<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alarsama</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alarsama</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:34:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alarsama" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alarsama in "Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some things I noticed right off the bat:<p>- I'd recommend adding a way to add multiple channels at once. The current workflow works great for adding a single channel, but it was tedious to add more than one channel. I imagine most people using this service will add many channels at the beginning.<p>- I'd like to be able to keep the same channel selections on multiple devices. Accounts and/or sync would probably be a lot of overhead to implement. Maybe some kind of unique link that contains a list of channels, like how PCPartPicker creates unique links for each build?<p>- Someone else mentioned this, and I'd like to +1 it - clicking the channel in the Channels section does nothing, when I'd expect it to show the channel's videos.<p>Other than that, I love it! Great work!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:05:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441501</link><dc:creator>alarsama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alarsama in "Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is exactly what I have been looking for. It's way too easy to get lost in the auto-suggested videos and shorts on YouTube. It was also always a hassle keeping up a local Invidious instance up and running in my homelab.<p>Thank you so much for creating this! I'll try it out for a few days and provide feedback.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:16:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441269</link><dc:creator>alarsama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alarsama in "Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have used this EFI folder for my own HP Pavilion Aero 13! It works for the most part! I even commented in some of the issues for that GitHub repo a few months back… However, I had issues with sleep/wake. This has been the common pain point for me when working with Hackintoshes. There are a lot of things that can break sleep/wake, and I rely heavily on that feature working without issue.<p>As much as I love Hackintoshes, they can be a huge time sink if you want 1-1 feature parity with an equivalent Apple product. It is not too difficult getting Hackintoshes to install and boot to the desktop in this day and age thanks to Dortania’s OpenCore guide and contributions from groups like Acidanthera. However, it takes far more time, effort, research, and trial-and-error to get small things working because there are so many different variants and situations to account for. Examples - Wifi/BT and Continuity features require cards pulled directly from a recent MacBook, or a Fenvi card, both of which no longer work with Sonoma without using OCLP / CPU profiles might need adjustment to account for battery life and performance issues / Intel SST was never used with MacOS devices, so any computers using Ice Lake Intel CPUs and Intel SST can’t have a working built-in microphone or headphone jack, etc. Reliability is a pain as well. Anything can break at any time.<p>At this point, I’ve come to learn that if you want a macOS device that just works, you are better off just getting a new Mac mini (desktop) or MacBook Air/Pro (laptop). I understand the arguments against this (high costs for specs, lack of repairability, intentional sabotage of repairs with third-party parts, used market is a gamble with ADE/MDM and iCloud locks, lack of customization with other computer components, etc). But I (fortunately) have never had issues with any of my MacBooks or Mac minis. And they have always “just worked” for my use cases.<p>Hackintoshes make for great fun projects where you do not rely on that computer for day-to-day operations. Though the ability to Hackintosh may soon be impossible with newer OS versions. It is only a matter of time since Apple is moving away from Intel x86 processors, which is part of what allowed Hackintoshes to be possible in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:43:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300105</link><dc:creator>alarsama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alarsama in "Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not clear in the article who will keep debit cards as accepted forms of payment. At least for mobile providers who will still offer debit for payment in the future, you do not have to provide your bank account number. Though you do lose out on credit card benefits like points/rewards and the ease of disputing charges.<p>For those whose mobile providers will switch to only using bank account numbers for payments and want the ability to be able to block access to the account if that account number is somehow compromised, I would recommend looking into Qube Money [1]. Among many other awesome functions (like being a great budgeting tool), it allows you to create different “Qubes” (pronounced “cubes”, think digital cash envelope) that you place money in and allocate towards different bills. It’s similar to Privacy and Capital One’s virtual credit cards in that each Qube is assigned a unique debit card number. More importantly, each Qube gets its own bank account number. Closing a Qube and opening a new Qube with a new bank account number is easy. There are more great features, but I figure this was most relevant to the topic.<p>[1] <a href="https://qubemoney.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://qubemoney.com/</a></p>
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