Hacker News: mkayokay

New comment by mkayokay in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

mkayokay — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:12:21 +0000

Gaming on Linux works pretty good now. Setup is easy thanks to Steam and other launchers (e.g. heroiclauncher).

New comment by mkayokay in "Show HN: I built a habit tracker that takes 5 years to "finish""

mkayokay — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:13:09 +0000

"Includes a private, local AI Journal."

What is this journal and why does it need AI? Could not find an answer on the page.

New comment by mkayokay in "KDE going all-in on a Wayland future"

mkayokay — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:34:30 +0000

What is the solution regarding the display manager? As SDDMs Wayland support is considered experimental.

What do you guys use/recommend?

New comment by mkayokay in "Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N"

mkayokay — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:49:58 +0000

AFAIK most cars with electric parking breaks need to be set into a special maintenance mode either via OBD-2 or a special in-car procedure to be able to change the pads. Otherwise the breaks Pistons just push together and leave no room for the new pads. At least that is what my 2015 VW would do. But every shop around here has that Software or knowledge.

So Hyundai just upped the game and put some subscription into their service software. Definitely not a consumer friendly move, as changing pads and even disks is not that hard.

New comment by mkayokay in "AMD GPUs Go Brrr"

mkayokay — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:07:39 +0000

I'm running a 6900XT on Arch and have no problems so far. Steam, Heroic launcher and every game i tried so far worked like a charm. You can even OC with LACT [1] if you want to.

[1] https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT

New comment by mkayokay in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

mkayokay — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:16:56 +0000

Looks like the comments on Mozilla Connect are not that positive either:

Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together - <https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-f...>

New comment by mkayokay in "What I Self Host"

mkayokay — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:00:41 +0000

You could have a look at the following list, as there are a lot of options to choose from in each category: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

New comment by mkayokay in "Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?"

mkayokay — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:09:22 +0000

So far, I have tried Qt directly with C++ and python bindings (pySide6, pyQt), where C++ is definitely the lighter option.

If you consider python bindings, you could also look into JavaFX. It has the advantage of native images or the option of a fat jar containing all platform dependant FX modules. But the resulting files won't be small.

New comment by mkayokay in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

mkayokay — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:00:58 +0000

Looks like this is a nice case were the LLM thinks that silence is "thanks for watching" which was discussed on here a few days ago.

New comment by mkayokay in "Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying"

mkayokay — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:48:54 +0000

A new semi-passive 850-watt fully modular PSU is around EUR 130, the Noctua fan around EUR 30.

I guess if you know electronics and how to safely handle the PSU internals, the risk of injury is low, but I personally would not risk it for EUR 100.

Also, if the only problem was the noisy fan, I guess selling it used would have returned most of the investment, leaving him with like EUR 50 in added cost. Compared to the price of a modern gaming PC, that's nothing (also avoiding not risking your life).

New comment by mkayokay in "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)"

mkayokay — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:52:49 +0000

> Ask to put it in a separate room...

Yes, that's what I had to do for meetings that the organizer thought were important enough. Also, in very sensitive areas special rooms with anti-eavesdropping gear are common [1].

> I could turn it off entirely, but what if someone needs to call me for an emergency?

But you would also not be reachable if the killswitch is active ;)

Don't get me wrong, I think a killswitch can make a lot of sense for highly sensitive areas (R&D, politics, military, ...), but I don't think Fairphone 6 are the devices that target this demographic and thus should not include one. Furthermore, current "offline" measure seem to mitigate the problem okay enough to not need such a killswitch - else we would already have phones with such features. And lastly, killswitches can only mitigate parts of the features modern spyware [2] implements and does not protect from simple human-based errors like the United States government group chat leaks [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_inform... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group...

New comment by mkayokay in "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)"

mkayokay — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:04:26 +0000

The easiest solution to such strict privacy needs is to not carry the phones. But then again you also need to worry about other means of espionage.

New comment by mkayokay in "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)"

mkayokay — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:01:35 +0000

I've never heard this request from anyone before, so I guess that implementing such a switch wouldn't "effortlessly at least double their market potential".

What a lot of people talk about is a headphone jack. But even that niche has been filled by USB-C adapters for people that really want them and not only talk nostalgic about it.

New comment by mkayokay in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

mkayokay — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:35:22 +0000

Also with regional pricing one must ensure the lock out all those people who want the service cheaper than in their country and try using VPNs or other means. Otherwise you loose even more money.

New comment by mkayokay in "Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own"

mkayokay — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:43:09 +0000

I can also recommend Lenovo ThinkCentre MiniPCs or similar brands. Those can often be found cheap when companies upgrade their Hardware. These machines are also power efficient when idling, use even less space than a laptop and the case fan is very quiet (which can be annoying with laptops under load).

I'm currently running Syncthing, Forgejo, Pihole, Grafana, a DB, Jellyfin, etc... on a M910 with an i5 (6th or 7th Gen) without problems.

New comment by mkayokay in "Show HN: Sshsync – CLI tool to run shell commands across multiple remote servers"

mkayokay — Mon, 19 May 2025 08:01:14 +0000

How are commands handled, that require user input? E.g. password for sudo in your example:

  sshsync group web-servers "sudo systemctl restart nginx"

I like that you included a demo in the README, but it is too long for a gif, as I can't pause/rewind/forward. So splitting into multiple short gifs or converting into a video (if GitHub supports them) could improve the experience.

New comment by mkayokay in "Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL"

mkayokay — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:15:21 +0000

For CSV files you can also import them directly into a SQLite file using https://sqlitebrowser.org/

XLSX would be the same workflow with "save as" CSV and then push it into SQLite.

New comment by mkayokay in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

mkayokay — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:25:04 +0000

I guess you already know, but you do not necessarily need a server for Syncthing if the devices are on at the same time. If they are not, a simple low-power rpi-like device would be more than enough to implement a star topology, with the pi being receive-only.

New comment by mkayokay in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

mkayokay — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:31:00 +0000

If you add some remote command execution, you basically created some sort of a trojan ;-)

Really like to look of the product page!

New comment by mkayokay in "Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over"

mkayokay — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:51:38 +0000

Maybe there are subreddits or discord servers about your topics