Hacker News: Paianni

New comment by Paianni in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

Paianni — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:16:22 +0000

Mozilla is controlled opposition (largely funded by Google) and the browser can't really compete on security and performance.

New comment by Paianni in "Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe"

Paianni — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:48:11 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon#Reaction_to_Pok%C...

New comment by Paianni in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

Paianni — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:39:15 +0000

The governments, yes, but not the general population necessarily. And the governments can't survive without oil revenue and/or external support, so they'll be losing in the long run.

New comment by Paianni in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

Paianni — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:55:08 +0000

Nah, if anything the Islamist groups are biding their time, waiting for the internationally-supported governments to lose the will to carry on before striking.

New comment by Paianni in "QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021)"

Paianni — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:15:36 +0000

I was thinking, in a world without DRAM, cobalt-infused magnetic tape (like that used for VHS and ferricobalt cassettes) or metal particle tape, digital sound recording would still be possible using 1960s black-and-white VTRs that took ferric oxide tape not dissimilar to those used for analog multitrack recording.

New comment by Paianni in "How close are we to a vision for 2010?"

Paianni — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:10:31 +0000

I suspect the end of Dennard Scaling scuppered this sort of utopia.

New comment by Paianni in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

Paianni — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:43:56 +0000

They have been underfunded for a decade now, with some unfortunate consequences - the web browser is based on Gecko 91.

New comment by Paianni in "Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died"

Paianni — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:16:15 +0000

They wanted a console they could write a full-3D Sonic game for, the Saturn couldn't quite do such a game justice.

New comment by Paianni in "Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died"

Paianni — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:56:29 +0000

Their hardware business was doomed by 1998, FF7 and Gran Turismo had given PlayStation momentum that neither Sega or Nintendo could hope to match, but Sega was in a particularly tough spot because of years of misguided decisions.

They could have extended the Saturn's lifespan to 2000 and thrown their lot in with the PS2 after release, but it seems many people at SoJ were emotionally attached to the idea of selling consoles.

New comment by Paianni in "LineageOS 23.2"

Paianni — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:46:20 +0000

The S4 Mini ended up being a legendary long-termer as its drivers were built for the 3.10 kernel, which was still being patched by Red Hat two years ago.

New comment by Paianni in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

Paianni — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:08:26 +0000

It's happened at least three times:

Win8.1 x64 required double-width compare and exchange instruction support, so people who bought Win8 for a CPU or motherboard that didn't support it had to downgrade to the 32-bit version or lose support in 2016.

Win7 updates from 2018 onwards required SSE2 with no warning.

Win11 24H2 and later won't install on x86 processors that don't support the x86-64-v2 baseline.

New comment by Paianni in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

Paianni — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:55:17 +0000

There's always Windows Server...

New comment by Paianni in "LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra"

Paianni — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:35:08 +0000

What's available depends on the form factor, but there are some manufacturers that offer some choice in the 2700k 90+cri space nowadays.

New comment by Paianni in "Finland sets tougher guidelines: No social media or smartphones for under-13s"

Paianni — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:46:43 +0000

The current HMD 105 4G/110 4G is ok and supports LTE bands common in North America.

New comment by Paianni in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

Paianni — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:23:42 +0000

Windows would be 'taught' as a byproduct of another activity involving Windows software, usually starting with Office/365.

New comment by Paianni in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

Paianni — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:33:43 +0000

KDE lost some corporate support when SUSE changed their default to GNOME in about 2005(?). I think it sees some use in the automotive world but aside from that it's all volunteer work.

New comment by Paianni in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

Paianni — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:07:23 +0000

If you liked that you would have loved the N9 (same body but with Linux-based OS).

New comment by Paianni in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

Paianni — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:03:52 +0000

Modern engines are generally more reliable, yes. And galvanised steel and aluminium has helped chassis' and bodies last longer too. I think the 'sweet spot' has passed for most car categories though, the last being city cars when they got mandatory infotainment systems towards the end of the 2010s.

New comment by Paianni in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

Paianni — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:33:40 +0000

I know that the specification changed multiple times prior to launch (mostly screen related I think).

New comment by Paianni in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

Paianni — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:43:39 +0000

afaik the tablet was in development hell for much of 2015, by the time it was ready it was no longer profitable and Jolla couldn't afford to buy more than about 600 units without going bust.