Hacker News: gtk40

New comment by gtk40 in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

gtk40 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:20:48 +0000

But you can also use MATE still to this day, or even Cinnamon.

New comment by gtk40 in "What podcasts are you listening to?"

gtk40 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:35:04 +0000

Granted, there are good podcasts, but I've switched my listening time (mostly commute for in office once a week) to audiobooks. I find books to be much more consistently high quality content, regardless of the source. There are bad books, but the quality tends to be higher than podcasts. I mostly get audiobooks through my library, but I also sometimes listen through Spotify.

New comment by gtk40 in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

gtk40 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:33:49 +0000

I haven't used Windows in years. I remember needing to use WordPad to even open a Unix line ending file, even though it was counter-intuitive.

New comment by gtk40 in "Let's Unify Linux Desktops"

gtk40 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:21:00 +0000

FreeBSD 15 is planning to ship with an option in the default installer to setup a KDE Plasma desktop!

New comment by gtk40 in "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"

gtk40 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:45:49 +0000

Dillo works surprisingly well. I've used it on older systems running new operating systems. It does a web browser should do best: read web pages.

New comment by gtk40 in "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"

gtk40 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:45:23 +0000

Nope, it uses https://www.fltk.org/

New comment by gtk40 in "America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy"

gtk40 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:26:33 +0000

I'm from a blue class family in a non-affluent area and I could already read going into Kindergarten because my mom spent a lot of time reading with me before I got to school. This was 25+ years ago.

New comment by gtk40 in "Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD"

gtk40 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:18:06 +0000

What does this have to do with running FreeBSD software on Windows?

New comment by gtk40 in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

gtk40 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:01:10 +0000

Reminds me of when Cisco bought Flip Video

New comment by gtk40 in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

gtk40 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:33:48 +0000

I will admit I'm more like to use "--" and not bother converting it if not done automatically on quick forum posts. You can find examples in my post history. But I come across them all the time in written works.

New comment by gtk40 in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

gtk40 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:19:33 +0000

Honestly em-dashes are simpler to use than other punctuation and sometimes come in handy when it's not clear what to use.

New comment by gtk40 in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

gtk40 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:18:52 +0000

Many devices and word processors will convert "--" into an em-dash. On longer posts, I often write in a word processor and then copy-paste to a text field.

On Android and iOS, you press and hold the "-" to get the "–" and "—" options.

On Mac, use opt + hyphen for "–" and opt + shift + hyphen for "—" (similar to other special characters).

On Linux you can enable the compose key and use it similar to MacOS (Compose+---).

It's not rocket science.

New comment by gtk40 in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

gtk40 — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:32:30 +0000

Meanwhile Microsoft removed WordPad in the latest version of Windows 11. It was a great simple word processor and text editor. It even supported docx and odt files.

New comment by gtk40 in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

gtk40 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:59:59 +0000

I loved the N800 and was happy to see it make an appearance in that presentation. In fact I still have one in my desk drawer beside me I turn on from time-to-time. Yes it was a bit cumbersome, but I could do more with that device than any other handheld I have ever had and carried it with me for years. I wish the N900 and other smartphones on Maemo had caught on.

New comment by gtk40 in "Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)"

gtk40 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:25:02 +0000

Yeah one non-profit is a place that people physically so I imagine a lot of people look at it on their cell phone. We have over half of our visitors on mobile.

New comment by gtk40 in "Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)"

gtk40 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:23:50 +0000

I manage websites for a couple of non-profits. A very high percentage of traffic is from Safari (mostly on iOS) -- 40% on one site. Only testing in Chrome seems like a bad idea.

New comment by gtk40 in "Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?"

gtk40 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:46:27 +0000

I just use Firefox and disable Pocket, search suggestions, and everything on the new tab page and it feels fine to me.

New comment by gtk40 in "Looking at California's $20 minimum wage impact 6 months later"

gtk40 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:38:28 +0000

You tip at fast food restaurants?

New comment by gtk40 in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"

gtk40 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:05:30 +0000

And it is not just the US. In the UK from my limited experience visiting they use a mess of different units commonly. Certainly not all in on metric.

New comment by gtk40 in "Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say"

gtk40 — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 19:37:14 +0000

You're probably right, but it doesn't always feel that way when you have serial numbers on every piece of currency. And coins are so uselessly low value today that they're hard to use.