Hacker News: dvdgsng

New comment by dvdgsng in "Plex laid off the whole player team"

dvdgsng — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:39:07 +0000

This. Transcoding is a dream and the Emby apps are flawless (the ones we are using at least).

New comment by dvdgsng in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

dvdgsng — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:43:39 +0000

If that counts for you, but I've just used it with CachyOS on a 2017 XPS with no issues and performance was great.

New comment by dvdgsng in "WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe"

dvdgsng — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:43:08 +0000

Same for me, has been broken for about 4 weeks.

New comment by dvdgsng in "Show HN: Learn German with Games"

dvdgsng — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:25:18 +0000

Let's not get started with that... those same people also say "viertel nach drei" to mean 3:15 (one quarter after the "third hour" has passed), which is really confusing to the uninitiated, so "viertel vier" is preferable IMHO...

Yeah? Well, you know, thats just like uh your opinion, man.

And, its dismissive and ignorant. IMHO.

New comment by dvdgsng in "Why Self-Host?"

dvdgsng — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:15:03 +0000

Not to mention the 100 steps you have to do to get their, of course...

New comment by dvdgsng in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

dvdgsng — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:41:44 +0000

I run ublock in all my browsers and devices, but other people on my network (family) don't, so pihole helps there. Its really not an either-or question, they are complementary.

New comment by dvdgsng in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

dvdgsng — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:51:22 +0000

Seems to apply only to 10 and 10pro in USA. Rest of the world gets nano-sim. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-no-physical...

New comment by dvdgsng in "Windows 10 EOL an environmental disaster that puts 240M PCs on the scrapheap"

dvdgsng — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 02:51:02 +0000

The year of the linux desktop is near, it's next year! Again!

New comment by dvdgsng in "John Carmack on AI"

dvdgsng — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 23:05:48 +0000

appreciated, as always

New comment by dvdgsng in "Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?"

dvdgsng — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:43:59 +0000

Jetbrains Gateway offers remote editing as well. It's still Beta and certainly has some rough edges, but it works ok-ish as a daily driver and is actively developed. The last update few weeks ago even added Dev Containers support (to an extend).

https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/

New comment by dvdgsng in "Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs"

dvdgsng — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:29:12 +0000

When I need to collect multiple tabs for a specific topic/task I've found workspaces to be much more practical than tab groups.

New comment by dvdgsng in "KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager"

dvdgsng — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 19:45:16 +0000

It's great, but lacks yubikey support. Might arrive very soon, though, beta is already available in play store, see https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/issues/8

Restic Now Supports Compression

dvdgsng — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 12:04:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/21

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31215381

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dvdgsng in "Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study"

dvdgsng — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:19:30 +0000

I have hemochromatosis and here in Germany it's impossible for me to donate blood. It's not actually forbidden, afaik, but no company want's to give 'contaminated' blood to patients, even though it would be perfectly fine.

New comment by dvdgsng in "'Perfect Blue' and 'Requiem for a Dream'"

dvdgsng — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:53:16 +0000

There are so many movies I haven't had a chance to watch in a cinema, I wish more theaters would play classics on their largest screens. I just found out that one of our local cinemas now has weekly 'classic sneaks'. Lucky me.

New comment by dvdgsng in "Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges”"

dvdgsng — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:24:41 +0000

Yes, some devs just can't merge. Even worse, IntelliJ & co have this "magic merge" button, that resolves conflicts automatically, but the results are usually a mess, esp when merging complex features. But because lazy devs are lazy, they just smash that button, commit, push without testing locally and then move on to the next topic. Naturally, we've had countless CICD failures which were attributed to "merging in git is sooo broken" ...

New comment by dvdgsng in "ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors"

dvdgsng — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:29:12 +0000

Do you know if they offer remote jobs?

New comment by dvdgsng in "Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?"

dvdgsng — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:22:08 +0000

> We copy-paste URLs instead of using bookmarks

Bookmarks are such a convenient and intuitive way to organize, I'm still baffled how few people actually use them. They exist like forever (1993 according to Wiki), yet there is always someone asking for links to sites/files/Tools/apps they use basically daily.

New comment by dvdgsng in "LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online"

dvdgsng — Thu, 06 May 2021 14:24:51 +0000

tbh that part about the 600 kids hit me hard enough even without explicit graphics

New comment by dvdgsng in "LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online"

dvdgsng — Thu, 06 May 2021 12:14:54 +0000

pdf freely available here (EN version):

https://web.archive.org/web/20210206111359/https://www.levan...