Hacker News: mitchell209

New comment by mitchell209 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

mitchell209 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:13:39 +0000

I fresh install to give myself a different perspective when I feel like I have too many 3rd party solutions to problems that no longer exist. Spotlight is better and I only casually use my macbook nowadays, so I don't need the power of Alfred. I don't need dock extensions because Stage Manager is mediocre but works well enough for the browser, chat / music apps, and whatever document I'm working with at the time.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

mitchell209 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:02:54 +0000

Lol this is the same thing that's been repeated about DDG for over a decade. I had the same exact complaints and eventually switched back to Google since I was using !g bangs so often, and that was when I was in high school. Which is why, when I learned about Kagi I switched and never looked back. Even as a "casual" user I still find value because of the lack of obnoxious ads and control I have over boosting or blocking sites from my results completely.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI"

mitchell209 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:35:40 +0000

There's always a compromise for me when adjusting scaling. UI doesn't scale correctly, bars get too big when I only want the text specifically to be increased, etc. I've settled on adjusting the text manually because at least that's user-adjustable.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

mitchell209 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:01:28 +0000

I’m fine with BlueCruise but my free sub is up next year and that’s when I’ll look into comma hardware.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

mitchell209 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:07:43 +0000

It's a webkit browser.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

mitchell209 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:29:49 +0000

That was the first thing I noticed when I recently went back to messing with Linux distros after 15 years. Booting into Ubuntu and having to use Gnome Tweaks or whatever it’s called for basic customizations was incredibly confusing considering Linux is touted as being the customizable and personal OS. I doubt I’ll ever give Gnome another try after that.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

mitchell209 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:22:18 +0000

For years I was begging to get better multitasking and more powerful apps, especially after they introduced the magic keyboard. They can take it all back now. I'd rather they stick with 0 multitasking, if this is the best they can do.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

mitchell209 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:10:22 +0000

Doing a fresh install of Sequoia was the best move for me, too. I had an unnecessary amount of third party apps installed for no reason. I don't even use Ice for the menu bar anymore, I realized the icons that I had hidden I didn't need in the first place so I completely disabled them, in whichever apps it's possible.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

mitchell209 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:08:18 +0000

I gave up on the normal iCloud tabs for over a decade now. But the Safari Tab Groups implementation is by far the best I've used. If I need to share a window, I just open it in a tab group and those have synced flawlessly for me so far.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – The Roadmap"

mitchell209 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:03:23 +0000

It's very confusing for new users, especially windows-converts.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras"

mitchell209 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:23:12 +0000

Mine is set to Kimi K2 specifically and it does that. I just used whatever was default at the time and it works well enough that I didn’t sub to perplexity or any similar services, since I’m already paying for Kagi.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

mitchell209 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:16:53 +0000

I don't even think Google has particularly good integration and they make Gemini. Although it was early when I was still using my Android phone, I went back to the old google assistant instead of letting Gemini take over because it didn't add anything of value for the basic functions that I need from a voice assistant. Hopefully that's changed and I'm simply uninformed, but I doubt it.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

mitchell209 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:25:49 +0000

I feel like the only people who say that still are people that don't actively or daily use Apple products because macOS Tahoe is a joke. Jelly scrolling on the iPad mini was a noticeable issue that should never have shipped. Antenna-gate on the iPhone 4. iOS 7... etc etc

New comment by mitchell209 in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

mitchell209 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:51:16 +0000

I have to switch to the black / white outline cursor or I will guaranteed lose my cursor. I also bump up the size significantly. Any time I use a coworker's computer station I lose the cursor for a second.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year"

mitchell209 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:36:48 +0000

Out of the box on CachyOS with KDE Plasma, I don't even have windows remembering their positions across a multi-monitor setup. That was shocking to experience with a current-day DE. And I believe it's not KDE's fault specifically but Wayland not having that feature yet, but that makes 0 difference to the user. If OP is hesitant to switch because of superficial hardware complaints, they're going to have a hell of a time actually using it as their main operating system for any significant amount of time.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

mitchell209 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:47:37 +0000

I also settled on CachyOS after distrohopping a few times in the past month. I had Brave at first but it doesn’t play well with shutting down on any Linux distro IME so I switched to LibreFox, but I might switch back and simply deal with the Brave issues instead because everything else feels better using Chromium-based.

I thought the auto-complete in that shell they use was neat, but I made a typo and it kept autocompleting that typo and I’m about to do the same as you lol.

I’m having wifi issues with my setup for some reason when it’s perfectly fine in Windows, so I need to diagnose that or switch back to windows until I build a new PC with a more Linux-friendly hardware.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Benefits of choosing email over messaging"

mitchell209 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:03:03 +0000

I can't even look up chats on my work PC older than a couple days ago because it's automatically deleted. Emails last for at least a few years.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe"

mitchell209 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:29:34 +0000

My main gripe is with the iOS app. I actually think the Mac version is easy to use still and don't have that many issues with it. But on iOS, it starts on Home and if I don't already have the site favorited and can't remember the name of the website, that's 2 additional taps to get to a list of all passwords - Items in the bottom tab and then either All Items or my Personal vault - and then I can start scrolling through to find what I'm looking for. Obviously if I'm already on the site for autofill or it's something basic like Gmail, Microsoft, etc then I have no problem searching. But sometimes I search for sites that I used years ago and can't remember the name.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe"

mitchell209 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:10:31 +0000

I just reformatted my MacBook and I was hesitant to reinstall the discord app because of how terrible it is. That sounds like a good compromise I never thought of considering discord is more of a windows PC thing for me. Thanks.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe"

mitchell209 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:07:24 +0000

I’m seriously considering switching off just because I hate how complicated their app has become. But I’m not a heavy user of stuff like safe documents, ID Cards, etc so it simply adds clutter and extra taps to get to the account passwords that I want.

And obviously everything you stated as well is a disappointment.