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  • Commented: "Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729"

    +1

    This is my go to way of buying a new laptop. I've gone through 2 machines in the last 8 years (Dell 7270 and 7330). Both bought for <$400. Linux works ootb, though I haven't tried any of the more obscure distros.

    Though now manufacturers are doubling down on soldered components, so buying a cheap machine and upgrading the components yourself is not really possible :(

  • Commented: "When stick figures fought"

    Same here, I somehow acquired a pirated copy of Flash when I was 10 or 11. Went through the included offline manual and within a few days somehow knew I'll probably end up doing this programming thing for the rest of my life :D

    It's sad what happened to Flash, sure we have plugin free interactive content using JS but I'm not sure if anything has replicated the IDE. Though I guess the decline can also be attributed to the users moving onto other platforms. The kids making games moved on to making Android/iOS games and the animators moved to Youtube.

  • Commented: "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

    Is it unrelated? From the parent comment:

    > Come on, pre-Elon you could click on a Twitter link and read the entire thread as well as the replies, now you just get a single tweet with no context above/below.

    I don't want to nitpick stupid shit like this mate. But my point was to emphasise that Twitter had been going downhill before the takeover.

    (And fact that it was always a toxic cesspool regardless of who owned it, but that's a different matter altogether)

  • Commented: "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

    Here's me complaining[1] about the login walls way back in 2021, this was before the Elon takeover.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268365

    Edit: Some more posts -

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289263

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281472

  • Commented: "Microsoft Releases AI Call Center Stack with Voice, SMS, and Memory"

    I work on building a support system right now at my job and this is the point I've been trying to make for the past few months. No, the AI chatbot should not have access to sensitive customer info. But our product manager is all-in on the hype and sees this as something that "deal with" later on.

    Oh well, who cares if there's a breach, some idiot gets to put a shiny AI product on their CV and get that new promotion/job. Users be damned.

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