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New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

oaweoifjwpo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:10:33 +0000

None of those examples are "run an internet search".

New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "We accepted surveillance as default"

oaweoifjwpo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:53:04 +0000

That's almost never the sole or core differentiator though. And getting customers to all coordinate and care is much more difficult than getting a couple CEOs to just decide to surveil.

New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "We accepted surveillance as default"

oaweoifjwpo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:14:17 +0000

They'll still surveil even if you pay for the product. Why wouldn't they? It's an additional income stream.

New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

oaweoifjwpo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:54:57 +0000

This is the fairly standard Apple defensework where "it just works, but if it doesn't work it's probably not a real problem" despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

oaweoifjwpo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:54:00 +0000

Just because you have never personally seen a bug occur doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

This very article is about how Tailscale frequently gets reports of them being hidden.

And I personally have had the icons hidden. My work laptop has a lot of stuff running on it (much of it is mandatory: VPN, custom company processes, Google Drive, etc) and combined with my personal preferred programs (f.lux, etc) it occasionally hits the limit and goes under the notch.

New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

oaweoifjwpo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:41:16 +0000

If the icons are just hidden and you can't find them in order to use the programs you have running, that's not "just working". That's broken functionality. Windows has solved this with the overflow menu for literally decades.

New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

oaweoifjwpo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:39:48 +0000

This is a real problem, but when I complain about it I get told to just "hide the icons you don't care about" as if that's a solution.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346079

New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "The return-to-the-office trend backfires"

oaweoifjwpo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:55:04 +0000

Except you can't get that year round perfect weather in the midwest.

New comment by oaweoifjwpo in "The MacBook Neo"

oaweoifjwpo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:27:09 +0000

The most obvious one is that there's no native way to handle having too many icons in the top bar. If you have too many, they just start disappearing, instead of being hidden in an expansion like on Windows. This _literally_ makes them unusable without a third party program.

And if you have the notch this is very far from a theoretical problem.