Hacker News: moolcool

New comment by moolcool in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

moolcool — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:07:05 +0000

> The Donut media guys

Actually the speeeed guys, now. They left because Donut went to shit after getting purchased by Private Equity. Surprise, surprise.

New comment by moolcool in "Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety"

moolcool — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:23:21 +0000

Aren't they incentive to treat bot impressions as real?

New comment by moolcool in "Building a new Flash"

moolcool — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:50:07 +0000

I think it's taken for granted just how good flash was. It gets hated on a lot because it was proprietary and insecure, but it's really impressive that they had a system where teenagers could make genuinely good games and animations, and then play them in web browsers on machines with Pentium IIs. There's nothing else like that today.

New comment by moolcool in "MacBook Neo"

moolcool — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:53:40 +0000

> and to never do anything that other people than the owner want

Windows 11 is full of ads, telemetry, and AI slop, much of which is impossible to disable. Very few owners want this.

New comment by moolcool in "MacBook Neo"

moolcool — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:10:14 +0000

I would personally take a MacBook Neo over literally any laptop Acer makes, anywhere in their lineup, any day of the week.

New comment by moolcool in "MacBook Neo"

moolcool — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:53:41 +0000

I agree that it's gone downhill, but have you been on a Windows 11 machine? It's just a cacophony of ads, jank, and slop. The computing equivalent of sitting on a lawn chair in Times Square

New comment by moolcool in "MacBook Neo"

moolcool — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:50:31 +0000

Assuming nothing really bad comes out of the reviews, this looks like the best computer for like 99% of users. I really can't imagine buying some plastic-fantastic Acer unit when this is on the market.

New comment by moolcool in "MacBook Neo"

moolcool — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:28:26 +0000

You can now officially get a device with mutli-user support for only $100 more than the base model iPad. They've really got to throw us a bone with what the iPad is capable of.

New comment by moolcool in "Just Send the Prompt"

moolcool — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:30:04 +0000

Something about this metaphor made me queasy.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:05:03 +0000

TouchID. I’d I tap, I get to see my stuff. If my wife does, her profile comes up.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:04:17 +0000

The point is that I only want one iPad.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:09:12 +0000

It's not the end user's problem whose fault it is.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:38:19 +0000

And especially more silly, since they'll soon launch a cheap A-series chipped MacBook. Why can I have multiple users on a $700 MacBook, but not a $1500 iPad Pro?

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:34:25 +0000

My library gives free Libby and PressReader, so it would let me read The New Yorker more comfortably than I can on my laptop of phone.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:30:53 +0000

As a developer myself, I respect and understand that it's not their fault that profiles are useless

As a consumer, I don't care whose fault it is that profiles are useless.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:28:56 +0000

> Shared iPad requires a device management service and Managed Apple Accounts that an organization issues and owns

I don't want to have to do a bunch of sysadmin just so my wife and I can both see our own YouTube subscriptions on an iPad. Again, you could do this with zero fuss in 5 minutes on Windows XP.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:53:45 +0000

I could excuse it if the iPad was a $200 novelty like the Amazon Fire tablets, but they're putting M-series chips in them and marketing (and pricing) them like PC replacements.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:41:58 +0000

Profiles don't work well on Apple TVs at all though. You choose a profile on the device, and then you still have to choose a profile whenever you launch any given streaming app as well. I don't know what changing profiles on an Apple TV actually does.

New comment by moolcool in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

moolcool — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:24:06 +0000

The iPad would go from a never-buy to a buy-right-away for me, if they added user profiles. It'd be a nice thing to have on your coffee table, where anyone in the household can pick it up and be logged into all of their stuff.

Windows XP had this feature. Chromebooks have this feature. It's inexcusable that such an expensive gadget can only have one user.

New comment by moolcool in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

moolcool — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:42:18 +0000

Like Ken Jennings said about this: "you have wonder if the problem was 'world,' 'facts,' or 'books'"