Hacker News: smm11

New comment by smm11 in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

smm11 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:14:50 +0000

Good thread.

I've been going backwards to Afterstep and Window Maker theming. Maybe I'll get back to E in a few years.

New comment by smm11 in "Protect your shed"

smm11 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:07:34 +0000

Yep, beyond 30 minutes or so I'll just switch rooms and watch a hockey or baseball game. I'm at the "done that" phase now. Not much excites me in the computer space.

New comment by smm11 in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

smm11 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:52:10 +0000

Thinkpad 765d

New comment by smm11 in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

smm11 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:32:18 +0000

California pays other states to take its excess solar energy. Power for a project like this isn't the issue, actually building the system is the issue.

New comment by smm11 in "Why I love FreeBSD"

smm11 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:29:40 +0000

I could never get sleep to work, and got tired of rebooting 17 times a day.

New comment by smm11 in "Good software knows when to stop"

smm11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:18:04 +0000

And AI.

New comment by smm11 in "Good software knows when to stop"

smm11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:04:24 +0000

No, all software grows until it gets email. Jamie told me that.

New comment by smm11 in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

smm11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:07:33 +0000

So we don't have to pay taxes this year, right?

New comment by smm11 in "MacBook Neo"

smm11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:06:18 +0000

Okay, then, this isn't for you.

New comment by smm11 in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

smm11 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:35:25 +0000

I told Claude to make me an operating system for a Pixel 7 that's not based on Android. We'll see.

New comment by smm11 in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

smm11 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:00:01 +0000

People threatened nope-ing themselves if TikTok was removed. The percent of people who care about this sort of stuff is beyond miniscule.

New comment by smm11 in "Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)"

smm11 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:18:48 +0000

I take Gingo three times a week, and eat Horseshoe Crab a few times a year.

New comment by smm11 in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

smm11 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:27:33 +0000

How many know what that was?

New comment by smm11 in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

smm11 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:45:59 +0000

This. If you set an NFS share, it better be there forever and ever.

New comment by smm11 in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

smm11 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:00:45 +0000

Just get a Mac, I guess.

New comment by smm11 in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

smm11 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:59:41 +0000

I have TXT files by week, and sum up each day to the bottom of each day of the week if that makes sense.

Then the next week's new file has the pasted-over to-do items on top.

These were OneNote/Sharepoint files forever until earlier this year. Now they live on my local network, backed up, glaciered.

New comment by smm11 in "Craft software that makes people feel something"

smm11 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:34:24 +0000

Circus Ponies Notebook.

That was a look into a world we steered away from.

New comment by smm11 in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

smm11 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:14:36 +0000

Voice recording on pre-smart phones was my jam forever, and this is right up my alley.

But don't say "Privacy," then "data sent to your phone."

New comment by smm11 in "The lost cause of the Lisp machines"

smm11 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:47:26 +0000

OpenDoc

New comment by smm11 in "Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication"

smm11 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:39:41 +0000

Just name coyotes to the AKC, would you?