Hacker News: wongogue

New comment by wongogue in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

wongogue — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:27:13 +0000

Do you call water “steam juice”?

New comment by wongogue in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

wongogue — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:14:59 +0000

Are you running ARM servers?

New comment by wongogue in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"

wongogue — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:21:09 +0000

For the uninitiated, it’s another UniversalBlue project just like the popular Bazzite. It focuses on a general computing usecase instead of gaming.

New comment by wongogue in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

wongogue — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:49:45 +0000

Centre-left doesn’t mean the Left. It just means it’s to the left of the other centrist party (Tories). Just because they lean left doesn’t mean they are the Left, Radical Left, Commies etc

New comment by wongogue in "MacBook Neo"

wongogue — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:32:42 +0000

Neo will at least help in ensuring that macOS doesn’t become too heavy for a few years.

New comment by wongogue in "iPhone 17e"

wongogue — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:07:52 +0000

The base model has 120hz ProMotion display.

New comment by wongogue in "iPhone 17e"

wongogue — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:07:06 +0000

At the moment, the camera is almost the main point of getting the Pro. And battery for the Pro Max.

New comment by wongogue in "iPhone 17e"

wongogue — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:04:22 +0000

The standard screen size market is so big that every year there are enough people looking for an upgrade. Apart from enthusiasts or the fashion-minded, most people upgrade every 2-3 years.

New comment by wongogue in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

wongogue — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:09:07 +0000

The narrator. It doesn’t matter to the law the kind of intimate relationship you have with your tool.

New comment by wongogue in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

wongogue — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:07:04 +0000

With no encryption, this isn’t a problem.

New comment by wongogue in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

wongogue — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:21:25 +0000

Green is “Zoom window to fit content”, not Maximize.

New comment by wongogue in "Pentagon cutting ties w/ "woke" Harvard, ending military training & fellowships"

wongogue — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:13:13 +0000

Improvement is subjective. They are terrified of warriors (shrug) who don’t think exactly like them.

New comment by wongogue in "Do you have a mathematically attractive face?"

wongogue — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:48:26 +0000

Those are added by the author themselves. Scrub the test data perhaps?

New comment by wongogue in "How not to securely erase a NVME drive (2022)"

wongogue — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:46:36 +0000

It has been software encryption for a many years now.

New comment by wongogue in "The dank case for scrolling window managers"

wongogue — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:20:40 +0000

There are more. Jay, cosmic and even xfce is writing their new compositor in Rust.

New comment by wongogue in "The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)"

wongogue — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:34:09 +0000

If you include the tip, you can do base 16.

Let’s go hexadecimal all the way.

New comment by wongogue in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

wongogue — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:26:51 +0000

The official one isn’t but there are a lot more in support of it. They are just named differently. Local language (we have a lots of them) or endonyms etc.

New comment by wongogue in "200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop"

wongogue — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:13:11 +0000

People like his technical opinion because they like his politics. That’s the whole grift-influencer economy. If someone is good at one thing (and validates some of my views), then obviously he’s right about everything.

New comment by wongogue in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

wongogue — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:21:18 +0000

Universal blue images are built via public GitHub Actions runners. If you don’t trust them, fork it and use your own image.

New comment by wongogue in "Australia's social media ban in chaos as youths flock to Chinese alternatives"

wongogue — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:02:31 +0000

They have access to messaging and interest/group based social media. Just not public algorithmic feeds.