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New comment by tobadzistsini in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

tobadzistsini — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:34:18 +0000

Unpopular opinion but the author remarks that the cat is female but uses "it" as pronouns. Human garbage.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

tobadzistsini — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:28:17 +0000

Or just switch to an Android phone.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

tobadzistsini — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:57:07 +0000

Growing up I remember all the ads about avoiding narcotics talking about getting hooked on free samples and then going to jail for theft and/or possession. The people behind that propaganda didn't know drugs do cost money, dealers being dorky teens and twenty-somethings who are about as dangerous as a butterfly. But this propaganda also illustrates how some elements aren't very bright. The internet age with free email, free social media, etc. got everyone hooked and now Zuckerberg, et al. are giving doe-eyed, hat-in-hand, and crying poverty. If people were wise to those PSAs, past and present, they'd see how the loyal opposition has been playing with their cards face-up on the table under the guise of good intentions. Much like the pedophile scare during the teens, pun unintended, with Comet Ping Pong and then come 2024 it's revealed Epstein and his cadre of deviant cronies were doing it all along while deflecting poorly to innocent parties. Goodness knows what else is still right in front of our noses but their reality hasn't come to fruition in the zeitgest.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"

tobadzistsini — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:42:53 +0000

Fine, I'll continue with LibreOffice if Satya insists.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "Please Use AI"

tobadzistsini — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:13:11 +0000

what is up with the formatting on this post? does substack not have wordwrap and the guy is using manual carriage returns?

New comment by tobadzistsini in "The real cost of owning a home"

tobadzistsini — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:19:30 +0000

And yet the property will appreciate in value, barring the implementation of a land value tax, and negate those extra charges the article's author is enumerating. One can borrow against one's property and reinvest in the property and you'll still make money. No bank or credit union will ever turn down land as collateral for a loan because in this economic paradigm land remains the safest and best investment. Nothing there is really relevant and skeptical r

New comment by tobadzistsini in "I manage teams without a single call"

tobadzistsini — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:20:07 +0000

People like calls because there is no accountability. "Oh, I was just spitballing" or "This is how I interpreted what they said despite doing a left turn at Albuquerque". An email or memo can be skimmed, or searched, for context thereby holding people's feet to a proverbial fire. Even if a call is being recorded for posterity, each party on the call runs the risk of inciting the ire of whoever was forced to listen and judge both participants. Nobody wins because someone was forced to listen to ten minutes of meaningless crap that could have been an email, much like a YouTube video intending to be helpful but has 5 minutes of sponsor shout-outs, like, rate, and subscribe, an unnecessary explainer before getting to the topic at hand that some Bulgarian uploaded ten years ago and lasts fewer than ninety seconds.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

tobadzistsini — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:40:40 +0000

This reminds me of the Dimple Car Experiment from Mythbusters.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "Why I don’t vibe code"

tobadzistsini — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:12:39 +0000

I'm vegan. I only watch PBS and the Criterion Channel. I'm atheist. Now it's "I don't vibe code."

New comment by tobadzistsini in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

tobadzistsini — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:04:25 +0000

Never had an issue with GNU/Linux in the past decade. Everything "just worked". Maybe the author is a MS shill spreading lowkey FUD?

New comment by tobadzistsini in "BC got rid of Daylight Savings"

tobadzistsini — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:01:43 +0000

BC didn't get rid of it. Now it's permanent.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other"

tobadzistsini — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:20:57 +0000

Did the LLMs form a polycule?

New comment by tobadzistsini in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

tobadzistsini — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:07:48 +0000

Github should charge everyone $1 more to disable Copilot on accounts.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

tobadzistsini — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:19:28 +0000

I could but I do not want to.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

tobadzistsini — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:31:37 +0000

Some desktop versions of GNU/Linux have rough edges. Self-important grognards think everyone should "git gud" and install Arch or waste a weekend waiting for Gentoo to compile in order to optimize the install. This article along with this one (https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desk...) go on about using an Arch-based distro rather than a Debian-based distro.

Clearly there will be challenges, minor or major.

The failure of these articles is the authors aren't going for distros that "just work". Want to undercut Microsoft's user base, grow GNU/Linux, and herald the year of Linux on desktop that's been promised for decades? Keep it simple.

Majority of people going online with their computers are browsing the web, doomscrolling, and engaging on social media. They're not pentesting with Rust, running an instance of a LLM, or setting up a webserver for giggles.

Keep it simple.

But pushing Arch and other beardy distros with these kinds of articles reeks of gatekeeping as if only "smart" people are allowed to engage online and control their experience. Everyone else should suck it up with Microsoft having Copilot phone home since they don't deserve to know better. And I don't care how much preamble they give about Debian-based and beginner distros, they're just wagging their dicks to easily-awed proles and relishing imagined egoboos from other neo-Stallmans.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

tobadzistsini — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:46:03 +0000

Article reads like an anti-Linux post because the author goes on about, "muh mouse buttons" and "how many desktop environments?" Screw that, do something simple like Ubuntu that just works without decision paralysis. The whole piece reads like, "Linux is good if you're smart so git gud" esp. since he makes a point of crowing how it's Arch-based.

New comment by tobadzistsini in "[dead]"

tobadzistsini — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:03:53 +0000

> The decision was made to ban him here, try to get him fired though I don't know if we succeeded, and attack him with sockpuppets on Reddit, and it seems to have worked because you don't hear his name much.

I am going to be uncivil but I hope the odds beat you.

How to avoid becoming a mikka bouzu

tobadzistsini — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:10:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pitchvision.com/how-to-avoid-becoming-mikka-bouzu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919148

Points: 3

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Doing More with Less (2008)

tobadzistsini — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:07:04 +0000

Article URL: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/235736/doing-more-with-less/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838280

Points: 1

# Comments: 1