Hacker News: stormed

New comment by stormed in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

stormed — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:29:27 +0000

Jerk City sends its regards

New comment by stormed in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

stormed — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:25:57 +0000

Guess I missed that part, my mistake

New comment by stormed in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

stormed — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:45:46 +0000

I wonder if the existing hidden emails I already have in iCloud will be changed over too. If that's not the case, I'm just going to use one of the 50 throwaway addresses I already have.

New comment by stormed in "Valve Takes Crazy Pills and Jacks Up Steam Deck Pricing"

stormed — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:00:41 +0000

I don't like these articles treating Valve (or really any PC/console maker) like these price hikes are based on greed alone. I can all but guarantee Valve is paying way higher than the MSRP to even secure any memory supply to begin with. Not even enterprise environments are safe from price hikes, the PC hardware at my company went up by 120% and we're still scraping what we can.

It might also be working less in Valve's favor since the Steam Deck is technically a PC, might also not have as lucrative deals like Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft in memory either.

With all that being said though, the Steam Deck is NOT worth it for about $1000 with tax. People glazing the ROG Ally are going to be very disappointed when that also gets a price hike.

New comment by stormed in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

stormed — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:54:45 +0000

I only use Vaultwarden, which to my understanding is an open source reimplementation of Bitwarden's API. I personally haven't had any issues with it, not sure if it'll eventually stop being compatible with Bitwarden's official applications however.

Windows 11 is getting a macOS-like speed boost

stormed — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:25:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/927736/windows-11-is-getting-a-macos-like-speed-boost

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096268

Points: 3

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New comment by stormed in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

stormed — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:44:17 +0000

I don't know how I feel about AI agents being able to buy domains, this is just going to enable domain squatters

New comment by stormed in "Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop"

stormed — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:28:00 +0000

surprisingly, the people I saw getting the most use out the Apple Vision Pro has been healthcare workers (even though that's already incredibly rare to see). There was a doctor I used to talk to at my old job that swore by it. He would pin EPIC app windows in individual patient rooms and would use the built-in microphones for doing speech dictation on patient charts.

I thought it sounded a little goofy when he was explaining it to me, but hey that's at least a more productive use case than watching YouTube videos on the couch.

New comment by stormed in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

stormed — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:28:18 +0000

It's ironic we're at a point where having repairability & no tech innovation is seen as appealing for a modern piece of equipment. That John Deere lawsuit is perfect marketing as to why you don't need modern utility equipment that you cannot service yourself. All the quality of life features and technologies seen in modern farming equipment is only going to get you so far until something breaks & you're having a certified John Deere technician driving 6 hours to your farm.

While not the same, I also feel similarly with a lot of IoT "smart" devices too, if my 1995 washing machine breaks beyond the point of repair, you bet I'm going to be trying to find another old reliable washer to replace it with. Plenty of things are just simply not built to last and IoT is more of just a trojan horse for implementing planned obsolescence for more household items.

New comment by stormed in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

stormed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:34:27 +0000

The anti-trust lawsuits with Google have Mozilla realizing they can't just be a company kept afloat by Google. Mozilla's priorities have been pretty complacent, basically just maintaining Firefox, sometimes Thunderbird, and a couple side services that have little financial incentives.

The current state of Mozilla is pretty odd since they rebranded to make it more apparent they're a non-profit, while also attempting to become more profitable pushing out new products and services.

New comment by stormed in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

stormed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:12:52 +0000

I thought Mozilla was going to join the Thunderbolt standard and/or making some tool for it until I clicked the link haha. Very interesting name choice

New comment by stormed in ""Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says"

stormed — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:18:26 +0000

I adore Proxmox, I'm not really sure about its support with Windows, but from a Linux server perspective, I love it.

New comment by stormed in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

stormed — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:18:10 +0000

You'll look like the coolest person in the office running `sudo !!`. Another personal favorite of mine is using the --now flag for systemctl to enable & start a service in one command (i.e `systemctl enable --now nginx`)

New comment by stormed in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

stormed — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:48:42 +0000

> Apple is the opposite of planned obsolescence.

OpenCore would like a word about that. It's nice to get official security patches, but Apple does make perfectly capable machines obsolete.

New comment by stormed in "ai;dr"

stormed — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:02:33 +0000

My issue is that I don't necessarily trust content if it looks generated. I think I might've lost the link, but when I was helping my company with integrating Microsoft Entra with Ubuntu, I noticed the documentation from both Microsoft & Canonical had heavily generated documentation that was flat out wrong and had me going into loops figuring out unnecessary steps that were seemingly hallucinated.

ai;dr is what I'm going to start saying, it's just frustrating to see.

New comment by stormed in "Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)"

stormed — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:57:51 +0000

What's the color accuracy like with the nano texture display? I'd consider buying one if it doesn't make any colors come out dull and washed

New comment by stormed in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

stormed — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:37:23 +0000

Definitely. It wasn’t too bad, but it took roughly a month for the brain zaps to completely stop with Zoloft & Wellbutrin. I had worse brain zaps in the past from Lexapro, that was bad enough I’d lose focus on whatever task I was doing.

New comment by stormed in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

stormed — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:12:27 +0000

I decided to go unmedicated from SSRIs/mood stabilizers in 2024 and it changed my life for the better. Prior to stopping, I thought I was physically unhealthy until I found out excessive overheating & exhaustion was a common side effect of Zoloft. Since then, I've lost around 40 pounds and have been able to regularly exercise without issues. My mental health also improved with forcing myself to get vitamin D outside. It can be the simplest of things to improve your life, but it can be easy to forget (especially WFH).

New comment by stormed in "Clicks Communicator"

stormed — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:35:37 +0000

I'm interested in getting that standalone magsafe Clicks keyboard they also announced. I have the original Clicks keyboard case for my iPhone 15 and almost never use it because of how goofy the size is + I dislike hate that soft touch plastic that gets stuck in my pocket. The slide out keyboard looks way more appealing in comparison. Not sure how people lived using the keyboard case with any plus sized iPhone-- It's basically a weapon!

New comment by stormed in "Linux is good now"

stormed — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:13:52 +0000

Minus work, I've exclusively been using Arch Linux, Ubuntu Server & macOS on my machines and haven't looked back for the last couple years. The biggest annoyance I have is the lack of (modern) Adobe applications on Linux. I'll be real though, I mostly just like Photoshop out of familiarity, I could probably get used to the alternatives but I'm lazy. Photoshop CS6 I hear works fine in WINE which is good enough for me since my workflow hasn't changed much since CS5.

Oh, and also anti-cheat games forcing me to use Windows. Makes me sick to my stomach booting into Windows 11 every couple of months and having to watch my PC performance tank while it's downloading updates, Windows Defender scans, etc. for 30 minutes