Hacker News: sohrob

New comment by sohrob in "My Students Can't Read"

sohrob — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:50:52 +0000

So eliminate their bargaining power and job and wage protections because parents aren't doing their part to ensure their kids are learning? Doesn't seem fair to me.

New comment by sohrob in "Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado"

sohrob — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:33:50 +0000

Don't mess with us again AMD! Lest you rouse our anger.

New comment by sohrob in "Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial"

sohrob — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:35:33 +0000

People want to be addicted to fentanyl after they’ve tried it a few times, does that mean we should legalize that too?

New comment by sohrob in "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office"

sohrob — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:21:17 +0000

Meanwhile in the States, their government is doxxing the victims and masking the identities of the perpetrators.

New comment by sohrob in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

sohrob — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:50:23 +0000

I often wonder whether the folks at Apple have the Asahi team on their radar. Are they in awe of the reverse engineering marvels coming out of the Asahi project, or are they indifferent to it?

New comment by sohrob in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

sohrob — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:39:18 +0000

Very underrated show and I hope your post gets more people to view it.

New comment by sohrob in "Guix for Development"

sohrob — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:55:28 +0000

I wanted to go all-in on Guix but the installation process was made too difficult due to the lack of non-free software available during install time. I wish they would take the Debian approach and leave it up to the user to decide which packages they would like installed on their system or not.

New comment by sohrob in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

sohrob — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:48:08 +0000

I've found openSUSE MicroOS to be a great homelab server OS.

New comment by sohrob in "Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)"

sohrob — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:43:52 +0000

Now I get what the folks using FreeBSD typically like to point to as a reason why they prefer FreeBSD over Linux because there is a clear distinction between the base system and userland.

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

sohrob — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:09:15 +0000

If Apple doesn't have the sense to reply to this in a sensible manner then that company is in far worse shape than I thought.

New comment by sohrob in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

sohrob — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:02:32 +0000

The emergency response system is broken in many areas. I once dialed 911 in Los Angeles seeking help for a motorist and was put on hold for 8 minutes. A lot can happen in that time.

New comment by sohrob in "Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again"

sohrob — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:50:31 +0000

I run OPNsense (based on FreeBSD) for my home router/firewall and it's amazing what it can do compared to the typical home router.

New comment by sohrob in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

sohrob — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:57:32 +0000

I'm so glad the chorus seems to be getting louder over just how bad things have gotten with Apple's software stack. This piece has been mainly centered on UI/UX but it's also really bad when it comes to functionality as so many bugs have seem to come up in both iOS and macOS. I will never understand how a company that has so much riding on the way their products are perceived by their users has fumbled the ball so badly--especially with how much money they have in the bank.

New comment by sohrob in "Bonding twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records"

sohrob — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:04:07 +0000

1997 me is jealous.

New comment by sohrob in "Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)"

sohrob — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:07:46 +0000

I know the gentleman who runs the Distrotube channel on YouTube is/was an Xmonad user and it would be great if he made the call for help on his show to reach a wider audience.

New comment by sohrob in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

sohrob — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:01:39 +0000

I used to tinker with a bunch of different Linux desktop environments and had a hard time deciding on which one to standardize on because there is something to love about all of them. I suffered from major analysis paralysis as a result. In the end, I went with KDE Plasma across all of my devices because it's the most well-rounded and allows for customization without too much fuss. Fedora's Kinoite is perhaps the best KDE Plasma edition out there in my view.

New comment by sohrob in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

sohrob — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:01:29 +0000

I love Debian and have a tremendous amount of respect for the people who work on the project. I no longer use Debian, but I think it's vitally important to have an anchor Linux distribution which isn't overly reliant on a for-profit entity and is truly community driven.

New comment by sohrob in "DocuSign sends Cease and Desist to free SaaS developer"

sohrob — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:30:18 +0000

Did they really have much of a moat to begin with?

New comment by sohrob in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

sohrob — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:59:15 +0000

All the more reason to switch to Signal. I use Signal and donate to the non-profit behind it every year because my privacy is worth protecting.

New comment by sohrob in "How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)"

sohrob — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:05:15 +0000

Every time I try to use NixOS I start off excited about all the benefits it can provide, but it always ends up frustrating me in some way and I'm reminded of why distributions exist in the first place. I don't want to have to dig into a config file for every little aspect of my OS to be in working order and then worry about having some hackey workaround when something has issues due to the lack of adherence to the FHS.