Hacker News: Scharkenberg

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

Scharkenberg — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:08:13 +0000

It is literally the MSN Weather website packaged as a WebView2 app.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

Scharkenberg — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:57:37 +0000

Yes, using an already-running Edge instance saves a bunch of memory. Also, this approach has the advantage of allowing all of your browser extensions to modify your Web-App experience. WebView2 doesn't relay Edge extensions.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

Scharkenberg — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:17:24 +0000

It is the opposite for me. I did not know who they are and now I have a positive opinion of them.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

Scharkenberg — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:11:42 +0000

Which part was not correctly followed?

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

Scharkenberg — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:14:11 +0000

I have no idea how you got to "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair" given that I literally blamed the slow OS disk drive inside the computer based on thousands of data points on my end.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

Scharkenberg — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:37:42 +0000

Upgrade that PC's OS drive to a NVMe. Seriously. We manage thousands of PCs at work and ever since we got laptop models with NVMe drives, updates are a breeze with 6 ± 3 minutes of total downtime.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox"

Scharkenberg — Sun, 25 May 2025 10:56:53 +0000

This is Wizard News after all.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page"

Scharkenberg — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:18:43 +0000

Case sensitivity on Windows?

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete"

Scharkenberg — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:54:30 +0000

We just began testing the upgrade to 24H2 this week and haven't noticed the issue on any of our test machines (about 80 amd64 devices and VMs so far).

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Ask HN: How to emulate a smartphone on a computer for banking apps?"

Scharkenberg — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:52:17 +0000

You could hope that Android Studio's emulator / modded Waydroid or WSA would work for a while. At most you'd be buying time. Seriously, just keep the phone and fix your own unwanted habits instead. You'd be wasting your time fighting the checks and blocks they have put in place. At some point strict hardware attestation will be both very strong and ubiquitous enough that it will be impossible to run apps with high security requirements in custom environments. Google and Apple have no incentive to let loose either, unless they are forced to, which I unfortunately don't see happening.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "New Win11 insider build blocks install on older hardware, prevents TPM bypass"

Scharkenberg — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 08:36:02 +0000

FYI this is a Windows vNext build and the current placeholder name for its development branch is XY30H1. It is not launching anytime soon.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out"

Scharkenberg — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:23:54 +0000

Well, that's your problem, dude. :)

New comment by Scharkenberg in "The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community"

Scharkenberg — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 21:18:44 +0000

I would assume there is no vodka in a mocktail...

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux"

Scharkenberg — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 23:07:17 +0000

Constantly? My friends and I hardly ever talk about computers, and that's how it is for most people. What you are suggesting would be a very weird habit. Your friends have agency, are allowed to like or not care about Recall, and needn't be nannied the whole time. Reminder: being more tech-literate than the average person doesn't grant anyone the right to be annoying about such topics. Cherish the time with your friends instead.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics"

Scharkenberg — Thu, 23 May 2024 10:14:48 +0000

25 years ago is not "recently".

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)"

Scharkenberg — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:59:10 +0000

Yes, it's still the best office suite in the market.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)"

Scharkenberg — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:56:35 +0000

The size threshold is now at 25 MB, I think.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing"

Scharkenberg — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:01:47 +0000

Israel.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "The ü/ü Conundrum"

Scharkenberg — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:55:56 +0000

The most famous German poet is (probs) Goethe. Still written with oe to this day.

New comment by Scharkenberg in "Antarctic English"

Scharkenberg — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:15:58 +0000

Eszett, Jänner