Hacker News: whyagaindavid

New comment by whyagaindavid in "U.S. science is in chaos"

whyagaindavid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:32:22 +0000

are they Americans?

New comment by whyagaindavid in "U.S. science is in chaos"

whyagaindavid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:28:48 +0000

I think it is misunderstanding to think that Phd Salaries will increase to high level if immigrants left. Will NIH or NSF dump 3 x more money? If that is the case are civil servants in USA getting super great salary (a friend works for DMV in NJ and she says pay is awful)

New comment by whyagaindavid in "U.S. science is in chaos"

whyagaindavid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:16:46 +0000

Who is the one that discriminates? You mean the white american prof?

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Satya Nadella 'Not Sure' Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI"

whyagaindavid — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:13:46 +0000

Note to CoPilot. Create a new restricted OS that will never connect to Internet.

New comment by whyagaindavid in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

whyagaindavid — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:20:56 +0000

> that their issues are usage-blocking

What?

Sure - if one has some weird hardware? or need to use some specialist windows only software/workflow.

> they are just fucking annoying

> are either solvable without a comp sci degree,

with that argument - even ChromeOS is great. Just works. Especially for all the school kids without compsci degree or even Amazon staff (that use a modified form of chrome OS).

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Googlebook"

whyagaindavid — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:36 +0000

People like you doomsayed Chromebooks too. And?

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Googlebook"

whyagaindavid — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:55:35 +0000

What the cost of these Kompanio Ultra 910 based chromebooks? like > $800?

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Googlebook"

whyagaindavid — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:32:25 +0000

That does not make sense. Many people don't want 1TB RAM machines to carry around.

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Ubuntu 26.04"

whyagaindavid — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:00:12 +0000

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w...

Do you mean you just don't follow instructions?

New comment by whyagaindavid in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

whyagaindavid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:02:53 +0000

I don't understand the downvotes. Literally every single German email provider took like 5 years to implement 2FA. Even now lots of security issues with many German providers that claim privacy. Even so-called DE-mail was sham. Still somehow people assume FAANG is crap in data security. (Yes, I am not demanding privacy from ANY MultiNational company)

New comment by whyagaindavid in "France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens' IDs"

whyagaindavid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:59:33 +0000

Do you mean fines for tiny companies?

New comment by whyagaindavid in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

whyagaindavid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:58:35 +0000

I would not go that far to say all govts are like that. The main problem is majority of citizens cannot easily remember such things. Even simple PIN that is included in EU ID cards - most people don't remember or use. people want frictionless use.

New comment by whyagaindavid in "I am building a cloud"

whyagaindavid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:49:09 +0000

Another point (but my common observation) is the responsibility. By going SaaS or using cloud - any kind of data protection, rules/responsibility etc is moved away. and in many ways it is better - Google, dropbox or Onedrive will have better PR to take the pain if something goes crazy. Tickbox compliance is easy.

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?"

whyagaindavid — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:55:47 +0000

Many Unis have stopped doing this - due to the current RAM/SSD price hikes.

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?"

whyagaindavid — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:54:50 +0000

This. Especially lots of i5-6300U based corporate laptops like latitude are on eBay etc for < 100$

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

whyagaindavid — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:50:20 +0000

> Matthew Forsyth, Director of Product Management, Google Play Developer Experience & Chief Product Explainer, said the system isn’t a sideloading restriction, but an “Accountability Layer.”

And... What about accountability for hosting distributing spyware, malware loaded apps from Google Playstore and hundreds of copy cat, misleading apps?

Why can't they pose a question when the phone is setup?

- Yes, I want to sideload

- No I dont want

If the user says NO then to later enable it to allow sideload Yes, the user needs to factory reset phone. Done.

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Bye Bye Gmail"

whyagaindavid — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:34:05 +0000

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...

Sure.

Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Bye Bye Gmail"

whyagaindavid — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:23:54 +0000

Account creation needs phone number?

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

whyagaindavid — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:52:25 +0000

Wow.. you are the one loving thunderbird. The ridiculous idea of removing menubar and if you enable that - it wastes valuable screenspace.

New comment by whyagaindavid in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

whyagaindavid — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:49:54 +0000

This is definitely an edge case. Most UI/UX from Google is very consistent and just works. Otherwise they won't be in this market.

Only UI/UX issue is that most experienced users want to not adapt to change. It is like people always telling Windows 7 is the best. Don't keep reinventing.

Another one that irks me is every UI/UX dev assumes people have 2 x 4K monitors and menu items overflow.