Hacker News: kasabali

New comment by kasabali in "Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL"

kasabali — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:53:42 +0000

I understand that and I still say games shouldn't have the ability to do this.

New comment by kasabali in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

kasabali — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:51:28 +0000

who died and made you the arbitrator of deciding the "main use case"

New comment by kasabali in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

kasabali — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:49:12 +0000

irresponsible of what? allowing people use the hardware they own as they wish?

New comment by kasabali in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

kasabali — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:15:09 +0000

DDR5 has always been twice as expensive as DDR4. But yeah when they were a lot cheaper maybe it didn't matter as much as it does now.

New comment by kasabali in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

kasabali — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:01:26 +0000

its manufactured on a smaller node so probably has more leeway for higher freq on all core loads.

I’d also be weary of single core scores,Geekbench is known to be favoring specialized instruction sets like AVX or encryption extensions more and more as the version number progresses. Though I don’t know if GB6 is also like this I wouldn’t be surprised it it was caused by it.

New comment by kasabali in "Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization"

kasabali — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:35:59 +0000

The problem with this is Microsoft foresaw it and pushed (bribed?) OOXML through ISO and now there's no standing on "forcing" an open standard without OOXML being one.

New comment by kasabali in "The case against JPEG XL"

kasabali — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:00:20 +0000

Sure, if you ignore PQ completely.

Not that libjpeg-turbo is pinnacle of quality but hardware encoders, seriously?

New comment by kasabali in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

kasabali — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:28:20 +0000

joke's on you, it has never worked for me.

New comment by kasabali in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"

kasabali — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:13:17 +0000

IMO Aero parts looked phenomenal but older Win32 parts like toolbars etc. didn't fit and looked odd

New comment by kasabali in "iPhone Duo"

kasabali — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:12:10 +0000

> Based on rumours Samsung finally cracked the secret on removing creases…

That's every year since it's introduction

New comment by kasabali in "GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard"

kasabali — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:18:46 +0000

That's textbook FUD.

New comment by kasabali in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

kasabali — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:03:50 +0000

xdotool and wmctrl is what you need

New comment by kasabali in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

kasabali — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:09:39 +0000

It may be 20 less but still hundreds. I'll never understand the LTSC advocacy, it is still the same thing except they mopped up the most disgusting looking liquid seeping out to the floor but didn't touch the huge turd sitting in the middle.

New comment by kasabali in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

kasabali — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:07:26 +0000

> - 100% minimal designed for absolute performance coded ground up in rust

Rust didn't exist in 90s yet Windows' performance was pretty good speed, consumption or bloat-wise.

New comment by kasabali in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

kasabali — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:04:53 +0000

> https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator made all those tools obsolete and useless for the most part, "debloating" after it's installed is always bad business.

Unattended is no "magic". Go ahead and inspect the xml file created by that utility, all the customization and debloating is practically same as running a script post install.

If you really want to debloat before it's installed you want this: https://ntlite.com/

New comment by kasabali in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

kasabali — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:02:07 +0000

Play services isn't an "app", it's a highly privileged system service that has access to everything and some more.

New comment by kasabali in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

kasabali — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:56 +0000

> You can create an account with no phone number during Android device setup.

Yeah now they have IMEI and all the other device specific info anyway they might as well forego the phone number

New comment by kasabali in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

kasabali — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:53:46 +0000

> For extra privacy, you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else.

I dare you try creating a Google account that isn't tied to anything else.

Nowadays you can't even create an account in desktop browser without first having to scan a qr code from a mobile device first.

New comment by kasabali in "Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages"

kasabali — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:28:20 +0000

"For a device with 8 GB, an app can use no more than 2.25 GB in the foreground, 1.5 GB for user-perceived services, and 1.5 GB in the background"

These are still very generous limits I doubt that'll help at all

New comment by kasabali in "Windows Task Manager's Creator Rebuilt it 30 years later"

kasabali — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:24:44 +0000

"... it's on a Mac ..."

Tells you everything you need to know about Windows in 2026.