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New comment by simgoh in "Blackholing My Email"

simgoh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:28:02 +0000

Have you noticed decreases over time by sending thigns to the "Learn Spam" folder? I'm a relatively new Fastmail customer - I setup a domain for some family accounts that I can manage on behalf of my aging family members so it's not receiving a lot of email _yet_ but I expect it to in the future.

New comment by simgoh in "Ask HN: Can we use AI to make a Hackers (1995) sequel starring the same cast?"

simgoh — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:40:51 +0000

Similar plot thread might be the current use-case of "anonymous entities" betting on Polymarket for things that are happening in the real world to generate/launder money.

New comment by simgoh in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

simgoh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:45:06 +0000

I'll have to try clicking and dragging images onto the Signal application and see if I notice any difference. I usually actually click the button to add an attachment and then browse to it. I'm also on Win11 but I would hope the experience between OSs wouldn't be too drastically different.

New comment by simgoh in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

simgoh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:43:11 +0000

No[1], but that wasn't what I was trying to get clarification on, or disputing for that matter.

1 - https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360008216551-In...

New comment by simgoh in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

simgoh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:59:16 +0000

> but doesn’t integrate or perform great.

Curious what you mean by this. I use the Signal Desktop app. It does what it's supposed to - send and receive messages in a timely way with no lag.

What poor performance are you seeing? What doesn't integrate?

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:32:20 +0000

That makes sense! I was a kid in the early 90s so I enjoyed "default" Win95/98 without having to have needed to do any sort of fiddling. I was too young to have used earlier versions of that outside of once or twice.

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:37:41 +0000

I agree. I also think that not everyone (I couldn't say if this is generational, I see this among peers sometimes too) has the same appetite for problem solving. People hit a problem or a wall and say "So I tried X and now I see Y. I dont know what to do" and then they just sit there. The reason that LMGTFY and RTFM come off as "elitist" is because people are frustrated by others' willingness to just "stop trying" whenever they hit a road block.

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:26:50 +0000

I'm curious, can you elaborate on why you believe that changing to Gnome meant they were giving up on being the best desktop distro?

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:24:07 +0000

I aspire to have your level of confidence in anything that amounts to leaving unsaved work in any sort of shape or form.

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:23:18 +0000

Out of curiosity, back when you were compiling the kernel yourself was it because you wanted to learn it or because you wanted to add more modules to the kernel that didnt exist there by default?

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:21:05 +0000

Absolutely. I would also think that the amount of money "lost" on license keys specifically on the "regular consumer" side pales in comparison to the data that they get once you're on their operating system. How many non-power users bother with disabling telemetry and other data that MS collects through their operating system? How many people bother configuring a Local Account? All of that is probably worth way more than a ~$200 license key.

On the business side, businesses make it a focus to be in compliance with licensing agreements so they still see whatever oodles of money from companies that have fleets of computers that run Windows.

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:02:14 +0000

Agreed. I know in some circles it's a meme, but if the Steam Gaming Console actually makes a debut any time soon, I think we'll see more of a jump from the "Gamer" crowd away from Windows. My (some say naive) hope is that it will make game devs try to design games that aren't only locked in on Windows and have more Proton support.

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:40:00 +0000

Not that this is going to matter to you because you've left Windows behind, but I refuse to buy License Keys any more and I try to steer people away from buying "Gray Keys" to avoid the ridiculous costs. Using the MS Activation Scripts[0] is the much better go-to.

[0] - https://massgrave.dev/

New comment by simgoh in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

simgoh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:37:27 +0000

> anyone already familiar with installing a Linux distro (especially any sort of -server variant) will be comfortable with the archinstall script.

To be fair, thats not _generally_ the audience we tend to think about when we talk about the enshittification of Windows. We're usually talking regular consumers / computer users and "gamers" the latter of which is a wide range of people that can fend for themselves with instructions to people that cannot.

New comment by simgoh in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

simgoh — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:35:27 +0000

As your link implies, they're not marching because they've joined ICE. Last year [1] Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys, announced an app where people could report "undocumented immigrants" for crypto.

[1] - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/former-proud-boys-leader-e...

New comment by simgoh in "Verizon's Hourslong Wireless Outage Tied to Software Update"

simgoh — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:24:18 +0000

It doesnt seem to be covered by the paywall, unless I'm undercaffeinated, what software specifically was being updated and how it went wrong.

New comment by simgoh in "US freezes visas for 75 nations"

simgoh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:02:15 +0000

I need to chug more coffee, you're absolutely right.

New comment by simgoh in "US freezes visas for 75 nations"

simgoh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:52:17 +0000

This is my question. Foreign athletes typically enter the U.S. on a P-1A visa for internationally recognized athletes or an O-1 visa for those with "extraordinary ability" but they're still Visas. Maybe they'll carve out holdouts for this that the news articles aren't delving into (probably because they haven't been announced).

New comment by simgoh in "I built a free browser extension to hide ads and irrelevant posts on LinkedIn"

simgoh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:27:11 +0000

Maybe this makes sense for recruiters or influencers? I use and browse LinkedIn sparingly, definitely not enough to where paying $48/year makes sense for me.

I want to also make a general comment thats not targeted at you specifically but I'll start by saying "Thank you!" for making the core functionality (removing the Promoted posts) available on your Free tier but man am I tired of everything becoming a subscription. I'm not advocating or implying that people should work for free, but it just feels like every aspect of our life is becoming a subscription in some shape or fashion.

New comment by simgoh in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

simgoh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:09:45 +0000

That doesn't really resonate with me because you could make that argument about anything, _especially since_ most of the items that are posted here are links to other websites. There's no need to talk about it here - you could just talk about it at the relevant site(s) comment section.