Hacker News: nosioptar

New comment by nosioptar in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

nosioptar — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:59:38 +0000

Agreed that this was written for an audience who already knows WTF is going on.

TDC is The Document Collective:

https://lwn.net/Articles/801016/

New comment by nosioptar in "“Your frustration is the product”"

nosioptar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:25:38 +0000

I really hope you succeed. If ads were a simple text/image with zero js, I wouldn't need an adblocker.

New comment by nosioptar in "Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads"

nosioptar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:00:43 +0000

Roku loves auto changing to really innapropriate shit after the kid appropriate episode ends.

For example, start an episode of Mittens and Pants for four year old, at end of episode, instead of playing next episode, it switched to Married With Children.

New comment by nosioptar in "Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner"

nosioptar — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:57:22 +0000

In my experience, electronic tuners suck at accurately detecting the note played.They often pick up harmonics as the note.

The low b on my 5 string bass is often identified as an f by electric tuners.

They also just aren't very accurate when they do detect the right note. I've never used a tuner where my cello is actually in tune when it says it is, always requires tweaking.

New comment by nosioptar in "Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner"

nosioptar — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:43:34 +0000

Got the same, Firefox on lineageos.

New comment by nosioptar in "Show HN: Cold email was taking me 20 min each, so I built coldpitch.ai"

nosioptar — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:09:15 +0000

I was the main outreach person for a small org last year. Something like this could have been useful.

There are problems with your site that would have stopped me from signing up.

The grey text on a grey background hurts my eyes. In general, dark mode isn't ever gonna get my cash because it hurts my eyes.

You require my PII before letting me try it. (I can get ai written letters from copilot.Microsoft.com without entering any PII.) I'm sure you have to worry about people using your tokens, but I'm more worried about yet another tech company spamming me. Also, need to know that the the letters don't read like slop before committing.

It's also a problem for me that the $15 plan doesnt allow exporting. If I have to copy/paste, I can just use copilots site.

With those problems fixed, I would have been willing to get the $15 plan, would also be willing to suggest it to other nonprofits in my area too.

New comment by nosioptar in "MacBook Air with M5"

nosioptar — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:40:34 +0000

Thinkpads have track points, macs don't.

That benchmark is really important to me due to RSI. Track points save me a buttload of hand pain.

New comment by nosioptar in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

nosioptar — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:36:35 +0000

My phone isnt too old, it still gets updates on Lineageos. I've got no reason to replace it.

New comment by nosioptar in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

nosioptar — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:55:24 +0000

Graphene doesnt even support all usable pixels. My pixel 3a isn't supported, but is by eos, lineage, and mobian (if you don't need volte).

New comment by nosioptar in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"

nosioptar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:55:38 +0000

Maybe, it has a very different tone from the first movie. It's kind of like how Sleepaway Camp sequels went all goofy and campy.

I love shitty campy horror movies from the 80s/90s, so it works for me.

New comment by nosioptar in "Samsung Upcycle Promise"

nosioptar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:49:31 +0000

I always use the lineageos devices page as a guide to find a phone.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

New comment by nosioptar in "Samsung Upcycle Promise"

nosioptar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:34:42 +0000

My op 7 pro didn't require using their form in any way.

I did have to be careful to buy the variant supported by lineageos. (I think the t mobile version of this phone does require using op form, which I've heard rarely works.)

New comment by nosioptar in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

nosioptar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:19:20 +0000

I didn't know about ddg's noai subdomain, normal ddg has become unusable with all the ai shit they constantly shove down your throat.

Also, their ai makes copilot look good.

New comment by nosioptar in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

nosioptar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:15:21 +0000

Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design. (SeaMonkey did a piss poor job picking screenshots for their webpage...)

https://www.claws-mail.org/screenshots.php

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/screenshots

New comment by nosioptar in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"

nosioptar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:02:55 +0000

Shatner singlehanded made American Psycho 2 better than the original. It's so awful it's great.

(I know no one else in the world feels this way.)

New comment by nosioptar in "Bye Bye Gmail"

nosioptar — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:49:20 +0000

First time I set up a domain with purelymail only took me about 15 minutes. It was nothing more than copy/pasting some values into DNS records and selecting the record type purelymail said to use for said values.

New comment by nosioptar in "Bye Bye Gmail"

nosioptar — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:44:09 +0000

I've had purelymail for several years. I've only had to contact support once. They responded within an hour and fixed the problem as well.

I've helped nontechnical people move to purelymail as well, they all love it.

New comment by nosioptar in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

nosioptar — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:08:16 +0000

It's not a troll take. My old shit Alcatel still works. Every pixel I've had has needed repairs.

As for calling me a troll, fuck right off, asshole.

New comment by nosioptar in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

nosioptar — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:20:44 +0000

Oddly enough, Google Pixels are easy to unlock the bootloader, provided you didnt get the verizon version.

Dont get me wrong, im not accusing Pixels of being "quality". In my experience, they're not quite as good as a free phone from a MetroPCS store.

New comment by nosioptar in "Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page"

nosioptar — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:09:01 +0000

Scrollbar is on the wrong side. On Firefox, I use layout.scrollbar.side to set it to the left. Not sure if there's even a way to make it match the browser prefs.

That said, the scrollbar does look pretty cool.