Hacker News: hollandheese

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.

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

hollandheese — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:33:11 +0000

This was posited as the nice sounding reason for the second amendment, when the more accurate reason was to ensure citizens had guns to drive out the indigenous peoples and steal their lands.

We rather quickly saw the federal government rolling over the people even with weapons in the Whiskey Rebellion.

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

hollandheese — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:24:53 +0000

The police (FBI and ICE included) are never your friends. They work to protect the rich and powerful and not us.

New comment by hollandheese in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

hollandheese — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:38:47 +0000

Huh? GNOME releases new versions twice a year versus macOS' once a year and Windows' once a year.

GNOME just doesn't feel the need to radically change things every few releases because they have no need to seem "new" to get people to buy things.

New comment by hollandheese in "The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says"

hollandheese — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:01:59 +0000

So cheap that many of you don't seem to see any value in having it anymore.

New comment by hollandheese in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

hollandheese — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:41:44 +0000

>- No sudo, or at least no conflict between "Sudo is dangerous and can break your system" / "You need sudo to do routine things"

This is an unreasonable ask. No modern operating system will give you this. You have to escalate credentials on macOS and Windows as well. Typically Linux asks you LESS often than either macOS or Windows. This or I don't understand what you're asking here.

>- No CLI required to install software

Just use GNOME Software or Discover (KDE). They'll install anything on Flathub or in your distro's repositories. Use a different distro than Ubuntu though, since they are non-standard with using Snap instead of Flatpak.

>Lag-free pen experience

I have the same amount of lag in Windows as in Linux on my Surface Pro 9. What does need work is palm rejection, but you can disable the touchscreen while the pen is in use. Not the best.

>Good touch support

GNOME and GTK 3/4 apps are by far the best for this. Not quite as good as Windows though.

>Less fragile. I shouldn't have to worry about the PC booting up into a no-GUI terminal after I installed something, or edited a file. (See point 1; don't make me edit system files to do routine stuff like communicate with a USB device without sudo, if they can break the system)

?????? ?????? If you mess with system files on any system without knowing what you're doing you'll run into this problem with an OS.

>Let me open an application by double-clicking it

Double clicking what?

The executable file in your file manager? That works.

A desktop shortcut? Use a different DE than GNOME or install an extension that allows desktop shortcuts.