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New comment by sgtaylor5 in "The Classic American Diner"

sgtaylor5 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:22:59 +0000

https://franksdiners.com

just looking at the video makes me hungry.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"

sgtaylor5 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:30:24 +0000

Wipr2; paid for Safari but it works on all Apple devices with that one payment.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

sgtaylor5 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:31:10 +0000

I’ve got a M2 MBA and I love it. I can /live/ with Tahoe, would rather have Sequoia or something a little older (but keep the Password app!) I certainly /don’t need/ a touchscreen Mac laptop, which is what Liquid Glass seems to be designed for.

Having said that, I probably would’ve switched to some version of Linux many years ago if it wasn’t for the lack of business accounting software that was easy to set up. GNUcash isn’t it for me. Switching would’ve saved me a lot of money on subscriptions.

I could probably use Obsidian instead of NotePlan with a bit of work; I would just use it on mobile a bit less.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

sgtaylor5 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:15:00 +0000

Remember "always coming home"? the book by Ursula Le Guin, describing a far future matriarchal Native American society near the flooded Bay Area.

There was a computer network called TOK that the communities of earth used to communicate with each other. It was run by the computers themselves and the men were the human link with the rest of the community. The computers were even sending out space probes.

We're getting there...

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

sgtaylor5 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:58:37 +0000

His problem is fixed today; the gift card was already redeemed. Apple turned his Apple account back on.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why"

sgtaylor5 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:34:53 +0000

The stamped metal framing connector facilitated the use of trusses, which means an open plan house (McMansion) of much larger footprint. Trusses mean no attic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIeLGkSCMA

Ninja'ed

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Replacing Liquid Metal on an Asus Zephyrus G15's CPU"

sgtaylor5 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 03:20:46 +0000

Try to find parts for an ASUS or an MSI gaming laptop; the real killer is you have to search using both model numbers to be accurate. Multiple graphics card configurations per model makes it even harder. Sometimes, AliExpress is the only way and the motherboard still costs $525+.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?"

sgtaylor5 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:27:32 +0000

Fastmail does this too; their rules system is amazingly simple and powerful. Sieve rules too.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash"

sgtaylor5 — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:52:08 +0000

... or make a OneDrive-connected folder have an icon that shows, clearly, that it's been taken over by OneDrive.

I'd give a setup option to provide a non-OneDrive Documents folder, that feature would be turned on automatically if OneDrive senses that there is a database residing in the Documents folder (ACT!, I'm looking at you!)

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "The Pumpkin Eclipse"

sgtaylor5 — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:22:25 +0000

related article from Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/mystery-malware-des...

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "On Craft"

sgtaylor5 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:46:18 +0000

who did her website? a more glorious, beautiful light-filled site I haven't seen.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "The stick shift might survive the electric revolution"

sgtaylor5 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 03:01:38 +0000

When I was 16 in 1976, my father and grandfather taught me how to drive stick. I learned on a 1966 rambler classic four-door sedan with three on the column. Nowadays, that would be an anti-theft device. When I lived in the country, most of my cars were stick shift and when I lived in the city I preferred automatics - nothing like driving in heavy traffic, and everyone is driving first and a half. That’s just hard to synchronize with a stick shift. Current vehicle is a four-speed, and I don’t think I’d have anything else.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "A surprising way to lose your files on Windows"

sgtaylor5 — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 22:55:57 +0000

Would this have helped? https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/186131-user-profile-se...

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Some Epson printers are programmed to stop working after a certain amount of use"

sgtaylor5 — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:10:22 +0000

Even the professional Epson SureColor 800 ($1200+) have that problem. When you have to buy five of them to keep up with your businesses' workflow (one of my clients), it starts to cost money one cannot spend.

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Norton 360 installs an optional cryptominer"

sgtaylor5 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 19:26:57 +0000

Now, it IS "optional", but Norton has found a way to make Norton 360 worse. The mind boggles at what they'll do next.

Anytime I can uninstall Norton or McAfee from a client's system, it gives me such joy. They get 10 to 15 percent better performance, too, when they're gone.

Norton 360 installs an optional cryptominer

sgtaylor5 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 19:24:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/01/05/norton-360-antivirus-installs-a-crypto-miner-on-pcs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31911928

Points: 1

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New comment by sgtaylor5 in "The end of the nice GTK button"

sgtaylor5 — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 04:05:34 +0000

User here: the only thing I don't like about GTK buttons is that they are large, and the toolbar they are in has a lot of empty space around them. Does everybody have multiple large monitors on their desk? What about 13 inch laptops?

Why is there not a global "compact UI" option?

New comment by sgtaylor5 in "Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?"

sgtaylor5 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:03:31 +0000

User here (self-employed computer technician); I'm not a programmer.

I have a beautiful little accounting program written for macOS called Corona. It took me two years to find it, because all of the web app-based accounting software crowded it out from visibility. My needs are simple and I don't need to share that data with any other device.

Definitely don't want my company accounting data held hostage by anyone other than me. No way to know if the hosting company is selling my data behind my back, no matter what they say in print. Besides, I only had to pay once for Corona, vs. paying constantly for cloud based SaaS. QuickBooks is another story...

For me, in this case, desktop software is much better than a web app. My laptop is older and Keep It (native app) is far better in performance and usability than Evernote (v.10x Electron app) was. Not everyone has a newer laptop.