Hacker News: kasabali

New comment by kasabali in "Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB"

kasabali — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:11:37 +0000

I'm afraid in a few years iOS will actually (not as a joke) be the more open and customizable option

New comment by kasabali in "Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?"

kasabali — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:10:11 +0000

imagine the 2 grams you'll be losing by skipping the m.2 connector

New comment by kasabali in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

kasabali — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:54:51 +0000

so you need to have discord installed in your phone.

now multiply it with every web site you want to access.

New comment by kasabali in "The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired"

kasabali — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:55:13 +0000

Main profile is very mediocre. Any file I see in the wild is encoded in high profile.

New comment by kasabali in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

kasabali — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:43:28 +0000

Someone should vibe reverse that driver

New comment by kasabali in "OneCommander: Modern File Manager for Windows 11 and 10"

kasabali — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:56:54 +0000

That's too much work, seeing "modern" in the title is usually enough for me.

New comment by kasabali in "Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads"

kasabali — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:48:46 +0000

afaik unlock was discovered very recently

New comment by kasabali in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"

kasabali — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:27:19 +0000

Whenever I get the same device from AliExpress and the local white label importers, even though the outside casing is identical, AliExpress option has always had more quality. Locally sold ones has always the crappier internals albeit they come in a box (versus AE ones come in a bag)

New comment by kasabali in "macOS 28 will not support encrypted HFS+ volumes"

kasabali — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:19:15 +0000

wasn't hfs read only on Linux?

New comment by kasabali in "Moving to FreeBSD from Linux"

kasabali — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:28:44 +0000

You must accept the cold hard truth that you can't get rid of freedesktop.org unless you move to MacOS os Windows. Even *bsd s are infected with it the moment you want to do anything desktop-y with them.

New comment by kasabali in "Windows 11 will soon be able to reinstall itself and drivers without a USB drive"

kasabali — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:24:52 +0000

Erm

Recovery partition has been a thing for like 20 years now.

and the reset PC feature more than a decade.

New comment by kasabali in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

kasabali — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:43:15 +0000

because H265 predates AV1 by 5 years. H265’s contemporary was VP9, which was honestly worse than H264 done with a good encoder like x264.

New comment by kasabali in "Can China build its own ASML?"

kasabali — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:30:11 +0000

I wouldn't mind getting 1080ti s , kaby lake cores or gigabytes of DDR4 for cheap.

New comment by kasabali in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

kasabali — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:52 +0000

Then, after getting acquired by Qualcomm they got sued by ARM.

So maybe they were assholes.

New comment by kasabali in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

kasabali — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:09:18 +0000

No I didn't. I intentionally only wrote just OLED because it doesn't have anything to do with HDR not it requires any special support and it doesn't make any fucking sense why they included it along with HDR.

New comment by kasabali in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

kasabali — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:07:15 +0000

What is this 7-paragraph OLED talk about?

I can plug an OLED display to a fricking Windows XP system with a Maxwell GPU and it'll work perfectly fine as long as it has a goddamn HDMI port. Has nothing to do with OS support.

New comment by kasabali in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

kasabali — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:02:39 +0000

> You go to an older version that only got security updates so you will lack optimizations and features already in the current stable windows 10.

That's some very confident sounding bullshit.

Latest LTSC is 21H2, which exactly the same build as the (non-LTSC) 22H2. The only difference is the feature enablement package. Which means you aren't lacking any optimizations.

I'm not even sure if it's missing any "features", but even if it does, I'm 101% sure it some BS "feature".

New comment by kasabali in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

kasabali — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:52:47 +0000

I think he meant resource usage

New comment by kasabali in "F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel"

kasabali — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:28:39 +0000

Dumb title.

It works by reading the block device in /dev directly, wouldn't it also work on an HDD, flash drive or a memory card?

New comment by kasabali in "Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon"

kasabali — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:08:52 +0000

7th gen still supported DDR3L (with a suitable motherboard, obviously) and it's possible with 9th gen if you're willing to try "coffee time" mod.