Hacker News: throwawee

New comment by throwawee in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

throwawee — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:25:25 +0000

Can you really take over a project anybody can fork? Freedom is just a name change away.

New comment by throwawee in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

throwawee — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:51:02 +0000

Yep. Each screen is just a list of prebuilt columns reused over and over. Then they used a form of crude RLE on the lists.

New comment by throwawee in "KDE onboarding is good now"

throwawee — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:00:36 +0000

There's other desktop environments. XFCE has worked flawlessly for me for years, though its Wayland support is still experimental.

New comment by throwawee in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

throwawee — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:32:45 +0000

As long as it's not a proprietary horror dystopia.

New comment by throwawee in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

throwawee — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:06:27 +0000

I had to help someone elderly set up Windows 11 recently and it was monstrous. The error messages were useless and when we finally got it going, the UI was horribly sluggish. There was a time Windows was a solid default choice for the average consumer, but Windows 7 was 15 years ago.

New comment by throwawee in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

throwawee — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:42:54 +0000

Don't know if you responded to the right person since I didn't mention Debian, but I did try it and the other major distributions a long time ago. Honestly, distros mostly felt the same to me apart from their repositories. Debian soured me by keeping its repo perpetually out of date. It's nice to never get burned by an improperly tested package, but never having the latest features and non-security fixes is less nice.

New comment by throwawee in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

throwawee — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:06:57 +0000

For over a decade I never heard anything good about Arch. The most common pitch was something like "it's fun to fix when it breaks", so I was completely blindsided when Valve based SteamOS off it. What did they see in it? I was due for a new SSD, so I decided I'd run it for a week or two. The moment it started being a nuisance, I'd wipe the drive.

That was years ago and I'm still on it.

New comment by throwawee in "The story behind Caesar salad"

throwawee — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:47:09 +0000

Good salad is delicious. I think more people would realize that if they weren't exposed to nothing but iceberg, cheddar, and ranch monstrosities during childhood.

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

throwawee — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:56:13 +0000

>You do not own your airspace. The FAA owns your airspace.

Makes sense. If castle doctrine applied to the skies, people could take potshots at low flying aircraft above their house. I guess that's one way to prevent becoming a flyover state...

New comment by throwawee in "Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015)"

throwawee — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:21:42 +0000

Then the ideal armor must be sea snail teeth woven together with spider silk. This advancement could save millions in mythril and adamantine.

New comment by throwawee in "Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference"

throwawee — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 07:04:08 +0000

Tangential, but which of the 7 ended up being the best experience?

New comment by throwawee in "The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state"

throwawee — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:46:54 +0000

>now everyone else is going ‘how could you be so dumb to believe it’ and/or ‘you sure fucked up by admitting it was fake’ all at the same time.

Not necessarily mutually exclusive. It's like professional wrestling, stage magic, or politics. Some lies people really love.

New comment by throwawee in "Why Your 'Harmonious' Team Is Failing"

throwawee — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:14:27 +0000

Keep your head down or bail. Being right doesn't matter if you aren't calling the shots; you can't cash in those I-told-you-so points for anything.

Sometimes a project gets funded by someone who wants the team to look and act a certain way and actual productivity doesn't even factor in. You're not 'right' if you've fundamentally misunderstood what you're doing there in the first place. Either take their money and play along or leave. That's the call you can make.

New comment by throwawee in "In Defense of the Rat"

throwawee — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:40:02 +0000

I know someone who had a pet rat who was a real pain. The rat, on the other hand, was great.

New comment by throwawee in "Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT's false claim that he murdered his kids"

throwawee — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:00:53 +0000

Do PII laws apply when you don't have any and have to make stuff up?

New comment by throwawee in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

throwawee — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:17:12 +0000

I hate bloat and don't use Electron apps, but garbage collection is such a silly thing to pin it on. Tossing stuff like Lua and D in the same bin as the massive enterprise framework du jour is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

New comment by throwawee in "DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player"

throwawee — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:31:58 +0000

> (I've tried it a few times with Wine, and was never impressed vs. running it natively on Windows)

Really? I noticed it's slower to start up but other than that it seems the same. I use it pretty regularly because foobar components handle formats the others can't.

Other than that, I'd say Audacious is the closest Linux analogue to foobar2000. My one big gripe was freezing up for a bit when a stream cuts out (blocking socket?) but they fixed that.

New comment by throwawee in "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance"

throwawee — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:14:34 +0000

killedbygoogle.com will need an extra entry, plus a whole new subcategory.

New comment by throwawee in "Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data"

throwawee — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:19:16 +0000

I'm generally sympathetic but the chatbot dig is just silly. A lot of the absurd promises of AI capabilities have already come to pass, and anyone with a browser and a throwaway email can see for themselves. It's terrifying.

New comment by throwawee in "Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles"

throwawee — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:24:11 +0000

If they can remotely kill the engine of any Waymo car in motion, so can hackers.