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Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by handedness »

fsflover wrote: post #179
handedness wrote: post #178

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A committed Windows user who just noted they depend on iMessages probably isn't a great prospect for your proselytizing, anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855086 I've previously tried living out of a PinePhone Pro, and if those web apps require much JS at all they're going to be in for a bad time. By benchmarks and your previous accounts, it sounds like the Librem 5 is only going to be worse from there.…

> A committed Windows user who just noted they depend on iMessages probably isn't a great prospect for your proselytizing, anyway Thank you for your advice, but if you've been following the recent trends, more and more committed Windows users are switching to Linux. Especially among the technical audience that comments on HN. Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548437 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

My example was that specific user, if you didn't notice.

I send and receive iMessages perfectly fine on my non-iOS devices. It's doable, much more so than running ancient hardware is, but there are reasons I don't bring it up with people who haven't asked.

The PinePhone Pro wasn't a compromise, it was unusable. Maybe that's improved since then, but it was a horrendous experience.

I set the IT policy for my devices. I sleep fine saying I can't install crapware on it. It's my primary business device and that comes with sensible restrictions.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by eightysixfour »

fsflover wrote: post #163
eightysixfour wrote: post #112

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I am a similar age to Geohot and I have tried to escape smartphones to a dumb phone. It didn’t work. So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. • Surface parking in my city is all by QR code. Where there are machines, they are broken because no one cares. • Social groups are on iMessage or RCS. RCS is not nearly as backwards compatible with MMS as it seems and you…

>So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. Have you considered using a GNU/Linux phone (Librem 5 or Pinephone)? There is no dependence on a megacorp and QR codes work fine. Some services might redirect you to a web app if you show them such phone.

Neither of those are dumbphones and neither resolve 90% of the problems I mentioned. I wasn't trying to get away from walled gardens or chase additional privacy, I was trying to get away from the most distracting devices ever created and to intentionally not have 24/7 access to a web browser.

My path was iOS -> LightPhone 3 -> GrapheneOS -> iOS.

The LightPhone was the right level of capability for the distraction free goal I had but it wasn't capable enough to resolve all of the things I mentioned.

The phone with GrapheneOS was an attempt at compromise. The idea was something I had enough control over that I could (in code) limit my usage on. In reality it didn't limit my usage and had issues with things like banking apps and RCS, so I was basically using a more irritating iPhone again. I went back to iOS.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by port11 »

rmunn wrote: post #29

From the article: "... there is no other Internet, just a place with five corporate towns and some Chinese ones that are really hard to visit if you don’t speak Chinese." Yeah, that's only true if you don't hang out in the old-style Internet. I spend most of my time on blogs, reading and replying to discussions on wide-ranging topics, talking to interesting people who know a lot more than I do about many subjects (in…

Yeah, some people really need to take a step back from where they hang out. If you think all there is to the internet is the Five Places and the Weird Chinese Thing (paraphrasing from OP), you’re being quite myopic.

Heck, do we even know anyone that truly hangs out there? The people around me are talking to each other on WhatsApp and Discord. Otherwise they’re playing mobile games, which is its own issue.

I got into role-playing, the VTES card game, some board games, and had a kid. Turns out most people wanna hang out offline, and otherwise use chat apps to talk about their hobbies. Then there’s all the great bloggers that write about parenting and the newsletters that cover positive news the media doesn’t spin.

The internet is fine. Now if we could get the crawlers and bots to behave a bit…

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by thatmiddleway »

ryan_n wrote: post #51
nicman23 wrote: post #34

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lol he is right. his work both on the ps3 and now with the hacked p2p drivers is powering many a lab

how does the ps3 hack "power many a lab"?

You could get yellow dog Linux running on a ps3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_Linux

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by georgehotz »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #158
bena wrote: post #120

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I think you're being accused of being a sockpuppet.

51% of the internet is now bots. entirely possible it's not a person. but we're talking about geohot here, entirely possible he built an agent to handle all criticism

My legend precedes me. I love when one of my blog posts reaches HN and I get to read a nice critique of my personality. I will make sure to incorporate all of your feedback so I can be the best person I can be!

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by fragmede »

torginus wrote: post #58

I remember watching this urban exploration video, the guy went into an abandoned Russian nuclear bunker, deep underground. Watching this titanic effort of engineering, made by people who were both highly intelligent and had vast resources at their disposal, yet felt it necessary to build it to have an answer to the unthinkable horrors the future held, all of this reflected in the sturdy but utilitarian design of the…

Not this one but it's got similar vibes.

https://youtu.be/ob9YJlGb4oM

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by bena »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #141
codemog wrote: post #121

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Reads like a man who put off searching for a real relationship for too long, but also didn’t develop that part of himself to maintain one. Then a bunch of existentialism blaming anything but himself. Could be compounded by his location, for example, it’s hard to find a wife in Miami ;) The loneliness could take him to dark places. I’ve been there. I hope he finds someone.

He had a girlfriend in livestream and was also on SeekingArrangement. He's rich from tech so what happened?

He was looking for a sugar baby?

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by latchkey »

ryan_n wrote: post #167
cbdumas wrote: post #111

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I worked as a undergrad assistant in a research lab in 2011-ish, and the lab had a shelf full of PS3s working as a cluster. Regretfully my project didn't get to use it.

Okay so circa 2011 it was powering some labs. Don't think there are many/any frontier labs in 2026 running ps3's, or at least no one has provided any evidence of that still..

Much later, I got to deploy 20,000 PS5 chips to mine ethereum. When PoS happened, we shut it all down. Now those boards (BC-250) are being sold on ebay for $200 and people are running AI on them.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by serf »

sarchertech wrote: post #176
drannex wrote: post #150

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The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. Does this mean everything he does or says is right? absolutely not, sometimes its myopic and tunnel-vision induced with a smidgen of good points hidden within. Does he come across as 'off' to some people? a slight god-complex? is he likely hardcore autistic and…

> The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. I don’t know the guy, but if what the person replied to is correct about how he views himself and people who disagree with him, it doesn’t matter how good he is. You don’t want to be on a team with that. You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it. Let…

>You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it.

how many times in history does this need to be disproven? some of the most insufferable assholes in human history were absolutely brilliant once-in-an-era types.

it's a chicken-or-egg question to ask whether or not the brilliance comes from the confidence or the other way around, but opinionated assholes that can't operate in traditional team settings have a proven track record of effectiveness in the world.

the trick isn't to ignore the brilliance, the trick is to find a handler or method that works to smooth the burden so that your organization can take advantage of the brilliance without self-destructing.

in fact, here's a rule of thumb. if any opinion anyone ever concludes with "Let's disconnect this human from society until they fix themselves" , well , I humbly disagree.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by sillyfluke »

swiftcoder wrote: post #137
eightysixfour wrote: post #112

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I am a similar age to Geohot and I have tried to escape smartphones to a dumb phone. It didn’t work. So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. • Surface parking in my city is all by QR code. Where there are machines, they are broken because no one cares. • Social groups are on iMessage or RCS. RCS is not nearly as backwards compatible with MMS as it seems and you…

Similar age as well, and damn, if I could actually convince my bank to let me approve transactions with a dumbphone... The reality is just that a significant part of the modern world is contingent on carrying around a brand-name smartphone

Now imagine how poor people stress if their smartphone bricks or gets damaged or lost. Or if they're homeless, in which case the likelihood of their possesions getting damaged is probably much higher.

It's weird that people are sleepwalking into this single point-of-failure dystopia instead of regulating it out existence and only realize it when their phone gets damaged or lost or is glitching in some deal-breaking way.

Here's a tip, if you want people to help you out don't start with, "I don't have an smartphone..."

Instead, say a variation of "Hey, my camera's broken/the app keeps crashing on my phone. Can you help me out?" People tend to be a lot more sympathetic.

I've never had issues with the restaurant QR thing.

me:"Hey, my camera doesn't work can you help me out?"

waiter: "Sure you can take a look on my phone/use this tablet."

Like, I have to fix my phone's camera before I can park in your city? are you kidding me?

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