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New comment by watermelon0 in "Surprise, pay $1000"

watermelon0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:27:13 +0000

Technically, here the paying customer experience was the problem, not the free trial one, because they were automatically upgraded.

Generally, you don't want to award people/companies that don't respect you. I'm not saying that you shouldn't re-evaluate them in the future, but they will walk away with the wrong lesson if you just start throwing money at them.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Surprise, pay $1000"

watermelon0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:18:15 +0000

Do you plan to refund all previous free trial customers, who didn't contact the support, and actually paid unexpected overage fees?

Invoices are legally binding documents in many countries, and even if that might not be the case in your country, not everyone might be aware of that fact.

> since it gives their AP team a real cost to work from instead of a ballpark of us vs. GitHub

Same could be achieved by showing the real cost in the web app and/or sending a report via email, without scaring them away, and possibly _extorting_ them.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Surprise, pay $1000"

watermelon0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:56:45 +0000

Why would you want to use a provider, that resorts to shady practices, especially since there are a lot of alternatives out there?

New comment by watermelon0 in "Surprise, pay $1000"

watermelon0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:51:31 +0000

Self-hosted runners make a ton of API calls during job execution, so they might not be completely wrong here.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

watermelon0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:40:18 +0000

Luckily for them, every OS has (at least one) native way of building applications, and with the power of AI they could easily make 3 different desktop UIs, while reusing the same core logic.

USB Devices – OrbStack Docs

watermelon0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:48:34 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.orbstack.dev/features/usb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472384

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by watermelon0 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

watermelon0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:40:57 +0000

> They pioneered things like iCloud Private Relay and privacy protecting cloud backups for devices.

They didn't pioneered it, they just brought it to the masses. Tor was here before the Private Relay, and most open source backup applications offer E2EE out-of-the-box.

New comment by watermelon0 in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

watermelon0 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:04:12 +0000

Unless something has changed recently, Slack uses AWS Chime SDK for audio/video, so at least the core technology is great.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

watermelon0 — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:55:33 +0000

Is GitHub really profitable, considering how much Actions credits are given away to open source projects as well as free users? Same goes for Copilot.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

watermelon0 — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:55:31 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVAnwuSjfk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323869

Points: 398

# Comments: 668

New comment by watermelon0 in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

watermelon0 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:23:12 +0000

It doesn't have a great cross platform support (no Linux client, and there are many complaints for the Windows client).

Personally, I dislike that you cannot restore an older version of a file on laptop/phone, and must instead use their web app, for which you need to disable ADP, which defeats its purpose.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

watermelon0 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:16:27 +0000

Sharing files between apps and file management in general on iOS is atrocious.

I assumed this was a solved problem before Windows 98 (first desktop OS I used), but Apple cannot get this right 28 years later.

New comment by watermelon0 in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

watermelon0 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:26:17 +0000

I'm quite sure there are many application hosting providers which rely on container runtime such as runC (default runtime of containerd/Docker), and a shared kernel between users.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

watermelon0 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:52:47 +0000

You should use a separate WhatsApp account for bot purposes.

Recently, I used a separate WhatsApp account to interact with a group chat that I have with my friends. After about a week, they disabled the account, with no way to re-enable it.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Claude Code Routines"

watermelon0 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:50:40 +0000

Seems like it only supports x86_64. It would be nice if they offered a way to bring your own compute, to be able to work on projects targeting arm64.

New comment by watermelon0 in "State of Homelab 2026"

watermelon0 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:52:04 +0000

The main difference is that iMessages count towards iCloud quota, whereas (most?) other messaging services have free storage.

New comment by watermelon0 in "State of Homelab 2026"

watermelon0 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:46:00 +0000

Cloudflare Tunnel publicly exposes your services, whereas Wireguard/Tailscale are VPNs.

Tailscale (but not Headscale) offers Funnel, which is a reverse proxy, but you cannot use it with your own domain.

Pangolin is the closest alternative to CF Tunnel, but self-hosted NetBird with reverse proxy functionality can also be used.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

watermelon0 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:39:32 +0000

System Settings -> Keyboard -> and toggle Keyboard navigation.

I'm not sure why this isn't the default, but this allows for UI navigation via keyboard on macOS, including Safari.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

watermelon0 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:09:29 +0000

Huh? I'm not seeing any popups except the cookie banner at the bottom of the screen.

Pricing link is the second one in the top menu, and it shows all prices in a straightforward way.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Running out of disk space in production"

watermelon0 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:56:07 +0000

European Hetzner VPSes have at least 20 TB of bandwidth, and US ones have at least 1 TB.

I don't think there is a cheaper CDN.