Hacker News: thesuitonym

New comment by thesuitonym in "1D Chess"

thesuitonym — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:54:47 +0000

The letter is the piece to move, and the number is the index to move to, starting from 1 on the left. The first alphanumeric pair is your move, then the computer's move. Comma. Your move, computer's move...

New comment by thesuitonym in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

thesuitonym — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:06:25 +0000

Do I like it? No. Do I want one on my desk? Absolutely not. Do I think it's even brutalist? Not in the least.

But it's still a cool as hell project. People need to do more things just because they want to, and to hell with what anyone else thinks.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

thesuitonym — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:02:57 +0000

Radical!

New comment by thesuitonym in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

thesuitonym — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:11:13 +0000

I'd love if this had support for saving as xlsx. Being able to open them is nice, but it would be great if I could collaborate with MS Office users without them ever knowing.

New comment by thesuitonym in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

thesuitonym — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:03:49 +0000

This guy thinks he's a power user because he doesn't know how to close tabs.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

thesuitonym — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:04:11 +0000

If you plug a USB floppy drive in, and put a diskette in it, it's still A:.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"

thesuitonym — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:29:05 +0000

The way this is set up is using your normal fiber internet as the backbone, so if the fiber goes down, the dialup does, too.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

thesuitonym — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:45:01 +0000

I'd say a periodic job that looks at the last update of all your blogs, and removes those that haven't updated in over a year would be generally agreeable.

If you want to be exceptionally kind, you can also email the submitter and tell them their blog has been removed due to inactivity, so they'll remember to submit if they start blogging again.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

thesuitonym — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:52:29 +0000

No it's not, and no it hasn't. That old Internet is still there, you just stopped going to it.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

thesuitonym — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:49:06 +0000

``It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.''

New comment by thesuitonym in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

thesuitonym — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:58:00 +0000

Macs are definitely not optimized for keyboard commands. If you feel the software you use is keyboard optimized, odds are it's not really Mac software.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

thesuitonym — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:59:35 +0000

To better target ads.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

thesuitonym — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:35:03 +0000

In my experience supporting Mac users, it's about 50/50. I think a lot of them have been conditioned to not maximize windows because it hides everything else, and they don't understand how to get back to their other windows.

New comment by thesuitonym in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

thesuitonym — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:25:36 +0000

And how many times this year have you seen a headline with some European country's government starting to migrate away from Microsoft?

New comment by thesuitonym in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

thesuitonym — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:19:00 +0000

As tumblr user ommanyte said, "how dull for you to live your life without any hills to die on, you, on your vast flat barren plains of compromise, acceptance, and accommodation, while I reign supreme over the lush, rolling highlands of stupid shit I have irrationally chosen to stake my entire identity on"

New comment by thesuitonym in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

thesuitonym — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:15:31 +0000

It's not even close to the biggest flaw, it's just the most obvious one.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

thesuitonym — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:14:18 +0000

I actually feel the opposite? The current green button action not only makes the window fill the entire screen, it also hides the menu bar AND creates a new virtual desktop and hides all of my other apps. And it seems to me that's what the majority of people want.

Meanwhile, I want to use my graphical, mutli-window preemptive multitasking operating system to, you know, use multiple applications at the same time.

New comment by thesuitonym in "DOOM Over DNS"

thesuitonym — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:29:42 +0000

Yes, but it's not a problem, any more than downloading any arbitrary text is. You'd still have to have something execute the binary.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

thesuitonym — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:42:38 +0000

Sceptre still has a bunch of dumb TVs on their site. I used to be all in on them, but I bought one that had the backlight go out after only two years, and their answer was "lol buy a new one"

New comment by thesuitonym in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

thesuitonym — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:38:35 +0000

I would go in on a group-buy dumb TV, but not every 2-3 years.