Hacker News: nticompass

New comment by nticompass in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

nticompass — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:11:42 +0000

There was a PPC version of Windows NT, and yes someone put it on the Wii!

https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes

New comment by nticompass in "I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

nticompass — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:10:27 +0000

This is awesome! I can't wait to plug in my Wii and give it a try myself.

New comment by nticompass in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

nticompass — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:09:01 +0000

Is TBPN really considered "major" (seeing as most of the comments I've seen are how no one's heard of them before) or are you just being sarcastic?

New comment by nticompass in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

nticompass — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:55:32 +0000

> Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome[actually Chromium]-based browser

There's a reason I continue to use Firefox (with uBlock Origin) and will never switch.

Also, when I got laid off from a previous job, I made a LinkedIn profile to help find a new job. Once I found a new job, I haven't logged into LinkedIn since - that was almost 2 years ago.

New comment by nticompass in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

nticompass — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:37:31 +0000

I clicked on the link and the video title is "Decoding Escher's most mind-bending piece", which is a lot better. I also had no idea what "3B1B video" meant, apparently it's a channel called "3Blue1Brown".

New comment by nticompass in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)"

nticompass — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:59:55 +0000

I had MirageOS and Symbolic and PuzzPack (so I can play BlockDude) on my TI-83+!

Also, I'm glad this website is still up :-)

New comment by nticompass in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)"

nticompass — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:55:56 +0000

I remember playing this all the time on my TI-83+. That calculator is where I really learned to program. I wrote programs in TI-BASIC - mostly to solve equations for my math/science classes, but some games too. It's been so long that I don't really remember TI-BASIC, but I was quite good at it in high school.

New comment by nticompass in "Remember Clippy"

nticompass — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:23:14 +0000

Wasn't the whole point of Clippy (and the reason people are using Clippy as their avatar on YouTube and other places) that he WASN'T AI? Or, rather that he didn't mine/collect your data and could be used offline and just was there to help.

New comment by nticompass in "Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain"

nticompass — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:59:28 +0000

At home, my ISP gives me native IPv6. At work, we don't have IPv6 (or it's just disabled on the router), so I sometimes use one to test stuff (I use 6Project).

New comment by nticompass in "SSH Secret Menu"

nticompass — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:10:04 +0000

I could use some "help2man." I don't know how to "man" /s

New comment by nticompass in "SSH Secret Menu"

nticompass — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:09:27 +0000

I've had to use [Enter] ~. in SSH sessions before. I've had SSH/network get stuck and using that was the only way to kill the session (and recover).

I guess you could call it a "secret" or at least "not super-well known (to people who aren't Linux 'experts')."

New comment by nticompass in "I love email (2023)"

nticompass — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:16:57 +0000

> the Donald Trump of technologies

Outdated, and in need of replacing? Unfit for the position? A poor choice?

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WTF are you trying to say? Are you for or against email? You say it's awful, then say it's amazing, I'm confused.

New comment by nticompass in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

nticompass — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:01:18 +0000

A selling point for me would be a CPU that DOESN'T qualify for "Copilot+".

New comment by nticompass in "You can use newline characters in URLs"

nticompass — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:54:33 +0000

Does that count as quine?

New comment by nticompass in "Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away.""

nticompass — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:01:38 +0000

> use firefox, install uBlock Origin

New comment by nticompass in "I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270"

nticompass — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:17:20 +0000

I installed Coreboot/Tianocore on my T430 and it was awesome! Mostly, it got rid of Lenovo's stupid WiFi whitelist.

A few years ago, I got an X270 since my T430 was feeling sluggish. I'd be curious to try this!

My X270 has a 7th-gen core i5, is that Kaby Lake? Does coreboot/libreboot on the X270 need SeaBIOS or will it work with Tianocore?

New comment by nticompass in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

nticompass — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:58:30 +0000

I have a TROMMA [0], which I like because you can see the wall through the numbers :)

[0]: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tromma-wall-clock-white-3055707...

New comment by nticompass in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

nticompass — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:42:27 +0000

I like that you can switch the second-hand to "tick" or continuously move. I have multiple analog clocks in my house and since most of them are battery-powered quartz, the second hand ticks. But, I have one that's from the 60s and needs to be plugged into the wall; that one has the second hand continuously move!

New comment by nticompass in "Landlines are ringing in homes again. Why parents are happy about that"

nticompass — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:56:32 +0000

I love collecting vintage computers and phones, so I use an ATA to allow me to connect them to a "landline." I use voip.ms, and I keep a little bit of money in there. Mostly, so I can show my friends that my rotary phone actually works! Surprisingly, I haven't got spam calls on that line (yet).

New comment by nticompass in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

nticompass — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:58:01 +0000

How would that work on a PC? Not everyone uses Discord on their phone/tablet.