Hacker News: jim33442

New comment by jim33442 in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

jim33442 — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:16:07 +0000

That's not the problem they're trying to solve

New comment by jim33442 in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

jim33442 — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:15:16 +0000

It's not for sale yet

New comment by jim33442 in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

jim33442 — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:14:33 +0000

Electric seats and windows are always the first thing to go in an old car. And they're so unnecessary.

New comment by jim33442 in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

jim33442 — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:10:39 +0000

Wow that interior in the article looks awful. I haven't driven a Mercedes since my C230 from 2004.

New comment by jim33442 in "Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different"

jim33442 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:10:18 +0000

This is the most angry comment thread I've ever seen about a hypervisor.

New comment by jim33442 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

jim33442 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:08:10 +0000

Oh so it's not even CI/CD, just showing PRs. That's awful.

New comment by jim33442 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

jim33442 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:13:53 +0000

Have those outages actually been blocking your work? Somehow I haven't even noticed, just seen complaints on HN. I'm not saying it's not real, just wondering where the gap is.

New comment by jim33442 in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

jim33442 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:39:45 +0000

I don't remember, it's usually a random poorly-made site like the DMV or a budget airline. Reddit used to have issues but not anymore.

New comment by jim33442 in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

jim33442 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:04:05 +0000

What's the alternative if you want full ad-blocking in a Chromium browser? I use Firefox normally and wouldn't trust Brave, but there are some sites FF doesn't work with, so it's understandable why some people wouldn't use it.

New comment by jim33442 in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

jim33442 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:00:58 +0000

Look I'm not an expert in web browsers, but I defer to those extension authors who definitely are. There's some reason uBO doesn't work well in MV3 even though they tried. Whatever technical explanation there is for why MV3 is fine, there's some caveat not mentioned.

New comment by jim33442 in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

jim33442 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:59:02 +0000

or Safari

New comment by jim33442 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:26:28 +0000

Why do you need agents patching your kernel to enable efficient agentic workflows? Are those agents working on building a kernel? If they're just building some web backend or whatever, I don't see why any of this is needed.

New comment by jim33442 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:21:37 +0000

I don't get #3 because all those CLIs work on Mac too. You're only forced to use Xcode if you're doing certain Apple platform dev, which does suck, but is there a better Linux-only alternative for that?

New comment by jim33442 in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:12:52 +0000

Avoid iOS 26 at all costs. I was forced to update to it because I needed to factory reset my phone, and it's super buggy. I'm not even one of those people harping on the Liquid Glass design decisions, those are w/e, the problem is just that the phone routinely freaks out doing basic tasks like trying to open the camera app or close the keyboard. They should roll it back.

New comment by jim33442 in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:10:34 +0000

The original comment mentions this but gives the wrong reasoning. The APNs are encrypted either way, but this setting prevents Signal from decrypting them client-side and letting the notification cache store it. Yeah this is more secure because it means not trusting Apple to do their job right with local storage, but it's also kind of a reasonable thing to trust.

New comment by jim33442 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:46:46 +0000

So I got a 13" MacBook Air recently. It didn't require me to log into iCloud, but I did cause I wanted some things synced, which is free cause I'm not uploading photos. I don't buy anything from the Mac App Store cause why. The OS lets me run anything I want on it. The hardware technically doesn't care what OS it runs, though nothing else really works unless you count Asahi. In what way am I locked into generating them more money?

New comment by jim33442 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:43:25 +0000

Well if you buy a Linux laptop and slap Windows on it, sleep will most likely work. Unfortunately Microsoft got preferential treatment.

New comment by jim33442 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:39:52 +0000

Don't worry, they don't need help selling it

New comment by jim33442 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:36:10 +0000

I thought the idea was the Framework is the company-provisioned one. Or are they letting people do corp work on personal laptops?

New comment by jim33442 in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

jim33442 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:25:32 +0000

If he's a suspect but not confirmed, they'd know if he purchased a real gun, and a ballistics test would confirm it matches the bullet. Conveniently "losing" it would raise suspicion too. Or if that's not why, there has to be some reason people make ghost guns in general.