Hacker News: outadoc

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

outadoc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:55:51 +0000

Super cool project and write-up, I loved reading it!

New comment by outadoc in "Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit"

outadoc — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:22:51 +0000

I've tried to find this for so long. I remember seeing it at the time as a teenager and thinking it was SO COOL. Basically made me discover Apple and want a Mac. :)

New comment by outadoc in "UEFI Bindings for JavaScript"

outadoc — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:06:11 +0000

I love it.

New comment by outadoc in "Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux"

outadoc — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:08:32 +0000

I was completely confused when I recently discovered this behavior. I've been using middle-click to open tabs in macOS and Windows for years, and I could not understand why it automatically pasted whatever was in my clipboard.

I think it makes total sense to change the default to be aligned with the other platforms, and leave power-users the choice to keep it enabled if they wish.

New comment by outadoc in "The Swift SDK for Android"

outadoc — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:02:05 +0000

I'm a big lover of Kotlin Multiplatform, but I think this is pretty cool anyway. I could imagine making a native Swift library shared between the platforms for memory-sensitive work. I'm not sure about using it to write an app's entire business logic, KMP is going to be more mature for a while for this.

New comment by outadoc in "KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser"

outadoc — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:50:05 +0000

"Novice" is not "average"

New comment by outadoc in "KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser"

outadoc — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:08:24 +0000

I can easily see a novice user coming from Windows accidentally getting into the edit mode of Plasma and being completely confused. I like KDE as an advanced user but I wouldn't install it on my grandma's laptop.

I agree that it would be great to have it as a first-class citizen in more distros, but I guess the maintenance burden is not negligible. I'm glad Fedora promoted it though.

New comment by outadoc in "A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler"

outadoc — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:36:20 +0000

I assume that Locale.ROOT will stay backwards-compatible, whereas theoretically Locale.US could change. What if it changes its currency in the future, for example, or its date format?

New comment by outadoc in "MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers"

outadoc — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:40:46 +0000

Your definition of fun is scary

New comment by outadoc in "European Union Public Licence (EUPL)"

outadoc — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:27:41 +0000

I don't see the actual source of the text mentioned on this non-official website, which makes it confusing.

https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/eu...

New comment by outadoc in "WASM 3.0 Completed"

outadoc — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:20:55 +0000

Kotlin/WASM is a thing

New comment by outadoc in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

outadoc — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:57:20 +0000

You already can replace the default assistant app with any app that declares itself as an assistant on Android, and have always been able to.

New comment by outadoc in "WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration"

outadoc — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:53:54 +0000

Sounds to me like this is similar to Coherence mode in Parallels. I'm sure it won't work 100% of the time, but could be good for basic use cases.

New comment by outadoc in "Study mode"

outadoc — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:07:22 +0000

> Me: What is 34234 times 554833?

> ChatGPT: 34234 × 554833 = 1,899,874,522.

> Me: That's wrong. The actual answer is 18994152922.

> ChatGPT: You're right, and thanks for the correction. Indeed: 34,234 × 554,833 = 18,994,152,922. Sorry for the earlier mistake!

How good of a teacher is that?

New comment by outadoc in "YouTube No Translation"

outadoc — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:45:19 +0000

Google has that preference as well, YouTube just doesn't care to honor it, which is somehow even more frustrating.

New comment by outadoc in "The US has a new most powerful laser hitting 2 petawatts"

outadoc — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:07:05 +0000

What if we tried more power?

New comment by outadoc in "How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip"

outadoc — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:14:47 +0000

Thank you for the write-up. Cool to see some degree of open-source hardware running PebbleOS.

Though, can we stop having left-aligned blogs in 2025? Wide screens have been here for a while, it makes it unnecessarily hard to read :(

New comment by outadoc in "VMOS – Virtual Android on Android"

outadoc — Tue, 06 May 2025 07:43:06 +0000

> Two Accounts Online > Running two social accounts;Dealing with life and work in one device...

Work profiles and user accounts are a thing on Android, I'm not sure why that's the first bullet point.

New comment by outadoc in "GIMP 3.0"

outadoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:25:51 +0000

Were you raised as the TV generation or the video game generation? Because I guarantee you your elders were saying the same thing about your generation.

New comment by outadoc in "We're bringing Pebble back"

outadoc — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:32:55 +0000

Super exciting. I just found my Pebble Time again last week, and configured it with Rebble. The animations of this OS still feel so great, I hope whoever was responsible for them gets hired again.