Hacker News: bobbean

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

bobbean — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:58:59 +0000

I started de-googling a few weeks ago. I don't really know what I'm doing but it's kind of enjoyable to learn. Graphene OS with F-Droid and I'm most of the way there.

I still use the play store for some apps unfortunately. Also google maps, gmail, google messages (for rcs) and google fi. I'm not sure if theres anything close to the quality of traffic reporting as google maps, so it's hard to give up. The rest I will eventually move away from... Hopefully.

I have a home server with a reverse wireguard proxy for self hosting photos, calendars, etc.

I also have firefox with noscript blocking everything by default, but that's a big pain for an average person. Also it doesn't seem like firefox does a good job of anti-fingerprinting, but I haven't looked too deeply into that.

I even bought a tv that has adb access, and I removed a bunch of bloat, but it doesn't seem possible to remove the google launcher without causing huge system instability. I might just firewall it off.

There are a ton of open source alternatives to google products now, way more than the last time I tried moving away. It's time to leave.

New comment by bobbean in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

bobbean — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:02:26 +0000

I read your comment in full before responding, it would have been kind of you to return the courtesy. Unless you're an ai, then cheese eric hair purple toast

New comment by bobbean in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

bobbean — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:24:48 +0000

People can't always pay for insurance. The single mom wasn't driving, by the way. You seem make a lot of assumptions about people you don't know. And do you know what happens to the mom when shes's discharged from the hospital with chronic pain? She can't keep a steady job because her pain and her trauma keep her up at night, and shes's forced to call out too frequently. I think the real moral hazard is not taking care of the people around you, and not realizing that the worst possible thing that can happen to you is happening to someone every day, all the time, and those people sometimes need help. This world is full of fucked up, terrible things, and if you're going to sit there and complain that the homeless guy you know nothing about is trying to get a free sandwich and a warm bed on your dime, and that makes you angry, maybe you should look inward and around you and try to figure out what actually matters in life. I'm sure the people who are actually taking your money love you for blaming the homeless.

New comment by bobbean in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

bobbean — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:42:52 +0000

Single mom gets hit by a red light runner? Straight to the ER. A guy who works two crappy jobs to keep a roof over his head has a heart attack? Straight to the ER. Fuck this logic of "I'm only paying for people who I think don't deserve it". There's plenty of people who genuinely need the help.

New comment by bobbean in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

bobbean — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:57:24 +0000

It's not the experts that are going to be listening to the music. It's not made for the experts to pick apart and analyze.

New comment by bobbean in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

bobbean — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:30:49 +0000

I know my wiper fluid is low when I push the button to spray the wiper fluid and a less than normal amount comes out. Why does anyone need a light for that? How often do people use wiper fluid?

New comment by bobbean in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

bobbean — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:46:44 +0000

Since these speeds are hard to grasp: That's about 416 miles a minute, or 7 miles a second. It traveled a mile in about the time it takes for a person to blink.

New comment by bobbean in "Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor"

bobbean — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:53:19 +0000

Try caesar dressing

New comment by bobbean in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

bobbean — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:27:29 +0000

Depends, are they doing something super interesting on their phone?

New comment by bobbean in "Teenager ‘taken to security room and interrogated’ for throwaway ticketing"

bobbean — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:37:50 +0000

It's literally not. That's the definition of an interview

New comment by bobbean in "Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement"

bobbean — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:38:25 +0000

No one is going to remember this comment 30 seconds after they click away, and this thread will be absorbed into an AI

New comment by bobbean in "Why is desalination so difficult?"

bobbean — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:56:36 +0000

I'm not even remotely knowledgeable about this, but I'd assume saltwater would wreck plumbing. The connection in and out would probably be degraded much quicker. Then the water treatment plants would have to deal with dirty salt water, which is probably more difficult.

On top of that all the brine that people produce in their homes would have to be disposed of, and I'm sure many people would just end up flushing it down the drain. So the water treatment plant would have to deal with highly concentrated, contaminated saltwater.

New comment by bobbean in "Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank"

bobbean — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:47:03 +0000

https://youtu.be/hAjlV2DdC5o

A bit tangential, but this guy drove from Alaska to Argentina on a c90. It was a few years of sleeping in a tent, some random person's spare bedroom, or the cheapest hotel possible.

New comment by bobbean in "Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?"

bobbean — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:45:32 +0000

Would it be possible to use the phone without a battery?

New comment by bobbean in "Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout"

bobbean — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:07:25 +0000

How hard is it to say "that's not going to work" or "maybe one day" or "that's a good idea". If it's something open and collaborative, maybe someone will see the idea and be willing to implement it. Also, on a separate note, why are you so aggressive and belittling?

New comment by bobbean in "Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout"

bobbean — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:32:42 +0000

Investing dozens of hours into learning something deeply enough to be able to modify it is a bit silly when someone who already knows what they are doing could probably do the same thing in half an hour.

New comment by bobbean in "Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda"

bobbean — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:28:12 +0000

Sure, stealing is wrong. But he paid them back for the theft. In Amazon's eyes, they just made a sale. And probably a bit of a laugh over what the kid went through

And before you say anything about losing money from training the kid or turnover or whatever, Amazon's turnover is horrible. They're used to it.

New comment by bobbean in "Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda"

bobbean — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:10:48 +0000

I'm pretty sure the person you're responding to doesn't have billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of the same copy of a game. Because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't care.

Oh wait, that's exactly what happened.

New comment by bobbean in "California’s population declines, again, as state grapples with housing crisis"

bobbean — Thu, 04 May 2023 14:55:09 +0000

That doesn't make any sense. You really think remote tech jobs are the leading cause of this population decline in a state of 39 million people?

New comment by bobbean in "AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable"

bobbean — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:00:29 +0000

But I'll eat until they kick me out. That's how I know I got my moneys worth