Hacker News: chappi42

New comment by chappi42 in "Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away"

chappi42 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:22:19 +0000

GrapheneOS phones are not rooted.

New comment by chappi42 in "OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)"

chappi42 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:29:31 +0000

I "fell" for Comaps but switched back to Organic Maps (where the original real good devs are). Comaps felt a bit too much like fork, "fabricate" nice media and beg for donations. Both are imho inferior to (non-foss) Magic Earth but consume much less power.

New comment by chappi42 in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

chappi42 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:11:48 +0000

Also Julia, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia

And https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig or e.g. https://github.com/haydenridd/silvia-pid-board

New comment by chappi42 in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

chappi42 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:09:56 +0000

I was happy from the sideline seeing the recent big Zig donations. But this sudden decision is a shock. Technical issues can be worked around (I wish/think), but leaving such a dominant platform? I don't know. For my small small needs Forgejo works great, but for Zig, a project which I hope has a lot of mainstream success, I'm not convinced, that Forgejo/Codeberg is the best fit (atm). Even Graphene OS which has very high standards is (still) on Github, maybe Zig could brood (brüten) a bit longer to decide if it is really time to leave?

New comment by chappi42 in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

chappi42 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:18:29 +0000

It makes a lot of sense for Germany to keep some independance from foreign proprietary cloud providers (Microsoft, Google); Money very well invested imo. It helps the local industry and data stays under German sovereignity.

I find your "open-source-washed" remark deplaced and quite deragoraty. Nextcloud is, imo, totally right to (try to) monetize. They have to, they must further improve the technical backbone to stay competitive with the big boys.

New comment by chappi42 in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

chappi42 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:32:19 +0000

This is not an alternative as it only covers files. Mind what is in the article: "I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set and how easily it replaces a bunch of services under one roof (files, calendar, contacts, notes, to-do lists, photos etc.), but ".

For us Nextcloud AIO is the best thing under the sun. It works reasonably well for our small company (about 10 ppl) and saves us from Microsoft. I'm very grateful to the developers.

Hopefully they are able to act upon such findings or rewrite it with go :-). Mmh, if Berlin (Germany) wouldn't waste so much money in ill-advised ideology-driven and long-term state-destroying actions and "NGOs" they had enough money to fund 100s of such rewrites. Alas...

New comment by chappi42 in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

chappi42 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:43:58 +0000

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24317 --> https://github.com/ivanstepanovftw (profile from 8/6/25, not sure if it was different earlier)

New comment by chappi42 in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

chappi42 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:21:40 +0000

You should be a bit more humble imo. An open source maintainer (author) is _not_ required to look at PRs. Besides, who wants to work with a (quote) "unreliable rightless russian troll backdoor vibecoder fake individual"? ...

New comment by chappi42 in "JOVE – Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs"

chappi42 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:19:10 +0000

Seems that you replied to my post. One can have another opinion about women/men than you (or Lynn) and still respect the other person. Deeply respect even. Your words were not friendly. I wish you well nevertheless!

New comment by chappi42 in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

chappi42 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:03:48 +0000

calyxOS is _not_ similar to GrapheneOS

New comment by chappi42 in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

chappi42 — Sun, 25 May 2025 08:30:33 +0000

I looked a bit more in detail and I'm impressed. I found: - "with translation costs being the majority of Nuenki's subscription price." Thus my price critic was not very appropriate - https://nuenki.app/blog/llm_translation_comparison (Which LLMs are best at low-latency translation?) Cool table!

New comment by chappi42 in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

chappi42 — Sun, 18 May 2025 13:31:29 +0000

Looks not bad but a) billing/prices should imho be prominent and not hidden behind trial or get started. And b) not sure if 5/12/20 per month is not too much? The About section is nice. (I use two other paid language services, thus no need/interest in another)

New comment by chappi42 in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

chappi42 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 03:51:47 +0000

Better than nothing...

New comment by chappi42 in "Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps"

chappi42 — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:28:25 +0000

With AIO upgrade is a piece of cake. -- For us, Nextcloud is a godsend, some things could be improved, true, but they are improving; we are more than grateful for this comprehensive software. Much less hassle (and even less expensive) than Microsoft before.

New comment by chappi42 in "Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040"

chappi42 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 06:11:04 +0000

Wow that looks cool. Thanks for the mention!

New comment by chappi42 in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

chappi42 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:05:41 +0000

It's beautiful! -- Cool that Chris Wanstrath gives massive support to this project (financial and (most likely) time).

New comment by chappi42 in "Mozilla CPO sues company alleging disability discrimination, retaliation"

chappi42 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:15:29 +0000

:-)

New comment by chappi42 in "Mozilla CPO sues company alleging disability discrimination, retaliation"

chappi42 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:07:23 +0000

I was right to dump Firefox for Brave...

New comment by chappi42 in "Brave launches Search Ads in key markets after successful test phase"

chappi42 — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:23:25 +0000

I use it (there are always trade-offs). It's by far the best and most convenient browser for me, I run it on all my devices.

What are you using instead?

New comment by chappi42 in "Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem"

chappi42 — Wed, 29 May 2024 10:20:15 +0000

A note regarding your last point:

  - Google Play is sandboxed [1], you have (important) privacy advantages
  - with a second account for banking apps (or in your example) uber, lyft, one can nicely separate "google-play-apps" from free apps, account switching is fast

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play