Hacker News: thebitstick

New comment by thebitstick in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

thebitstick — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:37:53 +0000

This will never happen, but the ideal laptop for me would be a Framework Laptop 13/16 with an Apple Silicon mainboard and OLED display.

The soldered RAM of the Framework Desktop has already opened the door to soldered RAM on Framework Laptop mainboards.

New comment by thebitstick in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

thebitstick — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:23:27 +0000

Open -> Click away the error message -> Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Open Anyways -> Open Anyways -> Authenticate -> app actually opens

New comment by thebitstick in "Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released"

thebitstick — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:22:34 +0000

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD should be revived.

New comment by thebitstick in "Show HN: Local LLM Notepad – run a GPT-style model from a USB stick"

thebitstick — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:56:17 +0000

> But in fact for most hackers reading this site

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-operating-...

New comment by thebitstick in "Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?"

thebitstick — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:56:08 +0000

Me when I lie

New comment by thebitstick in "Power of local LLMs especially with new Apple chips"

thebitstick — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 06:31:39 +0000

Local LLM use isn't really continuous though. You're comparing Apples to oranges.

For training especially and for the datacenter, NVIDIA cards still make absolute sense. But for consumer use cases, and even for developers, it's not so cut and dry. Very comparable performance for short-term bursts of compute.

New comment by thebitstick in "What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone"

thebitstick — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 20:46:42 +0000

Mac never had a 30-pin adapter, so lightning makes no sense. Mac also had Thunderbolt 2 with the miniDP port, and switched to Thunderbolt 3 with a USB-C port.

New comment by thebitstick in "The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation"

thebitstick — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:58:20 +0000

On a server, absolutely. On a desktop, the user is usually the administrator anyways. UAC exists on Windows land and the Administrator account is disabled for a reason.

New comment by thebitstick in "A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system"

thebitstick — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:29:15 +0000

Apple adds FeliCa and NFC radios to all iPhones worldwide. Only Android phones sold in Japan have FeliCa radios, worldwide models only have a NFC radio.

New comment by thebitstick in "Purism Launches New Secure Librem 11 Tablet"

thebitstick — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:35:39 +0000

Reminder that Purism cannot be trusted to actually ship hardware or issue refunds. You've been warned.

New comment by thebitstick in "iOS 17 Can Automatically Remove Tracking Parameters from URLs in Safari"

thebitstick — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 01:30:41 +0000

> It can even be enabled for regular Safari browsing. On the iPhone, open the Settings app, tap Safari → Advanced → Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection, and select All Browsing. Users can also turn off the feature in this menu if they prefer not to use it at all.

New comment by thebitstick in "Japan: sales of train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely"

thebitstick — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 05:48:02 +0000

This is because ICOCA/PASMO/Suica use FeliCa rather than NFC for data. All iPhones have both FeliCa and NFC. Only Japanese Android phones would bother added FeliCa.

New comment by thebitstick in "Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs"

thebitstick — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:32:21 +0000

I have the opposite opinion for macOS shortcuts vs Linux/Windows/IBM shortcuts.

Practically everything is handled with Cmd, with Option/Shift/Control being modifiers. It's the exception if something is handled exclusively with Option/Shift/Control, example being web browsers and Finder for tabs. Text selection is superior in macOS, and anyone who argues PgUp/PgDn/Home/End being a better solution in combination with Shift and Ctrl is insane. Depending on the port of a 3rd-party application, it may adopt macOS shortcuts and be consistent with everything else, or keep IBM/Windows-style shortcuts and break compatibility with other apps.

New comment by thebitstick in "Developers' Early Experiments with VisionOS"

thebitstick — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:27:17 +0000

You can do AR experiences. The point of the whole article is to showcase app developers who have existing apps getting their apps up and running quickly.

New comment by thebitstick in "Rule Changes for /R/Wellthatsucks"

thebitstick — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:53:29 +0000

Well that sucks

New comment by thebitstick in "Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?"

thebitstick — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 20:22:45 +0000

Unless you're accustomed to them being on the left, in which being on the right is the weird thing.

Red means stop, yellow means slow/yield, green means go, which in the context of window management doesn't make sense, but if you think about it differently, a good 40% of it makes sense. Red means stop existing, yellow means yield to other windows, and green means... go big?

New comment by thebitstick in "Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards"

thebitstick — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:36:32 +0000

I love what the company is doing and I really want to support their business, but I just can't get away from macOS.

Hackintoshes aren't super viable anymore, so I have a pie-in-the-sky hope that there will be a viable general arm64 chip for laptops that one day Framework could adopt for Windows-on-ARM and Linux, and that someone will get macOS working on it.

New comment by thebitstick in "WWDC Announced on June 5, 2023"

thebitstick — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:36:18 +0000

Duplicate thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35360080

New comment by thebitstick in "Universal Summarizer by Kagi – Summarize any content on the web"

thebitstick — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:05:35 +0000

It was paywalled because you are not the product.

New comment by thebitstick in "Ask HN: How to opt-out from Chat GPT crawling?"

thebitstick — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:02:22 +0000

"...public content website..."