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It pulls the data from https://macrostrat.org/ and "just" determines where you are and does the AR overlay. So I guess it depends if you trust their data.
It only shows "Update and shut down" (which is a lie as it still will reboot) or "Update and reboot.

I think all this was a response to severely outdated Windows machines being infected with worms and what not. Microsoft got bad press for this and went (way) overboard with trying to force users to install updates as soon as released.

Please add a button to disable a background animation (or just remove it). It adds visual noise and is so distracting I closed the website after reading a couple of sentences.
Not what you asked for but you may enjoy Pitch Perfect 237: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiC9X_MoE1M
Re:Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:34AM (#47671876)
This bullshit attitude to make in-jokes that don't make any sense to people not part of the cultural or social phenomenom that an article is about is one of the most infuriating aspects of them. You can barely find proper user review for books like this or Welcome to Night Vale or such.
Re:Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:39AM (#47348018)
I thought "I know that username". I love ntfy, thanks for developing it.
Re:Emissary, a fast open-source Java messaging library on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:37AM (#46775924)
And the only one I can think of where I can't post my comment using Ctrl+Enter.
My experience has been somewhat different. I've had a linux server for a long time so I'm not new to the OS but my main computer which I use for development and gaming and everything else has always been Windows. I recently added a dual-boot Ubuntu for some performance-heavy development where the better docker integration made sense for me to use.

I had to try three window managers until I was able to use fractional scaling in such a way that my main 4K 32" screen shows 150% and my secondary screen shows a sharp image because Gnome cannot do fractional scaling only on one screen and for some reason 100% resulted in a blurry image.

The window manager crashed multiple times when I tried to unlock it.

Whenever I woke up my screen the whole system froze, apparently because of the USB hub in the monitor which registered. So far the only solution has been to disconnect the USB hub.

Fan control doesn't work properly because the chipset isn't supported.

I see rendering issues with window decorations all the time.

That's just after two weeks. I can't remember the last time my windows froze or crashed or had display errors. Whenever I'm in the console or do IO heavy stuff I feel right at home but as a desktop OS it's still inferior to me. I don't have fewer problems on Linux, just different ones.

Re:Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:57AM (#46656141)
I'm using DisplayFusion on Windows and am very happy with it. Haven't found anything similar on Linux that works as well.
> Yes, Gaming Couch is currently free to play!

Emphasis mine. Sounds like they're not ruling it out.

Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO on Thursday December 04, 2025 @04:27AM (#46145559)
From what I've read and heard Gemini is the superior model but Claude Code is the better tool.
Re:Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers on Friday November 28, 2025 @02:23AM (#46076350)
I found the documentation confusing and as so often with general-approach tools too overwhelming for what I'm trying to do. sdkman works fine for what I need it for and usually you only need one instance of gradle and maven installed.

And sdkman is written in rust and only needs curl, zip and unzip, no JVM.

I would've expected this kind of inane take on Reddit or X, not here. Or on SO where somebody asks "How do I do X?" and is told "X sucks, you want to use Y".
Re:Show HN: Whittle – A Shrinking Word Game on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:59AM (#44808602)
FWIW I like yours better. I'd just love to play the ones from previous days.
Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:07AM (#44782543)
They're not strictly taxes but they kinda are. They're mandatory and paid by workers into a fund but are linked to your future pensions. Like taxes they're automatically deducted from your salary and legally required but earmarked as to be used in the future.

Which has worked well for quite some time but I don't believe I'll every see any of the money I'm currently paying into the system.

Re:I Drank Every Cocktail on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:05AM (#44667140)
Hi! I wondered why the Gin Basil Smash is in the column with rare, specialized ingredients? Sounds pretty basic to me, especially compared with the other cocktails in the list.
Yesterday I tried CC the first time. I have the $20 package. I asked it to improve the code in a small kotlin based chess engine. Five minutes later I reached my limit and the engine performed poorer than before. It just created two new classes, changed some code in others and created a couple of tests which it ran. So I hit the limit pretty quickly.
Re:Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:28AM (#44335460)
"For most documents, Harper can serve up suggestions in under 10ms." 10l is OK. 10kg as well. Why is 10ms wrong?
Minor thing: When I load the page and click "Load example file" while Pyodide is still loading I see a stacktrace for a short time. Perhaps disable the button until it's loaded?
Relatively early on the page it says:

"docker save | ssh | docker load transfers the entire image, even if 90% already exists on the server"

The opposite for me on Firefox Desktop - I didn't realize they were gifs and wondered what the pictures were supposed to tell me.
Re:Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @05:09AM (#43903071)
What's the relevance of this?
Re:German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @08:28AM (#43470404)
Works fine for me on Firefox.
Re:How to Compile Java into Native Binaries with Mill and Graal on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:50AM (#42928953)
Native Image requires so much more work to have a medium-sized java project properly run when compiled the price gets a lot higher.
Re:How to Compile Java into Native Binaries with Mill and Graal on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:48AM (#42928936)
While I agree I think most use cases aren't for releasing end-user software that needs to run on many architectures and OSes but rather building enterprise software for one certain combination, usually x86 and linux, to deploy on a server or containerized in a hyperscaler.

But to contradict myself, I actually use windows, WSL and oracle cloud to build for windows x86, linux x86 and linux ARM64 to build a java desktop application. Of course I'd prefer it if I could just use my main machine and OS to build all those like Go can.

Re:How to Compile Java into Native Binaries with Mill and Graal on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:45AM (#42928912)
I don't think you'd be a Java developer anymore.
I liked Imgur when it came up as a free, simple image hoster. It still kinda works as that.

This is the first time I've seen a blog-type entry there. I understand the appeal, though, as it doesn't even require an account to create it.

Re:Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @07:56AM (#42305609)
I don't think I've ever seen a recommendation for books with less reviews than The Battleship Chronicle. That's not bad per se, just unusual.
Re:Show HN: my party game where AI decides if you’re funny on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @07:54AM (#42305596)
I convinced one woman to follow me (she said Lead the way) and then she walked off.
Re:Using an 8K TV as a Monitor on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @06:06AM (#41993372)
Works great with Display Fusion on Windows.

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