Hacker News: kwanbix

New comment by kwanbix in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

kwanbix — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:15:49 +0000

How is it even legal the they can audit your menu prices?

New comment by kwanbix in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

kwanbix — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:29:26 +0000

How much money do this companies plan to extort from restaurants, who will try to pass it to customers, to pay such a big chunk of money?

New comment by kwanbix in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

kwanbix — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:26:59 +0000

Thanks. It seems to be new that option. I am doing it right now.

New comment by kwanbix in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

kwanbix — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:53:02 +0000

Unless I am mis remembering, it generated about 200 or more ZIP files that you have to download one by one.

New comment by kwanbix in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

kwanbix — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:52:23 +0000

I tried Google Takeout but with 900GB of photos is almost impossible to download.

New comment by kwanbix in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

kwanbix — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:57:57 +0000

When my son was a toddler, he had something weird on his mouth, I couldn't tell for sure, but something was not right. No pediatrician, no dentist will say anything, untill I started pushing. It turns out his lower jaw was protrudding over his upper jaw (sorry for my english). So they made him wear braces. Had I not pushed, he would have had a more serious problem today.

New comment by kwanbix in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

kwanbix — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:18:53 +0000

At least on iOS, if I am not mistaken, you can only run the Safari Engine. Even if you run Firefox or Chrome, it is running Safari under the hood. That is what I understand. Please, correctme if I am wrong.

New comment by kwanbix in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

kwanbix — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:43:35 +0000

Yes! What the consumer needs! Less competition! Hurrah!

Sorry for the sarcasm.

New comment by kwanbix in "I said no and Apple said yes"

kwanbix — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:29:17 +0000

I might be biased toward ThinkPads, but the only thing I envy about MacBooks is the processor and battery life.

I prefer the X1 Carbon’s body a thousand times over Apple’s unibody design, which I find cold and uncomfortable, and it tends to dig into my wrists.

And I’d take a TrackPoint over Apple’s trackpad a million times over.

Of course, that’s just my personal preference.

New comment by kwanbix in "Noodle Gallery – Self-hosted photo and video manager forked from Immich"

kwanbix — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:31:51 +0000

The problem with google takeout is that it generates hundred of files to download as ZIP. I tried it in my own collection (800GB).

New comment by kwanbix in "Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?"

kwanbix — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:45:10 +0000

I don't get why that is not the default.

New comment by kwanbix in "Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?"

kwanbix — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:24:34 +0000

is that new? I migrated at the time from GA to Authy and from Authy to Ente because it was not supported.

New comment by kwanbix in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

kwanbix — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:37:07 +0000

That is nothing, less than 10%.

Ther are countries that get it at 100% or even 200% more.

New comment by kwanbix in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

kwanbix — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:46:12 +0000

100% my sentiment.

New comment by kwanbix in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

kwanbix — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:33:33 +0000

I was a Lotus Notes developer for more than 10 years. The speed at which you could develop useful software was mind-blowing. I started with Notes 4.5, IIRC, and ended my time around Notes 8.

The first few years were a little heavy on RAM usage, so people thought it was slow. To give you some context, this was back when 16 MB (megabytes, not gigabytes) of RAM was a thing. But as RAM increased, Notes was no longer a problem.

For example, Lotus Notes 8, which I still have on my personal PC, uses about 11 MB just after starting. Then it adds roughly 10 MB for each "app" you open. Today, Outlook alone uses around 170 MB just after starting.

It was incredibly powerful. And migrating a Domino server was incredibly easy. Basically, you just copied the DATA folder. I remember doing this when we migrated from Windows 2000/2003 to AIX.

In the same way, the Notes client was basically a portable app. You could just copy the NOTES and DATA folder, edit notes.ini, and have it running.

So sad to see it go.

New comment by kwanbix in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

kwanbix — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:41:32 +0000

In my home city, I started to see banners all made with AI.

From my kids schools to banners for food places.

New comment by kwanbix in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

kwanbix — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:07:17 +0000

Works fine for me in Firefox with uBlock.

New comment by kwanbix in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

kwanbix — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:34:30 +0000

My previous phone was an OPPO Find X3 Pro phone. Incredible phone. I only changed it because it has no zoom on the cameras. But I used it for 5 years.

New comment by kwanbix in "Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region"

kwanbix — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:48:45 +0000

I don't get it, why can't they just change the region in the settings?

I was able to on my LG. Nice TV, worst firmware ever. It had an issue with Wifi. It basically will not connect once or so a week. You needed to change, you guess it, the region. So I will keep changing from Germany to Spain to Ireland to Germany to Etc. I sent pictures, videos, emails, links to youtube videos to LG support, they wouldn't care, they would just deny it. In the end I bought a Fire TV Max and that was it. But what a horrible support experience LG never again.

New comment by kwanbix in "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982"

kwanbix — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:11:32 +0000

Similarly for me. My dad bought a fully expanded TI-99/4A from a friend who was selling it to buy a C64. On the TI, I learned LOGO and then BASIC, and played Parsec, BurgerTime, and others. Cartridges were super expensive in my home country.

A few years later, we traveled to New York and bought an IBM PC XT with a 20 MB (yes, MB!) hard drive, 640 KB of RAM, a floppy drive, and a CGA monitor. At the time, IBM had already announced the IBM PC AT with a 286 CPU, and Compaq was already selling clones.