Hacker News: SirLotsaLocks

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025"

SirLotsaLocks — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:50:34 +0000

It will probably just be called "Windows". They've shown they wanted windows 10 to be the final release of windows that they'll just update a couple times a year and add on to. This new windows will probably be a more simplified windows that they've been trying to make with windows 10S/S mode and windows 10X. Give it a UI/UX overhaul, push the WUP and call it just Windows because its the only windows you'll ever have to worry about from now on.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC"

SirLotsaLocks — Wed, 26 May 2021 13:25:02 +0000

A lot of consoles are sold at a loss, where costs are made up by people buying games through the console on the makers store, I wonder how valve will go about this because I don't see a lot of people getting this that didn't already have steam on another device.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC"

SirLotsaLocks — Wed, 26 May 2021 13:07:23 +0000

Yeah this is where valve's investment into Linux would potentially pay off. Any platform they make could run Linux and work really well while basically all of steam's competitors either haven't done anything for Linux or have actively avoided/worked against it.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side"

SirLotsaLocks — Wed, 26 May 2021 12:08:19 +0000

They're still paying the price for what the US did to them, I don't think it's too uncommon for reparations to be payed by different people because usually reparations are on behalf of the government itself. If a different government took over the US then I think it would be a bit unfair to expect reparations. But as it stands it's the same government and a lot of the people who took part in the atrocities are still alive today, it's not like it happened hundreds of years ago.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side"

SirLotsaLocks — Wed, 26 May 2021 11:57:48 +0000

>Humanity has seen the most positive growth by far under Pax Americana.

It's not really much of a Pax Americana in the middle east or Central/South America. East Asia seems to be next too. "Pax Americana" has definitely been amazing for the west and it's friends but as countries like China and India start to challenge that, true colors will probably start to show as the existing world power(s) fight to keep that title.

What’s Next for Google’s Fuchsia OS?

SirLotsaLocks — Tue, 25 May 2021 20:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2021/05/25/whats-next-for-googles-fuchsia-os/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27282470

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Elk OS – Audio Operating System"

SirLotsaLocks — Tue, 25 May 2021 15:35:43 +0000

It's less comprehensive but depending on your definition devices like Amazons Echo or Googles Home devices could count as audio only OSes

Kdenlive 21.04 Released

SirLotsaLocks — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://kdenlive.org/en/2021/04/kdenlive-21-04-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26974271

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated"

SirLotsaLocks — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:27:41 +0000

I'd imagine a lot of explosions too. Most big excavation back then used explosions but also a lot of individual manpower as well.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Trash the Planet – An anti-capitalist clicker"

SirLotsaLocks — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:51:17 +0000

It looks very nice. I like that it has the option to start without sound as well.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "AMA: Gaël Duval, founder of the de-Googled Android OS /e/"

SirLotsaLocks — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:42:24 +0000

Or elementeryOS which is commonly referred to as eOS

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "KDE vs. Gnome Design Philosophies (2017)"

SirLotsaLocks — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:30:26 +0000

I know exactly what you mean, my personal tolerance is higher so I don't care as much but I think everything being customizable also makes it less solid feeling.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Nyxt Browser"

SirLotsaLocks — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:10:47 +0000

Gecko itself is almost impossible to use outside of firefox at this point so I don't think it would work well in this kind of a browser unfortunately. I'm not sure about servo though other than it just not being ready for normal browsing.

Pangolin Mobile is a new open-source user interface for Linux/zircon smartphones

SirLotsaLocks — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:33:55 +0000

Article URL: https://linuxsmartphones.com/pangolin-mobile-is-a-new-open-source-user-interface-for-smartphones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26518332

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Audacity 3.0"

SirLotsaLocks — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:34:06 +0000

That's really exciting

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu"

SirLotsaLocks — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:09:50 +0000

at the moment I plan on continuing using firefox so I'm not leaving but you can't keep using a browser with a worse experience because of some futile moral cause. Firefox has to earn their place and be a browser people to use. I think firefox going after the general public makes sense but when it comes at an expense to generally more advanced users they've probably gone a step too far though to be fair they don't have nearly as many devs as other browsers like chrome and edge.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Clone Wars: Open-source clones of popular sites"

SirLotsaLocks — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:27:16 +0000

The list is also on their readme.md which isn't a scrolling frame if that's what you like.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Calligra- FOSS Office Suite by KDE Team"

SirLotsaLocks — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:25:58 +0000

It really does, there is a kde app for everything.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "Ask HN: Hacker News comment tree indentation on text-based web browsers?"

SirLotsaLocks — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 07:24:59 +0000

Yeah I wonder how this affects assistive technologies.

New comment by SirLotsaLocks in "My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television"

SirLotsaLocks — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 02:05:49 +0000

I love coming across things like this. This is what makes the internet so cool to me, being able to just watch tv from decades ago completely wild.