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New comment by dartharva in "Apparently Google hates us now"

dartharva — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:07:40 +0000

DuckDuckGo gives you enough control in its settings to completely filter out AI-anything in search results. I like to think it is near classic Google's levels in search result quality even though it probably isn't.

New comment by dartharva in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

dartharva — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:55:58 +0000

Distro wars are pointless when the main point of friction remains the upward fight that is getting useful software to run on Linux.

New comment by dartharva in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

dartharva — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:54:08 +0000

You are not supposed to use Windows 11. Use any of Windows 10's enterprise versions, the difference is night-and-day.

New comment by dartharva in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

dartharva — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:50:18 +0000

This completely resonates with my experience. I have amassed enough familiarity with Linux having used and tried out all kinds of distros to the point of being able to assist others in setting up and diagnosing their systems, but I myself keep drifting back to W10. There remains a "homely" feeling to it that keeps eluding Linux distros.

New comment by dartharva in "What a Japanese cooking principle taught me about overcoming AI fatigue"

dartharva — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:04:33 +0000

The video version of this article made me feel very good. Not just AI anxiety, it shares a template of better living in general. Highly appreciate.

New comment by dartharva in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

dartharva — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:43:02 +0000

Will this get LTSC's security updates? I can seriously try this out as a daily driver if yes

New comment by dartharva in "You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming"

dartharva — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:36:50 +0000

All he brings up are social media comments, which may have been mildly representative of people more than a decade ago, but in the present-day are widely understood to be completely immaterial.

New comment by dartharva in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

dartharva — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:34:45 +0000

Sure but the attendants shouldn't have to play dress-up and condescendingly steward every single adult on the plane. Just have them as guard-like postings onboard and cut down costs on the training time wasted on customer "management".

New comment by dartharva in "PySimpleGUI 6"

dartharva — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:28:20 +0000

LOL, I remember this one being a famous traitor to FOSS by starting out as a community project and then closing doors to make money from it. Guess they weren't able to make any money after all. Karma in action.

New comment by dartharva in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

dartharva — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:47:44 +0000

It might not be that significant of a cost all things considered, but I have always felt the peculiar existence of "professionally happy" cabin crew, in-flight meals, screens and other pointless "comforts" glaringly unnecessary in what's generally meant to be just 2-3 hours of sitting on an average for the passengers. You could just operate a plane like a dumb bus and save up on a lot of costs and turn it into competitive advantage.

New comment by dartharva in "Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection"

dartharva — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:54:15 +0000

> ..The findings, published in Nature Communications and supported by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC)..

Hmm

New comment by dartharva in "America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance"

dartharva — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:16:43 +0000

You say that, but when you empirically look at the people doing crimes you more often find that they're not exactly starving in the streets.

New comment by dartharva in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

dartharva — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:56:59 +0000

Hacker News Guidelines #19:

    Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

New comment by dartharva in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

dartharva — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:52:37 +0000

I don't use its products myself but Apple fits this definition perhaps; its current CEO is a former engineering head, the previous CEO was a former operations head and the one before him was Steve Jobs.

New comment by dartharva in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

dartharva — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:49:40 +0000

They wouldn't have had to face such embarrassment and rollbacks and spend billions had they just stuck to maintaining Windows 10 in the first place. To this day any improvement W11 offers over W10 is still an enigma.

New comment by dartharva in "Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16"

dartharva — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:50:23 +0000

They should honestly just instead back `scoop` as the default way to install Python on Windows. It's clean, sits nicely in userspace and handles CLI execution aliases elegantly.

New comment by dartharva in "PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC"

dartharva — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:15:40 +0000

But are PC software and games compatible and tuned for console hardware even if you hotwire Linux onto it?

New comment by dartharva in "Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker"

dartharva — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:12:29 +0000

The entirety of the web browser runs in userspace afaik. Whatever goes there and within is de facto a user agent.

New comment by dartharva in "Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker"

dartharva — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:10:30 +0000

Brave runs Sluggish and causes random temperature spikes on both Windows and Linux on my laptop like no other browser does.

New comment by dartharva in "Have You Seen the New Excel?"

dartharva — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:05:51 +0000

Ridiculous comparison