Hacker News: drooopy

New comment by drooopy in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

drooopy — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:48:16 +0000

Even though I don't necessarily like it, I understand why they solder the RAM on the SOC: Higher bandwidth/greater performance, better power efficiency, etc. But they have no excuse for the SSD.

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

drooopy — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:35:30 +0000

Vista was an absolute dumpster fire but in no way compares to the awfulness of ME.

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

drooopy — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:42 +0000

I've lived through every evolution of Windows from 3.1 up to 11 and Millenium/2000 still remains my favourite and I will always consider it the most 'get-shit-done' UI that Microsoft has ever built. Up until W10 removed the feature, I used to turn off the Themes service so that I could get the classic UI back.

And I also completely agree with your point that everything else since then has felt like a poorly placed theme on top of something else.

New comment by drooopy in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

drooopy — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:36:14 +0000

I believe that Firefox does it but not as frequently as Chrome does, but don't quote me on it. However, I am using a "tab suspender" addon on firefox to control how fast the unloading happens on tabs that are not active.

New comment by drooopy in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

drooopy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:58:13 +0000

HN is as close to social media as my 3rd grade talent show was to Michael Jackson's Super Bowl halftime show.

New comment by drooopy in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

drooopy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:52:18 +0000

Calling 2026's facebook, instagram, tiktok, xshitter, whatever "social media" is like calling a casino "the 3rd place that you socialise out with your mates".

New comment by drooopy in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

drooopy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:18:37 +0000

There aren’t any 3rd party repair shops close to me that are in Apple’s Independent Repair Provider network, so if I were to choose a random repair shop my only real option with them would be a battery from a 3rd party manufacturer, which I’ve had bad experiences with before. I wouldn’t mind as much if I could easily replace it again myself if it started swelling like last time.

New comment by drooopy in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

drooopy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:34:15 +0000

In order to have my iPhone 11's battery replaced by my local apple authorised repair shop, inexplicably I have to leave my phone with them for days. Since the phone is old they have to order the battery from Apple and that could take up to a week, according to them. Of course it's impossible to stay without my phone for a week+ so my only option is to buy a new phone if I want to fix my battery capacity issues.

New comment by drooopy in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

drooopy — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:51:12 +0000

No kidding. Last time I used Enlightenment back in the late 90s, both KDE 1.x and GNOME 1.x were orders of magnitude more usable on my lowly Pentium MMX 166 with 16 MB of RAM.

New comment by drooopy in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

drooopy — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:22:59 +0000

They’re doomed to repeat the cycle of reinventing Clippy every few years and always failing at it.

New comment by drooopy in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

drooopy — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:53:59 +0000

That must be an american thing because I guarantee you that it doesn't mean anything for the rest of the world.

New comment by drooopy in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

drooopy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:49:34 +0000

She and Technology Connections are two of my favourite YouTube channels. Also I love her geocities website so much: https://lauriewired.com/

New comment by drooopy in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

drooopy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:59:41 +0000

My Linux computer now is my main gaming machine. I purged my Windows partition a couple of years ago and haven't had the need to look back yet.

New comment by drooopy in "The Mystery of Rennes-Le-Château, Part 1: The Priest's Treasure"

drooopy — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:18:39 +0000

Same here. My brain lit up with nostalgia when I saw Rennes-Le-Château mentioned.

New comment by drooopy in "Ubuntu wants to strip some of GRUB features in 26.10 for security purposes"

drooopy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:21:20 +0000

Bring back Lilo!

New comment by drooopy in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

drooopy — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:51:30 +0000

Introducing Windows NNT (New New Technology).

New comment by drooopy in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

drooopy — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:48:46 +0000

Most PC laptops at Neo's price point (or cheaper) are essentially manufactured e-waste.

New comment by drooopy in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

drooopy — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:14:34 +0000

Those gestures have been permanently tattooed into my brain and muscle memory. So much so that I’ve set Gesturefy on Firefox to mimic the same ones from the old Opera browser.

New comment by drooopy in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

drooopy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:12:19 +0000

Based on my recollection of The Bible and the Book of Revelation (it's been almost 30 years since I was last forced to read it), Peter Thiel and his ilk match the definition of what an "antichrist" is or should be.

New comment by drooopy in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

drooopy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:50:51 +0000

Tahoe's UI looks like a generic, "futuristic-like", user-created theme for KDE circa 2009.