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New comment by as1mov in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

as1mov — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:01:17 +0000

I think it does, since the updates are from the manufacturer. I have a OnePlus tablet configured without an account and I'm able to update it no problems.

New comment by as1mov in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

as1mov — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:21:01 +0000

Surprisingly no, you can use an Android phone without an account. Though you cannot install any applications from the Play Store, tbf I'll count that almost as a positive.

New comment by as1mov in "GameBoy Workboy"

as1mov — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:08:14 +0000

Yeah, the community run TCRF wiki is banning VPNs just so they can mine your data along with the luxurious $400/mo they're getting from Patreon. And not because they're constantly being besieged by rampant bots that they have to resort to such drastic measures.

New comment by as1mov in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

as1mov — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:49:21 +0000

If the excavators only worked half the time, sometimes goes out of control bonking someone in the head and costs a billion dollars, then yeah they're pretty bad CEOs

New comment by as1mov in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

as1mov — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:02:58 +0000

Most major platforms already have enough asset flips cluttering their storefronts[1][2] -- generic games made from preexisting engine templates with some assets bought from the store. Using AI will just make producing the slop easier, it wouldn't make something that's worth playing.

Anyone actually looking to make something genuinely fun will probably go the old fashioned way of spending countless hours honing their craft, which in turn gives them a good eye to make sure what they're making doesn't have the shovelware stink.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-delists-700-PS4-and-PS5-s...

[2] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/shovelware-is-a-bigger-problem...

New comment by as1mov in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

as1mov — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:00:28 +0000

I use them to buy refurbished enterprise machines -- laptops & mini PCs, books and DVDs/BluRays. Works pretty well actually, never had any issues with the quality as long as you stick to reputed sellers.

New comment by as1mov in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

as1mov — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:41:04 +0000

Funny how the vibe-coding speed grinds to 0 the moment people catch on to their bullshit. A name change requires a week but shitting out 200 commits with Claude takes barely a month.

New comment by as1mov in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center"

as1mov — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:09:03 +0000

Been using their latest models for work for the past 5 years, I still use a Latitude for personal work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe because I don't want my personal machine to turn into a brick if the storage/memory fails.

New comment by as1mov in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center"

as1mov — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:05:14 +0000

I have the first gen Framework sitting in a drawer because of some issues and one of the nitpicks is the fact that it looks like a cheap knockoff of a decade old Macbook complete with the Temu apple logo on the front.

I'd rather they made something similar to a Thinkpad/Latitude. But then again, there seems to be a mass delusion that anything non-Apple is a graveyard of garbage regardless of the price. So they're catering to that market.

Maybe I've been extremely lucky in picking refurbed enterprise machines running Linux in the past decade that hasn't faced any of the issues people complain about.

New comment by as1mov in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

as1mov — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:23:02 +0000

> you can now move the taskbar to the left side of the screen

Windows 11 is finally catching up to MATE desktop (which is maintained possibly by a single guy from their basement), what a time to be alive!

New comment by as1mov in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

as1mov — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:10:02 +0000

> The ideal is that something intelligent understands what you want to do and gets it done.

I think you and I have very different meanings of "intelligent", "understands" and "gets it done"

New comment by as1mov in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"

as1mov — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:09:20 +0000

It makes me laugh whenever there's a post about anticheat on the frontpage and without missing a beat there's always a comment there - "why don't they just run the entire game logic server side and stream the updates to the client??? are they stupid?"

New comment by as1mov in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

as1mov — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:12:57 +0000

> They don't see the name or the poor ux as a bug, but as a feature, and actively attack people who want to fix these issue.

They will probably not attack people who want to fix these issues, but only those who leave drive-by one liner low effort comments about the UI.

New comment by as1mov in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

as1mov — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:43:15 +0000

If the dev team had a nickel for every time someone complained about the name, there would have enough money by now to fund the development of a UI revamp.

Now if they had a nickel for everytime someone complained about the bad UI...

New comment by as1mov in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

as1mov — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:41:55 +0000

Ah that tracks with my experience later too. Even in the mainland, computers were pretty rare for us regular folk. Early in the 2000's, my father for whatever reason assumed computers would be hugely influential in the future and borrowed money to buy one for us. Mostly meant for my older sibling who was in high school, it didn't take his interest but worked its charm on me hah.

And thanks for the pictures! I was a kid during this time, so had no contact with any professionals. Just other kids on various places like Newgrounds and other forums. I remember emailing Armor Games and Miniclip for sponsorship for my shoddy games and understandably not receiving a reply ;)

Nostalgic see to those giant beige CRT computers, that damn copy of Flash MX and people just goofing off haha.

New comment by as1mov in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

as1mov — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:47:33 +0000

Were computers common in schools in India in the early 90s? I was born in 1993, so this is a bit early from my time, but when I was in a (government) school computers started appearing in the early 2000s. They became common in households way later, probably around the late 2000s.

Also funny that your name clicked something in my head to check your profile, and yep you're indeed the Flash guy!

Back in the 2005-2010 era I was making Flash games as a hobby and used to browse a bunch of related forums/sites (flashkit, gotoAndPlay) for tutorials. Your name always stuck out since you're one of the few Indians who were well known for their expertise :)

New comment by as1mov in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

as1mov — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:38:18 +0000

Somebody already mentioned the Winnie's Homerun Derby. I also have fond memories of playing:

* N - https://archive.org/details/nv-12

* Ball Revamped - https://archive.org/details/1100_ballrevampedv2

* Mind Fcuk - https://archive.org/details/tf_20210127

* World's hardest game - https://archive.org/details/the-worlds-hardest-game_202310

* Canabalt - https://archive.org/details/canabalt_202012

* (If you're from one of the commonwealth countries) Stick Cricket - https://archive.org/details/stickcricket_flash

There's honestly a ton more, you can download the archive and go through the various community lists in there. I've spent a few evenings just having a few drinks and playing some old games! :D

New comment by as1mov in "Apple I Advertisement (1976)"

as1mov — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:41:12 +0000

I'm sure it was the security that of Flash that worried them, and not the fact that a third party was encroaching on their walled garden that couldn't be extorted.

New comment by as1mov in "Show HN posts p/month more than doubled in the last year"

as1mov — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:07:17 +0000

Related that r/selfhosted has banned AI built projects except on Fridays[1] to keep up with the increased deluge of garbage, which are mostly built for CV padding rather than making anything useful for the community.

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qfp2t0/mod_ann...

New comment by as1mov in "The browser is the sandbox"

as1mov — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:42:54 +0000

> There is the universal hate for flash because it was used for ads and had shitty security

That's only one side of it. Flash was the precursor to the indie/mobile gamedev industry we have today (Newgrounds, Miniclip, Armor Games), before smartphones become ubiquitous. Not to mention some rather creative websites, albeit at the cost of accessibility .

Flash's only fault was it's creators were gobbled up by Adobe, who left it in the shitter and ignored the complaints people had about it's security issues.