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New comment by tosti in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

tosti — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:23:16 +0000

I accidentally skipped that part :(

New comment by tosti in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

tosti — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:21:09 +0000

Back then there was still GWK. You could buy rolls of nickels to add some weight to your savings, american dollars and other foreign monies.

I'd buy myself a shitload of rupees (for a couple of tenners) if they were still around. Such a missed chance.

New comment by tosti in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

tosti — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:05:11 +0000

Which is complete bullshit with the Euro having been specifically invented to be used across the EU.

I had a similar moment of stupidifiedment trying to park in Germany with a phone set to Dutch region. Euro in cash works everywhere Euros are accepted but apps on the freaking Internet? Nah, gotta restrict that to the publisher country only.

New comment by tosti in "Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition"

tosti — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:31:44 +0000

There's modpacks, e.g. fabulously optimized. It makes mc playable but 256MiB basically gets you to the Java runtime nowadays.

New comment by tosti in "Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines"

tosti — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:21:39 +0000

It has the vertices, the surfaces, the textures and the animations.

There's a minecraft mod too, you press m and f5, boom you're mario.

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:05:23 +0000

Soooo.... They burn a lot faster? Extra puff of smoke efect for good measure? ;)

New comment by tosti in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

tosti — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:25:21 +0000

And the complexity of the governance structure is related to the amount of money involved.

The weirdest thing is when the money of a non-profit NGO exceeds roughly 10e6, the decisions made by upper management tend to make an inversionally proportionate amount of sense. Reason being, it's not their money to spend.

Took me a while to figure this out but now it's everywhere.

New comment by tosti in "Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?"

tosti — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:22:31 +0000

Just configure wear leveling in your storage layer. FDE may be the easiest way ti do it. Writes will be done linearly in circular fashion. That makes it difficult to delete stuff, but with encryption it's moot.

New comment by tosti in "Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time"

tosti — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:16:06 +0000

Xerox workstations were pretty much unheard of. A few might've seen a Mac. But most people haven't seen trash can functionality until MS-Windows 95 came out.

Personally, I just love the sound of it. Modules were awesome and games continued using them until ~2001.

New comment by tosti in "John C. Dvorak has died"

tosti — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:08:33 +0000

Hurricane Electric has dead simple IPv6 certification

New comment by tosti in "Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time"

tosti — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:49:56 +0000

When I took a computer course in the early 2000s, the teacher said like "look, this had a desktop called workbench and it even has a recycle bin in f$#ing 1985."

Things could've so much better if upper management wasn't disfunctional.

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:08:29 +0000

Yes, that's what bothers me. OLED was the newfangled improved technology, but I'd rather hold out until something better becomes affordable.

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:04:20 +0000

They were second hand, idk. They were already burned when they arrived. Suffices for me to say I don't have much confidence in OLED.

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:29:44 +0000

I don't buy a TV every 2 years, that's absurd. If I buy a TV, it better work for > 10 years.

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:24:12 +0000

Eddy currents causing pressurized air deflecting cosmic rays striking drive platters flipping bits...

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:18:36 +0000

3 out of 4 OLED screens in my household suffer from burned pixels. It's the early 90s all over again with OLED.

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:14:04 +0000

I had a TCL TV unrelated to the programming language, and the ghosting was awful.

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:10:16 +0000

I use those scripts to improve the likelyhood it'll fail to do anything useful.

I even used uname as a fuzzing tool, and that broke builds spectacularly. There's now a more reasonable uname in the sandbox for builds.

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:04:58 +0000

Neat codebase, well structured imho.

Here's the thing it does: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat/blob/master/Regfiles...

New comment by tosti in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tosti — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:57:51 +0000

Yes, and it's only possible thanks but no thanks to MicroSlop.

And it's not like MS is too poor to do anything useful for their customers. They just don't want to unless the cost-benefit analysis pans out in their favor. The customer is worth as much as their wallet.