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New comment by moltopoco in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

moltopoco — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:45:31 +0000

I'd have preferred the inverted-T layout of recent MacBooks too. But because this keyboard does not have a numpad, it could be easy enough to find the bottom left corner of the keyboard with your fingers.

New comment by moltopoco in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

moltopoco — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:43:38 +0000

system76 does not develop special Nvidia drivers, but they do work on integrating GPU switching etc. in the Linux desktop: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power/

I don't think this is necessarily about Linux nerds. For any kind of work laptop, time saved tinkering easily worth the extra $$$.

New comment by moltopoco in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

moltopoco — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:39:19 +0000

I love Slay the Spire 2, it is a very good game, but it most honestly doesn't look or feel technically impressive.

New comment by moltopoco in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

moltopoco — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:14:15 +0000

Agreed, the tech job market was bad before AI was useful.

The "I'm gonna make a tool" thing is slowly happening and will probably help Linux, knocking on wood... https://x.com/xpasky/status/2030016470730658181

New comment by moltopoco in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

moltopoco — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:44:46 +0000

They did still overpromise and that should not be the way Apples does things (although it was hardly the first time; the AirPower mat was announced in 2017).

New comment by moltopoco in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

moltopoco — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:14:13 +0000

Many gamers are married to Windows exclusive games like Fortnite etc., but gamers are also more rebellious than corporate IT staff and many have actually built their computers from parts, so they are not scared of flashing a USB drive. I'm optimistic that this group is the next one to break away from Windows.

New comment by moltopoco in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

moltopoco — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:43:44 +0000

Not just battery life, but also webcams and mics. Sure, you can use additional gadgets...but being able to open your MacBook and just talk to your coworkers is reason enough to keep an M1 Air around for the next years.

New comment by moltopoco in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

moltopoco — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:37:56 +0000

That is not what I said at all. My claim is that, regardless of what the authoritarian right is doing, the left has become more tolerant of authoritarianism itself, especially to 'save democracy' (which is again reminescent of the GDR, starting from its very name).

As to why this split is happening, I'd argue it was easier to be anti-authoritarian when we were in the opposition, just as today's AfD reliably votes against Chat Control or other power grabs because it makes them look good at no cost. But the left has become a dominant force due to its long march through the institutions, and some want to use this power to crush the enemy (debanking, police raids for milquetoast internet comments). Others look at the internet compass from your sibling post and decide they'd rather hang out with people in the libertarian right than with _any_ kind of authoritarian.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying the CCC is an authoritarian organization. But I doubt they'll ever be too critical of our intransparent "Trusted Flagger" system, for example, because they know it would anger many in their crowd. 20 years ago we'd have agreed that this kind of crap only happens in China.

New comment by moltopoco in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

moltopoco — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:47:22 +0000

To adults? Certainly. But keep in mind that many children are now growing up with this crap glued to their eyes from age 2:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=funny+3d+animal...

(That's just one genre of brainrot I came across recently. I also had my front page flooded with monkey-themed AI slop because someone in my household watched animal documentaries. Thanks algorithm!)

New comment by moltopoco in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

moltopoco — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:37:38 +0000

Have you dived into the destructive brainrot that YouTube serves to millions of kids who (sadly) use it unattended each day? Even much of Google's non-ad software is a cancer on humanity.

New comment by moltopoco in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

moltopoco — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:01:49 +0000

Being able to replace the keyboard is especially wonderful because laptops are usually "region-locked". I know people who use relatively unpopular layouts relative to where they live, and it makes it harder to buy and much harder to sell their Macs.

New comment by moltopoco in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

moltopoco — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:10:31 +0000

It seems that no modern comment section is complete without the complaint "too much politics", then followed by "but everything is political". Some talks do not even try to draw a line from politics to computers, and I think that is what people feel unhappy about.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/...

New comment by moltopoco in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

moltopoco — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:19:09 +0000

We might be the same age; I remember that defacing conservative websites was already a C3 thing about 20 years ago. Back then, it felt good to punch up against authoritarianism. Hackers hated Bush and his Patriot Act just as much as many hate Trump now. In Germany, the CDU is of course the perennial enemy.

But what happens when authoritarianism does not come from the right, but from the left or center? (Not a contradiction: East Germany was an "anti-fascist" totalitarian state as recently as 40 years ago.) Sadly, I think we have been slowly moving in this direction since Covid, where I was genuinely shocked that many of my "leftie" friends had turned into government drones (from my perspective), while they were deeply disappointed that I was now a "right-winger" (from their perspective).

The more aware they become of how unpopular some of their politics are, the less they believe in democracy as a concept, while I'm still jealous of countries that have proper referendums and freedom of speech. Hate Speech laws are accelerating this divide.

Anyway, I think that these are the dynamics that are driving many people apart who all simultaneously claim to not have changed in decades. The CCC is still doing a lot of great work, but I do feel it drifting away from me because it is not so much about punching up than about punching right.

New comment by moltopoco in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

moltopoco — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:21:36 +0000

The cable makes the claim that Calibri did not actually help anyone, and even backs up this claim with numbers. So how is it aimed at minorities? Who is prejudiced against people with bad eyesight?

https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/12/state-department-ret...

I don't usually go back to comments from seven days ago, but I missed the full memo being on DF. The sideswipe at the previous administration is childish, sure. But the way in which Reuters has portrayed this memo is even more shocking to me after reading it. Holy culture war partisanship, batman.

New comment by moltopoco in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

moltopoco — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:15:55 +0000

That is also easily disabled. I think there are five or six things that I need to disable in a fresh Brave installation and then it's perfect.

New comment by moltopoco in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

moltopoco — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:19:55 +0000

Neither do I, but what about YouTube? Not letting your TV manufacturer sell your watching habits is already a big win, and on macOS you can further block telemetry. A big chunk of my YouTube consumption happens through yt-dlp using a VPN provider that presumably does not cooperate with Google.

New comment by moltopoco in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

moltopoco — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:12:22 +0000

SteamOS/Bazzite also makes it pretty easy to integrate flatpaks into its gamepad-oriented UI. I hope that leads to the development of more apps that work with a remote control or gamepad, which would then also work on Plasma Bigscreen.

New comment by moltopoco in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

moltopoco — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:09:32 +0000

The Steam Machine will support CEC, hopefully other PC vendors will take note and adopt it.

New comment by moltopoco in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

moltopoco — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:06:53 +0000

Yes, a true "mask-off moment": I do find that classic LaTeX papers look more trustworthy than whatever MS Word outputs by default.

Associating TNR with authoritarianism would not even be historically accurate, because many authoritarians pushed to simplify writing (Third Reich, Soviets, CCP); if anything, TNR looks _conservative_, which is probably the look that Rubio is going for.

New comment by moltopoco in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

moltopoco — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:58:24 +0000

From the article:

> ...according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters...

The jab at the DEIA is petty, sure. But if the only intent was to smear them, why didn't they even announce it publicly? It was the choice of Reuters and HN to make an MS Office font change(!) a big deal.