fouc's comments

On: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

[fouc]

winning what?

[toomuchtodo → fouc]

One of President Donald Trump’s lines during the 2016 presidential campaign was his promise that, “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’”

https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2016/user-clip-too-much...

Trump says US is 'winning so much' in longest ever State of the Union - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQUGjRtq-M - February 25th, 2026

Hence the joke, "I am tired of winning." as the situation continues to rapidly degrade through policy choices. So much winning, it's too much.

On: The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

[fouc]

TL;DW: the exploding hate is due to Windows transitioning into a fully cloud-first OS.

[expedition32 → fouc]

Which is exactly what the entire market is doing- except for Linux but come on that OS will never be relevant.

[rbanffy → fouc]

Nobody passionately hates Chromebooks.

[nytesky → rbanffy]

I really dislike the “expiration” date, and at one point they were very short (5 years) and poorly documented so it was a nasty surprise if you got an older model on sale.

[rbanffy → nytesky]

I recently helped liberate 70 Chromebooks that were going to recycling. Now students get a Linux laptop for free.

[sli → rbanffy]

I'm absolutely sure there are people who do. Chromebooks just have a practically nonexistant market share compared to Windows, and a lot of those users being kids being issued school laptops probably doesn't translate to a lot of visible complaining about Chromebook-specific problems.

[card_zero → rbanffy]

What? I passionately hate Chromebooks, firstly because they were conceived as a power grab by Google to get people to do everything through online Google services instead of locally, and secondly in a more personal way when I actually had to use one, in a remote hostel with ropey internet.

[rbanffy → card_zero]

You hate Google. I don't like them, but they are OK computers that lack some important keys. Lacking a Meta key makes using Gnome less convenient.

You are not forced to use Gmail or Google Docs. You are mostly forced to use a browser, unless you jailbreak it.

[nytesky → rbanffy]

I don’t think I have ever spent over $100 on a Chromebook. I can’t imagine putting serious money in one; it’s a toy/disposable computer.

[moi2388 → rbanffy]

I do

[rbanffy → moi2388]

I respect you. It's very hard to be passionate about something as bland as a Chromebook. It's like being passionate about tofu, or toothpaste, or baby shampoo.

[frizlab → moi2388]

Me too

[rbanffy → frizlab]

I recently helped liberate about 70 EOL'ed Chromebooks. Now students in a college near me will get free laptops they can actually use for college work, running the latest and greatest Linux distros.

[westurner → rbanffy]

SusyQ USB-C Cable + USB-A to USB-C Cable + Coreboot?

Recently liberated a Chromebook that powerwashed my hours of manual provisioning again due to remote login control failure FWICS

Can't believe how much faster the same machine is with a modern Linux distro.

(ChromiumOS was originally Gnome and Chrome on a Gentoo derivative by Linux workstation users, but now has a "Turn on Linux" button greyed out for all the kids.)

Mrchromebox > Supported Devices: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html

It's possible to install a list of apps with a script on Win, Mac, and Linux computers.

Try to `adb install com.google.android.calculator`.

Which should be the security priority? App download counts or automated provisioning?

[card_zero → rbanffy]

Oh well that's a different matter. Nobody hates acceptable cheap hardware.

[nytesky → rbanffy]

Oh I thought it was a very dodgy process. Can you give some pointers? I will also ask an LLM?

[iamnothere → nytesky]

Here you go

https://mrchromebox.tech/

[rbanffy → iamnothere]

This was it. It involved dismantling the machine, removing a screw, and some other maneuvers.

[iamnothere → rbanffy]

Depends on the Chromebook. Some use a screw as a write protect jumper, some do not.

[rbanffy → iamnothere]

Agreed. This was, so far, my worst experience with liberation of locked down machines. It’s fun that it scaled to that many units.

On: AI and the Ship of Theseus

[fouc]

> But this all causes some interesting new developments we are not necessarily ready for. Vercel, for instance, happily re-implemented bash with Clankers but got visibly upset when someone re-implemented Next.js in the same way.

Kinda surprised nobody commented on this

On: Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access

[fouc]

I'd love to be able to pay for 5+ years of email service in one go, like I do when buying domains.

On: Build Your Own Forth Interpreter

[fouc]

For some reason this site feels AI generated to me.

On: Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]

[fouc]

> let alone corrected them

oof, I felt this one.

On: Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

[fouc]

you can change the tld of any archive.today link if .today doesn't work. for example archive.ph, archive.is, archive.md, etc

[qingcharles → fouc]

There's a DNS issue between Archive Today and some ISPs which causes their domains not to resolve properly, which is why some people have a lot of trouble using it.

[justincormack → qingcharles]

Its not "a DNS issue" they are banned in many countries and there are ongoing court cases, so various enforcement mechanisms are used.

[jdiff → justincormack]

There are also, separately, DNS issues that Archive.today chooses to block certain providers from. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

On: 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates

[fouc]

can look for macos downloader scripts in github. I noticed the readme here shares some URLs though I'm not sure if they still work https://github.com/Comp-Labs/Download-macOS

https://github.com/chris1111/Download_Install_macOS could also be another option.

I know I used one of the macos downloaders from github before, I just forget which one though.

[easyThrowaway → fouc]

Thanks!

On: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

[fouc]

A spoiled vote is at least better than not voting at all.

Because now that means there's an indication of what percentage of the populace are saying "These candidates don't qualify for my vote"

On: End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git

[fouc]

you don't understand what self-hosting means. self-hosting means the site is still up when AWS and Cloudflare go down.