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Grisu_FTP··on Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
if someone annoyed me with ai like this, i wouldnt even waste the energy on an AI summary.

On the other hand, im probably not good enough at anything to even be worth the waste of energy to annoy me.

Grisu_FTP··on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
The full text says: "because driving 17mph (27kph for metric types) in this context is reckless and not something human would typically do"

While i dont have kids, i guess you dont either. Because usually kids dont drive cars, atleast i didnt when i was in elementary school.

Grisu_FTP··on If you tax them, will they leave?
I just googled confused what a "Melania screening" (Thought it was like a sort of security screening, maybe all the ICE is messing with my head) is. First time i heard about the Movie. This feels like one more step the Trump fam. took to become some sort of celebrity-king thing.
Grisu_FTP··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
I might be misremembering or mixing memories but i remember something about them only storing the hash of the number.

So the FBI cant ask what phone number is tied to an account, but if a specific phone number was tied to the specific account? (As in, Signal gets the number, runs it through their hash algorythm and compares that hash to the saved one)

But my memory is very very bad, so like i said, i might be wrong

Grisu_FTP··on Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
Well, i also would rather use Windows 11 than ubuntu. (I probably would also rather pay for Windows than ubuntu) Every time i tried to use ubuntu it was the worst OS/Linux experience i ever had. A friend wanted to try linux once, picked ubuntu because its a "noob friendly" distro, and i had a "critical system error" pop up before even booting up once. And this is by far the most stable experience i had with ubuntu.

Also ubuntu is ugly and slow (In my experience, In my opinion).

Grisu_FTP··on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
This is very unrealistic, it would say: [ ] — Yes, I'd love to!! [ ] — Not now - Please remind me in 5 minutes to do the important guided tour
Grisu_FTP··on Microsoft mishandling example.com
I might be misremembering but i think it even copies all of your mails to their servers.
Grisu_FTP··on Bugs Apple loves
> Worse part is that it autocorrects when pressing "send", not just when adding a space or a period. So the correct word gets corrected wrong and immediately sent.

Oh my GOD. YES. FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED. Everytime i use an iphone it drives me insanely insane. I dont understand how this isnt one of the most common tech complaints i hear.

This ruins my day every time i think about it.

Grisu_FTP··on Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
To be honest, i think that once you are a target big enough, there is literally nothing you can do. Sure you can drag it out (and maybe if you are skilled enough for quite long), but eventually there will be some leak, might it be a bug, your own fault, someone elses fault or just bad luck. No matter the reason, once something slips through, its through and will be used against you.
Grisu_FTP··on Battery is about to change the world in 3 months, or make this guy a fool
While im always skeptical about "World changing Revolution" happening one day to another, i really hope this is true and as good as "advertised".
Grisu_FTP··on GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '
Why not just add the GOG games to Steam as non Steam games? Isnt that better anyway than having to launch GOG from the Steam BPM just to launch a game from their BPM?

Why would i want to launch a seperate launcher to launch my games?

Grisu_FTP··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
Still very unfinished but the site im currently working on is https://beta.grisu.app

Once its done it will replace the automatic redirect to be a Table of Contents of sorts with buttons to redirect you.

Grisu_FTP··on Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
> Just because Dunning–Kruger exists does NOT exclude the fact that people are good at judging some things.

I dont think this is about Dunning-Kruger, i think this is about the emotional attachment you build to something you created and how it clouds your judgement.

for example, if i recall correctly people liked their ikea furniture more, even tho its more work and of lesser quality, because they build it themselves and thus feel better about it. Same thing probably extends to most things you can do yourself: Cooking, Growing plants, building a dirt hut in Minecraft

Grisu_FTP··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
What do you mean? If i google "{Insert issue here} Windows" i get clear and easy solutions.

1. You reboot. 2. You try sfc /scannow 3. You try Dism 4. You reboot again. Doesnt work? (like 99,99999% of cases, like with a pc i had to fix yesterday) 5. Reinstall windows

Doesnt work? Have fun trying to get information from microsofts documentation where the same thing got documented 3 different ways 3 different times, and when you change from/to your native language you get another 3 different documentations. All telling you entirely different things, each screenshot showing a ui that doesnt resemble yours because it gotta change every month.

Very fun, not annoying at all :)

Grisu_FTP··on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
Being one Seat behind instead of one step ahead
Grisu_FTP··on Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
I dont know why, but i cant trust ProtonMail.

Everytime i see them mentioned i get this "Something is fishy with them" feeling.

Grisu_FTP··on Gmail is entering the Gemini Era
Thank god i started hosting my own mail (and other stuff) like 2 years ago. Everything just seems to get more annoying and less userfriendly.

As the email client i use Thunderbird on Linux and Fairmail on Android. I have really been enjoying the minimal UI of fairmail.

Should someone trust me (a random stranger) more than google, send me an email to grisu@grisu.app or visit my website (grisu.app) for more information. I will give free emails with pretty much no storage limit for as long as i can.

Grisu_FTP··on Linux is good now
Love your website + house :D
Grisu_FTP··on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
Worst thing about iOS keyboard is that it corrects the last word when hitting send before even showing what it would change.

When i hit send, i want to send the message that is on my screen, not the message iOS thinks i meant to send.

(And that you cant just click into the middle of a word to edit one letter)

Grisu_FTP··on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
Yea, IMO piracy is a misnomer. To steal something (or Pirate) you would have to take something which causes the original to disappear from the owner.

But Piracy isnt that, you create an unlawful copy, but you didnt steal (IMO)

Which is why i cant participate in the "Is AdBlocker Piracy" debate, because for me, not even piracy is piracy :P

Grisu_FTP··on Modern Walkmans
Did that work? I heard everything already, from it being a wonder solution to it destroying the discs even further (if i had to guess they used the kind of toothpaste with little stones in them?)
Grisu_FTP··on Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers
For 24$ a month you can get a good enough VPS to stream Terabytes of movies with jellyfin.

Even if you take away the money a vpn costs, you still can have a decent vps with decent storage.

If you only need storage, even better. Found an offer for a "Storage VPS" with low hardware specs and 2TB of HDDs for 10€/monthly

Grisu_FTP··on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users
> Samsung haven't even released the November patches yet.

My fold 6 has the November "security patch level" or what does that refer to?

Grisu_FTP··on Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules
THIS IS GREAT! Thank you for showing me :D
Grisu_FTP··on AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
Scary
Grisu_FTP··on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
I agree, it has been lots of fun testing around in the KVM. Recently a GrapheneOS update even included the Button to attach to the "screen" of the VM. It also has GPU passthrough iirc?

When i have more freetime during the holidays i will test further. I especially want to try how it works when i combine stuff like steam + fex + Proton or run other GPU stuff

Grisu_FTP··on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up with Nothing but a Zip Code
I really wish this is just a good service with good privacy but for some reason with these "super duper private service here, in a branch where everyone else isnt" sounds always a bit fishy to me

Same reason why Proton.me is a bit sus to me. I really want to believe them, but i just cant.

Grisu_FTP··on Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
I ran root on my main devices for 8-9 years uninterrupted and always got banking apps (and all others for that matter) to work with at most 40 minutes of tinkering. Ofc thats not something everybody wants todo, but since i love tinkering with tech anyway and always want root that was worth it for me (and OS updates for 7 years instead of 2, used my phone that normally only was supported up to Android 9 to android 15). And this is with samsung devices which have tripped Knox (Funnily enough, i wanted to unroot since i didnt need it anymore once and then my samsung smartwatch couldnt connect because my device had tripped knox, so i had to root again to hide it. So their anti-root measure pretty much forced me to stay rooted)

The hardest to get working were: S-push tan (a 2fa app for the bank "Sparkasse", their normal app is far easier to get running) and lately revolut. but as i said, i always got it working.

Also it seems whatsapp blocks open bootloaders if you get enough warnings for using a custom modded version (A message pops up that tells you to get whatsapp from the official places, which i did) but hiding the open bootloader was enough to get that working.

Also with just root its easier than with root + Custom Rom, which was my setup.

So yea, it wont work out of the box, but its pretty simple to get working.

Grisu_FTP··on Half of Linux Users Stick with X11, Despite Years of Wayland Being Forced
Thank you for the very thorough answer!!
Grisu_FTP··on Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
Yea, the faceid in the bed thing is very annoying when using my "tinker iphone" in the bed. Havent found Fingerprint auth unreliable, but my hands and phone mostly stay very clean and i have my finger added 2-3 times for faster and more reliable scans.

My phone has the fingerprint reader in the power button, all cases just leave the powerbutton open.

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