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New comment by chocochunks in "Show HN: DRM-Free Books"

chocochunks — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:33:57 +0000

Yes, Kobo, Google Play Books both carry them.

New comment by chocochunks in "My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable"

chocochunks — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:15:08 +0000

That hasn't been my experience on SteamOS and Bazzite. Generally the keyboard pops and you can enter text, occasionally you do need to do it manually but even then text still works. On my GPD Win Mini I actually have the opposite problem. It brings up the on screen keyboard when I want to use the built in one.

New comment by chocochunks in "Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions"

chocochunks — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:09:48 +0000

I can never remember the data.table syntax, every time I use it I have to re-learn it. It doesn't feel very SQL to me either. There is an interface to use tidy syntax on data.tables and get's you 90% of the speed.

New comment by chocochunks in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

chocochunks — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:41:06 +0000

Have you used XR glasses (e.g., from Rokid or Viture)? If so, how do they compare for that use case?

New comment by chocochunks in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

chocochunks — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:47:32 +0000

https://www.theverge.com/tech/942572/wwdc-2026-live-blog-ios...

At least a summary of what was missed.

New comment by chocochunks in "Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026"

chocochunks — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:29:23 +0000

Blu-ray is more annoying. DVD has one key used forever. Blu-ray has constantly changing keys. The LibreDrive firmware still needs the new keys to decrypt the disc but the drive won't refuse (like the server drive in the article) to read the disc and the encryption key can't be revoked.

New comment by chocochunks in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

chocochunks — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:03:06 +0000

That's what modern Surfaces are. The consumer models have been Qualcomm SnapDragon based since 2024, they are pretty fast, battery life is pretty good and you can do whatever you want. Although native Linux support isn't quite there but I mean MS isn't exactly making it their priority.

New comment by chocochunks in "“The Apple Boogie“ 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video]"

chocochunks — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:55:52 +0000

Forever only means 9 more years apparently.

New comment by chocochunks in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

chocochunks — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:01:49 +0000

Only if they are DRM-free. And only if they are in a compatible format. It's a solvable problem for techies in a lot of instances but for mainstream users it's pretty close to bricking.

New comment by chocochunks in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

chocochunks — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:26:29 +0000

It's not. It's really not. It's 14 years of you can still access the store and buy stuff. That's not that good. You can buy a DVD and it'll still work on 25+ year old players. You can still buy digital content on an almost 20 year old PS3, you can use iTunes purchases on an original iPod from 25 years ago. Even in the eBook space you can get a new DRM'd purchase on a Sony PRS-500 from 2006 with Adobe Digital Editions.

These Kindles were not getting firmware updates (outside of maybe security certificates), they weren't getting new features or patches. You could just get new content.

New comment by chocochunks in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

chocochunks — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:49:39 +0000

What's wild is they STILL haven't built a mouse with two switches for clicking. Right clicking is on all their mice/trackpads faked with things like touch sensors. They are just dead set against it for some reason even though it does actually mean it's impossible to play something like a modern FPS* with a Magic Mouse.

* With the default control scheme anyways.

New comment by chocochunks in "A Tiny E Reader"

chocochunks — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:13:03 +0000

All the modern mainstream eReaders have offline dictionary support. Some of them you can add custom dictionaries to. Not sure what's special about the "Livio" apps but they do exist.

New comment by chocochunks in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

chocochunks — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:35:46 +0000

I went to school too. Sometimes at school we would do presentations using a projector connected by HDMI, maybe you could get away with the room computer but that only had USB A ports being some ancient desktop. Sometimes we did group projects and rather than huddle around one tiny 13" or 15" laptop screen we used one of the big ass TVs in the rentable group study rooms.

It's not tons of super fast IO. It's pretty basic IO.

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

chocochunks — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:12:32 +0000

I know. But iGPUs aren't there yet, and once you add a discrete GPU it becomes a lot more expensive. You can get a PS5 digital at GameStop for $400 new right now. A decent similar GPU like a Arc 580 or Radeon RX 7600 or 6600 is going to be $200-$300 new, leaving you $200 for a case, CPU, RAM and power supply.

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

chocochunks — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:03:49 +0000

No you can't. Even at the raised prices. And if your argument includes used prices don't forget you can buy used consoles too.

New comment by chocochunks in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

chocochunks — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:24:47 +0000

Yeah, but that USB 3 port has to do a lot of heavy lifting. It 's also the only video out port making decent dongles a necessity. On a $600 PC it's not uncommon to have USB A (at 3.0 speeds), HDMI in addition to USB C and maybe even Ethernet.

New comment by chocochunks in "Googlebook"

chocochunks — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:36:31 +0000

That's not how long they will provide software support. It's how long you can get a hardware repair. Some "vintage" products will get current software support but not others. Some products have lost software support before even reaching "vintage" like the first Gen iPad.

New comment by chocochunks in "HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver"

chocochunks — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:26:46 +0000

You can get DisplayPort KVMs. As a nice bonus the KVM will let you share a single mouse and keyboard set between them.

New comment by chocochunks in "PC Engine CPU"

chocochunks — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:31:25 +0000

For the SNES, from what I heard it was partially because with the flat topped NES, Nintendo of America got a lot of repairs from kids spilling soda or whatever on the NES they were using as a table. For the SNES, they deliberately made it harder to that.

New comment by chocochunks in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

chocochunks — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:11:44 +0000

There's some overlap. I think it probably has a bigger impact on game attach rate for a certain segment of gamer. I bought a lot less games on Switch upon getting a PC handheld, not because of price (generally I find games are pretty comparable there), but because the PC version is more flexible and I'm pretty sure I can run the PC version ten years down on some PC. Will Nintendo's next console run it? No idea.