Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — trekkie99

trekkie99

HN member
Joined
Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 1:33 PM UTC
HN karma
10
Public activity
11 items

About trekkie99

mmm, linux

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #47868018

    Sounds like a big gap. Figures.

  2. comment
    Comment #47815370

    > “Accusing someone of spying on children is not a policy disagreement; it is a life-altering allegation.” - flock “life altering”? Oh so like a women and her kids being held at gu…

  3. comment
    Comment #47815299

    Private companies and authoritative governments have too much to gain from locking things down, and recent examples show that this is happening more, not less, at a fast track pace…

  4. comment
    Comment #47649596

    I’d imagine that all of Canonical’s flavors/spins ship with snap, so if the resources are lighter on say xubuntu then it’s probably not snap. Snap still kinda egh though ;-D

  5. comment
    Comment #47648701

    Is this a Ubuntu issue or a Gnome issue? What about Lubuntu, Kubuntu, etc?

  6. comment
    Comment #47648432

    One of the big complaints you’d hear a lot from some about EVs early on was the tax on the electric grid. But whenever it’s AI data centers being discussed, they’re not talked abou…

  7. comment
    Comment #47541265

    https://youtu.be/ZcJjMnHoIBI

  8. comment
    Comment #47453428

    It’s not appropriate. It’s the distro maintainers who force their users.

  9. comment
    Comment #47453387

    Why is the burden being put on the developers and not the distro maintainers that (potentially/allegedly) prematurely implemented the new(?) thing? insert xkcd dependency comic

  10. comment
    Comment #47437559

    OS age verification?

  11. comment
    Comment #47399411

    Really like River. Written in zig btw, which is something to potentially consider given the language’s adolescence. By default river ships with rivertile as its wm which is quite l…