Hacker News: wahlrus

New comment by wahlrus in "Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about"

wahlrus — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:44:48 +0000

In case someone out there is looking, here's an untested recipe to lock your android in greyscale mode. It removes the menu option for changing out of greyscale (untested).

Set grayscale:

adb shell settings put secure accessibility_display_daltonizer 0 adb shell settings put secure accessibility_display_daltonizer_enabled 1

Also clear any shortcut that could toggle it:

adb shell settings put secure accessibility_shortcut_target_service "" adb shell settings put secure accessibility_button_targets ""

Disable the menu that could undo it:

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.android.settings/.Settings\$AccessibilitySettingsActivity adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.android.settings/.Settings\$ColorAndMotionActivity

Will report back if I try it.

New comment by wahlrus in "Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about"

wahlrus — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:36:59 +0000

I'm glad I saw this post because I've been trying to find the tobiphone thing for ages. I remember seeing it in HN, but then I lost the page I couldn't remember what it was called, and it was oddly difficult to google (at least at the time).

One thing I've been thinking is that maybe a way to permanently lock my phone in greyscale mode would be sufficient to cure my phone addiction.

Gonna see if Claude has any solutions for me.

Long Google

wahlrus — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:54:10 +0000

Article URL: https://loeber.substack.com/p/27-long-google

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545081

Points: 6

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New comment by wahlrus in "Ask HN: People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like?"

wahlrus — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:18:39 +0000

Cheers, that's awesome!

New comment by wahlrus in "Ask HN: People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like?"

wahlrus — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:05:44 +0000

I've been daydreaming about this for years.

How did you get into building polebarns? And then framing houses? Who did you convince to take you on? Did you have prior experience?

New comment by wahlrus in "MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Shows We're on Schedule"

wahlrus — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:12:52 +0000

I've been thinking similarly. I'm not a particularly smart nor informed person, but here are some things I'm thinking of investing in:

- Land near a water source

- Learning how to cultivate land and food

- Learning how to be a good neighbor

New comment by wahlrus in "YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them"

wahlrus — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:54:24 +0000

It would be cool of creators such as Jim could start hosting their vids on Peertube or something similar. They could still post on Youtube--just also link to the other option for an ad-free experience.

Hopefully Goog won't bring down the hammer on cross-posting videos!!

New comment by wahlrus in "The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival crash so fast?"

wahlrus — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:07:30 +0000

It seems like quibi raised the equivalent of the entire GDP of Belize without first verifying if literally anyone was interested in their offering.

Classic silicon valley-style hubris.

New comment by wahlrus in "Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed"

wahlrus — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 13:06:59 +0000

Dang I really hope they do the same with the new xps 15 and 17... But there's probably no market for this aside from me specifically T_T

New comment by wahlrus in "Ask HN: How are you holding up?"

wahlrus — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:58:25 +0000

This abstract says that depression risk decreased by ~8%, but I still think this is an amazing finding.

I also wish I was scientifically literate enough to understand how good the study is :P

New comment by wahlrus in "Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021"

wahlrus — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:05:16 +0000

I don't think you're wrong. There will certainly be some sort of correction of the bullish remote-work spirit.

But the 2020 lockdowns will fundamentally increase the amount of remote work permanently to at least some degree.

Like how before Bernie Sanders ran for president, no one in mainstream US politics was even talking about socialized healthcare. Or how before Andrew Yang, no one outside of silicon valley had ever heard of UBI.

This is hyperbole, but you see what I mean.

New comment by wahlrus in "Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code"

wahlrus — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:59:45 +0000

What you're describing is a common way of using feature flags—except the percentage part comes from how you manage the servers running the binary with config. I.e. on day one, 5% of servers in cluster get True for the flag value. The double the percentage every day until 100% or otherwise rollback if it's a bad cut.

New comment by wahlrus in "Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour"

wahlrus — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:24:18 +0000

Sincere question: is this true in the SF Bay and/or California? $21/hr might not make sense in Cincinnati (edit: Cincinnati is just an example)--local context is important.

New comment by wahlrus in "Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?"

wahlrus — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:22:46 +0000

I really enjoyed the markup/css styling on this piece. While the content is certainly up for debate, it was presented in a very visually clear and informative manner.

New comment by wahlrus in "Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs"

wahlrus — Wed, 15 May 2019 15:48:53 +0000

Lol. At my job, I code in several different languages. Sometimes, a new project requires me to to learn to write in a new language. It's not a big deal... Programming is pretty general, so new syntax doesn't slow me down too much.

But I can't tell you what the sleep command is any of these languages. I look it up every single time :P

New comment by wahlrus in "Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law"

wahlrus — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:22:37 +0000

Can confirm--in Cambridge and smashing the up-vote because I like bikes!

Fixing a Bug in an 18 Year Old Shockwave Game

wahlrus — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 03:21:43 +0000

Article URL: https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr-bugfix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18158674

Points: 150

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