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New comment by majesticmerc in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

majesticmerc — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:50:04 +0000

Ublock Origin (at least on Firefox, RIP Chromium users) makes all these problems go away instantly.

New comment by majesticmerc in "Pebble Round 2"

majesticmerc — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:02:25 +0000

Granted, the UI for Garmins is pretty clunky compared to the Pebble interface :(

New comment by majesticmerc in "Pebble Round 2"

majesticmerc — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:33:17 +0000

I'm a runner, so obviously biased, but I implore everyone (to the point of annoyance) to check out some of the cheaper Garmin smart watches. They use MIP displays so the battery life runs about 2 weeks, you get phone notifications, the ability to find your phone, sleep scoring, step counting, heart rate monitoring. Then there's the obvious GPS run recording which you don't have to use. There's more stuff as well but I don't really use that like NFC card payments, music controls, but overall it hits a nice balance of features versus battery life.

For the sake of fair comparison, my wife had an Apple watch, which looked better and had way more features, but the 1 day battery life became such a frustration it sat in a dresser drawer. My last Garmin lasted 5 years with daily use and sports, and only died because I took it into the sea on vacation after the waterproof seal failed on the screen. I replaced it the day I got back with the successor model and couldn't be happier.

I'm not shilling for Garmin (or at least not being paid to), I love the Pebbles and I'm very much looking forward to the launch as I want a more fashionable smartwatch. Apple, Samsung et al have kinda tainted the smartphone market with feature vomit, when in fact there's a lot of good stuff out there, it's just not as hip.

New comment by majesticmerc in "How getting richer made teenagers less free"

majesticmerc — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:02:40 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZybUKAtD40

New comment by majesticmerc in "A look at Firefox forks"

majesticmerc — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:24:14 +0000

I tried Sidebery for a couple of months off the back of multiple recommendations and while it has some decent features, I found it surprisingly lacking in terms of basic features like "close multiple tabs". I also found it regularly would semi-regularly prevent me from clicking on tabs which was frustrating until I restarted the extension or Firefox.

In the end I found good old Tree Style Tabs was better. I just wish it had an easier UX for creating named tab groups.

New comment by majesticmerc in "Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana"

majesticmerc — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 18:28:51 +0000

Genuine question: I've known the law of "pea sized amount" for thermal paste for 20 years or so. Does it still hold true for modern (and larger) CPU dies? I haven't upgraded in a long time so genuinely don't know, but also wouldn't want to use outdated knowledge!

New comment by majesticmerc in "What PWA Can Do Today"

majesticmerc — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:58:13 +0000

Same experience for me on Android Firefox. Couldn't return to HN via the back button, and most of the features were either "not supported" or just didn't work (e.g. Vibration)

Seems that either the author is only working in Chrome (which is probably reasonable for a prototype or whatever) or Firefox is lacking many of these features.

New comment by majesticmerc in "Dump these insecure phone adapters because we're not fixing them, says Cisco"

majesticmerc — Fri, 05 May 2023 23:44:07 +0000

Syn/ack

:-P

New comment by majesticmerc in "Wii U Architecture"

majesticmerc — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:43:32 +0000

> Nintendo even achieved to keep this mindset with the Switch: It will update in the background so usually you just turn it on and play.

I don't agree. I play my switch maybe once every couple of weeks, and almost without fail there's a system or game update that it asks me to install.

Granted, _most_ updates can be put off for a while by hitting "update later", but I see very little difference between the consoles (and PCs) in terms of update behaviour these days, for better or worse.

New comment by majesticmerc in "As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts"

majesticmerc — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 13:20:53 +0000

It's also worth remembering that Russian forces have committed an assassination [0] on UK soil using radioactive material, and attempted another one that was bungled and killed an innocent English police officer _in England_ [1].

The general feeling towards Russia in the UK is very hostile, and there are certainly a huge number of people happy to put the squeeze on Putin. There is little to no enthusiasm for appeasement here, and the pressure is on the government to ease the pressure on the vulnerable without bending over to Russian foreign policy.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yuli...

New comment by majesticmerc in "Meta Rescinding Offers Now"

majesticmerc — Sun, 08 May 2022 00:58:56 +0000

Same. I had been casually talking with a Meta recruiter via email (no interesting opportunities discussed). This week I got an email telling me they were stopping contact because there were no jobs available anymore that fit my "experience and qualifications". I knew they had a hiring freeze recently, so I assume that is why I got that email.

New comment by majesticmerc in "Rocky Linux: Community enterprise OS compatible with RHEL"

majesticmerc — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:42:12 +0000

Ah okay, thank you! I was indeed missing some context!

New comment by majesticmerc in "Rocky Linux: Community enterprise OS compatible with RHEL"

majesticmerc — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:13:28 +0000

Forgive my cynicism...

I'm not sure I'm seeing any content that's worth upvoting. This is link to a GitHub Repo containing... A readme claiming to replace centos?

So I followed the link from the issue that was asking donations, and it takes me to a GitHub account that outlines some goals, and a couple more repos for 2 versions of a Rocky Linux website.

Am I missing something?