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New comment by butchkass in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

butchkass — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:37:00 +0000

How exactly do you expect me to know I don’t want to buy something without thinking about it first ?

A product was presented to me -> I analyzed the product’s specs -> I compared those specs to the product’s asking price -> I concluded the asking price was too high for the specs -> I concluded I do not want to buy the product

I didn’t think about this any more or less than I should’ve.

New comment by butchkass in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

butchkass — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:50:11 +0000

I use zero social medias and I have a phone that wouldn’t tell me no if I (a grown adult) did want to use them.

In fact I’d believe this is exactly for social media addicts because needing to be blocked from even accessing the domains by your OS to not use them is truly something.

And it is nostalgia bait. Wide sweeping nostalgia bait (C64 and Y2K). Corny nostalgia bait because surfing on pre social media Internet and Y2K aesthetics has been an overdone low-hanging fruit for at least 2 years already.

My main problem is the price. This has barely any more capabilities than a burner AliExpress dumbphone. Their margin is most likely egregious (because you’re paying for nostalgia bait).

New comment by butchkass in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

butchkass — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:15:38 +0000

  -> $500   
  -> Corny nostalgia-bait   
  -> No web browser   
  -> No social media   
  -> System-level DNS blocking

Lmfao. What even is the point of this ? I could see an argument for not allowing to install social media apps, but blocking me arbitrarily from even accessing them through a browser is crazy. The OS is Linux-based too, so there’s no technical constraint, they just went out of their way to add always-on parental control.

For $500 (FIVE HUNDRED) you get a $30 dumb phone with Whatsapp. Wow.

New comment by butchkass in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

butchkass — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:50:40 +0000

There’s a middle ground between going to cybercafes with sunglasses, and submitting a 4K scan of you gov ID before watching a YouTube video where someone says a bad word.

New comment by butchkass in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

butchkass — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:13:15 +0000

Go right ahead

New comment by butchkass in "On loyalty to your employer (2018)"

butchkass — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:13:40 +0000

least disconnected from reality HN user

New comment by butchkass in "US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report"

butchkass — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:59:22 +0000

Yeah, the super magic big brother AI will definetely only target explicit supporters of Hamas and not anyone else, with no room for any abuse whatsoever :)

New comment by butchkass in "Nvidia RTX 5080 is on average 8.3% faster than RTX 4080 SUPER – first review"

butchkass — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:27:51 +0000

Man I sure love some blurry mess of pixels that looks like it’s straight out of the Wii U catalogue and requires a 4070 to run a 1080p60

Graphics programming is a lost art, buried deep below an *unreal* amount of abstraction layers

New comment by butchkass in "Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals"

butchkass — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:42:42 +0000

I’d argue that’s just shifting the burden of proof. I’d like corporations to prove that something isn’t dangerous before they put it in the food I eat.

Besides, if other microparticles are dangerous, I’d rather not have even more of those, especially ones that haven’t been through thousands of years of human evolution.

New comment by butchkass in "Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals"

butchkass — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:18:34 +0000

That’a fair point and I might be overpanicking. I could argue that it might be happening and we just don’t know about it, but from what I gathered, yes strokes are on the rise, but experts seem to believe it’s related to blood pressure. Although there probably weren’t as much microplastics when the last generation was born ; it’s now ubiquitous to the point of being found in the blood of fetuses. If gen Z and Alpha don’t die from aneurysms at 45, then yeah, I guess we could assume it isn’t dangerous.

I’m just tired of this kind of things : conglomerates are putting X everywhere, and then we have to prove that X is indeed dangerous, when they should be the ones proving that it isn’t. All the while they’re lobbying billions of dollars to try and make the research as slow as possible so that they can get every last cent of profit before X gets banned.

New comment by butchkass in "Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals"

butchkass — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:46:06 +0000

Joining the Amish ? But they’re finding microplastics in the air at 5000m of altitude, as well as in the blood of fetuses, so even them are probably contaminated.

I think the only things one can do at this point is avoiding the worse sources of microplastics, e.g. heating food in plastic containers

New comment by butchkass in "Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals"

butchkass — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:17:16 +0000

People in a few decades will think we were crazy for packaging 100% of our food in plastic, the same way we think putting asbestos everywhere was crazy back then.

The amount of strokes and aneurysms that are gonna happen in 20~50 years is gonna be truly fantastic.