Hacker News: ktosobcy

New comment by ktosobcy in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

ktosobcy — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:34:25 +0000

> No, even if you are being paid, it's a thankless, painful job to deal with demanding, entitled free users.

So… aren't they providing (paid) support? same thing…

Absurd comparison.

New comment by ktosobcy in "SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes"

ktosobcy — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:13:07 +0000

Huge problem (for me) with SaifishOS is… annoying UI. I know that a lot of people swear by swipe navigation but it's just darn inconvenient and imprecise (or rather - require a lot of precission to select desired option)… I tried to get used to it for a long time and I simply couldn't. Having to pay effin lot of attention each time I tried to do anything with the phone was simply to much…

New comment by ktosobcy in "Free software scares normal people"

ktosobcy — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:15:33 +0000

Anectodal: just the other day I put Fedora KDE 43 on "new" (well, second-hand after lease) computer for my father as the old one was on it's last legs and... it works just fine.

The machine came with Windows 10 by default and what he needed was Firefox and FreeCell, and FreeCell on Windows10 was atrocious.

He likes it a lot and the only thing was that I had to put same wallpaper as he had on Windows7 and icons in the same places.

The "linux is to complicated" argument just doesn't hold true anymore! It's nice and easy, including the installation (even I was surprised)

RISC-V was supposed to change everything–How's it going? [video]

ktosobcy — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:37:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1565YYsFmd4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734266

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ktosobcy in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

ktosobcy — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:40:08 +0000

/me waiting for all complaining about lack of docker image to step up and start providing those images ]:->

New comment by ktosobcy in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

ktosobcy — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:01:32 +0000

No, it's called "diversification". Applies both to stock/currency/investments as well as enything else :P

New comment by ktosobcy in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

ktosobcy — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:25:51 +0000

Uhm... E(U)ropean sovereigny (and in general spreading the hosting as much as possbile) needed ASAP…

New comment by ktosobcy in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

ktosobcy — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:22:11 +0000

Yes they do but if I want to grab something to eat I just go downstairs and have a supermarket or a restaurant within 5 minutes walk so there's that.

New comment by ktosobcy in "Codex Is Live in Zed"

ktosobcy — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:12:01 +0000

but that's the thing - apart from being editor it doesn't offer anything of substance... if I want to have an editor I can use BBEdit or Vim...

New comment by ktosobcy in "Codex Is Live in Zed"

ktosobcy — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:03:53 +0000

"hot take": it's snappy to open (open project) but it's mostly due to severely lacking any serious fuctionality besides showing the file... :/

New comment by ktosobcy in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

ktosobcy — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:31:17 +0000

Everything boils down to terrible (USA?) "city" planning - instead of having anything relatively close-by so you can walk to to get the groceries or the "burrito" can be delivered on bike it has to involved absurdly heavy car...

New comment by ktosobcy in "Zed is now available on Windows"

ktosobcy — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:28:30 +0000

Uhm... tried to use it but it feels so lacking. Yeah, fine - it's "lean" (text?) editor but that's about it. Opening any project (even with plugins enabled) doesn't make feel any "improvements" (code navigation, sane autocomplete, project structure detection)...

New comment by ktosobcy in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

ktosobcy — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:22:57 +0000

anyone thought about forking? :)

New comment by ktosobcy in "FSF announces Librephone project"

ktosobcy — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:18:53 +0000

Great. But IMHO better regulation is still needed: force makers to have unlockable bootloader and provided libre drivers for their device (for the OS that they originally ship with); force makers to provide alternatives - for example using alternative "play services" by only providing general API that others can provide pluggable implementaions…

New comment by ktosobcy in "How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface"

ktosobcy — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:58:56 +0000

And yet it still looks awful. Not to mention those absurdly round corners and wasted space…

New comment by ktosobcy in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

ktosobcy — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:21:40 +0000

Hush hush... the startups that aim to "disrupt" running on burning VC funds will definitelly improve our lives! Pinky promise! /s

New comment by ktosobcy in "KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser"

ktosobcy — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:19:50 +0000

Donating montly and so happy to do it! <3

New comment by ktosobcy in "Making regular GPS ultra-precise"

ktosobcy — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:54:28 +0000

most software now uses multiple GNSS at the same time?

New comment by ktosobcy in "Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund"

ktosobcy — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:46:32 +0000

I was just suggesting that ING has different policies in different countries.

As for "we have to use google wallet!!!":

https://i.ibb.co/4Z9dMvzR/Screenshot-20251011-184343-Setting...

basically all banking apps for accounts I have (alior, PKO - biggest polish bank, ING Poland and spanish BBVA as well as curve to which you can add whicever card)

New comment by ktosobcy in "Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund"

ktosobcy — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:03:59 +0000

> Sure, nothing strictly requires iOS/Android in paper specs and in presentations. But we all now that the only working practical implementations will be one iOS/Android. I mean, look at the actual code in the (Microsoft) github repo.

No, we don't know. You are projecting and again - spreading FUT.

Did you do anything towards implemeting the specs on other platforms? Or are you only very vocal online complaining?

In that repo they clearely stated, that they focus on Android/iOS as it's the most popular platform (contrary to what the IT bubble here may think) and want to reach the most user with the (initial) implementation.

> The EU forced Apple to open NFC for third party payments, which is great. But all the banks in the Netherlands only have working card payments in Apple and Google Wallet. Including the largest bank (ING), that used to have independent in-app NFC payment on Android (where NFC was always open) but seems to have capitulated and now only offers it via Google Wallet.

OK, again - you are projecting Netherlands issues over the UE. Surprisingly - in Poland I can pay with ING bank with NFC. Same in Spain with BBVA app.

Just because something is broken in your corner of the universe doesn't mean it's the global fenomena :)

Also - instead of complaining about the EU - maybe try persuaiding the entities to add support?

Alas - I'm pondering ECI initiative to actually force "Open Android" (ie. withou Google Services being required) as a valid platform because I was fed up with Google imposing more and more overreach. Android is quite OK if it werent for the walled garden from google…