Hacker News: ZekeSulastin

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "iBook Clamshell"

ZekeSulastin — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:20:28 +0000

I don’t think I’ve seen a cookie banner pop up with a “please reconsider” on refusal … ever, actually. Neat?

I had Debian running on an old clamshell iBook for a bit; the main things I remember were that it was kind of neat, and that it took less cpu to play music from my server via mpd and pulseaudio-over-network than it did to play the files directly on the iBook.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

ZekeSulastin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:03:00 +0000

This is a more Reddit comment section than I’ve seen on r/headphones in ages. It’s almost nostalgic!

I use my wired Sundara (which have dropped in price greatly since I got them years ago!) at my desk with DAC/AMP all the time, of course, and have a very nice set of Etymotic IEMs with a USB-C dongle permanently attached (once I stopped using it for my PC*). For use with my phone I haven’t actually reached for those Etys over my AirPods Pro 2 in years as the latter are significantly more convenient. They also work fine with Windows 11 (which supports AAC over Bluetooth, as can Linux IIRC) if I want to use them there for whatever reason. Maybe I’m blessed in that I don’t require my phone to be a critical listening device?

* If you have hissing/interference/etc when plugging headphones into your PC, the Apple USB-C dongle is very good and only 9 USD.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

ZekeSulastin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:45:27 +0000

Do you have a German word for ignoring the things the person you’re replying to liked about a given thing?

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

ZekeSulastin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:35:44 +0000

The separate light-only sticks are useful if you want the appearance of all four slots filled: having four RAM sticks usually forces a slower memory speed (as the target market typically overclocks their RAM*), so unless you actually need a lot of RAM and can’t get a 2x32 or 2x48 etc kit you’re better off with the fakes.

Edit: this is also why some “extreme overclocking”-type motherboards** only have two DIMM slots: having four actively opposes their purpose.

* And yes, loading an XMP/EXPO profile to get the advertised 3000CL60 or w/e counts!

** i.e. https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-crosshair/rog-cross...

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

ZekeSulastin — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:42:10 +0000

Didn’t they only block Antigravity though, leaving other services available?

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "What Happened to Fry's Electronics"

ZekeSulastin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:24:26 +0000

That’s less than the cost of a 34 mile round trip to and from Radio Shack, especially these days.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

ZekeSulastin — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:57:58 +0000

That's not the complaint at all - the complaint is that, because of the anti-stalking measures added at the original launch, the AirTags can't be used to track stolen items because the thieves will be notified that they are being "stalked".

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB"

ZekeSulastin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:54:14 +0000

Which doesn’t matter at all in the case of Helldivers 2 as it’s only available for PC, PS5, and XBS/X. That’s a good part of why PC players were so irritated, actually: when all this blew up a few months ago, the PC install sizes was ~133 GB vs the consoles’ 36 GB.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

ZekeSulastin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:18:52 +0000

At least for SponsorBlock you can run iSponsorBlockTV[1] on another computer on the same network - in addition to skipping sponsored segments, it also mutes YouTube’s own ads and auto-skips them as soon as it can.

[1] https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Steam Machine"

ZekeSulastin — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:51:39 +0000

I thought DLSS4 did work on Linux, and a quick glance at r/linux_gaming seems to say the same.

I agree about RDNA3 holding it back; given its specs I’m hoping its significantly cheaper than $750.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game"

ZekeSulastin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:38:28 +0000

It's mentioned as upcoming in the FAQ under "How much will it cost?": "$30 on subwaybuilder.com and $40 on Steam (page is coming soon). The Steam launch won't happen for a few months after the launch on subwaybuilder.com."

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive"

ZekeSulastin — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:16:52 +0000

Wasn’t the legal difference that Apple never said you could whereas Google did then added roadblocks?

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)"

ZekeSulastin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:32:59 +0000

The project readme has some thoughts about why X.Org is treated as done and why the dev forked; I think I get why the OP didn’t link that instead.

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/tree/xlibre/master

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "WeightWatchers files bankruptcy"

ZekeSulastin — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:28:16 +0000

Here’s a fun thought exercise - replace Ozempic/weight loss with any number of drug/mental health condition pairs.

I also hope there’s no long term worse side effects, but I agree with pjc50 in that most of the negative reaction is actually about feeling morally superior.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

ZekeSulastin — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:56:04 +0000

Steam still exists on PC.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "A M.2 HDMI capture card"

ZekeSulastin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:18:26 +0000

I have a spare-parts NAS on a Z170 (Intel 6k/7k) motherboard with 8 SATA ports and 2 NVME slots - if I put an x2 SSD in the top slot it would disable two ports, and if it was an x4 it would disable four! Luckily the bottom m2 slot doesn’t conflict with any SATA ports, just an expansion card slot. (The board supports SATA Express even - did anything actually use that?)

SATA ports are far scarcer these days though and there’s more PCIE bandwidth available anyways, so it’s not surprising that there aren’t conflicts as often anymore.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment"

ZekeSulastin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:52:44 +0000

I didn’t understand at the time how much of a privilege it was that I could walk to school where I grew up (with crossing guards for the elementary schoolers, even!) and more importantly that my parents encouraged it, even if it was a bit of a hike to middle and high school without a bike.

Unfortunately we moved during high school and lived something like 15 miles from the new school; at least there was a bus.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Apple M3 Ultra"

ZekeSulastin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:27:59 +0000

Not even Framework has escaped from soldered RAM for this kind of thing.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "DigiKey's Tariff Resources"

ZekeSulastin — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 19:45:59 +0000

I know anecdote vs anecdote is pretty much meaningless and I’m channeling “No true Scotsman”, but I find it hard to believe an actual progressive telling you that - the complaints from the progressive wing about Sanders losing the primaries are evergreen.

New comment by ZekeSulastin in "Apple Invites"

ZekeSulastin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:20:35 +0000

Other messaging platforms; the one most commonly cited seems to be WhatsApp.