Hacker News: mitchell209

New comment by mitchell209 in "Hacker News addiction and taking simple mundane breaks in life"

mitchell209 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:10:35 +0000

Seeing experts in the field or oftentimes the literal developer / author themselves come into the comments is always so interesting, as somebody who has nothing to do with development and just likes to keep up on tech news.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers"

mitchell209 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:48:32 +0000

I kind of like the touchpad scrolling nonsense..

Tesla’s designs and software updates though are why I’ll probably never own one of their vehicles.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

mitchell209 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:08:54 +0000

From my experience it's inconsistent and that's incredibly frustrating. Overall the whole mobile interface needs to be overhauled imo. These guys need to simply copy Safari and call it a day. I still have never used a mobile browser that's as thoughtfully designed as Safari, and I've used basically all the major ones.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

mitchell209 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:07:45 +0000

From my experience it's inconsistent and incredibly frustrating, but that's my experience with Firefox mobile overall.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

mitchell209 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:34:14 +0000

You can use an adapter for a micro SD but you can’t shrink the size of a normal SD card, is my only guess.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

mitchell209 — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:06:22 +0000

You can delete almost all apps on iOS except the obviously core apps that are necessary for it to function.

New comment by mitchell209 in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

mitchell209 — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:31:11 +0000

Do you have some example searches that you made? I’m not a heavy search user and not a programmer but I’ve still found the experience on par or better for all of my general searching.

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