Hacker News: movetheworld

New comment by movetheworld in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

movetheworld — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:37:06 +0000

Understood: never buy LG devices again.

New comment by movetheworld in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

movetheworld — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:42:05 +0000

YES! I mean a man can dream... I love windows software like "xyplorer", an ideal explorer replacement, "notepad++" for everything text-related and "FSViewer" for displaying all pictures, all portable, all heavily customizable. But personally, I think microsoft is not interested in it's users. It all about control of it's users and making money off them. MS has no intention of changing that. Please, make the switch to linux and own your OS!

New comment by movetheworld in "Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)"

movetheworld — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:37:06 +0000

I use restic, too, and I am very pleased with it, although I run it on windows, which works, but isn't perfect. So, you use it regularly?

New comment by movetheworld in "Quake Brutalist Jam III"

movetheworld — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:25:57 +0000

That brings back the old days. Incredible well done mod/total conversion. Having a blast, thank you for taking the time and energy to create this!

New comment by movetheworld in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"

movetheworld — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:39:02 +0000

Ahhh... that's how it is done, thank you ::love:: /s :)

New comment by movetheworld in "I'm Archiving Picocrypt"

movetheworld — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:19:20 +0000

Seems like a nice project. I'm still a little bit concerned with the VirusTotal result: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/81bbdffb92181a11692ec665...

New comment by movetheworld in "The Rise of Whatever"

movetheworld — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:10:29 +0000

Which EU system did you move to?

New comment by movetheworld in "Is XYplorer really written in VB6?"

movetheworld — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:26:39 +0000

I love XYPlorer, it's my favorite program and I use it every day.

New comment by movetheworld in "IrfanView"

movetheworld — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:55:08 +0000

I personally like "FSViewer" way more. It's customizable, portable and free. It was my favorite software, which was replaced by "XYPlorer", which is a fileExplorer alternative.

FSViewer link: https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm XYPlorer link: https://www.xyplorer.com/

New comment by movetheworld in "Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow"

movetheworld — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:26:39 +0000

Exactly my experience:

1. ask a question isolating and narrowing down my issue as good as I can

2. marked as a duplicate providing a link with an issue, which is loosely related, but does not solve my problem

3. start explaining / defending in comments why question is not a dupe

4. stays marked as dupe

5. give up and feel disappointed for the time and effort investment

New comment by movetheworld in "Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy"

movetheworld — Sun, 15 May 2022 20:41:11 +0000

And here I am: still using my first receiver ever, an Onkyo. It's still runs great after being in use for over twenty(!) years. My Philips CD player won't open the tray and my Aiwa Cassette deck won't play any cassette, but my Onkyo is still kicking. Maybe the models from the recent years don't have the quality as it used to be.

By the way, I just checked the backplate and it's an Onkyo TX-9031 RDS receiver from 1993 - time just flies ...

New comment by movetheworld in "Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?"

movetheworld — Tue, 03 May 2022 05:30:02 +0000

I'm on Windows and hated the File-Explorer for years: it always resets the view (even if you told it to use your standard view for all folders) and has terrible defaults.

I tried many alternatives, then finally found XYplorer. It is so easy to use, well structured, but when needed it is also a power house full of soo many tools you otherwise need another app for. Really loving it and many kudos to the only(?) developer from Germany who constantly improves it.

New comment by movetheworld in "Consumer electricity prices in Germany climb to record high: 45-80 Cents/kwh"

movetheworld — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:29:44 +0000

NOT true at all. I pay <30 Cent/kwh The real question is: who benefits from this kind of "news"? (some dude from Germany)

New comment by movetheworld in "When McDonalds Came to Denmark"

movetheworld — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:53:55 +0000

WOW! That article gave me goosebumps. How can I upvote this more than once?

New comment by movetheworld in "Ask HN: What has HN given you?"

movetheworld — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:32:32 +0000

A few years ago a colleague of mine showed me HN. It was like a new world was opened to me. That may sound exaggerated, but it really felt great to always read about top stories and innovative project here first.

In that time - when android was young - I made a little app for generating passwords. I put it in the play store as an purchasable app without any marketing what so ever. It got no downloads so I stated that in another HN thread and some HN stranger bought the app and gave it a 5-star review, just to help me out! That made me really happy and grateful, I won't forget that, thank you, HN folks!

New comment by movetheworld in "Tiny Apps"

movetheworld — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:52:22 +0000

Besides the file size restriction of 1.4 MB, I agree 100% with the requirements for good OS software. Portability and ad/junk-free is most important.

New comment by movetheworld in "Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home?"

movetheworld — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 05:26:28 +0000

One simple trick I used when in the same situation, was to train myself to block all work-related thoughts. - "Stop! Does it help my thinking of work? No. Then stop." In the beginning you have to learn that you are actually thinking of work right now, so to adopt a pattern of blocking. Later, it gets easier.