Hacker News: reboot81

New comment by reboot81 in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

reboot81 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:22:22 +0000

Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook

New comment by reboot81 in "Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family"

reboot81 — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:43:54 +0000

Youre not alone with the problem: if device lost -> difficult to reach family

No matter what solution you choose you will need to remember something. I have two family members who always answer, so their phone numbers are the only two I know. By dialing them manually now and then I make sure my memory is working.

In the age of AI/voice generators I’ve also told them how I will identify myself. So if being mugged in Kiwiland, and they get a call where I ask them to transfer money they can do so knowing it would only be me making that request as I told them the secret phrase: ”yes, it was me who tipped over the Christmas tree”. Ofcourse not that, but something none of the inner family will ever forget.

New comment by reboot81 in "Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization"

reboot81 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:36:49 +0000

OT: this is the first time Ive encountered a branching article. Awesome. The ability has been there for decades, but never used. Guess going from print to digital is not only a change of tools but a mindset.

New comment by reboot81 in "Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization"

reboot81 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:33:40 +0000

Capslock <-> Backspace is my #1 keyboard config. Esc is not bad either. BUT WHY DO I NEED A LARGE KEY FOR SHOUTING?

New comment by reboot81 in "Stop Flock"

reboot81 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:20:09 +0000

So with 100k cameras crime is down how much?

New comment by reboot81 in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

reboot81 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:00:14 +0000

Its owned by Microsoft. They sell RAM.

New comment by reboot81 in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

reboot81 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:26:26 +0000

Robert: youre website is among the most visually attractive ones Ive seen.

New comment by reboot81 in "Airport wait times are longest in TSA history, agency says"

reboot81 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:57:47 +0000

US government is a farce. How can they have a system that completely halts every now and then just because the ones in charge can’t agree? If this is such a big issue, and it’s repeating: plan ahead.

New comment by reboot81 in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

reboot81 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:46:35 +0000

Anyone else open for internet v2? Like a completely new system, with everything that we enjoyed with the first one around the millenia: buggy webpages, slow downloads, crappy browsers, having to download plugins…

Lets do it again!

New comment by reboot81 in "Banned in California"

reboot81 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:34:40 +0000

Page seems to be blocked from EU.

New comment by reboot81 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

reboot81 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:16:22 +0000

The issue is that the letter that pops may be replaced, if it later changes its mind. Eg if you hit U, get a U popup, and sofly release while moving into the target area for J. You get a J.

New comment by reboot81 in "Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews"

reboot81 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:12:52 +0000

For me it’s dealbreaker that it’s available via homebrew.

Not a stance or anything, but when I get a new Mac I use homebrew bundle If it’s not in my brewfile from old Mac, theres a high probability I won’t get it installed.

New comment by reboot81 in "Flameshot"

reboot81 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:47:57 +0000

Lightshot, if youre using it you should remove it and then google why.

New comment by reboot81 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

reboot81 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:18:51 +0000

I cant use mice without https://linearmouse.app to adjust acceleration. (0$)

New comment by reboot81 in "Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide"

reboot81 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:07:39 +0000

They did that in 2007. Some countries banned it as early as 1983. Remind me, what year is it now?

New comment by reboot81 in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

reboot81 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:35:09 +0000

My country quit using our (then) lowest denomination coin 32 years ago. Also worth 1/100 of a USD.

New comment by reboot81 in "Time to start de-Appling"

reboot81 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:29:24 +0000

Apple obeys the law. Policians set the law. You vote for politicians.

So nu, it makes no sense to blame Apple here.

New comment by reboot81 in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

reboot81 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:38:41 +0000

Was thinking of a way to recreate MTV for my daugther, for the same reason - to explore and discover outside the algo bubble on social media.

New comment by reboot81 in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

reboot81 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:27:30 +0000

Im interested to see if you encounter the same with a different phone. Most probably a software issue, but are we sure it isnt something defective with your phone?

New comment by reboot81 in "Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate"

reboot81 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:50:58 +0000

That’s it. Im going to get my family to delete their x accounts.