Hacker News: thesuitonym

New comment by thesuitonym in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

thesuitonym — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:28:24 +0000

Please. I am begging EV manufacturers to just make a normal car. The body looks fine but why does every EV have to have the absolute worst cabin ever designed?

New comment by thesuitonym in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

thesuitonym — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:22:04 +0000

This is the problem with the world these days. People just don't care about anything anymore.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

thesuitonym — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:19:17 +0000

What an insane take. We've been able to monitor our vehicles almost as long as we've had vehicles. You know when you turn your car on and all those pretty lights come up? That's not just because it looks cool.

New comment by thesuitonym in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

thesuitonym — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:08:21 +0000

I think it will create two media economies. One economy of garbage slopware made for and by companies and people who don't care about anything, and one for people who actually find enjoyment from the process of creation, not from whatever polished turd comes out the end.

New comment by thesuitonym in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

thesuitonym — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:23:08 +0000

People give 4chan far too much credit. Slop was a term that was used, maybe not widely, well before it was picked up by internet racists. Slop was used to refer to the stuff you'd feed to pigs, and if you were American, school children.

New comment by thesuitonym in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

thesuitonym — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:59:15 +0000

This is exactly why hiring is such a mess, lazy managers who don't want to repost job listings or put any effort into hiring. Job seekers need to apply to thousands of jobs because they have no way of knowing if a company is actually hiring. Which means hiring managers (who we have already established are lazy) now are incentivised to find ways to not look at resumes.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

thesuitonym — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:54:22 +0000

I feel like a lot of the problems in our world would be fixed by RIoTS.

New comment by thesuitonym in "SAML: A fractal of bad design"

thesuitonym — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:20:16 +0000

Sites don't get hacked because it's easier to social engineer a persons password.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

thesuitonym — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:11:48 +0000

Here's a crazy thought, you could just talk to your elderly family members.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

thesuitonym — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:13:51 +0000

The R in IoT stands for reliability.

New comment by thesuitonym in "I said no and Apple said yes"

thesuitonym — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:30:07 +0000

This is an absolutely insane question and it really shows how much mobile phones have warped reality. Until smart phones came along it was actually the norm to be able to install other operating systems on your PC.

New comment by thesuitonym in "I said no and Apple said yes"

thesuitonym — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:38:26 +0000

I've been a Linux and BSD user for nearly 20 years, and you will take them from my cold, dead hands, but sometimes Linux is just not an option.

New comment by thesuitonym in "I said no and Apple said yes"

thesuitonym — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:34:34 +0000

By way of example, Debian has a stable branch which receives only security fixes, and even then, only if you run the update scripts. It will receive security updates for 5 years, and after that, will still be completely usable, provided you don't want new versions of software, or are willing to put in the work to compile them yourself.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

thesuitonym — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:55:04 +0000

Maybe so, the point is there is a non-zero number of creators who already do sbarre thinks is too onerous.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

thesuitonym — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:30:22 +0000

I should hope you remember the Internet, it's still there. It may come as a surprise to you, but the whole reason the WWW works is because of the Internet, that's how you're able to see this web site!

New comment by thesuitonym in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

thesuitonym — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:28:38 +0000

> Should anyone deviate from the EU leftist narrative they will be fined, disconnected, imprisoned or all three.

Big government censorship and surveillance capitalism are actually right-wing ideologies.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

thesuitonym — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:11:34 +0000

I remember those days, and when Cartoon Network was the same. I didn't mind it then because, like you, I found the promos were a great way to know what was on the channel at different times. Especially in the age before on-screen guides.

But there are a few crucial differences between then and now: The ad spots were there to keep the timetables accurate, which is no longer necessary. They also served as a way to let you know what else was on the channel, which again is no longer necessary because that app opens to a menu of all available programming. And, now this is the important part, back then I wasn't specifically paying for ad-free access.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is, my Jellyfin server is about to get much more use.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

thesuitonym — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:06:15 +0000

The closest I've found is Bitwarden, but even that isn't quite as good as 1Password.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

thesuitonym — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:56:52 +0000

All creators that are on Nebula already upload sponsor-free versions there.

New comment by thesuitonym in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

thesuitonym — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:55:45 +0000

uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock is the only way YouTube is even remotely watchable these days. Even still, it's not really worth it. I frequently find it better to spend my time doing anything else.