Hacker News: whompyjaw

New comment by whompyjaw in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

whompyjaw — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:47:59 +0000

Ya this has been my sentiment. If i need to one-off a quick script that does some processing on data, it’s nice to offload that so i can focus on pieces of my code that are more important and interesting to me. The context switching cost is still there tho…

New comment by whompyjaw in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

whompyjaw — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:02:02 +0000

What is a "punter"?

New comment by whompyjaw in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

whompyjaw — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:38:24 +0000

Ya i thought this as well… seems like a bad idea. I get that most ppl keep their phone number. Maybe better to let ppl just use their number than everyone creating an account? Idk..

But now i think of it… how does Visa and MC do it? Cuz i dont have a username or phone nber with them (i know they have my number). But i havent switched my number, so maybe if i did, i would have an issue?

New comment by whompyjaw in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

whompyjaw — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:49:39 +0000

Keep these posts coming! More the merrier! :))

New comment by whompyjaw in "Guix for Development"

whompyjaw — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:43:20 +0000

Im with you. As an emacsen, i feel it’s natural for me to use Guix, but nix is so so much more popular… :/

New comment by whompyjaw in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

whompyjaw — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:41:36 +0000

Uhhh… are you me? No other comment has hit more home. Nice. Mayne there’s something about these physical practices helping mental abilities.

New comment by whompyjaw in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

whompyjaw — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:01:32 +0000

It makes me really happy when companies continue to fuck up and enshitify their software because it adds more ppl to the Linux/FOSS evosystem. I have a MBP and I love it dearly (the hardware, macOS is fine), but Apple has been disappointing me with each software update on macOS and iOS. The quality of their software is degrading so badly. I know Asahi linux is around, but Im at the point ill just go full Framework and make my ecosystem Linux based (with GrapheneOS on my nee pixel). Just so tired of companies doing such a bad job with billions and billions of dollars. It’s truly unbelievable.

New comment by whompyjaw in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

whompyjaw — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:44:04 +0000

I have been thinking this same thing… Goodluck! I would like my own onprem AI tho. And home assistant devices

New comment by whompyjaw in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

whompyjaw — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:08:41 +0000

Maybe. Do you forget that people use to not have phones or social media and they still had independent thought? Just because kids aren’t introduced to videos and comments about politics at a young age, doesn’t mean they’re going to be brainwashed by the ruling government. Societies operated just the same before social media.

Edit: Dont get me wrong, there could be ulterior motives, but kids will have other ways to educate themselves on the happenings of the world beside social media

New comment by whompyjaw in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

whompyjaw — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:52:04 +0000

What was the major feature? The complete uselessness of “AI” on macOS? I updated and enabled all the AI features and I would ask Siri from my M1 and it failed every time. Would just continuously try with its annoying ping sound and never work. Blew my mind that they let this out.

New comment by whompyjaw in "fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'"

whompyjaw — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:18:02 +0000

It absolutely does not matter what language this tool is written in. That goes for any tool. If it’s better, use it. In this case, fd is far superior to “find” in almost every way. Sane defaults, wayyy faster, easy options (just use cht.sh if you can’t remember) To me, there is no reason to ever use “find”. If I’m on a new system, I just install fd and carry on.

New comment by whompyjaw in "Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras"

whompyjaw — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:01:10 +0000

What is PE?

New comment by whompyjaw in "Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch"

whompyjaw — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:04:45 +0000

Replying to follow (idk if there is a way to follow a thread). I have an Apple Display and would need 1.4 DP

New comment by whompyjaw in "Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch"

whompyjaw — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:03:30 +0000

How is the latency with these devices? I produce music as a hobby and have many connections to deal with and as low latency as possible is ideal. I am looking for something I can switch between 3 different devices basically. Work laptop, MacBook Pro, and custom Linux PC. The 2 latter ones I produce on. Would this device work for that?

New comment by whompyjaw in "An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)"

whompyjaw — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:01:15 +0000

Curious, how deep does the DIY go? I am curious what tools you currently leverage to support your tool? For example, instead of using ripgrep, did you create your own easy-grep program? Or anything in that similar vein? Just curious of anything you’d like to share :)

New comment by whompyjaw in "Stop the same song from autoplaying every time you plug your phone into a car"

whompyjaw — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 17:05:59 +0000

It happens to me every time I plug in my iPhone 14 Pro into my 2014 Toyota Corolla. (Doesn’t haven’t Apple CarPlay by default). So as others have said it’s likely because the car. If I were to replace my stereo unit with one that supports CarPlay I hopefully and probably won’t have this issue anymore… thank god. I always thought it was Apple Music. Well, it partly is I think. I never had this issue with Spotify, rather, well Spotify would always start off where I left it. Apple Music almost always plays the first song in my library. It seems if I leave the app open on my phone, it will continue where I left off sometimes…

New comment by whompyjaw in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

whompyjaw — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:37:54 +0000

I would love this same exact thing. I have not found any source that doesn't have vocals. I produce on the side as a hobby and one of my goal albums is to create something like this. 1-2hrs of a mix style album that is upbeat with no vocals.

The only thing that comes close are finding specific artist's that don't use vocals much in their mixes. Cercle has a lot of great mixes that come close. Sebastian Leger's mix might be one of those. But some parts of the mix are a little distracting.

New comment by whompyjaw in "Cannabis use disorder and subsequent risk of depression and bipolar disorder"

whompyjaw — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:58:37 +0000

i appreciate you sharing this. ofc, it's only one anecdotal piece of evidence, but i have been a bit torn about my use of cannabis at times. i sometimes feel it maybe helps, but i wonder if that's just the short term side effects that seem to calm me, and the long term effects (even if only using once a month) make my emotions more unstable...

New comment by whompyjaw in "Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates"

whompyjaw — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:50:14 +0000

im extremely biased, since its my daily driver for everything, but i think Linux is the better way to go. maybe a little awkward at first if you're fully embedded in the Google eco, but can still use most google products via browser, anyway.

New comment by whompyjaw in "Add an AI Code Copilot to your product using GPT-4"

whompyjaw — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:51:35 +0000

Wow. Ya this is great. Any dotfiles to skim through? I am a Doom Emacser myself, slowly learning the elisp flow to make my own config, and this seems like something I could chew on. :)