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New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

poopooracoocoo — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:25:32 +0000

That'd be great but governments often don't make specs and source code available. Governments don't make things open.

The amount of stuff councils and state governments gatekeep about road specs alone... Argh.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin"

poopooracoocoo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:34:46 +0000

Plenty of things are addictive. I don't think this is one that should be intervened. I wish we had more personal responsibility today. America's meant to be the country of freedom, right?

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

poopooracoocoo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:11:16 +0000

That's not done on an NPU though, even if it could be. That's all done on companies' servers and won't be changing.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

poopooracoocoo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:59:29 +0000

Now y'all are just analysing the UX of YouTube and Chrome.

The problem is that by agreeing to close the tab, you're agreeing to discard the comment. There's currently no way to bring it back. There's no way to undo.

AI can't fix that. There is Microsoft's "snapshot" thing but it's really just a waste of storage space.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "The Speed of the Librem 5"

poopooracoocoo — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 04:52:34 +0000

Incredible. Purism has come a long way. It's amazing to have a truly open phone. A lot of people don't know how hard it is to mod an Android phone. You have to worry about drivers and firmware, security protections and attestation. For me the value of this comes from its freedom. Not from its privacy necessarily, but the hardware switches are great. I hate that I rely on the very many apps for Android and iOS that don't have a web counterpart like Discord. Linux apps on phones are very much a chicken-egg problem and I don't think we can break the duopoly

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful"

poopooracoocoo — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:12:37 +0000

Why does the acquisition need to go through for Activision-Blizzard's titles to be on Xbox Game Pass?

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful"

poopooracoocoo — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 09:59:03 +0000

But that is how licensing works for Steam games (that require it). I don't want invasive rootkits, locked down software, or resource consuming software. Steam is light compared to other alternatives. The best option is to buy games from GOG (or another DEM-free store) or from publishers directly, assuming they don't have a crappy launcher. Epic Games Launcher, 2K Launcher, Riot Client, Rockstar Games Launcher, etc are awfully slow and consume a lot of memory and disk space. Steam just happens to be the lightest of them all and therefore people tolerate it more.

What Steam does isn't what annoys most. It's what game publishers do with their own launchers.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Google has already pulled six products in 2023"

poopooracoocoo — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 08:32:39 +0000

There's no migration path from Skype to Microsoft Teams (Personal). Microsoft hasn't picked one as far as I know.

Microsoft similarly has a bunch of duplicate services and products. They've got chat functionality spread across many apps, specifically Teams, Skype, and Xbox. Windows also has widgets in Windows 11 and widgets in Xbox Game Bar. There's also the mess that is developing apps for Windows that has just become Chromium, partially due to Microsoft's own messes.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM"

poopooracoocoo — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:06:35 +0000

Doesn't help that Epic Games has three instances of Chromium. Add that to Steam's and all of the games' instances and you've easily gotten at least 2 GB of duplicate instances of Chromium. Edge and Edge WebView, at least, are hard-linked, provided that they're the same version.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM"

poopooracoocoo — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:11:57 +0000

I think it's because the apps have additional functionality and because the services push users to use the apps on their websites. Some of the additional functionality is artificially limited to apps as companies can put more tracking, advertising, and can ensure that people won't leave their service easily by just closing a tab.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Lesser-known JavaScript APIs"

poopooracoocoo — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:13:37 +0000

Another concerning web API is the Battery Status API. See demo[1]. Firefox and WebKit have not implemented it thankfully but Google refuses to remove it for some odd reason. How it ever came to be boggles me. A low-power API would make much more sense. The Battery Status API does not have a user facing toggle in Chrome, unlike the sensor APIs, let alone actual permissions. Speaking of which, I can't believe the Chrome team still hasn't done anything about the sensor APIs. I've turned it off and see so many analytics tools in websites try to use it. Another surprising browser API that's only in Chrome is the Network Information API - again, permissionless, and cannot be opted-out of.

A lot of the specs say that user agents must provide users with a way to disable support for certain API. CSP reporting is one that many uBO users will recognise. But of course, Google doesn't follow that. And many of the aforementioned APIs are not W3C standards and are merely working drafts.

[1] https://jsbin.com/battery-status-test/edit?html,output

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option"

poopooracoocoo — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:34:16 +0000

Dopamine is chemical that makes you feel good. The algorithms are made to increase engagement. Some of the most engaging content is content that makes people angry or shocked. Look at the YouTube homepage when you're not signed in. YouTube's algorithms are not necessarily made to give people content they want to watch and were thinking of watching. And often times not content that makes them feel good.

Edit: maybe I'm half asleep and not getting what you're saying lol

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Surface Pro 9 teardown reveals modular parts, Microsoft’s 2023 repair plans"

poopooracoocoo — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:50:53 +0000

This could be because iFixit is trying to be more consumer facing so they can sell more of their repair products. A wild guess. More likely that they're getting paid by these manufacturers though.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com"

poopooracoocoo — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 10:32:06 +0000

Source? "Teams for Life" aka Teams Personal is different to Teams (for Business).

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Bluetooth headsets on Desktops and Laptops are a mess"

poopooracoocoo — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 11:08:46 +0000

And people don't even know about the issue mentioned in this post until after they've bought it. They don't know where the issue lies. They don't know what AptX is, let alone AptX Voice.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Bluetooth headsets on Desktops and Laptops are a mess"

poopooracoocoo — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 11:04:10 +0000

While Android shows you which codec and even lets you pick, Android doesn't let you customise output and input devices so you can't avoid the low quality hands-free profile like you can on desktop operating systems. Windows doesn't show you what codec is being used. You have to buy Bluetooth Tweaker. Windows 11 was a step down in my experience and also broke compatibility with a lot of Chinese headsets.

Just the other day I browsed through the PipeWire and PulseAudio repos. They do heaps of work to make Bluetooth work a lot better than it would usually. And yet we still see how rough Bluetooth is. There's no way for individuals or open source contributors to even contact the Bluetooth SIG. But yes, the situation on Linux is better than on other operating systems.

https://medium.marco.zone/apple-implemented-the-biggest-impr... is a great article that talks about the limitations I mentioned earlier.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Windows needs a change in priorities"

poopooracoocoo — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 01:39:56 +0000

Windows Ink? Do you mean Windows Ink Workspace or Windows Sketchpad?

It was Windows Sketchpad that I really loved. After Microsoft axed it, they released Whiteboard. It felt very... not-native but had the titlebar of a UWP app. It was terrible compared to Sketchpad but new functionality like being able to select elements and reposition and resize them was great. UWP's own restrictions meant I could set certain expectations with windowing and suspension. And then they made Whiteboard a pure Electron app which was just too choppy for drawing anything at all. The closest I found to replacements were Inkodo and Scrble.

Windows Ink was just one of Microsoft's phases, just like XR. They now refuse to add support for a partial eraser in WinUI.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?"

poopooracoocoo — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 23:22:05 +0000

With services you get a lot of lock-in/exclusives. Two examples are Discord and Netflix. I wouldn't say you have much of a choice if you want to join a popular place to chat or if you want to watch Stranger Things. The user experience doesn't matter so much if there's no other way to do something. This is what I think the person you were replying to means.

On that note, Google Sheets became popular because you can use it in your browser and because of Google Drive which is what locks you in. Sheets is much more open than my examples.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?"

poopooracoocoo — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 06:26:32 +0000

Google's fight against Firefox isn't so visible on YouTube. I'd say it's mobile, Google Drive and their video calls. Google does a lot of A/B testing and I'm surprised someone on HN wouldn't blame that first. I'm not ruling out that Google may have done that against Firefox though. It's worth noting that YouTube's Polymer site was always very slow on Chrome too and it was never just about shadow DOM v0.

New comment by poopooracoocoo in "Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter"

poopooracoocoo — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:27:34 +0000

And truth is, as long as you have exclusive content on a service, the quality of your app (and thus the satisfaction of your end users) doesn't matter all that much.