Hacker News: wltr

New comment by wltr in "A big win for Android interoperability"

wltr — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:14:20 +0000

In other words, would you like to have your physical card to be lost or stolen and someone paying with it? As small amounts don’t ask for a pin confirmation. Having my phone stolen is pretty much another level of attack.

New comment by wltr in "A big win for Android interoperability"

wltr — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:10:40 +0000

No it’s not, all of my and my extended family cards (for… like a decade!) are never even leave the envelope they come in. I’m not sure I personally know people who use physical cards over Google or Apple Pay. I have seen the cards being used in the wild, of course. But I’m having hard time remembering anyone I personally know who does that.

New comment by wltr in "Forth"

wltr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:37:33 +0000

Aha, especially the boat mode.

New comment by wltr in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

wltr — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:55:09 +0000

Cool project! Get a blog and post there, please! Photos, media, anything, is very welcome! One of the most interesting things I’ve read here in a very long time. Don’t let it be wasted to just lie here, for the very narrow audience.

New comment by wltr in "Organic Maps"

wltr — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:07:04 +0000

The original authors are from Russia, and their first product maps.me was sold to a Russian company with ties with Kremlin. I wouldn’t touch anything they do, so Organic was a no-go for me. Since it’s a new thing now, I can give it a go.

New comment by wltr in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

wltr — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:32:17 +0000

Today I learned the FreeBSD Foundation executive does not daily drive FreeBSD on laptop. (Without even opening the article.) This alone looks exceptionally weird for me.

New comment by wltr in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

wltr — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:40:20 +0000

Thanks for covering that!

New comment by wltr in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

wltr — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:17:51 +0000

Did you mean M1 MacBook Air/Pro or is it now possible to install it on an iPad?

New comment by wltr in "Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?"

wltr — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:26:58 +0000

Is that slop? Reads as ‘hey, I have the perspective’ but then reveals they know next to nothing about the systems, just spilling the well-known myths. (About Linux, obviously.) Wasted time on reading this.

New comment by wltr in "The End of Eleventy"

wltr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:39:14 +0000

The solution of this problem could be many, depending on the situation. I have my blog and other static sites synced to all my devices, and the server rebuilds them nightly. In most cases it makes no difference whether I’d deploy it right away, or it would be deployed within a day. Testing the website can be done completely offline, all you need is to sync your changes before the night. Triggering the rebuild on the server (which is deploy) can be done via a Shortcut from an iPhone. No way you can make it as easy with a Wordpress website.

New comment by wltr in "The End of Eleventy"

wltr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:43:08 +0000

I would appreciate getting into more details. As it sounds like a made-up problem to me. Perhaps you don’t understand how simple it is to have a static website as compared to a dynamic one. Especially to some simple project.

New comment by wltr in "The End of Eleventy"

wltr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:13:10 +0000

I can live preview my website from my local server / computer / laptop, while writing content from basically anything. Even a cheap and underpowered writing deck with 400 MHz CPU. The options are limitless.

New comment by wltr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

wltr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:48:35 +0000

That surely depends on a country. Data centre is still better in theory. But in practice, I have very little imagination to use a gigabit connection all to myself.

New comment by wltr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

wltr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:44:16 +0000

Are you guys even serious on this? Ok, I’d reboot my personal server daily then.

New comment by wltr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

wltr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:19:57 +0000

What’s the point if I can just connect it to my router and not pay any money to anyone, expect some electricity price, which would be like ten times cheaper. My old laptop is capable of a gigabit connection and so my home internet. That’s plenty for anything I can imagine.

Redundancy, I hear you saying! What if you’d have no electricity for an hour? OK then. I’d have another laptop at some else place then, and have two powerful servers for like still one fifth of the price. Can you beat that?

New comment by wltr in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

wltr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:48:25 +0000

Thailand? From whom?

New comment by wltr in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

wltr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:45:11 +0000

It’s really unclear whether you have any Linux experience. Because it feels like someone who knows Windows very well, and spent some time with Linux here and there.

New comment by wltr in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

wltr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:38:58 +0000

I wish them what I wished them when Windows Vista was released, and I said to my friend something like ‘huh, we have all that in Linux’ What I meant is GUI, as I was just a beginner. Today, I don’t know, I really wanted to write LOL, like with the biggest possible font size, and some GIF that supports it, but we’re not like that here, right? So, again, I just wish them that I wished them that many years ago. And for the Linux desktop year to finally come. As it feels like we’re there already. I don’t see any point in willingly using Windows for an average Joe.

New comment by wltr in "Having Kids (2019)"

wltr — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:25:29 +0000

It’s like nobody knows who the author is, and that he’s rich. It’s different from when you’re not rich. (Not even saying poor.)

New comment by wltr in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

wltr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:34:15 +0000

Of course, it would support only a couple of the most recent devices. Wouldn’t it? :)