Hacker News: perryizgr8

New comment by perryizgr8 in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

perryizgr8 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:39:46 +0000

Keyboard shortcuts are truly a mess on mac os. Windows does it much better and with more consistency. That results in third party apps also having sensible shortcuts. Example: Ctrl+G is widely used in code editors for "Goto line". On Windows it makes perfect sense to use because Ctrl+ shortcuts are used for text editing everywhere. But on macos it is out of place, because there Cmd+ is the standard for text editing. But Cmd+G is used for some obscure find feature. So editors fall back to Ctrl+G which is out of place.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

perryizgr8 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:44:24 +0000

Yeah imagine if at boot Windows Vista gives you the UAC "Do you TRUST all the software you are going to run today?" and if you say yes then it just allows any random code to do whatever it wants.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

perryizgr8 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:22:23 +0000

The "trust project" feature has been designed to be so extremely intrusive and annoying that the first thing I do is to completely disable it whenever I install VS Code on a new computer. This "solution" was just done to tick some box and put the blame on the user when a security incident happens. It's pretty similar to Windows Vista where it annoyed you with a disruptive popup so many times during the normal course of actions that most people ended up disabling the whole UAC system. Overall security goes down, and Microsoft has a nice excuse.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "What happened to WebAssembly"

perryizgr8 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:50:58 +0000

> Separately, I think the community is not helped by the philosophy of purposely obfuscating teaching material around Wasm

What does the author mean by this?

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

perryizgr8 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:43:19 +0000

In any bet you need a judge who decides which way the conditions of the bet resolved. The judge is someone trusted by both parties to be impartial and fair. If a lot of people stop trusting polymarket to act fairly and impartially, that will simply mean fewer people participating in the bets.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

perryizgr8 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:34:11 +0000

> the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

insert "always has been" meme

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, from Windows XP to Windows 11"

perryizgr8 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:34:33 +0000

Windows 11 has स्वेद steadily gotten worse. It was better at launch! For me, the phone link feature seems to constantly consume 8-10% CPU regardless of whether my phone is connected or not. Windows malware process is another big offender, making me wonder if an actual virus might have lesser effect on performance. The start menu sometimes hangs if I try to type something in the search box. It just screams incompetent software to me.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

perryizgr8 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:26:58 +0000

> It’s gonna destroy the color, and it’s not the filmmaker’s intent.

I don't care about the "filmmaker's intent", because it is my TV. I will enable whatever settings look best to me.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Clock synchronization is a nightmare"

perryizgr8 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:58:33 +0000

If you have network infrastructure that supports 400G I'm pretty sure it has solid PTP built in. And as far as I remember from my networking days setting it up is almost as simple as setting up NTP, you just need a single machine with a GPS lock.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Study: Everyday conversations can delay eye movement, essential for safe driving"

perryizgr8 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:39:51 +0000

Everything you do will have some effect on another task you're doing. Nothing is perfectly safe. Most people are ok with the risk of driving. It doesn't matter if you're having a conversation.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

perryizgr8 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:43:19 +0000

The reason I hate AI generated code is because it's low quality and a pain to review. Similarly, AI generated images and videos are also low quality and not worth paying attention to.

If a game is well made and people enjoy it then what's the problem with utilising AI generated code or assets? What's the objective?

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

perryizgr8 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:03:39 +0000

I think Firefox is an excellent browser. Their problem is simply that they have too much revenue for too many years. They need a fraction of that. If I were the ceo, I would drastically cut back operations. Scale down the org to 10% of its current strength, keep shipping a solid and boring browser, accept donations that directly support development of the browser. No fads, no ai, just a high performance, bug free, standards compliant browser. The users and donations will come. Firefox will survive. One year of google revenue can kar them for 10 years of lean operation!

External Memory for Your Brain

perryizgr8 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:34:18 +0000

Article URL: https://repebble.com/index

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218851

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer"

perryizgr8 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:52:29 +0000

At this point Microsoft needs to start over with Windows, preferably build on Linux. Valve did it and built a better gaming OS. Microsoft can do it for the rest of us.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer"

perryizgr8 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:49:44 +0000

Because as TFA reported, Copy-Item is much slower than the GUI.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

perryizgr8 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:33:54 +0000

People download it only when their phone is stolen.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

perryizgr8 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:22:01 +0000

Jellyfin is great for this if you don't want to put the computer right next to the TV. Set up your torrent program to download to a particular directory and set up Jellyfin to watch it. The most seamless experience to watch anything. The only downside compared to Netflix is you need to wait 10-15 minutes to let the torrent finish. Also sometimes you have to hunt for the subtitles if you want them.

New comment by perryizgr8 in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

perryizgr8 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:11:43 +0000

Alexa has this annoying habit of being non-deterministic.

> Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights.

> OK lights turn on

In the evening:

> Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights.

> I'm sorry, I don't know a device called "bedroom lights".

How is it even possible to build a computer system that behaves like this?

New comment by perryizgr8 in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

perryizgr8 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:03:46 +0000

Even more ridiculous that the same mistake continues in Windows 11 today!

Galaxy Z TriFold

perryizgr8 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:51:52 +0000

Article URL: https://news.samsung.com/global/introducing-galaxy-z-trifold-the-shape-of-whats-next-in-mobile-innovation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116377

Points: 11

# Comments: 1