Hacker News: lordfrikk

New comment by lordfrikk in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

lordfrikk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:37:27 +0000

Not completely true, many games on Steam in fact do not have any DRM. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755132.

New comment by lordfrikk in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

lordfrikk — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:43:49 +0000

Has the availability of Starlabs hardware gotten better? Back in August 2024 I ordered a Starbook and then cancelled the order 4 months later when the laptop was still not delivered and Framework started selling in my country.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Obsidian Bases"

lordfrikk — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:45:46 +0000

The repo is now almost 3 years old (started in December 2022) but you still can't install the plugin via Obsidian. Looking at their roadmap, several features have been completed but for some reason they don't think it's ready to for use.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Obsidian Bases"

lordfrikk — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:20:38 +0000

Bases seem like a great alternative to Dataview [0] but better supported and with simpler syntax than literally writing inline JavaScript for more complicated stuff.

You can also export your table as CVS and they plan to properly support Obsidian Publish which was never supported in Dataview.

[0]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview, I was a big fan but it seems the author has stopped actively developing it at some point which is a shame.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Obsidian Bases"

lordfrikk — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:10:19 +0000

If you pay for the Catalyst license (which you need to anyway to use this beta feature), when you log into the application, under General there's an option to enable "Receive early access versions". Then if you click on "Check for updates" it will download the latest version.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with"

lordfrikk — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:10:08 +0000

That does not match my experience. I've been working with Python for a year or so and the packaging problems come up every now and then still.

I've installed/built a few packages written in Go and Rust specifically and had no problems.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance"

lordfrikk — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:35:17 +0000

I'm a happy consumer, too, but I would say speed is not Photoprism's strength.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file"

lordfrikk — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:54:19 +0000

On a fresh install of Ubuntu 23.10, I made it executable (`chmod +x llamafile`) and it worked just like that. After installing `nvidia-cuda-toolkit` it also worked with my GPU. So far the most seamless method I've tried.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs"

lordfrikk — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:24:16 +0000

Seconded. Outer Wilds was absolutely wonderful. The gameplay is lacking in places but after watching the making of documentary [1] my mind is still kind of blown by the technical side, even if it didn't transfer 100% smoothly to the player's experience.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbY0mBXKKT0

New comment by lordfrikk in "Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs"

lordfrikk — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:19:31 +0000

Have you tried Disco Elysium?

New comment by lordfrikk in "Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent"

lordfrikk — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 08:59:40 +0000

You need: 1. Usenet provider (this allows you to download the links) and Usenet indexer (this allows you to search for content you want because files like movies usually have obfuscated filenames). Example of the former is Frugal Usenet, example of the latter is Drunken Slug (free-ish) or DogNZB (paid). One of the many things you need to watch out for with providers is retention, the length of time they keep the files so you can download them. In general, the older content you find on the indexer, the less likely it's still going to be available. The downloading itself can be done in an automated way (for example with Sonarr and the like) or kind-of manual with tools like SABnzbd.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece"

lordfrikk — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:04:05 +0000

Your link has a ">" at the end which makes it not work.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Language Learning with Netflix extension"

lordfrikk — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:57:23 +0000

It's not really what you asked for, but subtitles that you download from websites like zimuku.com or zimuku.cn have dual language versions: separate English and Chinese flag means the ZIP file contains separate language subs, pirate flag means it has one set of subtitles containing both languages - super useful if your video player doesn't support displaying more than one set or you don't want subs at the top of the screen).

New comment by lordfrikk in "Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer"

lordfrikk — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:03:25 +0000

Installing it via "flatpak install foliate" didn't work? Downloading the .flatpakref seems like an unnecessary step to me but I'm on a different distro (openSUSE Tumbleweed).

edit: I can also open files from anywhere on my PC. Could it be that the flatpak on Debian Stretch is not correctly configured?

New comment by lordfrikk in "San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigarette Ban"

lordfrikk — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:04:40 +0000

It's a personal decision with far-reaching societal impact [0]. Even types of addiction that are not obviously health-destroying can, in fact, be killing you and thus imposing indirect burden on society [1].

[0]: https://www.erswhitebook.org/chapters/tobacco-smoking/ [1]: https://www.alternet.org/2012/09/how-gambling-can-kill-you-f...

New comment by lordfrikk in "Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner"

lordfrikk — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 06:43:31 +0000

This is not correct. Roger McNamee, who was Zuckerberg's mentor and also helped recruit Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg, said they simply do not want to do it. He tried to push them in that direction but was met with resistance.

New comment by lordfrikk in "Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox"

lordfrikk — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:02:44 +0000

For free? Oh, you're paying, a lot. Just not with money.