Hacker News: spacebeer

New comment by spacebeer in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

spacebeer — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:40:29 +0000

Forums and Fediverse could do that, if you choose wisely and use it responsibly

New comment by spacebeer in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

spacebeer — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:42:34 +0000

You start to use it because you care about privacy and your data. But now it's just to avoid all the crap Google and OEMs put into the phone. Same story is with PC and Windows. To quote one smart guy: "I'm not in the mood to be treated as a chimp." And that's it.

New comment by spacebeer in "Microsoft Will Preload Windows 11 File Explorer to Fix Bad Performance"

spacebeer — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:47:38 +0000

I decided there won't be Windows device in my home anymore. If it turns out I can't do some stuff on Linux or Windows VM, I'm willing to give my money to Apple, Nintendo or Sony, even though I consider(ed) them worse then MS, and I hate their UI and policies. But at least they've been doing the same (bad) things for decades, while MS has no idea what they want and what users want from them. Or worse - they know but still insist on giving us all this cr*p

New comment by spacebeer in "'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'"

spacebeer — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 19:42:01 +0000

So not just EU, but any other region in the world, like Africa, South America, Central Asia should just give up and not try to make a business that could disrupt existing giants?

New comment by spacebeer in "'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'"

spacebeer — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 19:39:09 +0000

There are good people making good software all over the world. We just need to start using it more instead of this crap being thrown at us by big tech

New comment by spacebeer in "'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'"

spacebeer — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 19:34:37 +0000

It worked for China, when they banned or restricted what Google, MS, Apple, Facebook can do there

New comment by spacebeer in "Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024"

spacebeer — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:54:46 +0000

It can also happen for Flatpak not to work on some distros.

New comment by spacebeer in "PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading"

spacebeer — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:36:18 +0000

Pdfsam and Masterpdf have native linux versions. Both are quite good. Though I use(d) Flexipdf via wine

New comment by spacebeer in "Online 3D Viewer for FreeCAD files"

spacebeer — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:41:51 +0000

Great work

New comment by spacebeer in "Change the destination output device in Web Audio"

spacebeer — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:03:55 +0000

Or you could make a OS/DE for normal people, with an option to change audio output per program with 2 clicks, like KDE Plasma does.

New comment by spacebeer in "Three lessons from Threema: Analysis of a secure messenger"

spacebeer — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:11:34 +0000

I haven't read all, but Attack no. 6 requires access to unlocked phone. IMO, if that is the case, I wouldn't consider this as an attack, at least not as something that would stop me using the service

New comment by spacebeer in "Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”"

spacebeer — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:54:34 +0000

I've been using various CAD programs, and IMO, FreeCAD UI/UX is quite ok. If you are Inventor or Solidworks user and try to switch to SolidEdge for example, it won't be easy. Not to mention some others like VariCAD (~30 years old professional MCAD)

There are many issues with FreeCAD being OSS alternative to professional MCAD software, but UI/UX is not one of them

New comment by spacebeer in "Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions"

spacebeer — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 03:03:55 +0000

There are still many good old "offline" CAD programs, some of them points out permanent license as their selling point (Alibre Design, BricsCAD, VariCAD...). When it comes to simulation, there are also many others. I usually use FreeCAD to run simple FEM analysis (it has more possibilities than Solidworks SimulationXpress)

Many Fusion users have switched to alternative CAD programs in last year or two. Many of them started using Alibre products, which have quite good pricing (Atom is great choice for hobby users/small workshops). Too bad it's Windows only (like almost all CAD programs). But I think FreeCAD also increased their user-base, which will hopefully help them grow (like Blender). It's really great software, but still missing some features needed for (more) professional work.

It's hard for companies to move to another CAD software, but some companies are really pushing their users away :D

New comment by spacebeer in "Wooden towers to help cut cost of wind turbines"

spacebeer — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 04:42:23 +0000

Haha, few weeks ago I was thinking if wooden wind turbines could become reality. Though I think blades could also be made of some wood composite

New comment by spacebeer in "Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms"

spacebeer — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 05:50:14 +0000

They will connect it to you sooner or later. Then it doesn't matter if it's dummy or "real". [rant start] Similar thing happened to me recently (not restaurants, but language schools), I decided I would rather continue without services I need (even if it was e.g. kindergarten for a kid) than make (dummy) FB account (Whatsapp, Instagram included). I am more annoyed by big tech practices by each day (Google and Paypal even more). I really hate them all :| The only bigtech service I'm still using is LinkedIn (also hate it) and only because it remained as only connection to some old friends and acquaintances. They all really suck in any possible way [end of rant]

New comment by spacebeer in "Open source applications for macOS"

spacebeer — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:20:38 +0000

There are no Firefox, Thudnerbird, Nextcloud client... on the list

New comment by spacebeer in "Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence"

spacebeer — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 06:27:47 +0000

So the best way to fight totalitarian regimes is to remain silent? That will work for sure, as it always did

New comment by spacebeer in "FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android"

spacebeer — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:42:37 +0000

I've been using FairEmail for some time (premium version, F-Droid) and it is great. I have my main IMAP account there

But I also use K-9 Mail (beta, from F-Droid). It is easier for me to handle multiple (secondary) accounts with K9, than FE