Hacker News: ZPrimed

New comment by ZPrimed in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

ZPrimed — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:00:13 +0000

I think Veronica setup an identical demo copy in a VM and thus could easily screenshot the VM.

New comment by ZPrimed in "I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden"

ZPrimed — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:20:04 +0000

author of the site appears to be an anti-JS fringe person, and that's their method of "protest."

If you switch away and then come back to the tab, they have a popover explaining all of this.

I just went and disabled JS for their silly site.

New comment by ZPrimed in "People Love to Work Hard"

ZPrimed — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:10:31 +0000

this...

i work for a community-focused nonprofit, but the middle managers are ineffectual and problematic, and the c-levels aren't clueful enough to realize the toxicity being created below them (plus are too obsessed with bolstering their own careers to care).

i'm tired of it, despite truly believing in the org's mission.

New comment by ZPrimed in "This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell"

ZPrimed — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:29:19 +0000

I don't disagree with much of what the author wrote here, except for the part about "I'm starving, but I'm vegan so I won't eat SPAM and I won't eat the peanut butter because it is 'processed' and has 'chemicals.'"

Humans are omnivores, veganism is a choice. You don't get to complain about how rough it is when you yourself have chosen to play with hard mode turned on. Obviously if there are health issues that require an altered diet that's a different story, but if that was mentioned I missed it somehow.

Everything else about the story has merit though, the rich are too rich and the US's "safety nets" are awful. Nobody should go bankrupt due to health problems they can't control.

New comment by ZPrimed in "The wonder of modern drywall"

ZPrimed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:14:21 +0000

yeah, my parents' US home (which was originally my grandmother's) in the eastern half of the US has plaster-on-drywall construction.

it is a bitch and a half for hanging anything (just like plaster on lath), plus it screws up wifi.

Pro tip for finding a stud, if you have access to the bare floor -- stick a drywalling knife / spatula under the bottom trim and poke. you can find the studs that way, and then measure off since 16" is pretty common. Measuring off the edge of an electrical box can work too, but you have to figure out what side of the stud the box is on...

New comment by ZPrimed in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

ZPrimed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:34:36 +0000

well this certainly goes a long way to explaining why i've been fighting with window resize on tahoe :p

it's stupidly difficult to grab windows by the flat edges, too

New comment by ZPrimed in "Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account"

ZPrimed — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:59:56 +0000

Companies that are limiting what characters people use in their passwords are almost definitely doing something incredibly wrong with security.

(passwords should be hashed...)

New comment by ZPrimed in "Making macOS Bearable"

ZPrimed — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:28:24 +0000

This is the way, though. I do exactly the same thing. I was a trackball user for many years on Windows (due to wrist & arm pain from mouse use), but the Magic Trackpad works way better with macOS than trackballs (primarily because the Kensington software is garbage).

New comment by ZPrimed in "The government ate my name"

ZPrimed — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 03:10:51 +0000

If I saw your name in a CRM system, as a USican, I would assume that some dumbass on my team accidentally pasted your last name into the field twice.

New comment by ZPrimed in "The government ate my name"

ZPrimed — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 02:56:56 +0000

I had a former coworker who had just (legally) changed his entire name in order to fully separate himself from his family when he started with the company. (This was in the US.) It made the onboarding kind of weird, because he originally gave us one name but then when he started had an entirely different one.

New comment by ZPrimed in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

ZPrimed — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:37:56 +0000

Chromebooks work pretty well for seniors, IMO. Cheaper than iPads too.

New comment by ZPrimed in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

ZPrimed — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:37:08 +0000

I would've refused to give her the cesspool that is conservative social media, but I guess if she's explicitly asking for it she's probably too far gone to remediate

New comment by ZPrimed in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

ZPrimed — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:35:42 +0000

the fact that it allows more screen space for content is appreciated, but the way it was forced on everyone pisses me off.

You can change it in settings -> Apps -> Safari, under the "Tabs" section - "Bottom" is like what it used to be. I immediately switched to that after the update to 26, but once I realized you could swipe up from the address bar to get to the tab view, I switched back so I could get more content space.

I don't like that it's two taps to get to the share button now though.

New comment by ZPrimed in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

ZPrimed — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:21:54 +0000

oh come on, you just need to buy a Mac so you can use one of the management toolkits to prevent that from happening. it Just Works!

_deeply_ /s of course

(and I say this as someone who is basically 100% a Mac user who admins Linux for a living... Apple makes a lot of stupid / frustrating decisions that I don't agree with, but I still prefer it over the alternatives)

New comment by ZPrimed in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

ZPrimed — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:15:19 +0000

This is part of why I absolutely LOATHE the multiple "sign-in-with-Y" prompts on everything.

Federation's not a terrible idea for people who don't "get it," but many places are then starting to _hide_ the standard email-based login form... it's bonkers.

Google can go DIAF for their browser-based forced popover that so many sites have opted-in to (so they can sell more expensive ads, of course). [I use Vivaldi which is Chromium-based and AFAIK there's no way to shut off those prompts]

New comment by ZPrimed in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

ZPrimed — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:16:31 +0000

if I purchase, am I required to scream "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US !!" ?

New comment by ZPrimed in "Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server"

ZPrimed — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:45:26 +0000

... and that's nearly impossible if you're on a residential connection and hence have no control over your reverse DNS... And who wants their mail server to self-identify as d203-0-113-5.res.fubar.isp.net ?

That's assuming your residential ISP even bothers to assign a generic PTR record to your IP.

New comment by ZPrimed in "uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome"

ZPrimed — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:22:15 +0000

I believe "FoxyGestures" is the best solution for that piece on FF at least. (As a fellow gesture enjoyer it was one of the reasons I moved to Vivaldi from Chrome.)

New comment by ZPrimed in "uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome"

ZPrimed — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:18:03 +0000

Last time I checked, some of the Google Docs/Sheets functionality wasn't fully-baked in anything but Chrome/Chromium... Maybe this has improved though? I have a nice Chrome extension that automatically checks my various GMail/Workspace accounts and gives me an icon and popout thing so I can see previews without having to fire up multiple different tabs just for a quick glance.

This was part of why I moved to Vivaldi from Chrome about a year ago. But the fact that Vivaldi can only do so much (with the Chromium base) to stave off deprecation of the best ad-blocker has me considering a move back to Firefox now.