Hacker News: kn100

New comment by kn100 in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

kn100 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:09:08 +0000

I've been dailying a pixel fold 9 pro for a while now and love the thing. Seeing Apple finally join in is exciting as heck. I wouldn't hold your breath for a non visible crease though, nor for it to necessarily be class leading in its screen tech. I doubt any of it matters though, the Pixel Folds aren't exactly class leading in these regards either and the fold is just not a concern at all once you're using it. it's practically invisible from head on, and the "plastic screen protector" worries are really not an issue either. The durability of the inner screen is actually much better than you'd expect since it spends most of its pocketed life protected from external scratches. Mines still in great shape, even though I do not use a case nor any other form of protector.

Where apple has a significant opportunity here is the software side though. Google unfortunately doesn't seem to be too interested in exploring UI concepts with the Fold, leaving that to OnePlus and Samsung, both of which have imo better multitasking experiences than the Pixel Fold. Apple making an iPhone that becomes an iPad would probably be enough for them to win significant marketshare, but I hope they use this opportunity to do some interesting things with UI beyond what the iPad can do.

New comment by kn100 in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

kn100 — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:09:02 +0000

Good post. I switched from Bitwarden to KeepassXC / KeepassDX / Syncthing across my Android phone, Linux PC, and Windows PC. This was the setup I had prior to using Bitwarden for the first time. The Keepass experience is significantly better these days! Importing from Bitwarden is trivial too. Recommended!

New comment by kn100 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

kn100 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:25:29 +0000

Full disclosure: I've never owned a Bambu because I've never loved the idea of a "closed" ecosystem 3D printer, however I have used them, and am very familiar with the 3d printing space beyond Bambu.

For anyone considering alternatives: You should know that almost all other 3D printers expect you to know a little more about how they actually work than Bambus. Bambus are as close as you can get to a "just works" type experience, but modern alternatives from others are nowhere near as hard as they used to be.

The closest "easy" alternative is probably Prusa, but you'll pay significantly more for a Prusa machine than you would a Bambu. They're an excellent company, and the complete opposite of Bambu when it comes to Openness. If money is no object, Prusa is highly recommended.

Beyond Prusa, there's a lot of other options. https://auroratechchannel.com/#section2 This list is a good one.

I personally run an old Elegoo Neptune 4 pro - but my needs are quite low. If I were buying today, a Snapmaker U1 or the Creality K2 Plus is probably where I'd end up going.

New comment by kn100 in "Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage"

kn100 — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:29:38 +0000

I reckon until the recent ai-gobbles-everything-up phenomena, this was mainly an Apple problem. Even fairly budget PCs come with at least 1tb of storage. Considering much beyond 2tb NAND gets scary pricing wise, I'm not that surprised we don't see much beyond that.

New comment by kn100 in "Using a USB switch as a full KVM"

kn100 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:28:33 +0000

You can get two in one out kvms for pretty cheap these days. I got mine which is a three in, one out KVM with support for three displays all at 4k120hz along with 4 usb ports for about 20 bucks (although that was at one of those Amazon returns stores. New it would have been around 120 bucks, but totally worth it. I have my work mac and my personal laptop on the left/right of a 4k144hz monitor (although as others have noticed usually you're limited to 120hz through a KVM, but that's fine for me), along with my home server connected for the odd time I need a direct connection to it. Would recommend.

Nix – A rather nice solution for homelabbing

kn100 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:54:07 +0000

Article URL: https://kn100.me/nixpilled/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806605

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kn100 in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

kn100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:05:52 +0000

Oh and another fun thing! I eventually just emptied the OneDrive so Microsoft would stop bothering me. This was maybe six months ago or so. Microsoft confirms I am storing nothing there. Just a week or two ago I got yet another email begging for money because my OneDrive was apparently full. It was a genuine email, I went as far as checking the headers for SPF/DKIM. When I signed into onedrive, still empty!

New comment by kn100 in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

kn100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:02:32 +0000

I got caught out by exactly this, and I'm not exactly tech illiterate. what made it even more annoying is by the time I'd realised what had happened, it was practically impossible to get the files back out of OneDrive (since I decided that this was enough Windows for me, and went back to Linux), since the webui does NOT handle downloading lots of small files well, and you just end up getting a partially complete zip file. I gave up in the end as nothing in there was particularly important. This is an incredibly annoying default.

New comment by kn100 in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

kn100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:11:28 +0000

Thundermail is a great idea! I'd be more than happy to switch over assuming the migration path from say Gmail, Fastmail, etc was easy enough, and it supported custom domains.

New comment by kn100 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

kn100 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:27:08 +0000

Recently built https://entrycast.com/ - there are other products kind of like it on the market already but I had some specific use cases I wanted personally, and decided rather than making it just for me, I'd for the first time in my life make it something others could buy too. No customers so far, but I don't really mind, to be honest!

New comment by kn100 in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

kn100 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:55:02 +0000

I would argue that we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Adding a cost to commenting that requires aging accounts I think might discourage fly by night operations and "experiments".

New comment by kn100 in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

kn100 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:04:17 +0000

Gnome Shell in particular offers a ridiculously coherent, sane window management. Nobody agrees with all the choices the Gnome Team took to get here, but it sure is nice there being one way of doing everything that makes sense contextually.

New comment by kn100 in "Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it?"

kn100 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:22:27 +0000

defeated it by running gemini in split screen and voice dictating the response into the tool. got 80%.

New comment by kn100 in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

kn100 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:07:25 +0000

literally the only two reasons I still have windows on my laptop currently are fusion360 and apex legends. I was happily playing Apex Legends on Linux for years until EA decided to disable Linux support due to "cheating". While I understand their concerns, I can't say as a regular player the cheating problem is any better or worse than it was before they removed Linux support.

As for fusion360... Freecad is getting mighty good these days...

New comment by kn100 in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

kn100 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:18:29 +0000

and suddenly Bose is on the list of consumer products I will consider for my home. Good job!

New comment by kn100 in "List of domains censored by German ISPs"

kn100 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:59:10 +0000

What a handy list the Germans have prepared

New comment by kn100 in "Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii"

kn100 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:47:26 +0000

I love this sorta stuff! I once had my blog hosted on a docker container on my Robot Vacuum. I switched back to a saner host when I started getting uptime alerts when the vacuum went under my bed and lost wifi signal!

New comment by kn100 in "Native dual-range input"

kn100 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:09:44 +0000

totally pointless to implement this honestly but I was disappointed it didn't support multi touch :p

New comment by kn100 in "Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer"

kn100 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:02:58 +0000

I discovered this in the most amusing way ever accidentally a few years ago.

https://x.com/normankev141/status/1146547923758538755?t=oZrj...

text of tweet: So I bought a networked printer recently and as you do decided to try connecting to it a few different undocumented ways. I tried telneting to it. It turns out that whatever you type, it prints typewriter style. That was a pleasant and hilarious surprise. #internetofshit

New comment by kn100 in "AMD GPU Inference"

kn100 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:12:25 +0000

Sad that RDNA2 cards aren't supported. Not even that old!