Hacker News: whynaut

New comment by whynaut in "Microsoft Says the Days of Free Windows 7 to 10 or 11 Updates Are Over"

whynaut — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:44:03 +0000

security patches are one thing.

Having drivers for my hardware broken/corrupted because Windows thinks it knows better, is another.

Having to download a third party program to clean up said driver mess before/after I can update any of my components, is another.

New comment by whynaut in "Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’"

whynaut — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:51:51 +0000

I think ‘sexy’ here is just implying how it has become a status symbol.

New comment by whynaut in "The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen"

whynaut — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:17:24 +0000

As uncomfortable as some of the timings are without the tracks, it still feels a lot more bearable.

If the timings could be adjusted I feel shows might actually be better off.

New comment by whynaut in "Apollo Back end just made public"

whynaut — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:16:47 +0000

> An option like that is specifically designed for hate

This is very short-sighted, I feel. The controversial comments often have the most interesting discussions, and helps to avoid the issue of the top-voted comment being a popular, but incorrect, view/discussion where all the activity happens.

New comment by whynaut in "Apple Vision"

whynaut — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:13:57 +0000

he makes criticisms all the time though. I don't understand why people make these sorts of claims about people if they don't watch them.

New comment by whynaut in "Apple Vision"

whynaut — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:18:18 +0000

that virtual keyboard option was already in the keynote. There are also videos of just connecting bluetooth keyboards.

New comment by whynaut in "Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics"

whynaut — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:05:36 +0000

Shameful such a short-sighted conclusion sits at the top of HN.

New comment by whynaut in "Apple Vision"

whynaut — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:30:59 +0000

Watch Marques Brownlee's video on it. It's vastly better than anything before it in both hand- and eye-tracking.

New comment by whynaut in "Apple Vision"

whynaut — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:29:03 +0000

> Are the cameras adjusting focus based on where you are looking?

Yes. Marques Brownlee describes this in his latest video.

New comment by whynaut in "Apple Vision"

whynaut — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:28:12 +0000

They did, but not for long. There's also a clip, not in the keynote but on Youtube, of someone using an external keyboard.

New comment by whynaut in "Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed"

whynaut — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:21:40 +0000

Author should've read up on the tech first.

New comment by whynaut in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

whynaut — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:58:38 +0000

That has nothing to do with the point that VR issues are being prescribed to an AR device..

New comment by whynaut in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

whynaut — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:01:10 +0000

but it's AR?

New comment by whynaut in "OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over"

whynaut — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:29:15 +0000

> "There is no tenth word in that sentence. It only has three words: life, is, and great."

That's what I just got. No clue what you're using/getting.

New comment by whynaut in "AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will"

whynaut — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:04:10 +0000

In the same way that nearly any two arbitrary objects are useful in some context.

New comment by whynaut in "I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one"

whynaut — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:30:12 +0000

where were you/what were you doing? That line didn’t sell well until it was reintroduced, IIRC. you’re right though, I may be off by a couple years but correct for most I suspect

New comment by whynaut in "I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one"

whynaut — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:33:26 +0000

No, you don’t…

we didn’t even have multicore processing in 1996. 1995-2005 looks very different from 2005-2015.

New comment by whynaut in "I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one"

whynaut — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:28:54 +0000

par for the course? I’ve literally never had this happen and I always keep the OS updated, this is certainly a confusing one.

New comment by whynaut in "Little Snitch Mini"

whynaut — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:59:30 +0000

From their 'Compare' page, it seems like they are targeting entirely different kinds of users, not price points.

New comment by whynaut in "Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda"

whynaut — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:57:52 +0000

everything here is true but the “gimmicky” bit. The controller is the most exciting thing to happen to games (outside of the actual games) since the Wii