Hacker News: hollandheese

New comment by hollandheese in "Google changes its search box"

hollandheese — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:12:35 +0000

Why are you assuming that they want to filter out the SEO spam?

New comment by hollandheese in "McDonald's is quietly ending the era of self-serve soda fountains nationwide"

hollandheese — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:23:52 +0000

I'm not sure what you're complaining about here. People using a service that they paid for? How is that theft? Further, any "theft" of soda from a soda fountain would be only costing the company pennies basically.

The change is about McDonald's not wanting to staff enough to have people actually in the restaurants. They're slow rolling a change to only take out.

New comment by hollandheese in "McDonald's is quietly ending the era of self-serve soda fountains nationwide"

hollandheese — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:32:40 +0000

How? They're just using the same machines to fill up your drinks and not letting you have access to them for refills. They're not getting rid of soda fountains.

New comment by hollandheese in "ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce"

hollandheese — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:05:27 +0000

Supernote and Onyx Boox both do meaningful upgrades with useful new features on their devices.

New comment by hollandheese in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

hollandheese — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:58:56 +0000

That's because Kobo's sister company Tolino operates in Germany. It has nothing to do with Amazon.

New comment by hollandheese in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"

hollandheese — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:28:00 +0000

Huh? There's actually more stuff in the way than if you used two windows since the divider is actually larger than the gap between windows is.

The only way this saves on space is if you're using vertical tabs.

New comment by hollandheese in "MacBook Neo"

hollandheese — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:02:19 +0000

Works just fine. I do this every day in my setup. Yeah, it'll take a second to adjust but it works.

New comment by hollandheese in "MacBook Neo"

hollandheese — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:42:26 +0000

It's $500 more. Basically double the price.

New comment by hollandheese in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

hollandheese — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:26:06 +0000

Were you running a 386-16 MHz with 4 MB of memory? And you had hundreds of apps listed on the start menu? Because on anything faster it would absolutely not take that long.

It wasn't always instant on boot on my 486-SLC 33 MHz with 8 MB of memory but at most several to ten seconds for it to appear on first boot after clicking.

And on the Pentium MMX that I'm running now it's always instant on Windows 98 SE.

New comment by hollandheese in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

hollandheese — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:45:34 +0000

Windows 3.11 loads in less than a blink of an eye on my Pentium MMX, while Windows 98 takes at least a minute to boot. This is with a 8 GB CF card as the HDD too, so the I/O is going as fast as possible.

New comment by hollandheese in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

hollandheese — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:58:53 +0000

Good luck with that.

New comment by hollandheese in "What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile"

hollandheese — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:33:13 +0000

>Amazon are bad at consumer software, with the exception perhaps of the kindle

The Kindle has the worst software of any e-ink device on the market.

New comment by hollandheese in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

hollandheese — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:13:02 +0000

Wayland and flatpaks work perfectly fine. nVidia drivers on the other hand...

New comment by hollandheese in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

hollandheese — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:09:01 +0000

>settings menu, it was impossible to navigate using tab and arrow keys.

Huh? All you need is tab and the arrow keys to navigate the GNOME Settings app. I'm literally doing that right now. Maybe it was a later addition but it works perfectly fine in GNOME 49.

New comment by hollandheese in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

hollandheese — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:55:19 +0000

Are they? At this point I seriously question that assertion.

New comment by hollandheese in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

hollandheese — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:52:13 +0000

Because Mac OS X Finder has always been kinda terrible. There was a lot of talk about this in the early 2000s and it's just faded away since the people using macOS now probably never experienced the good old Mac OS 9 Finder.

And its Windows competition Windows Explorer has likewise gotten worse and worse each revision of Windows.

New comment by hollandheese in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

hollandheese — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:45:51 +0000

Nah, macOS is going down the crapper too.

New comment by hollandheese in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

hollandheese — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:24:59 +0000

The source is from one of the preeminent scholars of the indigenous history of North America. Get the book if you don't like the website it was published at.

New comment by hollandheese in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

hollandheese — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:11:46 +0000

Here's one: https://monthlyreview.org/articles/settler-colonialism-and-t...

New comment by hollandheese in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

hollandheese — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:39:47 +0000

Yeah, it is quite funny.