Hacker News: drooopy

New comment by drooopy in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

drooopy — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:16:16 +0000

I wish that a consortium of Android phone makers would/could "LibreOffice" Android.

New comment by drooopy in "I hate you Microsoft"

drooopy — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:25:36 +0000

You'd have to pay me as well to use any Microsoft product, which is exactly what's been happening at my place of work haha

New comment by drooopy in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

drooopy — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:15:29 +0000

10.5 Leopard because 10.4 Tiger was my first interaction with Mac OS X and it blew me away. I couldn't wait to see what was next and how they could improve upon perfection.

New comment by drooopy in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

drooopy — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:14:23 +0000

If there is no way to remove this 17 GB model, then the OS is simply not for me anymore. I'll stick with Sequoia for another year and use it until it stops receiving security updates and then I'm back to being a full-time Linux user.

New comment by drooopy in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

drooopy — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:39:18 +0000

Oh, man. The "Active" Desktop. The only thing that it kept active was my CD drive when I was forced to reinstall Windows every time I tried to make it work on my PC and it broke everything.

New comment by drooopy in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

drooopy — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:46:19 +0000

The state should treat sam altman the same way they treated Kevin Mitnick.

New comment by drooopy in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

drooopy — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:40:50 +0000

Exactly how I feel about this game. While its redemption arc is one for the history books, every time I come back to it, I feel nothing.

New comment by drooopy in "Fastpotify"

drooopy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:19:53 +0000

I find spotify to be more bloated now than iTunes was when apple pulled the plug on it.

New comment by drooopy in "Lake Ontario ("Lake America")"

drooopy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:50:17 +0000

In the meantime, might I interest you in some protein water?

New comment by drooopy in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

drooopy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:54:19 +0000

Please don't forget to sign my guestbook! (low res gif of pen and paper goes here)

New comment by drooopy in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

drooopy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:42:50 +0000

Right? When I think of the old web I think of my Xena and X-Files fan sites on Geocities circa 1997

New comment by drooopy in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

drooopy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:50:39 +0000

Buffy is a real name?!

New comment by drooopy in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

drooopy — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:34:34 +0000

And I bet you that I could still fit an XP-era weather app or widget on top of XP and Xenoblade inside that 256/384MB of RAM.

New comment by drooopy in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

drooopy — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:06:09 +0000

I was replaying Xenoblade Chronicles on my Switch 2 and the whole time I was thinking about how this ENORMOUS, open world game originated on the Nintendo Wii, a console with only 88 MB of RAM.

New comment by drooopy in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"

drooopy — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:54:47 +0000

I miss that quite a lot. For the past 20 years the Web has been a sterile wasteland full of minimalist white and grays and 0 personality.

New comment by drooopy in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

drooopy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:14:23 +0000

It was fun at the beginning but I got bored of it 2/3rds of the way in. The puzzles were an absolute chore to figure out and solve and the story kinda run out of steam.

New comment by drooopy in "KDE Plasma 6.7 Released"

drooopy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:42:01 +0000

It boggles my mind how modern gnome doesn't come with a traditional desktop that you have to install an extension to enable.

New comment by drooopy in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

drooopy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:36:54 +0000

The Ryanair website is a who's who of everything you're supposed to avoid in UI/UX design.

New comment by drooopy in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

drooopy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:47:24 +0000

Same! My PC broke down and I couldn't afford to repair it for several months. Yet I didn't miss it much as I had a Dreamcast with a keyboard and mouse. That web browser became one of my most used apps of all time. Good times!

New comment by drooopy in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

drooopy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:40:02 +0000

Whenever I was forced to interact with OneDrive, I couldn't help imagining the proverbial digital duct tape holding everything together behind the scenes.