Hacker News: fckgw

New comment by fckgw in "Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks"

fckgw — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:35:29 +0000

I mean yeah, the same way an iPhone is a rearranged Macbook in a smaller case with a smaller battery.

New comment by fckgw in "Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook"

fckgw — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:24:46 +0000

People want a laptop that has

- Great battery life

- Solid build quality

- A familiar interface (iPhone is the most popular OS in the US)

- Good enough speed and snappiness for the tasks they can't do on their phone

- Can walk into Costco or buy online at Amazon without having to hunt for deals or refurbs

- Is from a brand they are familiar with and has an association with quality.

- Is somewhere around $500-$800, the most common price range for laptops today

The MacBook Neo ticks all those boxes, and it comes in fun colors. It's the one you can walk into a store, buy, not really sweat the speeds and feeds and know you will have a pretty great experience with. I'm not sure why so many people are having a hard time understanding this.

New comment by fckgw in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

fckgw — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:11:43 +0000

The vast majority of red light tickets are people not coming to a complete stop behind the line on right turns on red.

New comment by fckgw in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

fckgw — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:16:30 +0000

What part did they find "terrifying"?

New comment by fckgw in "Why is arstechnica.com still running dev story advertorials for a game that..."

fckgw — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:43:40 +0000

Do you have your adblocker on?

The video is simply a small form of content that they can run video pre-roll ads on. There's like 3 or 4 total on the site, all many years old at this point. The only reason they exist is to fulfill a specific type of advertising method on the site.

If you turn off your adblocker you'll see what I mean.

New comment by fckgw in "MacBook Neo"

fckgw — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:41:14 +0000

For people, new to the Mac (which make up half of all Mac sales), who don't go hunting for refurbs or want to buy used gear, and where a $1099 price point is cost prohibitive.

Basically every regular computer user who shops at Amazon or Costco.

New comment by fckgw in "MacBook Neo"

fckgw — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:13:50 +0000

Why is that confusing? The A chip is cheaper, hence is goes into their cheaper laptop. The more expensive laptops get the more expensive M chips.

New comment by fckgw in "iPhone 17e"

fckgw — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:42:06 +0000

Exactly, every older person I've seen has the Plus model (RIP) with screen text turned up to 150%. A small screen for someone with poor eyesight sounds like torture.

New comment by fckgw in "Never buy a .online domain"

fckgw — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:00:27 +0000

.online, .top, .xyz. info and .shop are some of the top TLDs that scammers use, precisely because of their rock bottom registrar fees that make them attractive for sites that have a shelf life of a few hours or a few days before being blocked. As a result, many places have a blanket "suspicious" flag for fresh domains under these TLDs.

If you plan on building a legit site, do not use any of these cheap TLDs.

New comment by fckgw in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

fckgw — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:36:06 +0000

Apple announced their Private Cloud Compute nodes in 2024 and started shipping them last October.

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/apples-houston...

New comment by fckgw in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

fckgw — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:23:22 +0000

No, it's been part of the power button since then.

New comment by fckgw in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

fckgw — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:05:44 +0000

It triggers within a certain radius that you can change in the settings to be wider or narrower. It's not specifically when it loses contact with the device.

New comment by fckgw in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

fckgw — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:48:12 +0000

Yeah, it's this. It's a hosting platform, not a social media platform. You see a ton of people who have short films, art projects, commercial portfolios and stuff like that hosted at Vimeo. They don't need/want comments, discoverability, or to deal with things like automated DRM takedowns. Clean, simple, video hosting.

New comment by fckgw in "Apple Creator Studio"

fckgw — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:26:56 +0000

Mac Studio is still on M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips.

I could see a press release refresh on that day to M5 chips.

New comment by fckgw in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

fckgw — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:21:00 +0000

Which is fine! That's me making the explicit choice that yes, I want to close this box and yes, I want to lose this data. I don't need an AI evaluating how important it thinks I am and second guessing my judgement call.

I tell the computer what to do, not the other way around.

New comment by fckgw in "The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121"

fckgw — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:35:57 +0000

If you can't see that this post was obviously "enhanced" with AI then I don't know what to tell you. They had a small anecdote about their experience and then asked AI to flesh it out into a multi paragraph post.

I mean, the cute section titles are a dead giveaway.

New comment by fckgw in "Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?"

fckgw — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:31:42 +0000

If you're already in the Apple ecosystem, get them separate iCloud accounts with their own email and join in a family plan. You can manage their devices and setting from one location. You can also use the Passwords app, create a family group and add the shared passwords there so there's a central access to everything.

My family does this except we use 1Password app instead of Passwords. Kids have their own devices, allowance is paid via Apple Cash and they can use either Apple Pay or their virtual card number to buy things in the real world or online. Google and game account credentials are stored on their device or on their PCs via Chrome plugin (which Apple Passwords has as well).

New comment by fckgw in "TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection"

fckgw — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:50:31 +0000

I have the same C200 camera and recently had a 24hr+ internet outage and the camera stayed on just fine. I am also using RTSP with Frigate and Scrypted.

New comment by fckgw in "Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon"

fckgw — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:34:39 +0000

What does this have to do with consumer SATA SSDs?

New comment by fckgw in "Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes"

fckgw — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:50:41 +0000

Squarespace is like $20/mo for a basic site promoting your Brick and Mortar business. That includes domain, hosting, and a template/CMS. It's not that pricey.