Hacker News: captainmisery

New comment by captainmisery in "Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device"

captainmisery — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:25:27 +0000

Without GrapheneOS im probably going to iPhone. Been using Graphene for years, its so light and simple without all the Google cruft. Pixels with Google is not for me anymore.

New comment by captainmisery in "Gene Hackman has died"

captainmisery — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:35:07 +0000

Yes! Heist is my favorite as well.

New comment by captainmisery in "Ask HN: Privacy Friendly Smart Phone?"

captainmisery — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:47:52 +0000

I'm using a Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS for about 18 months now. Love it. No need to login to Google. Putting GrapheneOS on the phone took 5 minutes.

New comment by captainmisery in "Skiff: Various Privacy Failures"

captainmisery — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:44:40 +0000

Isn't this just advertising your own company?

New comment by captainmisery in "iPhone 15 USB-C port is 100% standard; MFi certification rumors wrong"

captainmisery — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:23:08 +0000

> I have no idea why everyone is celebrating this downgrade.

Because now all the cables you use are the same (well in most cases is the thought). It's just convenient.

I have never experienced a faulty or broken usb c, but that says nothing off course. Android user for years now so I have have had it for years.

New comment by captainmisery in "Bicycle"

captainmisery — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 20:35:31 +0000

Same here. What an amazing content he makes.

New comment by captainmisery in "Gallery of Minimal Design Websites"

captainmisery — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 05:07:11 +0000

This is brutalist, not minimal.

New comment by captainmisery in "Why does Apple think my M1 Pro MacBook Pro is suddenly worth nothing?"

captainmisery — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:28:05 +0000

I tried selling my iPhone 13 mini of 1 year old. Apple wanted to give me "up to 390" euro's. I ended up selling it for 600 euro's to someone via a selling website.

New comment by captainmisery in "Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?"

captainmisery — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:15:20 +0000

At my job I made a "startpage" on our shared drive. Just an index.html that most of the company now uses. It contains links to all our internal tools en company sites. Layout is a simple css card grid. Its grouped per department so a specificatie link is easy to find.

Out of all the things I created I still get the most positive feedback on a single html file I mostly created for myself.

New comment by captainmisery in "Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?"

captainmisery — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:02:17 +0000

I'm using Windows 10. In the past year I've tried: Manjaro, Fedora, Linux Mint and some others.

Why I'm not switching? Because every time I login there is something that needs a quick update or a quick fix.

After I've tried Fedora the last time, I turned on my PC and the resolution of my monitor switched to 800x600 from the 1920x1080. There was no way of setting it back to the correct resolution.

"Well, you know, you could just SUDO this, or SUDO that."

Yeah. I know. But I don't want to SUDO this or SUDO that. I want a operating system that just works.

I installed Windows 10, took 10 minutes, everything works great.

New comment by captainmisery in "Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug"

captainmisery — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:19:36 +0000

When I joined my current employer, I got a company phone. I thought: "great, now I can get rid of my private phone. This saves me money!".

On the best things I ever did, was come back on that decision a couple of years ago. I was checking my work email in the weekends or in the evenings.

I bought a cheap phone and just turn off my work phone in the weekends and don't look at it anymore when I come home.

New comment by captainmisery in "Launch HN: Café (YC S21) – Find the best days to go to the office"

captainmisery — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:09:00 +0000

2 typos on the frontpage:

- Spreadsheet should be spreadsheets

- Quickly onboard your people on any devices. Should be device.

I don't like the term "your people". They are not your people.