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Comment · 4 hours ago
> Some EU countries even charge you a copyright tax when you buy a smartphone per gigabyte because they just assume that you'll fill every gigabyte with pirated music.
I live in Hungary where this is common but it's more like a "you pay tax for storage which goes to the labels, in turn we don't prosecute piracy" https://www.artisjus.hu/english/copyright-in-hungary/
Mind you we have a hungarian private torrent tracker with 400k users and 2.7 petabyte of data running since 2005. Virtually everyone is using it in the country but no one really wants to shut it down because at this point it's also a cultural archive.
Comment · 8 hours ago
Yes if you jailbreak it
It removes the region lock and you can set the system language to english. The eShop was shutdown already so that doesn’t matter
Comment · 2 days ago
I live in Europe: My only “concern” about chinese cars (and I don’t mean chinese as in Volvo) that I am not sure you will get parts and service in 10 or 15 years. More than 500 unique models were released in
the first 6 months of 2026 alone [0]. It’s like the wild west of Android phones 10-15 years ago. Brands you never heared about, never updated Android versions etc
0, https://www.carscoops.com/2026/08/chinese-automakers-lauchin...
Comment · 3 days ago
> Most people here probably have around $5-10M in assets given we’re mostly in tech
Nothing against you OP but this the perfect highlight how out of touch HN can be from the reality.
Comment · 4 days ago
I still have my boxed copy of Encarta 2001. The interactive world atlas was the best feature! Miles ahead of everything at the time. Multiple layers of stats from population to weather to languages etc https://youtu.be/zsbShjlh6xk?si=4U47LILUmKPfXgPY&t=320
Comment · 4 days ago
Also there is security. I think, I just guess, these old 16bit file formats are all exploitable to some extent
Comment · 4 days ago
Installed MS Office 2.0 some months ago with it just for fun. It actually works pretty well apart from the dictionary files, for some reason those are not recognized
https://files.catbox.moe/dy4bqy.png
I’ve used it for a week just I was curious:
1, is it good enough for modern day to day word processing (mostly emails)? Yes it is
2, can the modern word processors (Office 365, LibreOffice, Google Docs) recognize and open the files created with it? (doc, rtf anything but plain text) Yes they can
Comment · 4 days ago
Only the 512GB version gets the full fledged A20 Pro CPU (6 core 7 core GPU), the 128 and 256GB version only gets the 5 core CPU.
Comment · 5 days ago
Most people prefer censored internet as long as it aligns with their political leaning. Maybe that wasn't the case 15 years ago but it's pretty much true nowadays. I myself consider this as a fact.
Comment · 6 days ago
People should really read the whole thing (well at least the last chapter) because it's not as simple as "vibe coders made meg go away".
The writer equally hates ZUN, vibe coders, and AI haters (Bluesky crowd)
And if not then the TLDR is basically: ZUN made the games for japanese people. Western people wanted to play the games. Reverse engineers came along but they relied on community funding. Now the community is taken apart by vibe coders but the same community is not willing to fund manual labor. Also the community is still paying for ZUN which enforces the status quo of not bothering with english releases.
Comment · 6 days ago
You can close both menus
Comment · 6 days ago
oof it has nothing to do with Picasa which was a library manager and looked like this https://static.filehorse.com/screenshots/photo-and-design/pi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskC6c_5L1M
This is just a vibe coded image viewer, nothing else https://i.imgur.com/uBxUj8d.jpeg
Comment · 6 days ago
Trickle-down AI economics here we go! Suuurely it will work this time, any minute now don't worry about it.
Comment · 7 days ago
You don't even need to look at the code or anything. This ultra-verbose readme is the perfect sign of AI. 34,000 characters lol