Hacker News: SpacePortKnight

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "The case for physical media ownership"

SpacePortKnight — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:46:07 +0000

But the apartments which people can afford has gotten smaller now and also with the rise of the minimalistic culture, I have no space to put movie and games discs. I am ok with renting media. Like most people I don't re-watch movies and re-play single player games often.

imo it's just free market at play here which happens to provide value to the companies more than the consumers.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

SpacePortKnight — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:35:10 +0000

I disagree. Windows is still a very capable operating system. Is AI nonsense annoying? sure, but so are the ads on internet and only a tiny fraction of population uses adblockers.

Consumer buy laptops and smartphones, not operating systems. As long as there is no competing consumer product, Microsoft is not losing any meaningful share anytime soon. imo smartglasses might be more of a real threat to windows than copilot.

Here in the Netherlands, Macbook Neo is €700. That is by no measure a cheap laptop. Also at this price range there is plenty of competition from companies like Asus.

Recently I built a gaming PC, and I ended up installing Windows. Disabling windows AI features is significantly easier than dealing with small but frequent annoyance of linux distros.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

SpacePortKnight — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:34:47 +0000

Anthropic can now no longer buy new hardware and probably will be kicked out of all cloud compute. They can not also move to a different jurisdiction as exporting model weights is now considered same as exporting ICBM technology. Wow, companies in China are now more free than Anthropic. It's a death sentence, and a huge win for OpenAI.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Fewer H-1B visas did not mean more employment for natives (2017)"

SpacePortKnight — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:49:57 +0000

Vancouver is very close to Seattle. Would restrictions in H-1B result in increased hiring in Canada or a higher usage of L-1 visa perhaps?

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

SpacePortKnight — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:16:12 +0000

Next up, all software produced in foreign lands would be subject to tariffs.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones"

SpacePortKnight — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:55:52 +0000

Apple could make a search engine but by the same logic, they wouldn't be able to make it default on their devices.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?"

SpacePortKnight — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:42:05 +0000

All these fancy AI laptops and all I want is a fanless laptop like MBA from Intel.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "I will always prefer to work from home"

SpacePortKnight — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 18:32:06 +0000

My work is 20 minutes away which consists of a 10 minute walk and a 7 minute tram. I also get free lunch at work and since I'm single, it's also the only place where I can talk to people in real life in the weekdays. Furthermore, my gym is also next to my office. So, in my case I will always prefer to work from office until I get married and start a family.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)"

SpacePortKnight — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:13:26 +0000

I don't understand the negative comments towards Chrome. Doesn't adblockers on Safari work the same as V3?

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users"

SpacePortKnight — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:07:57 +0000

Microsoft couldn't convience people to use Edge, so it is now converting Windows into a web browser.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor"

SpacePortKnight — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 20:05:06 +0000

I pay for Youtube Premium. I don't mind paying for things which provide me value.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor"

SpacePortKnight — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:50:43 +0000

tbh if ads on a website can not be blocked by a simple content blocker, then I'll just simply stop using the website.

Safari and Chrome V3 blocker are much more privacy friendly since the extension does not need to access the entire DOM.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

SpacePortKnight — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:41:25 +0000

iPhone 15 looks better than 15 Pro. I wish the base 15 had a higher refresh rate.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

SpacePortKnight — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:29:21 +0000

That does not include any tax.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather"

SpacePortKnight — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:16:34 +0000

USA emits almost 8 times more C02 when compared to India per capita. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

In that sense India would need to be 10B+ people to poluate as much as US / west does.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather"

SpacePortKnight — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:10:20 +0000

A better solution would be if most people turn vegetarian [1]

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/02/01/global-elimination-of-m...

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather"

SpacePortKnight — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:07:55 +0000

Only emissions per capita counts. Just because those countries have more population than entire continents of Africa and Europe, does not mean it's their fault.

USA emits almost 8 times more emission per capita when compared to India. Rather India is so poor, that it must increase it's energy generation by any means possible.

So an Indian on average consumes just 1/8 of a USA citizen.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

SpacePortKnight — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:08:54 +0000

India's largest denomination banknote is now just Rs. 500 or $6 after their recent ban on the Rs. 2000 notes. Thus, online payment becomes the only way to transfer any meaningful amount.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

SpacePortKnight — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:05:25 +0000

It's both. You can transfer/receive money to/from anyone with either a QR code, a UPI address like `batman@upi` or a mobile number.

You can also setup mandates (autopay) for recurring subscriptions like Netfix. Unlike Credit Cards, you can even bypass the merchant and directly cancel an autopay through a UPI payment app.

New comment by SpacePortKnight in "Show HN: I automated half of my typing"

SpacePortKnight — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:08:23 +0000

Years of autocomplete has already made my second language i.e. English poorer. I know words but I often forget to pronounce them because I can no longer remember their spelling. A tool like this would completely obliterate all of my skills.