Hacker News: Yokolos

New comment by Yokolos in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

Yokolos — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:25:52 +0000

That's unfair. I'm going unfairly called out even though I stand by my beliefs and I'm only trying to defend myself. How are the replies to my comments in any way acceptable and according to HN guidelines???

"Put your money where your mouth is", come on. That's not acceptable and it's provoking. How can you defend bullies like this?

New comment by Yokolos in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

Yokolos — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:55:03 +0000

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New comment by Yokolos in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

Yokolos — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:00:45 +0000

> I don’t care one bit about upgradability or customizability. After a year or two, I’m happy to throw it out and buy a new one. It’s not like upgradability is a bad thing, but it usually comes with tradeoffs to weight and power draw, and I’d rather it all be in one solid package glued together. And I don’t like customizability because I like when all the testing and polish work is put into one configuration.

Jesus christ. What a wasteful and selfish way to look at things.

New comment by Yokolos in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

Yokolos — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:28:00 +0000

The problem is doing it as a company. IBM wasn't defeated by hobbyists building their own PCs. They were defeated by other companies reverse engineering their BIOS and selling their own IBM compatible systems. This isn't possible anymore. It just means you get buried in lawsuits until you go bankrupt.

New comment by Yokolos in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

Yokolos — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:51:41 +0000

The assumption back then was that other companies would be making shows. Consolidating even more show production in one company is not something we should want.

New comment by Yokolos in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

Yokolos — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:56:53 +0000

Why would anybody buy it? This is a bad sign for consumer memory in general. It's more likely we're going to see more exits from this segment instead.

New comment by Yokolos in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

Yokolos — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:35:46 +0000

I think we can all agree that performance is often an afterthought to game developers, particular in bigger productions, but HD2 is sort of a bad example for that.

New comment by Yokolos in "Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy"

Yokolos — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:00:33 +0000

He's worked on an impressive number of great games. Prey, SW Kotor 2, Fallout New Vegas, Neverwinter Nights 2, Icewind Dale 1+2 and Alpha Protocol (ok, arguably great) jump out at me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Avellone#Works

New comment by Yokolos in "WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe"

Yokolos — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:01:56 +0000

I miss the days when I could start Pidgin and it'd automatically log into every single service I use, and I could chat with anybody regardless of which service they were on. I didn't need half a dozen different apps running just to chat. It felt like a utopia compared to what we have today.

New comment by Yokolos in "“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran"

Yokolos — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:58:10 +0000

I'm wondering for what purpose one would be interested in finding out if a site is hosted in Iran or not.

New comment by Yokolos in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

Yokolos — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:51:06 +0000

EDAC is a general term for an error detection and correction system. It can encompass ECC memory or other solutions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01419...

New comment by Yokolos in "Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter"

Yokolos — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:49:38 +0000

Probably no different than current drives? Who would pay more for worse drives? Particularly in enterprise, where defect rates and error rates make a much bigger difference and quickly add up across such a large number of drives.

New comment by Yokolos in "Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices"

Yokolos — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:00:55 +0000

You clearly haven't met a lot of your average PC or phone user then. Most people don't care about getting the newest and best thing. If a thing still works, they'll use it until it doesn't anymore, however long that is. You have no idea the kinds of PCs I saw people using when I worked as a technician. People just don't have an interest in getting new tech unless they're forced to, because they largely aren't interested in tech. They're interested in document processing, watching videos, listening to music and dealing with their pictures. And they don't care how old the device is they're doing it on.

In addition, they don't want to spend money on it. They'd rather spend money on things they actually care about. Festivals, clubs, vacations, a new TV, a car, restaurants, whatever. Your average non-tech person is happy if they don't have to spend anything on gadgets for 10 years.

New comment by Yokolos in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

Yokolos — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:13:34 +0000

Somebody I know had asthma while she lived in Jakarta. It went away when she moved to Europe. I really liked Jakarta, but the air quality is one of the reasons why I won't go back again.

New comment by Yokolos in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

Yokolos — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:52:10 +0000

That's literally just the JEDEC spec.

New comment by Yokolos in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

Yokolos — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:08:21 +0000

At the very least, you can usually still get the data off of them. Most SSDs I've encountered with defects failed catastrophically, rendering the data completely inaccessible.

New comment by Yokolos in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

Yokolos — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:59:13 +0000

Any given TBW/DWPD values are irrelevant for unpowered data retention. Afaik, nobody gives these values in their datasheet and I'm wondering where their numbers are from, because I've never seen anything official. At this point I'd need to be convinced that the manufacturers even know themselves internally, because it's never been mentioned by them and it seems to be outside the intended use cases for SSDs

New comment by Yokolos in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

Yokolos — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:27:51 +0000

Give it a month or two and it might be cheaper to get the bus.

New comment by Yokolos in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

Yokolos — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:17:49 +0000

I bought 32GB of DDR5 SODIMM last year for 108€ on Amazon. The exact same product that I bought back then is now 232€ on Amazon. I don't like this ride.

New comment by Yokolos in "The feds want to make it illegal to even possess an anarchist zine"

Yokolos — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:56:43 +0000

It's crazy how good the writing in that game is and how applicable it is today. It makes me wonder who wrote it and what their influences were.