Hacker News: zecg

New comment by zecg in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

zecg — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:42:45 +0000

Except today games all work and invariably markedly better on Linux. Even the games that stopped working on Windows for me work great, like https://www.protondb.com/app/2008510

New comment by zecg in "I Quit Editing Photos"

zecg — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:50:45 +0000

This FLOSS RAW editor works really well, btw: http://www.rawtherapee.com/

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

zecg — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:49:50 +0000

> What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.

Fuck your weasel words

New comment by zecg in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

zecg — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:33:36 +0000

...for people who insist on using only Windows on their personal computer.

New comment by zecg in "The enshittification of Amazon paperback books"

zecg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:17:28 +0000

I gave up, bought a kobo libra2 that never saw an internet connection (you can find updated firmware online to download) and now just borrow epubs in the soulseek library.

New comment by zecg in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

zecg — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:54:44 +0000

Luckily, they well enshittified it prior to this move, so my account is already deleted. I wish Discord a swift irrelevance.

New comment by zecg in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

zecg — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:21:06 +0000

I don't want to download the code or models for those features in the first place, Mozilla.

New comment by zecg in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

zecg — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:08:42 +0000

You can on Android, using this: https://f-droid.org/it/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/ (it's also on Google's store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.celzero.br... )

Set it as a local proxy to channel all network access through it and you can selectively block any app from accessing any network, or isolate it.

New comment by zecg in "Mozilla makes over 680M dollars in revenue in 2024"

zecg — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:05:12 +0000

I can tell, because I now use forks of Firefox decrapified by nerds in their basements.

New comment by zecg in "Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights"

zecg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:55:29 +0000

> In europe , this is not news, never.

That's just false. Example, here's a shitty tabloid in Croatia:

https://www.24sata.hr/news/vrh-europske-komisije-mijenja-pra...

New comment by zecg in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

zecg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:56:11 +0000

> Vibe coding didn't make me a 10x engineer. But it gave me permission to build again. Ideas I've had for years suddenly feel achievable. That's honestly the bigger win for me.

Did fucking AI also write your article?

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

zecg — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:06:44 +0000

CachyOS, it's basically a nice installer to jump into rolling arch. (I made sure it's a Ryzen thinkpad, might be relevant)

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

zecg — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:25:29 +0000

I feel like people who say this haven't seen KDE in a very long time. On a thinkpad it not only "just works", it works flawlessly, never demands attention without justification (i.e. no ads or superfluous items in notifications), every bit of hardware works, all the special keys, fingerprint reader and it's all recognized and usable and configurable from KDE.

New comment by zecg in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

zecg — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:46:21 +0000

I'd download epubs of everything from Anna's Archive and/or soulseek (Nicotine+ is nice) and kindly tell them to fuck off with their account.

New comment by zecg in "A Startup's Bid to Dim the Sun"

zecg — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:42:01 +0000

Basically Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

New comment by zecg in "What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?"

zecg — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:29:11 +0000

> “Who is going to trust somebody who got a degree in airline engineering who doesn’t know how to think through a problem without a computer telling them the answer?”

I think the answer is Boeing

New comment by zecg in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

zecg — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:41:12 +0000

I only tolerate the piece of shit phone because of F-Droid. Most of google's apps are banned from connecting to the network (like their fucking keyboard, I don't need or want any internet-requiring options) via Rethink VPN through which all network traffic is routed.

If this goes through, I'm taking my sim card out and putting it into the cheapest dumbphone I can find, using the smartphone strictly offline for OSMAnd navigation and media, uploaded over USB cable.

New comment by zecg in "Tell the EU: Don't Break Encryption with "Chat Control""

zecg — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:59:19 +0000

Let me be reasoned and measured and say fuck the entire gallery of those assholes. I only use Signal now, but I'm fully willing to give that up as well if this goes through and go full GPG-encrypted e-mail with keys exchanged IRL. The only thing I use the smartphone for other than Signal is navigation and OSMand works offline perfectly, I'll just pop my simcard into the cheapest dumbphone I can find and occasionally connect my phone to wifi to download new vector maps.

New comment by zecg in "Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices"

zecg — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:07:22 +0000

I recommend "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Something

New comment by zecg in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

zecg — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:04:47 +0000

This reminds me to throw 10€ at Signal