Hacker News: pedrogpimenta

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

pedrogpimenta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:48:43 +0000

Hey, I like weather sense! Mind if I use it? :)

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "SoulsOnly.tff – A font for humans not AI and keyboard firmware to type in it"

pedrogpimenta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:53:31 +0000

I love this! But won't the machine easily pick up on this?

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Haiku"

pedrogpimenta — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:26:11 +0000

What do you do with it? Genuinely curious!

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

pedrogpimenta — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:49:53 +0000

This is like porn for me :)

It's one of my favourite things, looking at and analyzing older interfaces. Some are lovely, some are cute, some are ugly, but most are... "naïve"? I love to think about the effort, the research, the trials and tribulations. I feel I will spend a great deal of time in this page!

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "15 Years of Forking"

pedrogpimenta — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:53:38 +0000

Right. So you don't ever donate to anything, right? Just in case. The future. You know?

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "15 Years of Forking"

pedrogpimenta — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:54:12 +0000

Did you do it before they did so?

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

pedrogpimenta — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:18:19 +0000

I suppose you could have a gasoline powered battery and then charge electronics with that, no?

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

pedrogpimenta — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:43:58 +0000

The obnoxious hijacking of the scrolling is present on desktop too. Can't read the small box because it'll scroll to the next project. Why?

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones"

pedrogpimenta — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:10:54 +0000

"May be able" refers to collect, which is entirely up to the app. It does have access to password as you write them with it. It doesn't know what you're writing and it MAY collect. But it's not clear if it does collect.

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

pedrogpimenta — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:17:28 +0000

So you don't grok it. You understand it, but don't grok it. Respect the martian :)

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

pedrogpimenta — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:35:19 +0000

But Linux is getting better each year (seriously, KDE is amazing, Gnome works well if you like it), made by hundreds of independent people, while Mac is getting worse, made by one focused company.

I've had no problem whatsoever with 2 laptops regarding power management or audio.

Get a major distro and major software if you don't want to wander into problems.

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One"

pedrogpimenta — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:52:03 +0000

I agree, but it is there: perfect amount of sugar: 0, perfect milk-to-coffee ratio: 0 to 1.

What really gets on my nerves is the justified text...

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

pedrogpimenta — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:42:10 +0000

Well, the idea of Linux was "a better minix" and "I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones".

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

pedrogpimenta — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:58:52 +0000

As I thought: you can set a different shortcut for "Beginning of line" and it will work in Qt input fields but, sadly, not others. I don't know if this is the step you're on.

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

pedrogpimenta — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:54:07 +0000

I'm not sure this is the reason or a big reason, but I think this is very difficult to do in Linux, sadly.

What makes Linux great is also its biggest handicap, in my opinion, when it comes to User Experience: the fragmentation of UI frameworks and libraries.

I imagine having this control between Qt, GTK and other UI libraries and electron-type-apps os difficult if not impossible.

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

pedrogpimenta — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:19:34 +0000

Im not OP but i have a player for my kids which is basically the same. I do both. Sometimes I introduce songs and we talk about it, other times they hear something somewhere and ask me for it.

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played"

pedrogpimenta — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:51:46 +0000

I agree. I would just like that they didn't have to exploit workers. It seems something that could be done. Have more people taking smaller or less frenetic shifts and pay them the same or more. It can be doable, seeing the amount of money Bezos amasses, right? I love the service but despise how the workers are treated. And nothing compares, there's no real competition.

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on"

pedrogpimenta — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:26:21 +0000

My server is also unreachable: my website, my projects (which people use)... Because it's on some IP that Vercel uses.

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens"

pedrogpimenta — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:10:08 +0000

This is great, but I see lots of ghosting and apparently low contrast. Sad to see no mention of it in the article.

New comment by pedrogpimenta in "AI Changes Everything"

pedrogpimenta — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:22:19 +0000

While I agree, I feel we can't dismiss a technology just because we don't agree with the values of the people doing it, you know? The tech is amazing, let's build it in a nice way.