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New comment by glenneroo in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

glenneroo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:52:26 +0000

FTFA: it will run on upcoming Motorola devices as well.

New comment by glenneroo in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

glenneroo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:28:58 +0000

According to this, he's mostly right: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...

New comment by glenneroo in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

glenneroo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:47:49 +0000

Weird, I googled around and I see every bank has their own limits, and all banks I could find claim a 30-100k or no limit at all.

Whatever LLM duckduckgo is using says 10k and ability increase as more transactions are made (to increase trust) - but it's probably using outdated data.

When did you try this? I'm guessing more than a year ago.

New comment by glenneroo in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

glenneroo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:53:42 +0000

True, thanks for reminding me that this is about CC replacements :)

But I honestly don't know many people with a CC here, and those who do (myself included), we don't have the same advantages/disadvantages of a CC: no points, no "free" miles, no interest and no possibility to rack up debt like in the US since Visa automatically deducts the full amount from my bank account at the end of the monthly billing period.

New comment by glenneroo in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

glenneroo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:17:41 +0000

With debit cards or cash like everyone else?

New comment by glenneroo in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

glenneroo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:40:05 +0000

Uhm, the EU already has free instant SEPA transfers? I use it regularly, sadly not all EU banks support it (smaller ones sometimes have issues and have to resort to standard oldschool 2-day transfer, but they are also free).

New comment by glenneroo in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

glenneroo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:38:18 +0000

Yeah but now we have instant EU-wide SEPA transfers for free, so it's not all stupidity! Also it took years to implement - banks are slow at implementing new tech. WERO is still very new, if it takes off, eventually banks will hopefully support it.

New comment by glenneroo in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

glenneroo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:35:18 +0000

The official Apple store (McShark) in Vienna used to pass this ~3% charge on to consumers (a few years ago, not sure if it's still true today - and also there is a real Apple Store now).

New comment by glenneroo in "LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick"

glenneroo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:51:14 +0000

Hallucinations are IMO a hard wall. They have gotten slightly better over the years but you still get random results that may or may not be true, or rather, are in a range between 0-100% true, depending on which part of the answer you look at.

New comment by glenneroo in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

glenneroo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:40:39 +0000

Love this! Small bug but when changing files, it doesn't reset to position 0 in the file (at least on Firefox on Win11).

New comment by glenneroo in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

glenneroo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:37:27 +0000

I love your UDP packet flow tool, kudos for making that! I've always wondered how packets move through an OS. Also interesting how many gotos I see all over the place, even though everyone says "goto is the devil". Then again maybe this code was written long before that "proverb" came into existence.

New comment by glenneroo in "Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit"

glenneroo — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:23:23 +0000

If they actually cared, they would just block VPNs. Valve does this when you try to create an account.

New comment by glenneroo in "Steam Frame"

glenneroo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:43:36 +0000

I am currently adding passthrough mode to my game (DodgeALL) to spawn portals on your walls letting you dodge things coming out of the walls. Planned release within the next month (in time to enter in the Meta VR competition). A friend of mine made a game (Loop One: Done) that is Factorio-lite which lets you build infinite factories in your flat, which is loads of fun.

New comment by glenneroo in "Steam Frame"

glenneroo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:09:58 +0000

That's not quite true - when did you get your free Quest 1? Only January of this year did Meta officially stop allowing devs to support those devices which IMO is not nice, but probably necessary to put resources towards newer devices since it was extremely outdated and very hard to keep supporting. The Quest 1 launched in May 2019, so it got almost 6 years of updates and if you have one, you can still install older versions of existing apps that choose to support it (which admittedly is very rare). I shut off support for my game back in 2024 when they recommended it, since the device is less than half as powerful as the Quest 2, very few users still had one, and the Q1 was a hard target to hit performance-wise vs newer devices. If you spend $50 to get a Quest 2 you'll get a couple years of updates or even better, spend $299 to get a 3S which is an amazing piece of kit and will probably be supported for at least 5 more years since it just came out.

New comment by glenneroo in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

glenneroo — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:28:15 +0000

I've read from several supposed AI prompt-masters that this actually reduces output quality. I can't speak to the validity of these claims though.

New comment by glenneroo in "Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen"

glenneroo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:20:44 +0000

This is how they do it on the Mars Trilogy after setting up a colony on Mars. Of course the trilogy is entirely fictional, but the idea sounds like it couldn't be worse than the current situation, where those with narcissistic/psycho/sociopath tendencies winning elections i.e. those who seek power and/or those who have proficient oration abilities, not necessarily those who are most capable.

New comment by glenneroo in "Unix v4 Tape Found"

glenneroo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:50:19 +0000

Ouch, yeah, thanks for the explanation. Total reading comprehension failure on my part.

New comment by glenneroo in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

glenneroo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:28:10 +0000

Well to be fair, anything is better than the CLI (unless you are a masochist ;)

New comment by glenneroo in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

glenneroo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:26:20 +0000

SourceTree also isn't too shabby, though the interface is slightly different than the Windows version (for whatever reason).