Hacker News: jacooper

New comment by jacooper in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

jacooper — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:29:10 +0000

In my case the bottleneck isn't cpu performance, it's ram. You can't run serious apps with 16gigs, nor lightroom with a large catalog nor Photoshop with Ai filters. Also running multiple agents with dev servers is ram intensive.

New comment by jacooper in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

jacooper — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:54:45 +0000

Doesn't matter, the end result is the same.

New comment by jacooper in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

jacooper — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:48:07 +0000

Gimp is ass, what takes me 5 minutes in Photoshop needs an hour in GIMP. Also I edit photos occasionally in lightroom. I actually daily Linux, but I still have to dual boot for gaming and Adobe.

Also Linux isn't flawless either, Fedora broke sleep on my full AMD PC since like a month now and no agent could successfully debug it.

New comment by jacooper in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

jacooper — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:34:44 +0000

Macs are too expensive for the same performance/ram, and Linux still can't run proper creative software.

New comment by jacooper in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

jacooper — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:11:11 +0000

Neither really worked for me on fedora. Ratbag can't see the mx master 3s and solar couldn't remap anything.

New comment by jacooper in "Keep Android Open"

jacooper — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:02:05 +0000

There's strong political backing for it now.

New comment by jacooper in "Show HN: mcpc – Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP)"

jacooper — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:01:52 +0000

So this turns mcps into cli based clients?

New comment by jacooper in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

jacooper — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:37:09 +0000

Because i can do it on the phone.

New comment by jacooper in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"

jacooper — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:38:25 +0000

If only they could figure out how to fiz the hallucination issues in gemini models...

New comment by jacooper in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

jacooper — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:11:43 +0000

Actually synthetic training dats is better, thats why the new models are all better at design.

New comment by jacooper in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

jacooper — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:50:00 +0000

Just wait for the new OEM to drop their phones with GrapheneOS support. Pixel hardware is garbage tier.

New comment by jacooper in "Head of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in OSS"

jacooper — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:45:31 +0000

Ncie writing ai

New comment by jacooper in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

jacooper — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:37:16 +0000

What? Jenkins? No way.

New comment by jacooper in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

jacooper — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:58:20 +0000

Immich is way better if all you need is photo storage. It's Google photos level.

New comment by jacooper in "Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users"

jacooper — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:14:45 +0000

It's almost always the case with the old-school gnu mindset, aka gimp. There are exceptions though, like blender and gnome.

New comment by jacooper in "Gaza Rafah border crossing to stay closed 'until further notice', says Israel"

jacooper — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:42:48 +0000

The only party actually following the ceasefire is the Palestinians as usual. There's a ceasefire in Syria and Lebanon, but apparently for Israel a ceasefire means they can still attack you, you just can't defend yourself.

New comment by jacooper in "Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server"

jacooper — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:16:30 +0000

I'm sorry but there's no way you can call xmpp modern messaging. Matrix with all of its shortcomings looks like 2050 compared to xmpp. Xmpp doesn't even have any half-decent mobile client!

New comment by jacooper in "Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API"

jacooper — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:30:18 +0000

If you have copilot already, just use the copilot coding agent it does the same and it's much better.

From my experience Jules is the worst coding agent on the market.

New comment by jacooper in "TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'"

jacooper — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:14:46 +0000

The conversation around tiktok is so politicized and biased to the point I just can't take such results seriously.

If this was Instagram nobody would care.

> Global Witness, a climate organisation whose remit includes investigating big tech’s impact on human rights, said it conducted two batches of tests, with one set before the implementation of child protection rules under the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) on 25 July and another after.

Also why the hell is a human rights / climate org doing research on tiktok?

New comment by jacooper in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

jacooper — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:10:12 +0000

Lol 5 million is pocket change for meta, wtf are these courts doing?