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New comment by ankurdhama in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

ankurdhama — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:14:37 +0000

mac treats modifier keys like modifier keys whereas windows treat super key as modifier key and start menu key (which is weird)

New comment by ankurdhama in "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)"

ankurdhama — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:30:50 +0000

There are many premium Windows laptops that have same nice smooth trackpad.

New comment by ankurdhama in "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)"

ankurdhama — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:29:44 +0000

Please search for "find any windows latpop that have same kind of haptic trackpad as macbook" and you will find your answer. There are many such laptops.

New comment by ankurdhama in "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)"

ankurdhama — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:58:33 +0000

Not related to this but the other day I was searching for a good external trackpad that would work with macOS and there are very few (and not good) and every discussion was about how nothing comes close to Apple magic trackpad. The question is why can't other companies create such a good trackpad for macOS, it turns out they can't because the whole protocol for touchpad/gestures etc are proprietary and closed on macOS side so essentially any 3rd party trackpad has to emulate a mouse device. Thats what you get when a company makes computer and its OS and also its accessories and also software services, the whole stack, you either use their whole thing or not.

New comment by ankurdhama in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

ankurdhama — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:16:39 +0000

Does this also mean the code generated and reviewed by LLMs will not have such issues going forward?

New comment by ankurdhama in "Windows 11½"

ankurdhama — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:09:51 +0000

Are you sure that you installed the virtualized GPU drivers in fedora? Did you check if fedora was still using llvmpipe (i.e CPU rendering). Did you try the x86 or ARM version of fedora?

> After decades, linux is still hard to try out.

It's not, you just need to get a proper computer to try it where the CPU/GPU company actually support linux.

New comment by ankurdhama in "Goodbye Google"

ankurdhama — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:14:45 +0000

There is a solution to this problem of "AI going to kill everyone".

- Create powerful AI but don't release it and keep it secret.

- Ask this AI to create some sort of virus that can be delivered to every human in the world without them knowing it and this virus does a fundamental change to the human brain such that humans never ever could even think of hurting other humans.

- Release this powerful AI to everyone.

Will that work?

New comment by ankurdhama in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

ankurdhama — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:29:41 +0000

> I will believe KDE cares about UX once they finally fix the clock to have the same font size for date and time, like Windows does it

At least the date time on KDE taskbar is readable and you can change it to show date and time side by side and that uses same font size for both. Windows taskbar date time are so tiny (with so much empty space around it) and doesn't even change if you change font scaling.

New comment by ankurdhama in "iPhone Duo"

ankurdhama — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:58:35 +0000

Apple users: We won't leave apple ecosystem but those android fold phones looks cool, wish apple had something similar.

Apple: There you go.

This is the reason this exist.

New comment by ankurdhama in "Omarchy Histerya"

ankurdhama — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:41:56 +0000

Influencers job is all about creating hype, that's how they make money so if you find them annoying just ignore them.

AFAIK Omarchy is created for a specific audience i.e tech enthusiast and people who are just getting into Linux will surely find it amazing. We all have been through these phases: New to Linux -> start on standard Gnome or KDE (or Unity back in the day) -> get to know about ricing/customization/window managers -> get bored and go back to standard Gnome or KDE.

There is nothing wrong with it, this is the nature of open ecosystem of Linux. You should use whatever you like and most importantly do not get upset if something else is getting more hype these day.

New comment by ankurdhama in "The turbulent AI era is here"

ankurdhama — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:52:40 +0000

If the result will be huge job loss doesn't that mean the overall buying power of all across all economies will go down drastically which begs the question who will buy the stuff that these companies that get rid of people are making?

New comment by ankurdhama in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

ankurdhama — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:48:38 +0000

I have disabled it many many months ago and storage still shows 9 gb of Apple intelligence.

New comment by ankurdhama in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

ankurdhama — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:07:10 +0000

Don't forget no income tax on "agricultural income" even if that income is millions.

New comment by ankurdhama in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

ankurdhama — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:43:33 +0000

Coding is the act of translating an algorithm or system design into a specific programming language/framework/libraries domain. That part was never the hard part as it was mostly about learning the syntax/conventions etc of that stack and then doing the translation. The hard part is about coming up with righ algorithms and system design for your particular software and evoling that over time without breaking it (the "evolving over time" part is the most tricky part).

New comment by ankurdhama in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

ankurdhama — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:07:28 +0000

Product quality has nothing to do with ubiquity. Its all about shady business deals that locks you into products where the migration cost is much higher.

New comment by ankurdhama in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

ankurdhama — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:27:53 +0000

Take any chronic health issue for which people have to take medicine or other treatment for the rest of life and find a cure for that (not treatment but cure). Unless you can do please STFU about AGI or ASI.

New comment by ankurdhama in "Ask HN: Ubuntu 24.04 now force-automounts any plugged-in MMC card or USB key"

ankurdhama — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:31:16 +0000

This is probably done by some udev rule file.

New comment by ankurdhama in "Show HN: Sel – macOS screen sharing that shows only the windows you pick"

ankurdhama — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:51:44 +0000

Why not just a share a new virtual desktop and move windows to it that you want to share?

New comment by ankurdhama in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

ankurdhama — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:03:32 +0000

AFAIK you can still install any random APK but the process will require enabling developer mode and one time 24 hour wait period. But the problem is many stupid Apps check that developer mode is on and refuse to work.

New comment by ankurdhama in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

ankurdhama — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:27:21 +0000

No price increase in iPhone to save the sales number, this clearly shows that Apple is iPhone first company.