Hacker News: zerreh50

New comment by zerreh50 in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

zerreh50 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:55:07 +0000

And that means you give your epub to Amazon to convert, and whatever else they feel like doing with it.

New comment by zerreh50 in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"

zerreh50 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:26:41 +0000

I see this in media all the time. Make factual statements and imply they are connected, but with zero data if they actually are. Or claim "People are doing X" without any data if a statistically relevant number are actually doing X or just the 2 people they found as an example

New comment by zerreh50 in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

zerreh50 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:26:50 +0000

99% of the time security is about securing the product from the user. Just like Google's action we're commenting under

New comment by zerreh50 in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

zerreh50 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:38:50 +0000

An economic crisis will reduce tax income though, reducing the ability of government to pay even if the interest is lower

New comment by zerreh50 in "Everything is Ghibli"

zerreh50 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:42:56 +0000

His last comment in the video "we humans are losing faith in ourselves" clearly about the overall concept and not just the particular creature though

New comment by zerreh50 in "Goodbye, Slopify"

zerreh50 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 06:00:36 +0000

Apple deletes your entire library if you don't subscribe for a few months. To me that is worse than anything Spotify has ever done wrong

New comment by zerreh50 in "Goodbye, Slopify"

zerreh50 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:56:41 +0000

I recently unsubscribed because I definitely saw a lot of AI music. I do think Spotify has the best UI and user created playlists of all platforms though

New comment by zerreh50 in "New Kindle Jailbreak Works with Any Kindle on Any Firmware"

zerreh50 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:06:41 +0000

Well, that elevates my paperwhite to literally perfect(for me at least). The process was smooth and now I have Koreader on it.

New comment by zerreh50 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

zerreh50 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:41:24 +0000

The short notice was a self inflicted problem. Biden's issues did not start in July 2024

New comment by zerreh50 in "ReMarkable Paper Pro"

zerreh50 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:59:03 +0000

Koreader handles the reading part perfectly on my Boox device. For ftp I use the default Boox functionality which works well for me. Einkbro is good but I ultimately stick to Firefox for the sync between devices. No experience with other launchers as I don't use any other apps and the default one doesn't bother me

New comment by zerreh50 in "Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors"

zerreh50 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:59:58 +0000

In the real world companies have no idea who the top and bottom 10% are because they use extremely low quality productivity metrics

New comment by zerreh50 in "ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack"

zerreh50 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:36:08 +0000

In fact, Android's update engine includes a lot of chrome os related code, so they are either very similar or outright shared

New comment by zerreh50 in "Rethinking Text Resizing on Web"

zerreh50 — Tue, 21 May 2024 10:16:19 +0000

Annoyingly, Firefox on Android lacks these options completely. You can't even control zoom for individual websites, it's all or nothing. It gets even worse on a foldable phone where you have two different displays. It's a bit off topic, but I am not aware of any browser that has reliable sync, working ad block, and per site zoom control on both Android and Windows.

New comment by zerreh50 in "Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools"

zerreh50 — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 16:53:05 +0000

Same with McDonald's, interestingly enough

New comment by zerreh50 in "Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants"

zerreh50 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:24:54 +0000

Both TSMC and Samsung are expanding in the USA and are expected to receive significant subsidies as well

New comment by zerreh50 in "Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit"

zerreh50 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 21:37:24 +0000

From Nvidia's history of working with AIBs, Sony, Apple, the Linux community, and probably many more, they seem to be a very hard company to work with. They have an idea of what the product looks like and it's their way or the highway. I wonder if this new department will change that. If it doesn't, it won't amount to much.

New comment by zerreh50 in "FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams"

zerreh50 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 13:27:36 +0000

When it comes to applications, Android is very different from any Linux distro. Android apps rely almost entirely on Google made additions on top. Something like waydroid could bridge the gap but I don't have first hand experience how good it is.

New comment by zerreh50 in "Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers"

zerreh50 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:38:36 +0000

27% on a Kindle with a healthy battery is a lot. Especially if this is a latest model paperwhite on the image which I think it is. It's probably their most impressive feature as a product

New comment by zerreh50 in "Light No Fire – A Fantasy Game from the Makers of No Man's Sky"

zerreh50 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 11:11:51 +0000

Apex Legends from Respawn/EA was basically launched like that. It had a reveal stream, where they announced the game going live, and released it immediately, along with all the promotional material and content creator collabs. It's massively successful so it worked out.