Hacker News: normaler

New comment by normaler in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

normaler — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:28:13 +0000

I have been using fish for 10 years now as my main shell and it is just perfect.

New comment by normaler in "A One-Minute ADHD Test"

normaler — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:38:41 +0000

My mother is very similar to what you have described and mimicks some reponses of her to her ADHD situation pre-diagnosis/post-diagnosis.

She is also ~60 and accomplished in her professional,social and family life.

Pre-diagnosis she would reject suggestsions going into the direction of an ADHD diagnosis, due to her accomplishments being above average --> not possible to have a disability/neuro-divergence.

The achievements are her achievements, but the expense in the context of her capabilities was very high and quite taxing on her.

A diagnosis or even treatment is not making the person normal, but it can help provide that person with options to alleviate the expense of operating differently to the baseline.

I am very happy that you managed to have this success in your life so far and you made that happen.

But under your assumption that you have ADHD you might have made that happen against odds that would have been in part optional if you had access to treatment options.

New comment by normaler in "Safe curves for Elliptic Curve Cryptography [pdf]"

normaler — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:47:20 +0000

GPG is using ed25519 keys as default since 2.3

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q2/0004...

New comment by normaler in "AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point"

normaler — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:24:48 +0000

I am enjoying this Moment in time where I can ask chatgpt product related questions and not get ad biased suggestions. I think there is ~ half a year left

New comment by normaler in "Ly: Display Manager with Console UI"

normaler — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:09:40 +0000

Also if sway dies not exist just change to tty2 e.g. and log in there. This will not Start sway there.

New comment by normaler in "Ly: Display Manager with Console UI"

normaler — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:24:31 +0000

I tried it a couple of times, but i think just a tty with the shell configured to start whatever when logged in via e.g. tty1 is superior.

Also I kept having issues with it, not using pam correctly on arch.

New comment by normaler in "FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days"

normaler — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:18:25 +0000

What are free installment plans?

Currently the most used phones in the US are iphones.

If the actual cost is not hidden behind monthly payments anymore, but some users can not afford iphones, people might start to consider cheaper phone options.

New comment by normaler in "40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent"

normaler — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:16:13 +0000

German government subsidized fraudulent Chinese "Green" company's.

New comment by normaler in "How to get 7th graders to smoke"

normaler — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:45:51 +0000

Long term use aside, the amount of life changing (mostly in the bad sense) interactions I had while using alcohol are in a class in its own. Prison statistics reflect that especially in violent crime.

New comment by normaler in "Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins"

normaler — Sat, 11 May 2024 17:25:09 +0000

There is an increased comorbidity with neuro divergence and harmful behaviour.

New comment by normaler in "EU Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers"

normaler — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:29:59 +0000

Thank you for the clarification

New comment by normaler in "Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions"

normaler — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:27:46 +0000

GraphenOS offers that, since the Playstore/Google Applications are non privileged applications.

Big Plus for being easy installable from the Graphenos Appstore Applications. It currently offers 8 applications and 4 of them are GraphenOS own applications.

New comment by normaler in "EU Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers"

normaler — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:06:51 +0000

Maybe make it into category's where more money equals more guaranteed work time unless specifically excempt due to the nature of the product, but most electronics should be able to work one year at the very least.

New comment by normaler in "EU Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers"

normaler — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:05:39 +0000

In germany and maybe the entire EU there is a one year mandatory time where the manufacturer has to replace/fix the item and after the replace/fix event there is another 2 months on top.

New comment by normaler in "OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input"

normaler — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:42:14 +0000

delusional every professional uses PuTTY /s

New comment by normaler in "Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler"

normaler — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:48:22 +0000

I have been playing Pixel Dungeon and then Shattered Pixel Dungeon since ~2016.

Such a great game.

New comment by normaler in "Hackintosh is almost dead"

normaler — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 09:45:28 +0000

This is my current state of thought. Proprietary software perceives me as an enemy who needs to be locked out of as many features as possible to allow for more money to be extracted out of me while also investing the least amount possible back into the product. The only timeframe where proprietary software is groundbreaking and at the forefront of technology is when they have not yet captured and locked in a large market share.

New comment by normaler in "TOTP Codes in the Terminal"

normaler — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 04:08:39 +0000

I use aegis (previously i used andotp) and backup to a folder shared via syncthing. This allows me to usw OT via andotp -cli in emergency vor to use it in a new phone. For some i also use keepassxc (my credential/information store.) but the important ones. I prefer yubikeys, but keep totp AS a backup mechanism when i can add two methods.

New comment by normaler in "Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it"

normaler — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:47:58 +0000

In any company of this size there is no owner that can decide he cares about anything but money. There is no actual vision other then short and longterm shareholder value.

"Founders" like Musk and Jobs have a short window where they can move their companies in directions which matches their vision, but that closes quickly after the company goes public and their stock gets diluted enough so that they be ousted.

New comment by normaler in "Mozilla says Apple's new browser rules are 'as painful as possible' for Firefox"

normaler — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:28:59 +0000

They can and they do. But you are missing out in revenue when they do.