Hacker News: jaffa2

New comment by jaffa2 in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

jaffa2 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:33:23 +0000

I hope you are right. still waiting for iphone air flip and a mbp that folds into a tablet with apple pencil support. this is such an obvious product.

New comment by jaffa2 in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

jaffa2 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:20:15 +0000

best analysis of this I have seen.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Why My Dad Didn't Have a Cell Phone"

jaffa2 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:09:35 +0000

It’s true. I have a voip app which is for business. pretty muchh no one calls me i dont call anyone. my phone is silent.i turn off notifications. i check it when i want to. last call i made was to the pharmacy a month ago. i just dont need it and I dont need other people calling me even less.

Another point that possibly speaks to the OP wrt his elder fathers wise words.

During covid there was a lot of stuff on tv in place of regular programming. not that i watch much TV (insert the onion link) but i saw these people on acreen and i thought ‘who are they?’ and the I realised that I didnt even care who they were. And that it didnt matter. I had officially reached that point in life where I can look back at my father asking me the same question about someone one (probaly the latest celeb or whatever) on TV 30 years ago and me being confused as to why he didnt know or didnt seem to care. Now I understand.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

jaffa2 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:00:34 +0000

arghhh ‘quietly becoming’ I smell AI

New comment by jaffa2 in "ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support"

jaffa2 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:24:36 +0000

i don’t think so. it’sa cool project i don’t know how many developers they have but they seem to be making slow and steady progress. was it originally supposed to ‘recreate’/binary compatible win2k? are we about 25 years down the line here ?

in most cases people are likely to run wine if they need that compatibility so i think this is kinds like haiku and beos and other similar endeavors.

i wonder how much ai is helping with the effort.

New comment by jaffa2 in "A farewell to Arc browser"

jaffa2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:16:44 +0000

i too like vivaldi for the same reasons. i use brave, chrome for google stuff, firefox if i need a third browser but i use vivaldi mostly. except on mac where i still use safari

New comment by jaffa2 in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

jaffa2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:20:18 +0000

stage manager is just a worse implementation of the old ‘auto hide other apps’ flag that has been broken for some time now. shame. i preffered that mode and it might have been the default on early builds on os x Steve jobs used it in his presentations.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick"

jaffa2 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:35:00 +0000

I like it. Can we have a general glamour mode plugin for all web pages.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font"

jaffa2 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:11:18 +0000

I had this question. Then I read the bit of the page with the sentence that starts ‘The quasi-proportional families:’

New comment by jaffa2 in "Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement"

jaffa2 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:26:04 +0000

I wish it would work for https://www.westcoasttoday.co.uk/ i.e. Oban Time like this article https://www.westcoasttoday.co.uk/news/piping-contests-and-pi...

New comment by jaffa2 in "Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1"

jaffa2 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:05:33 +0000

What makes them look like QT apps ? To me I can't see anything identifiable, they look like generic web apps with a mac OS border.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Video CDs Break Windows Explorer"

jaffa2 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:55:44 +0000

exactly. i too remember getting into vcd and svcd as a way to get video to my tv. I remember making some sort of Matrox to SCART lead and later I eventually got a TV (sony tritron) with s-vid that also helped the transition. it wasn’t until I got a plasma (px80) and popcorn hour a110 that i freed myself up from hacky cds and trailing wires. this was early 2000’s

New comment by jaffa2 in "The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London"

jaffa2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:13:40 +0000

Sorry yes. I see what was meant now.

New comment by jaffa2 in "iPhone Duo"

jaffa2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:49:10 +0000

Im not talking about cost im talking about relative size of batterys.

New comment by jaffa2 in "iPhone Duo"

jaffa2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:54:42 +0000

What would be REALLY vaulable would be a 141% enlarge mode. Ie since the screens are the same ratio there is no reason that when open it could just display exactly the same except larger. This is a piece of piss to program if they haven’t already put it in accessibility settings. This feature alone would drive certain demographics to this device.

New comment by jaffa2 in "iPhone Duo"

jaffa2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:52:06 +0000

I had a 12 mini and although batt life could be a complaint for me it was fine since i charged in car on cummute 2x a day and was never farther 10 feet from a charger if required so it actually worked really well. This is the same argument EV proponents make when people complain about lack of card with 500 mile range. In practical terms its just very rarely actually needed.

New comment by jaffa2 in "The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London"

jaffa2 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:05:57 +0000

Gun, possibly?

New comment by jaffa2 in "Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

jaffa2 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:36:44 +0000

Tell your kids ‘no’

Bring some sanity back to the world.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Jellyfin 12.0"

jaffa2 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:39:39 +0000

You need plex pass to do this now. They changed it recently you didnt used to need it.

New comment by jaffa2 in "Monitors for Work"

jaffa2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:48:59 +0000

It shouldnt be blurry unless its a 1440p screen running at 1080..