years old – innovation timeline"

Nexxxeh — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:03:46 +0000

When I was starting out as a kid learning to make applications, moving from VB6 to Delphi was such a huge improvement.

Tempted to use a client's plotter and roll of paper to print this off.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "US Company Ubiquiti Aids Russian Military [video]"

Nexxxeh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:19:11 +0000

I missed this story directly elsewhere, only saw this story from the Preston Stewart interview that OP has linked.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "US Company Ubiquiti Aids Russian Military [video]"

Nexxxeh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:18:09 +0000

Hunterbrook exposed that the distribution network for an American company, Ubiquti (allegedly), knowingly supplied Russia after the start of the Ukrainian war. Doing so in clear breach of sanctions.

US gear being used to facilitate attacks on Ukrainian civilians and military.

To say "Ubiquiti could likely do more..." is a massive understatement.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy"

Nexxxeh — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:45:36 +0000

Is it not more "VST author just does the bare minimum to keep honest people honest, because more invasive DRM risks ruining a live performance"? I'm not understanding why TFA author has such an attitude about this. Is the VST author a horrible person or running a toxic business model or something?

New comment by Nexxxeh in "NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms"

Nexxxeh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:36:38 +0000

Omores did a video on it with NT 4.0, and the description says it does also work with NT 3.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvT9-ZfW1Iw

New comment by Nexxxeh in "NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms"

Nexxxeh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:34:54 +0000

For those of us who like seeing old OSs running on old bare metal to a daft extent, a YouTuber "Omores" is worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/@O_mores

He has videos on this driver running on NT and 2000.

New comment by Nexxxeh in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"

Nexxxeh — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:28:14 +0000

I'm in the UK and have McDonalds semi-regularly. A few times a month at least. Get a receipt, fill out the online feedback form, get a code. Put the code in the app, get an offer for £2.99 sandwhich (McPlant, Big Mac, whatever the chicken thing is) and either fries or a salad. £2.99 for a McPlant and fries at 3am is a godsend.