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New comment by oAlbe in "Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]"

oAlbe — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:59:46 +0000

I came here to post just this.

That GDC talk just showed up on my YouTube frontpage this morning and I watched it. And now I check HN and here we are.

Seems like ultimately they aren't actually able to track us as well as they claim.

New comment by oAlbe in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

oAlbe — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:57:20 +0000

The amount of people that to this day still default to OpenOffice and have either never heard of LibreOffice or think it's the same as OpenOffice is crazy making though.

New comment by oAlbe in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

oAlbe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:01:47 +0000

Gamers Nexus did a very in depth review of the Steam Machine [1], which includes a comparison to a build yourself similar machine.

The result is that for about 70 dollars less you can put together a somewhat more powerful PC than the Steam Machine, but not for that form factor, it would still be bigger.

IMO, the Steam Machine is not a bad purchase if you are in the market for that type of product.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=66QzlDewigE

New comment by oAlbe in "Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it"

oAlbe — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:43:11 +0000

How does one get started in the telescope building hobby?

New comment by oAlbe in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

oAlbe — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:28:33 +0000

As someone who was raised Christian, since when do Christians believe in equal rights for women?

New comment by oAlbe in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

oAlbe — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:08:54 +0000

It's the Internet. Just assume they are American unless otherwise specified.

New comment by oAlbe in "Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?"

oAlbe — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:01:15 +0000

Instead of making it work with Discord, built it around xmpp with as many of the same niceties that discord offers and get yourself a working alternative on an open, powerful protocol, fully FOSS.

People want to get away from closed, centralised applications. The sentiment is the strongest it's ever been. But they don't have compelling and working enough alternatives to do so.

New comment by oAlbe in "MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games"

oAlbe — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:11:09 +0000

If you are wondering about the capabilities, Stardew Valley was made in MonoGame.

I wonder how it compares, if at all, with Godot nowadays.

New comment by oAlbe in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

oAlbe — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:55:49 +0000

And what's the truth?

New comment by oAlbe in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"

oAlbe — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:34:32 +0000

I mean, ignoring the fact that it's one example versus a list of examples I posted, I still don't think Debian website is that bad. I remember how it used to be, when it had a link to get the CDs with the distro and the option of getting all the packages in the package manager repository. Debian evolved like everybody else.

To me, and of course this is personal, Debian website looks pretty professional in an enterprise-y kind of way. I quite like it.

But then again, it's one example. Hell, even OpenSUSE's website looks super slick and modern.

New comment by oAlbe in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"

oAlbe — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:47:35 +0000

That has not been the case for quite a long time now. Lots of distros still have websites that look like a wiki, see Arch. But in their case the Arch wiki is one of the best wikis ever existed for what it covers.

If you look at modern yet established distros, I struggle to find the outliers that don't have professional looking, slick web pages. See all the *buntus, Fedora, Elementary OS, Cachy OS, Bazzite, Endeavour, Manjaro, Linux Mint, and so forth.

New comment by oAlbe in "How to Firefox"

oAlbe — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:04:48 +0000

> My only beef is I can't completely disable tabs, but I don't know of any equivalent browser that can.

There is an addon[1] that allows you to discard tabs both manually and with a degree of automation. I've been using it for a while and it works quite well.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

New comment by oAlbe in "Talon: Debloat Windows 11 in 2 clicks"

oAlbe — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:57:27 +0000

I'm not posting this as an endorsement. I'm posting this because I'm curious of what HN thinks about this, and if anybody is aware of any issues with it.

Talon: Debloat Windows 11 in 2 clicks

oAlbe — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:54:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ravendevteam/talon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036447

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by oAlbe in "Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: Apps hijacked to spy on location"

oAlbe — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 01:45:09 +0000

> 1. What do you replace PodcastAddict with? Will all ads traffic (not just the display of the ads on the screen) cease on a paid version?

AntennaPod

New comment by oAlbe in "Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures"

oAlbe — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 20:38:29 +0000

> In the early 1990s, anthropogenic sulfur dominated in the Northern Hemisphere, where only 16% of annual sulfur emissions were natural, yet amounted for less than half of the emissions in the Southern Hemisphere.

> Such an increase in sulfate aerosol emissions had a variety of effects. At the time, the most visible one was acid rain, caused by precipitation from clouds carrying high concentrations of sulfate aerosols in the troposphere. At its peak, acid rain has eliminated brook trout and some other fish species and insect life from lakes and streams in geographically sensitive areas, such as Adirondack Mountains in the United States. Acid rain worsens soil function as some of its microbiota is lost and heavy metals like aluminium are mobilized (spread more easily) while essential nutrients and minerals such as magnesium can leach away because of the same. Ultimately, plants unable to tolerate lowered pH are killed, with montane forests being some of the worst-affected ecosystems due to their regular exposure to sulfate-carrying fog at high altitudes.[1]

Sure, let's have ~2 years of that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide

New comment by oAlbe in "Become Ungoogleable"

oAlbe — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:59:57 +0000

> Then they look for a Discord server.

How? Are there ways to search for discord servers that might have content you want inside of them? Like, directories of discord servers? I'm genuinely curious because that would be very useful.

New comment by oAlbe in "Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift"

oAlbe — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 21:58:23 +0000

Would you be willing to share their name? Even privately?

New comment by oAlbe in "Apple subreddit reopens after moderation team threatened with removal"

oAlbe — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:11:34 +0000

Yeah it was very patient of them to allow all those people to create, curate and moderate content on their platform at no cost to reddit.

New comment by oAlbe in "Cormac McCarthy has died"

oAlbe — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:02:33 +0000

At risk of sounding stupid in public, what does that epilogue mean? I've read it several times now, and aside from being surprised at how fluid it still reads despite the parsimonious use of punctuation, I really can't figure out what it's talking about.