kerhackernews's comments

On: Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

[kerhackernews]

He operated a site that allowed you to hire hitmen.

On: Priced out of home ownership

[kerhackernews]

>Ask yourself, do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain, Ireland, etc, all have the same inability to build or is there maybe some other common cause?

They all do though, for various reasons.

On: 3 reasons people are moving from Windows 11 back to Windows 10

[kerhackernews]

It's the last in the sense that it's mostly a rolling release with some major upgrades.

[rietta → kerhackernews]

Thanks! Makes sense. The irony is in 2024, I have spent more time in Windows 3.1 in a QEMU virtual machine lovingly restoring retro games than I have in any modern Windows. I think I will soon have one of the few copy tower capable of reading 5.25 inch floppy disks when I build that system out with parts that have been stored in an air conditioned basement all these years. I'll eventually have to blog about this.

On: 3 reasons people are moving from Windows 11 back to Windows 10

[kerhackernews]

I don't see the point. Windows 11 offers additional features over 10 and it feels very slightly faster.

If I wasn't gaming, I would just use Linux anyway.

[bebop → kerhackernews]

Depending on how you game and what games you play, steam + proton works really well on Linux.

On: 00Key a 75% Keyboard

[kerhackernews]

This is why I would not use less than a 75% keyboard. I don't see the point in saving vertical space (unless it's a laptop).

On: 00Key a 75% Keyboard

[kerhackernews]

The smaller keyboards are very popular for gaming because they are more ergonomic and free up more room on the desk.

However, if someone is in the market for a gaming keyboard right now, I would only recommend Wooting as at this point in time there is no HE keyboard with latency has low as Wooting.

On: DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

[kerhackernews]

Can't you just use a DNS provider that encrypts the traffic?

On: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

[kerhackernews]

Couldn't it just be that simple life isn't rare as long as the conditions exist for it to form. It took a very very very long time for even oxygen producing life to form after that.

On: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

[kerhackernews]

To me, based on how quickly life formed on earth. It's highly likely that simple life once existed within the ancient oceans of Mars. Though, after billions of years there would be no evidence left.

On: AirPods Max

[kerhackernews]

Extremely expensive.