Hacker News: roxil

New comment by roxil in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

roxil — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:32:54 +0000

My parents have the biggest walnut tree I've ever seen in their yard. It's a similar situation as you described with the lemon tree. During fall we would get dumped with walnuts, filling multiple boxes; more than any of us care to eat in a year. So for many years, we've been sharing our walnuts with the neighbors, some of them I've only ever seen, when they ring to ask for the walnuts. In return they bring us some of their produce every now and then: cherries, onions, eggs, apples, apple cider, freshly baked cakes and jam. I would have loved to trade you some walnuts for those lemons.

New comment by roxil in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

roxil — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:18:46 +0000

It's a different historical setting, but the Anno games work kind of like that. The resulting towns look more like something you'd expect as a European with markets, churches, taverns, theaters and things like this in the town's center and agriculture + industry on the outskirts.

New comment by roxil in "Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii"

roxil — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:19:01 +0000

"I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding,"

It's been a meme for a while and I unironically agree.

New comment by roxil in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

roxil — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:35:27 +0000

Phillips (the company) basically killed people with malfunctioning CPAP machines (which are meant to help against sleep apnea) and no one went to jail. So that's a practical example.

New comment by roxil in "Hackintosh is almost dead"

roxil — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:13:39 +0000

*I meant "Steam Deck", autocorrect strikes again...

New comment by roxil in "Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?"

roxil — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:08:32 +0000

I'm not sure about mars, but at least for the moon it might be using helium-3 isotopes abundant in moon rocks as a fuel source for fusion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3

New comment by roxil in "Ask HN: Books that gave you different perspective on religion"

roxil — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:17:29 +0000

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

New comment by roxil in "Hackintosh is almost dead"

roxil — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:11:54 +0000

I find these days the Steak Deck has become a great device for tinkering. I've seen people do some nice unexpected stuff with it, for example making an opening in the back to connect an dedicated GPU or using it to pilot drones in Ukraine.

New comment by roxil in "Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links"

roxil — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:34:24 +0000

I'd like to plug my own favorite here: https://queup.net (former dubtrack.fm) let's you create your own playlists from YouTube and soundcloud, then you can make your own channel, people can join and you take turns playing what you put in your music queue.

New comment by roxil in "Gabe Newell forced to testify in person in Steam antitrust case [pdf]"

roxil — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:08:43 +0000

I also have a Steam Deck and still prefer buying games from GOG, when possible. Heroic Launcher is a nice GUI that let's you easily install GOG+Epic store games, sets up the proton stuff and gives you the option to add the games to Steam as non-Steam games.

New comment by roxil in "Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked"

roxil — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:59:57 +0000

As a recipient of such a letter, I can tell you that the amount you torrent isn't really the problem, it's about the specific content. It works like this: copyright lawyer company monitors torrent trackers, then goes to a copyright-friendly court/judge with a list of IP-addresses that were up/downloading the copyrighted content of the media company they represent, they get some kind of court order from the judge to pressure ISPs to give up information about users behind the IP-addresses.

The letter I got was from Universal's lawyers and amongst the various movies I downloaded, all they cared about was the new "Dune". The letter was detailed with lots of lecturing, legalese, timestamps, info hash of the content and at the end they ask for 400€ or else they might escalate in court. I didn't want to pay or risk it, so there is another lawyer who specializes in these letters who you can pay 200€ to take care of things.

I saw the whole thing as a lesson learned that yes, I am being surveilled and no, my ISP is not my friend, but an adversary who keeps logs and doesn't care much about protecting my privacy. From now on I do most of my browsing and all torrenting via Mullvad VPN, paid for with Monero.

New comment by roxil in "Counter Strike 2 is here"

roxil — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:36:36 +0000

Important stuff like chickens getting grilled, when you throw a Molotov cocktail on them.

The new water looks good too.

New comment by roxil in "Counter Strike 2 is here"

roxil — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:34:17 +0000

I backed up all the old files minutes before the update went through. Pretty sure it can be played on LAN wit some tinkering, so also online with hamachi/gameranger/zero tier/radmin VPN.

But yea, the old matchmaking is gone now. It does make some sense to scrap it, so the player base doesn't get split, but an option to play 'legacy csgo' would be nice.

New comment by roxil in "Nintendo 3DS Architecture"

roxil — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:48:01 +0000

I highly doubt it. Stadia shutdown, while the Switch and Steam Deck are both a huge success. The latency in cloud gaming and reliability on having a stable network connection are still issues for many people. Not just that, but I don't think most gamers want to pay for another subscription which will always be a thing for cloud gaming and even then you still need some kind of hardware to play on anyway, so why not a good handheld? Even PC manufacturers like Asus are making their own handheld (RoG Ally), Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 are basically guaranteed. If anything handhelds will just keep getting better and seem to be increasing in market share.

New comment by roxil in "Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline"

roxil — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 13:03:45 +0000

Oatmeal + milk warmed in the microwave for a minute, then add fresh or dried fruit. That's the only cereal I will eat. Everything else is tastes like cardboard or candy for kids.

New comment by roxil in "Hacking GTA V RP Servers Using Web Exploitation Techniques"

roxil — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:15:56 +0000

True, but the main game is similarly plagued by some of the worst cheats I've ever encountered in an online game and I'm almost certain there are some serious security vulnerabilities to be found there.

I stopped playing when some cheater impersonated me in the game chat and then crashed my game, after I insulted them (mostly out of curiosity to see what else their cheats can do). It's just so far beyond what happens with cheats in other online games. I've also heard of people being followed by cheaters across game sessions and being DDOSed.

The only thing that's similarly bad to the cheats in GTA Online is (the original) Modern Warfare 2 which has had RCEs.

New comment by roxil in "Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron"

roxil — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:40:21 +0000

I will try this, thanks.

New comment by roxil in "Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron"

roxil — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:47:49 +0000

If things are so frozen that you can't open System Monitor (task manager), try this: Hold down SysRq and Alt, let go of SysRq, keep holding down Alt, then press these buttons in order (don't need to hold them): REISUB - to remember it: "Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring", also known as "raising the elephant".

On some systems you need to enable this feature first, so try it out once to see if it works and look up how to enable it, if it doesn't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

On most distros, you can also get into a command line, with the combination CTRL + ALT + F1 - F8 (try out which function keys do it for you and how to get back to the GUI). There you can use `ps`, `kill `, `reboot now` or restart the GUI. I'd keep a note of the exact commands on my phone just in case.

As a sidenote, I've had an issue on a good windows desktop PC where it freezes when watching YouTube or ither streaming services. I can still move the mouse for a bit, but clicking does nothing and I'm unable to even save it from a hard reset with Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Sometimes it won't happen for weeks, but if I'm unlucky multiple times in an hour. Look up "PC freezes while watching YouTube" and you will see I'm far from alone with this issue, Asus motherboards with new AMD processors seem to be the common factor. Haven't had this happen on Linux yet (dual boot) and I've tried everything to avoid these unusual freezes in windows, but nothing seems to help.

New comment by roxil in "Shit life syndrome"

roxil — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 02:37:44 +0000

What's the context here?

New comment by roxil in "Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards"

roxil — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:58:10 +0000

I stupidly got into FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) in one of the games from a cellphone couple years ago. I mistakenly assumed that your team from one annual release of FIFA would carry over to the next release, but I was shocked to find out that this isn't the case. EA basically deletes players FUT progress every year! Thankfully I didn't spend any money on it, so it was just time spent which was at least kind of fun, but I know some friends who have sunk a couple hundred bucks into it and they continue to buy and play the next game. I'm baffled that people put up with this. I will never touch FIFA again, until this changes. At least Fanatics can't delete your trading cards and you can resell them. Until there are similar guarantees for digital items, I don't think they will have nearly the same appeal. Valve has been the only company I know of that has done this decently with TF2, CSGO and Dota 2 skins.