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New comment by tokyobreakfast in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

tokyobreakfast — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:44:19 +0000

> Apple hardware is already amazing

Apple also made some amazing hardware blunders.

My personal favorite is the force-touch home button on the previous generation iPhones and iPads wouldn't work if you were wearing a band-aid. I don't mean the fingerprint reader, it wouldn't even click. So don't ever cut yourself if you were planning to unlock your phone ever. It added basically nothing for the end user over the previous physical home button besides rendering the vibrate function wimpy and useless.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

tokyobreakfast — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:10:03 +0000

How is it that I owned a fully-submersible phone—with user replaceable battery—over 15 years ago?

You've bought into and are now parroting Apple & Samsung marketing BS.

P.S. it had a headphone jack too. Gaskets over the ports. The headphone jack was the first victim of "but muh waterproof" despite all the other holes and cutouts.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Sudo for Windows (2024)"

tokyobreakfast — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:02:17 +0000

The hallmark of every successful Rust project: existence of a popular, equivalent software package not written in Rust.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

tokyobreakfast — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:40:29 +0000

> It blows my mind how "intelligent" people can be this stupid.

Intelligent people don't post condescending, shallow dismissals.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

tokyobreakfast — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:01:31 +0000

So, the Great FUK for short?

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

tokyobreakfast — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:24:07 +0000

Most Brits already have a VPN to beat off so the effect will be negligible.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

tokyobreakfast — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:11:38 +0000

The US CBP routinely intercepts "dangerous" products. I assume the Brits have the same.

It's a wonder why AliExpress flies under the radar. I assume it's impossible to keep up with it all.

The UK's comically over-engineered electrics are no match for some of these plug-in-and-die sketchy USB chargers from the Far East.

DiodesGoneWild on YouTube does teardowns of many of these incredibly poorly constructed deathtraps.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

tokyobreakfast — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:37:22 +0000

do they have a pussy ombudsman to investigate malfeasance and poor customer service?

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

tokyobreakfast — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:02:14 +0000

Prostitution is not an industry known for its ethics or integrity.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

tokyobreakfast — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:38:10 +0000

Not sure how you empathize with people that built their robot replacements.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Digg.com Closing Due to Spam"

tokyobreakfast — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:19:41 +0000

Where's the dupe guy when we need him most?

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Digg is gone again"

tokyobreakfast — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:52:58 +0000

Try criticizing Apple or China or other sacred cows and see how quickly your post gets flagged.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Digg is gone again"

tokyobreakfast — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:48:36 +0000

"Everything I disagree with is hate speech"

Reddit is filled with calls to violence, I would say it's gotten quite worse since. What's changed is that it all comes from one side now.

When you curate the echo chamber, the calls start coming from inside the house.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Anthropic sues to block Pentagon blacklisting over AI use restrictions"

tokyobreakfast — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:21:25 +0000

> They government is saying that anyone they do business with can't do business with Anthropic.

Is neither unusual nor extraordinary. The 2022 TikTok ban on government devices—enacted under the Biden administration—carried the same viral-as-in-GPL terms.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "My Homelab Setup"

tokyobreakfast — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:47:01 +0000

Quit whining, you know damn well the bar for a typical "Show HN" has been raised to the point of being irrelevant these days, this post is a perfect example. This is not a home lab.

I'm happy for the OP and that it works for him. That said:

The equivalent of Joe Bloggs installing Linux onto an old laptop is neither curious nor interesting, let's not pretend it is because feelings.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Put the zip code first"

tokyobreakfast — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:52:01 +0000

When they make erroneous assumptions, which they often do, they steal more of your time and effort than it would take without "assistance".

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Put the zip code first"

tokyobreakfast — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:35:35 +0000

I don't remember asking for "efficiency" in typing out an address, something we teach children how to do. It doesn't seem like a societal problem worth iterating over.

These tools are more than often wrong, and cause more grief for the user than any potential help it could provide.

There is no developer in the world that knows this data better than the person typing it into the form.

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Put the zip code first"

tokyobreakfast — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:27:19 +0000

> Instead, learn to use your browser's autofill feature, and design your sites with it in mind. If you do it right the user literally doesn't have to type a single character.

Funny that the best solution is circa-1997 Netscape 2.0-level technology, while everyone iterates on how we can make everyone's life worse with even more unnecessary JavaScript. Like we all collectively forgot what the

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Put the zip code first"

tokyobreakfast — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:22:24 +0000

Of course they do.

Let me uh just grab my utility bill...

New comment by tokyobreakfast in "Put the zip code first"

tokyobreakfast — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:22:00 +0000

Wrong. There can also be multiple cities in the same ZIP code. There is not a 1:1 relationship with a 5-digit ZIP as everyone is assuming here.