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New comment by givinguflac in "Fox to buy Roku"

givinguflac — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:56:42 +0000

|If the box where I can’t set up a third party player to do the ‘replay last 5 seconds with subtitles on’ because it’s all locked down

You do you, but I find that to be a truly niche thing to throw away an entire platform over. It literally does everything else better imho.

New comment by givinguflac in "How to earn a billion dollars"

givinguflac — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:20:17 +0000

Woof. This article is pretty impressively tone deaf and seemingly missing the point (on purpose?)

New comment by givinguflac in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

givinguflac — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:21:58 +0000

None of that says anything about ddg being bad. What does esoteric even mean in this context? I stand by it being a great private search engine.

New comment by givinguflac in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

givinguflac — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:20:45 +0000

I own both devices, and I turn phone call and text forwarding off in settings on my phone, and shut down iMessage on the iPad. Pretty easy.

New comment by givinguflac in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

givinguflac — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:37:51 +0000

Apple changed that years ago, what apps can’t you remove from an iPhone?

New comment by givinguflac in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

givinguflac — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:02:09 +0000

What are your metrics for good? I’ve exclusively used ddg for years and have zero issues. You ask for an outrageous level of proof- you prove it’s not good.

New comment by givinguflac in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

givinguflac — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:41:00 +0000

I’m sorry you went through all that; it sounds really difficult. I can relate, having come from a similar background and situation. However, I wasn’t actually diagnosed with adhd until well into adulthood. The meds have helped, but I also have been given other emotional deregulation diagnoses, and I’ve been wondering if it’s all one thing. This article and your experiences add to that perception, for me.

Regarding progress in therapy, it’s a lot of work for sure. I would recommend looking into brainspotting (1) - it’s been hugely helpful for processing trauma, for me. YMMV

Thank you for sharing!

(1) brainspotting.com

New comment by givinguflac in "Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows"

givinguflac — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:20:54 +0000

Impressive work! Alas I don’t use windows but if I did I would certainly check this out.

New comment by givinguflac in "NASA Force"

givinguflac — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:27:29 +0000

So what? Doesn’t mean I have to be a part of it or support it.

New comment by givinguflac in "NASA Force"

givinguflac — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:28:31 +0000

This is so weird and vague; I am not interested for fear of all of it being for space defense. Nope for me.

New comment by givinguflac in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

givinguflac — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:53:19 +0000

Ads, trackers, general boost to privacy. Not every protection tool is just about malware.

New comment by givinguflac in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

givinguflac — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:56:39 +0000

I really don’t understand the lack of mobile access. Even requesting desktop site changes nothing.

You really can’t make what’s effectively a slideshow/streetview work on mobile?

I don’t care if it’s not as good on mobile, just that I can access it.

Seems like a cool idea, but not about to hop over to my desktop to check it out though.

New comment by givinguflac in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

givinguflac — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:35:09 +0000

Derp, didn’t read closely enough. Thanks

New comment by givinguflac in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

givinguflac — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:09:19 +0000

I think you missed a zero, TB5 does 80GB/s.

New comment by givinguflac in "Apple Business"

givinguflac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:04:22 +0000

Which ones of those can do notifications, health tracking, sleep cycle, temperature/blood pressure? I’ll wait.

New comment by givinguflac in "Apple Business"

givinguflac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:03:37 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Those amalgam windows mobile devices were an interesting for the time, but hellish experience imho.

New comment by givinguflac in "Apple Business"

givinguflac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:59:57 +0000

> but the M-series Macs have spent 5 years changing absolutely nothing.

You clearly keep up with tech news, kudos! I’ve seen no changes from other major pc manufacturers in response to Apple silicon, at all. /s

New comment by givinguflac in "Apple Business"

givinguflac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:50:34 +0000

Thank you, point well made!

New comment by givinguflac in "Apple Business"

givinguflac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:48:57 +0000

>Look at laptop reviews from places like Just Josh Tech on YouTube

I stopped reading here.

New comment by givinguflac in "Apple Business"

givinguflac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:46:41 +0000

I will be absolutely shocked if any current pc company can even approach the neos build quality/performance/price combo. See you next year, happy to wait .