Hacker News: locao

New comment by locao in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

locao — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:01:54 +0000

It depends on what you call "non-trivial". I found answers on how to circumvent dumb macos bugs on Apple forums at least twice in the last 6 months. One related to displays, I was about to return a new USB-C monitor which wouldn't turn on. A silly issue, but it's a bug on my book, I wouldn't find the answer on the docs.

New comment by locao in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

locao — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:40:40 +0000

Same here. It's getting quite common for me.

New comment by locao in "Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs"

locao — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:27:05 +0000

Tbf, if I was the only person in the country, no one would stop me of being the actual king.

New comment by locao in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

locao — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:52:05 +0000

"a better home": probably someone who also thinks it's cool and also will never use it :)

New comment by locao in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

locao — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:28:43 +0000

Yep. After years of frustration, trying every possible way to fix it, uncountable hours of searching, I asked Claude about it: "just subscribe to an external service". This is ridiculous, Android's parental controls work flawlessly. If I knew that beforehand, I would never had got my kid an iOS device.

New comment by locao in "How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)"

locao — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:21:39 +0000

This article is wrong at its core.

> The study was commissioned by Brazilian auto industry group Anfavea

Nothing that comes from Anfavea is trustable. It's a crooked association of a few automakers that will try to push the government to give every subside to them and tax the other ones to the brim.

The article tries to justify Ford Mexican cars low sales numbers in Brazil using every flawed argument Anfavea uses. For instance:

> On Thursday, Ford launched its new Bronco Sport SUV in Brazil. Made in Mexico, it is exported to the U.S. where it starts at $26,820. In Brazil, where per capita income is much lower, Ford said the Mexican-made car will retail for $48,000.

The key point here is "starts". Ford only imports top of the line cars in Brazil. I just searched Bronco Sport prices in Mexico in 2021, they started at $30900 up to $40000+. That $40000+ version was (still is) the only one sold in Brazil. 20% over the retail price in Mexico is not great, but far away from what the article tries to imply.

New comment by locao in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

locao — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:59:25 +0000

Youtube is trying to push me to watch a video about jail breaking the Echo Show for a week now. I didn't watch it, but it's probably easy to find.

New comment by locao in "GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations"

locao — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:33:12 +0000

I was going to joke "so, it's Monday, right?" but I thought my memory was playing tricks on me.

New comment by locao in "Apple I Advertisement (1976)"

locao — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:56:04 +0000

The post had a different title hours ago. Something along the lines of "it's Apple's philosophy to offer our software for free forever". I didn't followed the link before, so I don't know if it was the same content, but I'm sure the comments are related to the previous title.

New comment by locao in "Show HN: LLMNet – The Offline Internet, Search the web without the web"

locao — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:17:11 +0000

It reminded of a friend saying: "I'll go to the mountains for the extended weekend, but I'll be prepared, this night I'm starting a wget http://./"

New comment by locao in "Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days"

locao — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:57:48 +0000

I also had the same experience, but I could only make them restart during the night. So I wrote a monitor to check if any of the Pis lost USB before restarting.

When our business grew, even restarting every night, we would get one or two lost USB warnings every day. One day I didn't receive any warnings. I was really happy, I had fix the issue! Three days later a client calls screaming the service is not working for two whole days and we did nothing. After getting every Pi restarted, I went to check the monitor. Shut down. I asked my business partner about it. "The alarms made me anxious, so I decided to shut down the monitor".

Obviously I sold my shares and never looked back.

New comment by locao in "Bugs Apple loves"

locao — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:19:37 +0000

Yes, it does. For passwords or any other field an app defines as sensitive, Apple keyboard takes over and you can't change from it, but other than that you share every keystroke with Google. Your only option is disabling location.

New comment by locao in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

locao — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:00:04 +0000

Maybe I'm a bit childish, but I feel neglected when I am asked to sign an work anniversary card for a colleague and next week my manager doesn't even acknowledge my work anniversary. It happened for the last 4 years and, yes, it affects my productivity in the day.

New comment by locao in "Bugs Apple loves"

locao — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:14:46 +0000

I use Gboard (Google's keyboard) on iPhone and the space bar trackpad feature works way better than on native keyboard.

If Google ever discontinues the keyboard for iPhone I think I'll go back to dumb phones.

New comment by locao in "Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners"

locao — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:02:11 +0000

I'm not saying you're wrong about this article being AI-written, but I know people who write like this, and I hate it.

New comment by locao in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

locao — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 03:13:02 +0000

I'm Brazilian, in my middle 40s. When I was a little kid my best friend used to carry a blanket around. Neighbors called him "Linus" for years. But I'm confident it was because of the TV show, not the comic strips.

New comment by locao in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

locao — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:14:43 +0000

There's no little great in embedded videos or, at least, my local newspaper actively disables it.

New comment by locao in "Laptops with Stickers"

locao — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:22:54 +0000

Tbh, from your nickname you wouldn't agree with this person's claims either way.

(I agree with your point, tho)

New comment by locao in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

locao — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:47:09 +0000

Interesting enough, where I live we also can have domestic workers without being filthy rich. But we've seen the exactly opposite problem: people trust a single product for everything and will use the least amount of it because "it's good enough". The current person working at our place uses dish detergent to clean the entire house unless we tell her everyday to not do it. The previous one used bleach, and ruined most of our bath and hand towels.

New comment by locao in "A story about bypassing air Canada's in-flight network restrictions"

locao — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:09:44 +0000

It's Zed's