Hacker News: dinckelman

New comment by dinckelman in "Could I use the iPad as my only computer?"

dinckelman — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:45:41 +0000

They could have EASILY done it back at the original launch. They had everything necessary to get it done, except for common sense.

Even with the skeuomorphic design, split half for the history, half for a regular calculator. Flip it sideways, get a scientific calculator

New comment by dinckelman in "Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation"

dinckelman — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:02:59 +0000

I wish that were the case, but I've really just gotten the bare necessities in messaging apps, and called it a day. Didn't have time to set anything up that night.

They didn't tell me what was wrong, as supposedly the support is not allowed to disclose that. All they were repeating is that after a confirmation of which account it is, they will put in an unblock request. It's supposed to send you either a confirmation (which i got the first time), or a denial message. I never got a single one of the latter. A few calls later, the system prohibited putting any new requests in, with no option to override, "supposedly".

New comment by dinckelman in "Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation"

dinckelman — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:17:11 +0000

Nothing. It’s just a link to the generic legal notice on apple.com

New comment by dinckelman in "Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation"

dinckelman — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:08:45 +0000

So i'm not the only one, huh. Got myself an iPhone, downloaded 2 apps, went to bed, woke up to a complete lockout. They unblocked me through a phone support request, after 18 hours, and then hit me with a fresh ban, not even 24 hours later. Account got permabanned after like 5 more calls, where they just started sending me a legal notice instead.

The fact that your device can become a complete brick, because of an issue in their completely hands-off account management system, smells like a class action suit

New comment by dinckelman in "JSR Is Not Another Package Manager"

dinckelman — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:42:19 +0000

My motivation to host in this repository completely vanished, the moment I realized that any Zod types are considered slow, and will not produce any type definition on JSR as a result.

On a surface level, they have automatic mechanisms for everything that my projects already have implemented, except it has arbitrary limitations, and not a whole lot of material explaining them properly

New comment by dinckelman in "PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support"

dinckelman — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:33:54 +0000

As long as the option to keep it turned on exists, I have no issues with this. It's one thing to move forward with a new stack, but it's a different thing to have it as default when it doesn't fully work

New comment by dinckelman in "London Is Building Its Own Vegas Sphere"

dinckelman — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:36:50 +0000

If it shines bright enough, you won't see any of the poor people /s

New comment by dinckelman in "YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox"

dinckelman — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:57:34 +0000

This is why you don't let a single corporation control more than half the internet, and more than 75% of the browser market

New comment by dinckelman in "Self-Hosted 110: Google Photos Replacement [audio]"

dinckelman — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:21:42 +0000

I was going to try Immich, but it has absolutely draconian hardware requirements, for a gallery replacement

New comment by dinckelman in "KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default"

dinckelman — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 14:11:09 +0000

I've been using Wayland as default since 5.22 came out, and don't really have any desire to go back

New comment by dinckelman in "Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials"

dinckelman — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 13:53:14 +0000

To call the "new" Outlook a horrible piece of software, would be an insult to actually horrible pieces of software. They're one tier below that, wherever that is.

The fact that this is acceptable, in their narrow minds, is insane

New comment by dinckelman in "Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API"

dinckelman — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:41:07 +0000

Another one on the shame list. You can use the public api, but only if you send your local data through our dogshit online channels, so we can sell it later

New comment by dinckelman in "Unified versus Split Diff"

dinckelman — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:53:01 +0000

For me, it's always unified diff if i'm making changes to entire blocks of code, but split, if it's just parts of it. Easier to read, in my opinion

New comment by dinckelman in "RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE"

dinckelman — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:57:58 +0000

That's pretty much how it's always been. If you want a Jetbrains IDE, IDEA Ultimate is the best choice, because it offers all of the exact same features. The only issue is that, let's say, if you're developing in Python, it will still give you a Javascript-centered UI, and it's really frustrating

New comment by dinckelman in "Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats"

dinckelman — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:02:44 +0000

The moment social media became mostly corporate, I lost interest in it. We're supposed to socialize between each other, not between ourselves and the ads that abuse us

New comment by dinckelman in "Amazon acquires Fig"

dinckelman — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 21:59:20 +0000

As a regular terminal user, I didn't find Fig particularly useful to begin with, but this just made me remove it entirely

New comment by dinckelman in "Fish – A friendly interactive shell"

dinckelman — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:53:48 +0000

When you open a new shell, by default it'll say something like `user@hostname: cursor`. Starship lets you change that to whatever you want, but out of the box it hides unnecessary information, and shows you stuff like the your language and package versions, if you're navigated into a git repo, for example. Take a look at it yourself, there's a lot you can do

New comment by dinckelman in "Fish – A friendly interactive shell"

dinckelman — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:48:28 +0000

You don't need it. But it's just a really good, no-bullshit, customizable prompt, and you can use it with basically any shell you like, drop-in

New comment by dinckelman in "Fish – A friendly interactive shell"

dinckelman — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:47:49 +0000

I've used fish for about 5 years now, and I don't really wanna go back. Out of the box, without any addons at all, it does everything my old zsh setups did, with a package manager and plugins. The only change I've made to it was spacefish (now starship.rs)

New comment by dinckelman in "Staying ahead of the AMD vulnerability known as “Zenbleed”"

dinckelman — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:52:52 +0000

So as far as I understand, if I have the latest AMD microcode on my system, at least on Linux, I don't really have to worry about this anymore?

As a sidenote, any word on Microsoft working on this?