Hacker News: ekianjo

New comment by ekianjo in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

ekianjo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:21:38 +0000

So you dont need to run Windows all the time, I guess?

New comment by ekianjo in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

ekianjo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:05:14 +0000

Fonts rendered correctly is kind of useless on a glary screen.

> pretty sure Apple doesn't pay any "influencers"

It's true they probably don't need to, since they have a bunch of fanatics who buy whatever Apple releases just because it's Apple

New comment by ekianjo in "Helium is hard to replace"

ekianjo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:46:43 +0000

That's from the old covenant. If you believe in Christianism the new covenant changes everything.

New comment by ekianjo in "Helium is hard to replace"

ekianjo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:42:47 +0000

That's ignorance on top of brainwashing. If they had met the people from those countries they would drop such mindset in 30 seconds.

New comment by ekianjo in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

ekianjo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:24:34 +0000

They were "helped"

Support Betterbird

ekianjo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:47:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.betterbird.eu/end-of-year/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702410

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New comment by ekianjo in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

ekianjo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:44:13 +0000

They need a lot of money to pay their useless execs, so 700 million must be barely enough to keep things running

New comment by ekianjo in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

ekianjo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:14:42 +0000

Yeah but more and more have self service cashiers as well with cashless payments

New comment by ekianjo in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

ekianjo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:09:04 +0000

They will never lose the retail market because they enforce severe rules towards OEMs.

New comment by ekianjo in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

ekianjo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:44:45 +0000

The hype was entirely manufactured from day 1.

New comment by ekianjo in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

ekianjo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:24:07 +0000

Ollama has had bad defaults forever (stuck on a default CTX of 2048 for like 2 years) and they typically are late to support the latest models vs llamacpp. Absolutely no reason to use it in 2026.

New comment by ekianjo in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

ekianjo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:22:33 +0000

If you care about privacy making sure the closed source software does not call home is a concern...

New comment by ekianjo in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

ekianjo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:23:04 +0000

This means nothing. There is so much up and down based on the active Chinese user base. PHoronox making headlines out of thin air again

New comment by ekianjo in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

ekianjo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:11:01 +0000

The track record of NASA sending stuff to space is pretty bleak

New comment by ekianjo in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

ekianjo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:44:58 +0000

> never something others bring to them

Ever heard of the independence war?

New comment by ekianjo in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

ekianjo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:42:43 +0000

> Remember, they killed 30K of their own to quell an uprising.[2]

There is absolutely no way to know if it's true or not

New comment by ekianjo in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

ekianjo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:14:04 +0000

Broken window fallacy much? The amount of money spent on space race could have been spent somewhere else and you have no idea how to evaluate of this was a valid set of outcomes.

New comment by ekianjo in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

ekianjo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:12:44 +0000

> with a pretty great return in research, engineering and education to boot.

If a company could spend 24B in research they would probably produce a lot more things than NASA

New comment by ekianjo in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

ekianjo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:03:10 +0000

> What makes you think that?

Looking at actual users of LLMs

New comment by ekianjo in "Android Developer Verification"

ekianjo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:15:54 +0000

Graphene allows APKs