Hacker News: create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=create_accountsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:37:53 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"]]>I don't launch them as root. That defeats the purpose because they would write on the ~ folder. ZSH Terminal grumbles when launching but why the hell does it want to log my every command?

only 1 app has failed to launch and I barely need it anymore.

if it is crucial, I give myself permission to edit the folder so the application can create its folder for dumping rubbish

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:22:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452305create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452305https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452305<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"]]>If you want to independently audit it from the outside, then you might not be an expert for Apple

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:04:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452037create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452037https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452037<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"]]>fair and square, indeed

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:00:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451970create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451970https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451970<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"]]>there's a stupid solution that I put in practice out of helplessness. I remove the writing permission on ~ to my user, only sudo can write on ~, so some apps simply fail to launch

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:13:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451190create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451190https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451190<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"]]>I cant stand apps littering my home folder, regardless of if they are invisible folders or whatever. I am looking forward to deleting my operating system, or just the user account, and only installing apps in a virtual machine

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:11:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451171create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451171https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451171<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "Charging a Phone with a Hamster [video]"]]>"now my hamster's life has a purpose"

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:20:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050515create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050515https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050515<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "You have to have an account to read IMDB reviews now"]]>this closing down of the web, which began with FB, has taken another step during twitter's demise into what it is now

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:37:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927002create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927002<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility"]]>It would be great to have a terminal compatible Wordperfect alternative, like in the MS DOS days. Can you use Vim to edit documents for printing?

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:35:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926980create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926980https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926980<![CDATA[New comment by create_accounts in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"]]>I hate it when bureaucrats ask me to send e-mails because they are not encrypted. Specially my ID. It's a security risk, indeed

]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:37:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544059create_accountshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544059https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544059