Hacker News: popol12

New comment by popol12 in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"

popol12 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:16:55 +0000

Very interesting, could someone please do the same computation for filling 64 bit storage?

New comment by popol12 in "Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered"

popol12 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:27:38 +0000

Quick, book a cruise to take some picture of them before they're all dead! \s

New comment by popol12 in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

popol12 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:55:46 +0000

You can install this to fix it, btw

https://github.com/lukaspieper/Gcam-Services-Provider

New comment by popol12 in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

popol12 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:42:41 +0000

They released cloud backups recently and I believe they are also working on manual exports on iOS too

New comment by popol12 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

popol12 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:22:37 +0000

What about Chinese, Russian or European oil majors ?

The Case Against Travel (2023)

popol12 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:17:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367072

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by popol12 in "Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal"

popol12 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:30:24 +0000

« to bear the cost », not « to bare the cost »

New comment by popol12 in "Show HN: Mu – The Micro Network"

popol12 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:26:00 +0000

11£ a month is a lot. Any way to try it for free ?

New comment by popol12 in "Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it's sinking"

popol12 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:15:46 +0000

I think you underestimate how much speculation, gambling and crime happens in the fiat ecosystem. The forex, just to name one thing, is $7.5T exchanged a day.

In comparison, it’s estimated that Americans spend about $10T per year. I don’t have the numbers worldwide but America is a big piece of the cake.

So, speculation is vastly higher than regular spending, even for “regular money”.

New comment by popol12 in "Shell Grotto, Margate"

popol12 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:45:36 +0000

Why can’t someone do a carbon 14 datation of the shells to close the debate ?

New comment by popol12 in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

popol12 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:30:19 +0000

Man, the communist party (and the communist ideology) in France is pretty much dead today. They’re not even that much to the left today. They have no power and their boss has no social credibility outside of its party (see “Fabien Roussel n’est pas un camarade” songs)

Your claim that the judges are red is a popular right wing fantasy

New comment by popol12 in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

popol12 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:16:43 +0000

France is ultra left-wing ? Wow, the Overton window must have shifted to the right even more than I thought.

You sound like you actually don’t know much about France. For instance your accusations about left wing media rooting for Sarkozy has no foundation. The judges being biased toward left is groundless as well. Many left wing politicians have been condemned by French justice.

New comment by popol12 in "Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?"

popol12 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:01:57 +0000

This is peak techno-solutionism

New comment by popol12 in "Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool"

popol12 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:53:03 +0000

Open it, remove the battery and put it in a dedicated recycling bin.

New comment by popol12 in "AnduinOS"

popol12 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:03:25 +0000

I was scared too and found out that it's actually the opposite !

I'm using Manjaro (derived from Arch), so I can't talk for Arch itself but so far (2 years) it's been way more friendly to me than Ubuntu (which I used for 7 years before).

New comment by popol12 in "AnduinOS"

popol12 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:07:57 +0000

I switched to an Arch based distribution and it's night and day. Almost everything is available through the AUR, you even have the choice to rebuild a package or to use a pre-compiled one. I'll never go back to Ubuntu and apt.

Oh, and it's a rolling release so my install doesn't break every 2 years with the new LTS upgrade.

New comment by popol12 in "AnduinOS"

popol12 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:03:23 +0000

When was the last time you tried it ? What do you mean by "a comparable ecosystem of apps" ? Which apps would you miss on a KDE install ?

Signal cloud backup alpha for Android

popol12 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:43:29 +0000

Article URL: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/69984?page=3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44391774

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by popol12 in "Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä"

popol12 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:02:40 +0000

What do we see here ? Artillery impacts ?

New comment by popol12 in "Merlin Bird ID"

popol12 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:10:57 +0000

I recently discovered after years of using this app that it's possible to have the names of the birds in other languages than English, it's an option in the app settings.