Hacker News: functionmouse

New comment by functionmouse in "The Hackintosh Reborn"

functionmouse — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:37:22 +0000

I stopped using my fingerprint readers on all my PCs and just set my passwords all to "asdf". It's faster, more convenient, and more consistent, than the fingerprint reader ever was. :)

New comment by functionmouse in "Vivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad"

functionmouse — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:43:06 +0000

I don't think that's the case. I think the problem is that the sort of market behavior that would drive a company to run invasive ads in the first place betrays its fundamental lack of respect for its users. I want to pay for stuff. And I have tried. Even in doing so, I've found piracy is still often the superior service to using what I'm actually paying for.

New comment by functionmouse in "Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time"

functionmouse — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:44:31 +0000

Could be planned obsolescence.

New comment by functionmouse in "Just a little AI resistance, as a treat"

functionmouse — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:26:00 +0000

It doesn't have to remember. It just repeats what humans say. And humans say that sort of thing every day.

New comment by functionmouse in "SOML – A Config Format for Humans"

functionmouse — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:39:56 +0000

> your project

there's a very good chance there's no human involvement at all in this

New comment by functionmouse in "My Favourite Laptop"

functionmouse — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:10:24 +0000

The trackpoint of old is my favorite input method for laptops. But the trackpoint of new is not like the trackpoint of old. I still prefer it to the trackpad personally, just because it's so ingrained in me, but I no longer try to convince friends and family. It's on its way out, culturally, because of said enshittification.

New comment by functionmouse in "My Favourite Laptop"

functionmouse — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:43:53 +0000

They're enshittified now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92bdOcsBVpQ

New comment by functionmouse in "WTF Ubuntu?"

functionmouse — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:01:46 +0000

But Ubuntu is not the embodiment of "open source". It's a business. With managers...

New comment by functionmouse in "Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release"

functionmouse — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:05:13 +0000

Why don't you do it?

New comment by functionmouse in "Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case"

functionmouse — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:59:18 +0000

That's just the thing; these devices aren't meant to be -good-, they're meant to check boxes.

New comment by functionmouse in "The United Kingdom is committing an act of strategic self harm"

functionmouse — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:19:54 +0000

> The Epistemology of the Black Box: Engineering Sovereignty Before the Machines Write the Rules

The title of this article is very unclear.

New comment by functionmouse in "5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion"

functionmouse — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:23:24 +0000

I mean. So would looking through cardboard tubes. In this context, cardboard tubes are at least as cool.

New comment by functionmouse in "I'm building LYNX, an open-source DAW inspired by FL Studio, free,cross-platform"

functionmouse — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:40:36 +0000

> Contributors: Claude Code

Sorry mate, this here is disposable software.

New comment by functionmouse in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

functionmouse — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:10:12 +0000

It is not so simple. Here is some information: https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/we-documented-12...

New comment by functionmouse in "Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office"

functionmouse — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:55:01 +0000

my favorite :D

New comment by functionmouse in "Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office"

functionmouse — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:41:02 +0000

New comment by functionmouse in "Apple Music 404 Not Found"

functionmouse — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:01:50 +0000

The mechanical drive has probably failed. If you put the iPod in a freezer bag and get it very cold, it may spin up long enough for you to make a backup. But make sure it is in a freezer bag or something otherwise airtight or the condensation will brick it worse. The cold shrinks the metal enough to mitigate the initial friction of the drive spinning up.

From there, you can mod it to work from a micro SD card.

New comment by functionmouse in "Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

functionmouse — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:44:14 +0000

So this will end tech support scams, then?

Also. I regularly remove malware from people's android phones pro bono in and around my community. It all comes from the play store.

New comment by functionmouse in "Japan: Scientists develop autonomously swarming robodogs for anti-bear patrols"

functionmouse — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:20:20 +0000

every new technology thing just looks like poorly disguised weapons now

New comment by functionmouse in "OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"

functionmouse — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:37:46 +0000

coding the next big thing -- fleets of fleets of agents