Hacker News: soapdog

New comment by soapdog in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

soapdog — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:08 +0000

Gives them a line to justify removing projects in the future if they are caught violating the ToS.

New comment by soapdog in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

soapdog — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:20:35 +0000

I have the clones from swiss micros.

https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm16c

They are more portable and really good.

We need to own our computing experience

soapdog — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:07:40 +0000

Article URL: https://andregarzia.com/2026/05/we-need-to-own-our-computing-experience.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306874

Points: 3

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New comment by soapdog in "$100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading"

soapdog — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:15:29 +0000

guess, I was mistaken. Godspeed there, hope you get what you want.

New comment by soapdog in "$100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading"

soapdog — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:16:37 +0000

I don't think that amount will make anyone willing to take in the massive task of making an epub3 compatible reader for TUI. That is a big feature.

New comment by soapdog in "Claude for Creative Work"

soapdog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:45:05 +0000

No.

New comment by soapdog in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

soapdog — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:46:40 +0000

have you checked the MNT Reform Next?

AI as a Fascist Artifact

soapdog — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:23:43 +0000

Article URL: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862004

Points: 6

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New comment by soapdog in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

soapdog — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:09:35 +0000

Can we add Photos to that list? Can we add it twice cause it is that bad.

New comment by soapdog in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

soapdog — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:22:44 +0000

oh mozilla, why don't you just focus on Firefox. That is all we want.

New comment by soapdog in "YouTube now lets you set your Shorts feed limit to zero"

soapdog — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:03:50 +0000

apparently if you set to zero, it just disables the feature but I can't see that option here. I don't use shorts at all, I want the feature gone from my ui

New comment by soapdog in "YouTube now lets you set your Shorts feed limit to zero"

soapdog — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:12:01 +0000

the minimum I see here is 15 minutes... there's no zero option. Using YouTube app on iOS in the UK.

New comment by soapdog in "Apple Just Lost Me"

soapdog — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:07:46 +0000

you might not be aware, but UK law doesn't actually require Apple to do it. It is targetted at social networks. Even ofcom posted praising Apple for doing it even if they didn't need to. And yes, that law is stupid, but allowing only credit cards as a way to verify an account is also stupid.

New comment by soapdog in "Apple Just Lost Me"

soapdog — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:36:17 +0000

Shedding zero tears for an irrelevant comment by an edge lord.

New comment by soapdog in "Apple Just Lost Me"

soapdog — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:03:41 +0000

I don't like the App Store experience and sandboxing either. I just find it almost malicious that they added that dialog even for notarised applications. Notarised applications should show no dialog whatsoever, just like App Store ones. It is these little frictions that move users to App Store apps. How many users saw that, had doubts, and then decided to go back to the "safe" walled garden.

New comment by soapdog in "Apple Just Lost Me"

soapdog — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:21:18 +0000

that's the thing, it is not an option. The only option is credit card, that is what drove me nuts. If it had other options, it would still be bad, but I'd have a way to solve it even if made me angry. Now, the only way to solve this is literally to order a credit card from my bank and then use it. Which is bonkers.

New comment by soapdog in "Apple Just Lost Me"

soapdog — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:20:13 +0000

Everything after Snow Leopard has been downhill in my opinion :3 macOS still my favourite unix but it started feeling is no longer my unix anymore, I'm just a glorified tennant.

New comment by soapdog in "Apple Just Lost Me"

soapdog — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:59:53 +0000

I been considering Fairphone cause I want to support smaller vendors and also because it is repairable.

As for Linux distros. The MNT Pocket Reform comes with Debian and I plan to leave it at that even though Debian is not my favourite. I will use Niri and Noctalia with it. I plan to make use of whatever Debian package but if it is too old for my taste, I'll look for AppImages and Flatpaks as needed. I got a Surface Go 1 running exactly that setup but with Fedora and works really well for me.

Want to use KDE Connect to link whatever Android I get with the laptop.

New comment by soapdog in "Apple Just Lost Me"

soapdog — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:56:41 +0000

Random nobody here, I can write whatever I want on my own personal blog, you're not required to read it.

New comment by soapdog in "Apple Just Lost Me"

soapdog — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:54:46 +0000

author here, the post was mostly about desktop. I don't rely on my phone much but I need it to work as expected when needed.