Hacker News: ornornor

New comment by ornornor in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

ornornor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:01:27 +0000

> run the air conditioner

Look at Mr. Moneybags here with his car that has the AC add on and still functional!

New comment by ornornor in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

ornornor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:39:39 +0000

FWIW I’m pretty happy with my Panasonic OLED (2019 model), it has totally optional smart features (ie it has a Netflix app), works well offline, and turns on instantly.

New comment by ornornor in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

ornornor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:28:11 +0000

Samsung does that too and use it to sell you stuff, show you ads, and retarget you across devices! (Not saying it’s a good thing, but rather pointing out how common this is)

New comment by ornornor in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

ornornor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:24:32 +0000

> you probably don't need 16 GB of VRAM just to render the desktop

Microsoft: hold my beer

New comment by ornornor in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:56:08 +0000

I worked briefly in a “holacracy” type of company. Absolutely hated it. There was a hierarchy, you just didn’t know about it unless you’d been there a while.

The company acted high and mighty like they have principles, the most successful project that was bringing most of the revenue in got a lot of leeway to bypass all ethical review processes so that it could keep feeding the rest of the company’s more ethical but not very profitable projects.

I hated working there and left after a couple months only. Incidentally, that was my last job ever and the straw that broke the camel’s back: I’ve worked freelance ever since.

New comment by ornornor in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:51:41 +0000

Maybe this nomenclature of yours doesn’t help.

A “computer” used to be a job mostly done by female. Now it’s the opposite.

New comment by ornornor in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:52:47 +0000

> nursing is feminine coded occupation and trucking attracts men who want to prove own masculinity

In your head maybe?

New comment by ornornor in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:44:04 +0000

I think TTBOMK = to the best of my knowledge, for TOUWANFIA (those of us who are not fluent in acronyms)

New comment by ornornor in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:38:55 +0000

I hear you, OTOH if this software was so valuable how come we aren’t funding it? A lot of the world runs on OSS with a coupe overwhelmed maintainers who get treated as if they owed everybody working software yet can’t make a living off it.

New comment by ornornor in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:35:50 +0000

Uhhh why? Aren’t these worthy goals? I’ve worked on software where the motto was “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and they paid me quite a bit of money to update from distributions, runtimes, and libraries that were EOL for 5–10 years already. I’d argue that keeping up loosely with modern practices of much easier than running outdated everything and suffer the consequences (breaches, painful updates)

New comment by ornornor in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:47:37 +0000

It seems to be a pattern with apple apps in my experience.

I don’t hate myself enough to have a Mac but I have an iPhone and there are so many bugs in apple supplied apps (mail, safari, iOS itself, iCloud) that apple have known about for years. And yet these bugs are still there with no desire from apple to fix them.

New comment by ornornor in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:45:14 +0000

> 30 years ago, though to your point I don't remember anyone talking about them revoking licenses for purchased software.

People weren’t ready then. But enough “innovation” has happened since that most people will shrug and say “meh it’s an old version anyway”

New comment by ornornor in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:42:47 +0000

I was one of those, way past its EOL. I could never switch to this braindead “ribbons” UI and refused to learn this idiotic new scheme so I stayed with office 2k. And then I switched to libreoffice.

New comment by ornornor in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

ornornor — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:34:27 +0000

> VS Code was released in 2015, so even if its initial release somehow completely stopped the entire software industry, it would still not have held the industry back by several decades.

Why not? That’s 11 years, times (say) 5 potential independent editors or IDE that didn’t exist because of VSCode in that time is over 50 years worth of software innovation.

New comment by ornornor in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

ornornor — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:10:38 +0000

Perfect time to explore alternatives to eating meat.

New comment by ornornor in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

ornornor — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:12:57 +0000

I wish they didn’t manage to change the nasdaq rules, forcing a lot of index ETFs to buy spacex at IPO, whatever the price.

Edit: glad to see vanguard VT tracks FTSE which isn’t impacted. The amount of overvalued spacex stock in VT will be minimal down the line as they use the amount of publicly available shares to calculate the weight in the index, which is the more sensible way to do it, Musk’s scam not withstanding.

New comment by ornornor in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

ornornor — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:23:51 +0000

> draconian countermeasures are drafted and constructed one by one.

Except when it’s about privacy or anything else we actually care about: then absolutely nothing is done because it would cost more than 0 to do anything.

New comment by ornornor in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

ornornor — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:41:14 +0000

I don’t know about uber specifically but most of the apps I use have a separate toggle for things like marketing. Maybe it’s an EU thing?

New comment by ornornor in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

ornornor — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:54:02 +0000

You can. I’ve removed Apple Music and Apple Maps (seriously, who uses that?) but apple makes extra sure most things are more annoying to use without maps. Calendar app with an address? Default to opening in Apple Maps which is missing so error message (twice). Find my? Also open in apple maps with missing app error message. Even with Google Maps set as default systemwide.

New comment by ornornor in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

ornornor — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:46:33 +0000

Increasingly less and less so as they “upgrade” their offering and have more and more downtime.