Hacker News: free652

New comment by free652 in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

free652 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:15:47 +0000

>I feel like paying your most experienced employees to quit is exactly the opposite of what Microsoft needs right now.

I always felt thats the deal. But not a lot of people left the company when one was given, and we have rolling buys out now so people are trying to time buyout + a new job offer.

New comment by free652 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

free652 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:39:57 +0000

>Switching to 100% European cloud'

Yea, they are even worse. They would sell out in a sec once goverment is going after them.

New comment by free652 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

free652 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:33:35 +0000

That's dual use infrastructure. Its also used for military and goverment purposes, right? The same as China providing weapons components to Russia, masking them as "civilian".

New comment by free652 in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

free652 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:14:26 +0000

the boards now are pricier, at least the framework one. I got it for 1700, and now its ~$2400.

New comment by free652 in "Google to provide Pentagon with AI agents"

free652 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:17:33 +0000

>The DOD’s workforce of more than 3 million people will now be able to use a no-code or low-code tool called Agent Designer to create their own digital assistants for repetitive administrative tasks.

New comment by free652 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

free652 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:21:36 +0000

Cost. You are about to making computers 10-20% more expensive.

Computers also aren't used much these days, and phones and tables don't have ECC

New comment by free652 in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

free652 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:57:22 +0000

Looks like they are banning for using Gemini CLI / antigravity (subscription) endpoints instead of using Gemini API (pay as you go) endpoints.

New comment by free652 in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

free652 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:31:34 +0000

What dataset? Isn't the article clearly specified a different number?

Your context sucks, and it's good as a lie.

>Waymo reports 51 incidents in Austin alone in this same NHTSA database, but its fleet has driven orders of magnitude more miles in the city than Tesla’s supervised “

New comment by free652 in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

free652 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:32:37 +0000

>withholding evidence from the prosecution, you are going to jail if you follow.

Prosecution must present a valid search warrant for *specific* information. They don't get a carte blanche, so uber way is correct. lock computers and lets the courts to decide.

New comment by free652 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

free652 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:26:27 +0000

>This is just false. Amdgpu is an in tree kernel module and has been forever. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/amdgpu/index.html

You are arguing and arguing and shifting goal posts as we go.

The facts are:

* I am running the latest amdgpu video driver.

* AI 395 wasn't released yesterday, but a year ago.

* (My original point) Many different permutations of hardware / os / kernel / drivers / window manager / etc.

I highly doubt that installing Ubuntu 25.10 will fix the issue. Can you provide that guarantee? No. Then we can stop talking.

New comment by free652 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

free652 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:40:18 +0000

>Drivers are part of the kernel in Linux

While the drivers at the runtime are part of the kernel, they are not distributed as part of the kernel.

My drivers are *latest* -> 6.16.6.30200100-2255209.24.04

https://instinct.docs.amd.com/projects/amdgpu-docs/en/latest...

Debian is *stable*, but you are so far only proving my point in my original post.

If you are going to download ubuntu, the version proposed is 24.04 that has older kernel version than my debian 13.

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop -> Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS -> Kernel 6.8

New comment by free652 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

free652 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:59:06 +0000

debian 13 is using kernel 6.12 vs ubuntu 24 6.14. I don't think it's a kernel issue, and more that amd drivers aren't there yet for the new hardware.

running the latest also is problematic, i.e. a new kernel upgrade that blows thing up.

and that's the main difference between linux and windows, windows just works, osx just works, linux is a minefield of different quirks.

New comment by free652 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

free652 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:13:30 +0000

I switched to Debian/Cinnamon few weeks ago. I am fairly good with the server sides of things, but the desktop a little painful.

Screens dont wake up properly, sometimes only one screens wakes up, sometimes one screen wakes up with a wrong resolution. The usual linux desktop problems where nothing really works and finding a solution is very hard to many different permutations of hardware / os / kernel / drivers / window manager / etc.

I have the framework desktop with AMD 395+

My windows ssd is plugged and I can boot it directly using virt-manager, so thats kinda solves some windows specific stuff like tax software.

New comment by free652 in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

free652 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:04:02 +0000

This is pretty much everytime in Europe, not sure if the local terminals or the chase chip card always prompts me to pay with 1) USD 2) EURO

New comment by free652 in "GPT-5.2"

free652 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:25:52 +0000

yes, 2.5 just couldnt use tools right. 3.0 is way better at coding. better than sonnet 4.5/

New comment by free652 in "GPT-5.2"

free652 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:38 +0000

You cant buy an iPhone without a director approval. And it's like 3 gen behind as well. So no, they don't use iPhones.

New comment by free652 in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

free652 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:34:46 +0000

>(Ukraine was richer than Poland in 1993...)

Lol that's an absolute false statement. Ukraine was never richer than Poland, when it became a country (1991) economy went down a lot. So in 1993 - hahaha.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Poland/Ukr...

New comment by free652 in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

free652 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:16:51 +0000

Why? I would expect China to be at the top since it's #1 manufacturing country? But India is like behind Germany at (5).

How about GDP per emission? And that would make China way higher than US.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-intensity

New comment by free652 in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

free652 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:09:12 +0000

Ohhh so they aren't like selling weapon to Russia? Right. Keep going.

New comment by free652 in "EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system"

free652 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:37:14 +0000

Well you found one, and I can tell you about time when in EU that a place took a hard print of my card in the last 5 years! Didn't even know that card imprinters still exists.

Zelle is not just person to person, it's just a transfer. You can pay businesses, people and even transfer to yourself. Zero fees.

Europe is a big continent and I can easily find a place that is way more backwards ;)

Also 2 letters from EMV stands for 2 American companies :).