Hacker News: aceazzameen

New comment by aceazzameen in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

aceazzameen — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:37:35 +0000

So you want to take power away from the people even more than now?

New comment by aceazzameen in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

aceazzameen — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:55:20 +0000

Hard disagree. Corporations running the government instead of a nation's people is the problem.

New comment by aceazzameen in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

aceazzameen — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:09:43 +0000

You have to make some mistakes in your communication (or anything) if you ever want to grow and learn.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

aceazzameen — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:35:36 +0000

Look at who the Secretary of Education is in the US.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

aceazzameen — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:34:06 +0000

The days of quality Samsung products are long over.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

aceazzameen — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:53:09 +0000

And Arm is next.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

aceazzameen — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:46:53 +0000

Every studio uses a surprisingly large amount of contractors including Epic Games, Riot, etc.

New comment by aceazzameen in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

aceazzameen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:24:18 +0000

Same here. I use Firefox for everything, and uninstall all the junk via adb. Also low power mode not only for battery efficiency, but to prevent most background services from running.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours"

aceazzameen — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:24:49 +0000

My guess is to keep the US economy going.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

aceazzameen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:13:28 +0000

For the keyboard I recently discovered HeliBoard. You have to add a gboard's library to enable glide typing, but so far I really like it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard/

New comment by aceazzameen in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

aceazzameen — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:04:46 +0000

The concerted effort to hide his insane rants is unforgivable.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections"

aceazzameen — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:24:36 +0000

I'm convinced all of these ghouls will do whatever they can to buy/cheat/steal these elections. Because if they don't, they all face potential prison time. And Bannon's not looking forward to going back.

New comment by aceazzameen in "xAI joins SpaceX"

aceazzameen — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:40:13 +0000

Musk is a slimey salesman. His job as CEO is to hype bullshit.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

aceazzameen — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:50:01 +0000

That was from when Macs ran Intel and could easily dual boot Windows. I still have an old Mac Book Pro with Windows 10 on it. Updates only stopped recently because Win10 is at end of life. I've been meaning to blow everything out and install Linux.

New comment by aceazzameen in "iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models"

aceazzameen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:28:18 +0000

I had a phone with a Bixby button too. I remapped it to other apps, and never used Bixby. I wish phones had more hardware buttons again.

New comment by aceazzameen in "iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models"

aceazzameen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:25:12 +0000

GoodLock is one of the best apps on Android. I wish it were part of the OS and available on every device.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2"

aceazzameen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:56:29 +0000

Animation is also called the illusion of life [1], which when done properly always looks better than recreating real life.

But I also get it. It's easy to fall in love with the technology.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Animation%3A_The_Illusi...

New comment by aceazzameen in "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"

aceazzameen — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:48:39 +0000

How do you do it manually?

New comment by aceazzameen in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

aceazzameen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:46:17 +0000

Unfortunately that's a wall street problem. I don't think wall street can be fixed, at least I don't have any clue on how it's possible to fix it outside of destroying it.

New comment by aceazzameen in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

aceazzameen — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:15:03 +0000

I use Flauncher too. I also use Netguard from F-Droid and block everything except streaming apps and their dependencies. I only unblock Google when a steaming app requires an update. I'm slowly dropping subscriptions and moving to Jellyfin though too.