Hacker News: TheJohnSmith1https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheJohnSmith1Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:15:56 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by TheJohnSmith1 in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"]]>Steam is literally just a DRM layer. I'd honestly prefer to not even have a layer between me and my games.

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:08:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119336TheJohnSmith1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119336https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119336<![CDATA[New comment by TheJohnSmith1 in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"]]>Increasingly, I wish Valve was less propriety. GOG is the correct business model. While they do great things for linux (steam input, proton), I wish these were far less tied to the application.

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:06:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119302TheJohnSmith1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119302https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119302<![CDATA[New comment by TheJohnSmith1 in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"]]>I wish Steam had a minimalist setting that only shows a list of games, with menus being available from a right click.

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:01:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119230TheJohnSmith1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119230https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119230<![CDATA[New comment by TheJohnSmith1 in "Tiny Little Office"]]>That's just plain terrible graphic design.

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:53:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119109TheJohnSmith1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119109https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119109<![CDATA[New comment by TheJohnSmith1 in "Tiny Little Office"]]>I think that there is something deeper about the disdain for AI than it's raw capitalist consequences. Perhaps it's that we are losing the quintessentially human act of creation to robots.

Is software a utility or an artistic outlet?

]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:50:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119058TheJohnSmith1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119058https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119058