Hacker News: aquova

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

aquova — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:44:13 +0000

I'm a pretty heavy GoG customer and I disagree with a lot of this premise. Most games aren't getting updates past a year or two after their release, and the ones that are aren't DRM-free. And even if they weren't, I'd rather be able to play an older revision of a game I own than not own it at all.

Your Steam games run on Linux run due to Valve's (truly excellent) work on their compatibility layer. However, that work is not exclusive to Steam. I can play my DRM-free GoG copies of big budget Windows games just fine on Linux. There's an extra step you have to invoke, but they still run superbly. Supporting DRM-free is the best we have in an increasingly hostile customer market.

New comment by aquova in "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"

aquova — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:59:49 +0000

If you're interested or nostalgic for these types of UIs, I would strongly recommend Picotron[0]. Not only is its UI very reminiscent of these types of programs, with its own music tracker software, but developers have been making their own software and utilities with their own custom design sensibilities.

[0] https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

New comment by aquova in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

aquova — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:52:11 +0000

I think this is more discovering the rot left from the previous leadership who sat around for years and years on their bad decisions, and then using the young clueless outsider as the face.

New comment by aquova in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"

aquova — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:39:55 +0000

You're lucky, I search fairly often and never come across CRTs at thrift stores. The only option is to buy comically overpriced ones off marketplace, and I live in a large metro area.

New comment by aquova in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

aquova — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:50:59 +0000

While I do agree, if the author is reading the comments one piece of feedback I have is the overuse of the phrase "In this article I will...". It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, and they use a version of the phrase three times in the first four paragraphs.

New comment by aquova in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

aquova — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:27:52 +0000

As people have noted, this sort of thing has become inevitable and likely to increase in occurrence unless some changes are made. I'm a big fan of the AUR PKGBUILD system, and I leverage it quite frequently to write my own. The most egregious issue in my opinion, and one of the low hanging fruit to fix, is the fact that anyone can adopt an orphaned package with no notification to end users that this has happened.

It's honestly more trouble than it's worth to get your package deleted, instead leaving orphaning as the more optimal way to relinquish control. This should be the opposite in my opinion, or at the very least the users should be made very aware that an orphaning has occurred. Perhaps that burden is more on the AUR helper like paru and yay (who I would encourage to make such a change).

New comment by aquova in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

aquova — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:08:00 +0000

I can't speak for Chrome, but I can right click a Firefox picture-in-picture window, tell it to remain on top, and it does, no problem. I've been using Plasma Wayland for years now and this has worked for ages

New comment by aquova in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

aquova — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:44:51 +0000

I have such a soft spot for this scene. I saw this movie in theaters when I was a high schooler, and this exact scene with Sam entering in commands piqued my curiosity to learn if it was a real thing. I eventually discovered that OS X came shipped with a bash terminal, and that I could manipulate a computer in just the same way. It really made an impact on me, which I certainly wasn't expecting when buying tickets to this film I knew nothing about.

New comment by aquova in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

aquova — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:34:17 +0000

Where do you think all the supply that the Steam Deck was previously leveraging went?

New comment by aquova in "Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

aquova — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:23:44 +0000

I thought that was A. MI6, not the Americans

B. 25 years earlier and

C. Less of a revolution as Shah had always been around, they just supported him in kicking out his own prime minister (and exerting autocratic rule as a result)

New comment by aquova in "PC Engine CPU"

aquova — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:55:27 +0000

Ah, I thought the URL sounded familiar. This is the dev of the new-on-the-scene but quite good jgenesis emulator. It started out doing just Sega systems, but has started branching out, sounds like the PCE is next.

New comment by aquova in "New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows"

aquova — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:01:41 +0000

The panels are designed to not provide current if no current is detected on the mains. Otherwise you would also have a live plug at the end of the panel. Killing your own customers is typically not a good business strategy, so quite a lot of safety has been focused on ensuring this isn't a problem.

New comment by aquova in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

aquova — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:56:50 +0000

Speak of the devil, I was just looking for something just like this earlier this week. I may have even have ran into this exact project, but it didn't have functioning playback until now. I have a spare CRT in my office that I use for some old consoles, and thought it would be neat to stream some 4:3 media onto it, but didn't want to bother with getting some client box and HDMI to composite converter. If this works well, it would solve that problem nicely.

New comment by aquova in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

aquova — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:29:51 +0000

What methods are you using to find them? I notice my own doesn't appear, although it does show up well under some (very niche) Google search terms. I suspect there's the potential for an order of magnitude more sites than have been found.

New comment by aquova in "Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]"

aquova — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:12:32 +0000

Ars did a retrospective on the Palm line-up that I occasionally go back and re-read. I never got into the ecosystem, although my dad had a Palm III(?) when I was younger. Had I been a decade older I think I would've been infatuated with them.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devi...

New comment by aquova in "People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much"

aquova — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:33:44 +0000

One of these is not like the others

New comment by aquova in "Plasma Effect (2016)"

aquova — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:46:02 +0000

As someone who has seen this effect before, but was unclear how it was done, this article is very "and now draw the rest of the owl". They define a basic equation, it's about what I expected, but the end shader code doesn't use it in that form, and I found it pretty difficult to parse, I can't say I'm much better off in the end.

New comment by aquova in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

aquova — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:03:16 +0000

https://aquova.net

Definitely a playground for whatever I find interesting, mainly game-related topics

New comment by aquova in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

aquova — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:01:06 +0000

To be fair, I remember visiting my aunt's house in the mid-2000s, who had a surround sound set up her husband had set up. It required three or four remotes to work and no one but him could ever get it working. I think UX has forgotten a few generations by now.

New comment by aquova in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

aquova — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:00:03 +0000

Reminds me of HitClips from the early 2000s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitClips

I remember being quite entranced with one that a neighbor had. It feels like a bit of a silly format now, but perhaps it's time for a resurgence.