Hacker News: vegetable

New comment by vegetable in "Linux, Finally for Everyone"

vegetable — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:54:01 +0000

Aptly named

New comment by vegetable in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

vegetable — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:22:24 +0000

I predict a massive uptick in linux switchover as soon as installation and activation of some newer ms-office versions (2019, 2021 or 2024) become possible. I think 2019 was the first that shipped with a full fledged power query.

In my experience, as of now the one that works best and seamlessly is the 20 year old office 2007.

New comment by vegetable in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

vegetable — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:38:33 +0000

What does "industry" mean. Which firms were involved? Were all firms involved?

New comment by vegetable in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

vegetable — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:33:15 +0000

> People don’t like paying for software, demand constant updates and hate subscriptions.

constant updates

New comment by vegetable in "I tried to make something in America"

vegetable — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 18:24:05 +0000

I think his video makes it clear how hard it is to make something made-in-america--even this product isn't. On the product front alone, people would be making a decision to spend ~5-10x something made-in-notamerica. gains from trade is a fundamental idea that has proven to be mostly beneficial to the masses. suddenly claiming self-reliance yields freedom seems very politically aligned.

New comment by vegetable in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

vegetable — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:44:06 +0000

Maybe one of their execs fat fingered and shared something embarrassingly.

New comment by vegetable in "They Didn't Make Dire Wolves They Made Something Else [video]"

vegetable — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:12:03 +0000

I can't put my finger on it. Something about the recent announcement video of de-extinction of dire wolves immediately filled me with skepticism. I don't know if it was the very marketing-y video or the animations or what? But I didn't know enough to question it. This video by Hank Green does a nice summary as can be gleaned from the title. Several of Colossal's claims are questioned and his informed position explained.

They Didn't Make Dire Wolves They Made Something Else [video]

vegetable — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0zgedLyTw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646605

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by vegetable in "Materialious – A Modern Interface for Invidious"

vegetable — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:53:02 +0000

Maybe I'm not understanding what's meant by sponsorblock support? Sponsorblock works with invidious too and has worked for at least two years. There's a toggle that needs to be enabled in the addon (if I'm remembering correctly).

New comment by vegetable in "Scientists rename genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020)"

vegetable — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:18:24 +0000

You should never double click to open a csv file in excel. You should ALWAYS import the file into excel. Set your types during import. Many of the complaints about excel's csv handling in this thread are user errors.

New comment by vegetable in "Don't Use Thorium Browser – If Installed, Remove It"

vegetable — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:55:45 +0000

Gdi. I had it installed for over 1 year as a backup browser. Even used it along with thorium winupdater since last few months, so probably had it updated multiple times too. Stick to Firefox folks.

New comment by vegetable in "Ask HN: Anyone else getting an empty landing page on YouTube while logged out?"

vegetable — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:24:08 +0000

I've had a blank landing page for a while. However, I tend to prune channels pretty aggressively with BlockTube. YouTube still works ok, though- cause I can just search and start watching videos. My geotargeted homepage has only garbage to offer anyway.

New comment by vegetable in "Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline"

vegetable — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:27:22 +0000

There are other apps, though. The id system of the local apps are fairly lax, so the driver will just create another account. Besides, they don't always cancel rides. Sometimes they accept "manufactured" rides. E.g. once you've hailed a ride on the street normally, they might tell you to initiate a search through [ride-sharing-app] and then accept it (to maybe complete some quota that lowers their commission payable).

New comment by vegetable in "Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off"

vegetable — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:22:19 +0000

Import CSVs into excel; don't double click to open. Been telling this to colleagues since excel 2007 days; still have never managed to get anyone to follow this advice.

New comment by vegetable in "Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years"

vegetable — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 07:50:08 +0000

Not even slowness for me... Each time I've had to change phones was because of a failing battery at around the 4 year mark.

New comment by vegetable in "Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs"

vegetable — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 10:22:10 +0000

I checked to. On my computer, with a fresh install, i have to kill Utility: Bat Ledger Service from the brave task manager every time the browser is started. Thankfully it stays closed.

The ads and crypto stuff are also not exactly as simple to opt out as "literally disable it in the welcome screen when you first install" as one commenter enthusiastically mentioned.

New comment by vegetable in "Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs"

vegetable — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 06:55:25 +0000

IIRC, the background processes for these ad and crypto services still run in the background even when you disable them. I haven't checked the browser in a long while. But it's easily verifiable by opening the brave task manager.

Quick Google result: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5429

New comment by vegetable in "Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is adding an inline popup to web forms"

vegetable — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:26:36 +0000

Duckduckgo has pretty much become one of the mainstream search engines. Normal, everyday users who find google's surveillance offputting because of its comprehensive nature probably think they are comparatively more private with something like duckduckgo. They will probably not react as strongly as power users or more privacy oriented folk. So, i doubt the points of view on hacker news is very damaging to duckduckgo.

New comment by vegetable in "Ask HN: Why is the Wikipedia Foundation's begging tolerated?"

vegetable — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:36:16 +0000

Apart from ublock filters you can use the Wikiless frontend. An addon like libredirect will redirect to an instance automatically.

New comment by vegetable in "Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (2018)"

vegetable — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:47:03 +0000

Not in front of a computer rn, but f12 should bring up the save as dialogue box (unless hijacked by another program).