Hacker News: pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pacifikaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:34:57 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"]]>https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:24:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653517pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653517https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653517<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"]]>Flagged for this particular description. Could have said stupid.

]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:23:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611088pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611088https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611088<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Our commitment to Windows quality"]]>People just have disliked computing in general as a result of their Windows experience.

I’m not seeing any brick and mortar stores selling Linux laptops or any mindshare for any Linux brand. Maybe if Ubuntu started selling hardware in supermarkets Linux would have a chance of capturing people’s consciousness outside of the power user / professional circles. But they’re years too late now.

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:03:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461967pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461967https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461967<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"]]>> I can't remember the last time I had an issue

Depending on your workflows the comment just described three issues

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:37:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451999pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451999<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "The 49MB web page"]]>That’s confusing a webpage that’s rendered by the user with a pdf

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:18:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451500pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451500<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Have a fucking website"]]>A bad apple spoils the bunch

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:16:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422538pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422538https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422538<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Have a fucking website"]]>And where does Google map get it’s information?

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:13:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422513pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422513https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422513<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"]]>Why?

]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:06:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413727pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413727https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413727<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"]]>Select your location, if NY etc.

]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:30:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274672pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274672https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274672<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Show HN: Microterm runs Linux VM in any browser tab via WASM, RISCV64 emulation"]]>This is very cool and replaces a whole class of applications on iOS in terms of networking tools and web development.

Saw the docs are still minimal so understanding high level usecases is still a challenge for me.

The docs should at least evidence that I can use this securely. Can I verify the customisations to the base alpine Linux somewhere? Tech is great just wonder about the trust issue.

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:46:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119710pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119710<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"]]>Build a synthesizer

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:38:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47104472pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47104472https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47104472<![CDATA[Hold on to Your Hardware]]>Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077206

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:29:40 +0000https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077206https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077206<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning"]]>Unwanted by DSIT

]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:05:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600433pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600433https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600433<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"]]>> be fair windows 11 is the most secure windows ever created

Every patch Tuesday they’re fixing more insecurities that previous Windows didn’t have.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:51:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574407pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574407https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574407<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"]]>Yeah first time Windows Clock wouldn’t restore because the net wasn’t ready I was shocked

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:30:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574293pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574293https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574293<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"]]>Firefox Focus has an extension build in that works with Safari

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:41:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526266pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526266https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526266<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"]]>Yeah but the gov relies on that income. £2.0-£2.5 billion

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:38:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526233pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526233https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526233<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"]]>This is a result of doing “rounds of layoffs” as a solution to bad organisational decision making, so not quite a root cause.

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:04:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523802pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523802https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523802<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"]]>If the AppStores would consider app size in ranking we might see an improvement.

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:48:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523699pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523699https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523699<![CDATA[New comment by pacifika in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"]]>Isn’t this in robust support of science in UX?

]]>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:17:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498423pacifikahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498423https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498423