Hacker News: Toorkit

New comment by Toorkit in "The happiest I've ever been"

Toorkit — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:19:20 +0000

My happiness peaked sometime around 10-11 years old, it's been downhill ever since

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

Toorkit — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:47:22 +0000

My CPU can run Windows 11 fine, but what I don't tolerate is full-screen ad pop-ups on my desktop.

When Win10 popped up an ad for Win11, I moved fully to Linux the next day.

New comment by Toorkit in "AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools"

Toorkit — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:03:39 +0000

99% of students had cafeteria lunch and I was one of a couple with a lunch box. Teachers in the hallway would see it and get mad until I showed them my sandwich lol.

New comment by Toorkit in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

Toorkit — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:28:43 +0000

Not just the US, my village in Germany has a limit of 30 kph, people drive through with 60.

New comment by Toorkit in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

Toorkit — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:00:38 +0000

My bank replaced it's banktown.com url with b-twn.com, I thought I was on a phishing site, but it's legitimate.

New comment by Toorkit in "LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users"

Toorkit — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:32:53 +0000

DOMINATE

New comment by Toorkit in "Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]"

Toorkit — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:41:49 +0000

I asked some really stupid questions on IRC when I first heard of this "Linux" thing as a kid. Good times!

New comment by Toorkit in "What does it mean to be thirsty?"

Toorkit — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:59:24 +0000

Cold Clear Vater

New comment by Toorkit in "The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month"

Toorkit — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:36:28 +0000

Any app/website/program/whatever where one might typically use an emoji usually has a button next to the input for selecting one.

So, yeah, I've never needed a dedicated emoji picker myself, even though I've had Rofimoji installed for a while.

New comment by Toorkit in "Why English doesn't use accents"

Toorkit — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:59:50 +0000

Fritteuse.

New comment by Toorkit in "Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity"

Toorkit — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:29:20 +0000

Ha, I actually had to do this last year while setting up Arch Linux on my desktop.

I have to use this wifi dongle, but using IWD to connect somehow only gave me an ipv6 IP.

Most of the big sites worked, but trying to click links from a search engine was a 50/50 chance.

Thankfully, the Arch wiki was accessible, so I got it sorted out pretty quickly.

New comment by Toorkit in "You Don't Own the Word "Freedom""

Toorkit — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:21:41 +0000

Not what I said either. That's like saying we're segregating the Linux Mint from the Ubuntu users.

New comment by Toorkit in "You Don't Own the Word "Freedom""

Toorkit — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:34:39 +0000

Linux is just a base that people stack other software on top of. Audio crash? Pulse or Pipe wire?

Then the dozens of desktop environments, each doing things differently, split between X11 and Wayland.

I feel like blind devs should get together and make a distro that, out of the box, has as many accessibility features as possible, because it seems a lost cause to wait for some other distro to pick the right combination of tools.

New comment by Toorkit in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

Toorkit — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:50:21 +0000

It's about time they added AI features to paperclips.

New comment by Toorkit in "MinC Is Not Cygwin"

Toorkit — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:35:03 +0000

Playing fine for me, also Firefox on Android.

New comment by Toorkit in "You Commit Three Felonies a Day (2013)"

Toorkit — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:17:34 +0000

Absolutely. I have a flawless record.

New comment by Toorkit in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

Toorkit — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:12:35 +0000

I can still remember ads on TV from when I was a kid. Mind worms, embedded deep. And it makes me angry.

New comment by Toorkit in "I spent 18 years in the Linux console"

Toorkit — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:17:45 +0000

They also popped open a full screen Windows 11 ad after I closed a game last year. That's when I went back to Linux.

New comment by Toorkit in "Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws"

Toorkit — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:18:19 +0000

"Hey guys, it's time to talk about our sponsor, Surf shark VPN"

New comment by Toorkit in "Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds"

Toorkit — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:02:44 +0000

Then you say "it's a handheld gaming device" and the matter is settled.