Hacker News: therealfiona

New comment by therealfiona in "TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped"

therealfiona — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:30:34 +0000

Linde shut down the shop that made these machines. So I'm sure they're shaking in their boots about being put in notice...

New comment by therealfiona in "Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on"

therealfiona — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:30:53 +0000

How many customers did this take? Wow...

New comment by therealfiona in "Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand"

therealfiona — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:35:55 +0000

What I'd give to have someone who's Linux experience isn't using a Mac and using brew to install stuff.

I'm the only one with formal Linux experience on my team and I'm the only one who doesn't have to look up how to get to the logs...

K8s admin != Linux grey beard. SurprisedPikachu.gif

New comment by therealfiona in "Helm 4.0"

therealfiona — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:12:18 +0000

Still doesn't handle CRDs.

CRDs are one of the worst things to manage in a K8s cluster.

New comment by therealfiona in "Why I love my Boox Palma e-reader"

therealfiona — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:04:22 +0000

Looks cool, but if I have to copy Epubs to it, then that severely limits it's use for me with library books.

Maybe one day they'll have a version with Android on it.

New comment by therealfiona in "Why Self-Host?"

therealfiona — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:07:03 +0000

What ever you have laying around is a great starting point.

It all comes down to what you want to spend vs what you want to host and how you want to host it.

You could build a raspberry pi docker swarm cluster and get very far. Heck, a single Pi 5 with 4gb of memory will get you on your way. Or you could use an old computer and get just as far. Or you could use a full blown rack mount server with a real IPMI. Or you could use a VPS and accomplish the same thing in the cloud.

New comment by therealfiona in "Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription"

therealfiona — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:51:04 +0000

May I suggest caching/downloading your map data? Google Maps for example will allow you to cache areas. I used it when traveling cross country. Super duper valuable.

New comment by therealfiona in "Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end"

therealfiona — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:34:23 +0000

To be fair, you would cut yourself and bleed in betas.

New comment by therealfiona in "Visualizing Automorphisms of S6"

therealfiona — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:49:38 +0000

So not Animorphs...

New comment by therealfiona in "Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?"

therealfiona — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:34:13 +0000

Y'all are mean. I think it is fun.

Best bag? No

Fun? Yeah

New comment by therealfiona in "KDE launches its own distribution"

therealfiona — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:13:08 +0000

Call me when I can run Wayland and share my full screen on M$ Teams. Last time I checked it was just individual windows.

Cross that hurdle and I can go back to trusting the Linux Desktop for business things.

New comment by therealfiona in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

therealfiona — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:06:06 +0000

Depends where you work. Personally, I will think it is odd, then move on. But your HR department may have a different view.

If it is a personal slack, then have fun!

I'm a big fan of the rainbow thumbs up because I like rainbows.

New comment by therealfiona in "I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack"

therealfiona — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:09:20 +0000

Been rebuilding my music library from my sailing the high seas days when I did not have money. CDs sound really good. Some much better than streaming Spotify.

Glad I own the media. A buddy was listening to an Audiobook on Spotify, paused it and came back to it no longer being on Spotify. Between stuff like that and no toggle to disable AI generated music, I don't think I'll be going back.

_grabs minidisc player and goes for a walk_

New comment by therealfiona in "Ask HN: Difficult Interview Question"

therealfiona — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:59:58 +0000

Sounds like a great weed out question if part of the job is moving data around.

New comment by therealfiona in "Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s"

therealfiona — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:17:52 +0000

Holy crap those are steep specs...

New comment by therealfiona in "Take something you don’t like and try to like it"

therealfiona — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:25 +0000

I use a Mac for work. I've gone from "eww God no" to, "Meh, it is fine minus the keyboard."

That is about how all these exercises have gone for me over the years. It becomes tolerable at best. Still hate it at worst.

New comment by therealfiona in "Sometimes CPU cores are odd"

therealfiona — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:06:10 +0000

Unlocked a 6800gs video card back in the 8x agp days. Freaking sweet for a 16yo!

New comment by therealfiona in "Monodraw"

therealfiona — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:29:49 +0000

Any plans for a Linux version? Sounds super cool, but I can't run it.

New comment by therealfiona in "UltraRAM scaled for volume production – is now ready for manufacturing"

therealfiona — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:40:15 +0000

I thought I was going to download more ram...

New comment by therealfiona in "Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework"

therealfiona — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:54:09 +0000

I got my file extensions mixed up, thought this was going to be a "Use M$ Excel as an IDE" type post.