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Ask HN: Please give us an option to hide our username in the upper right corner

5 points·by swingandamiss·9 dni temu·18 comments

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swingandamiss
·wczoraj·discuss
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swingandamiss
·5 dni temu·discuss
I just checked, and now it is 50 Gbps. Not long ago it was 300 Gbps when I moved into my house. I guess they lowered it. Not really any use for such speeds in a residential home anyways.
swingandamiss
·6 dni temu·discuss
Because my main account is tied to my real identity in the username so I wanted to shift away from that.
swingandamiss
·6 dni temu·discuss
No, not a typo. Ziply has 300 Gbps at my house if I want to pay $900 a month. Instead I pay $65 for 2 Gbps
swingandamiss
·6 dni temu·discuss
I have fiber (I can get up to 300 Gbps at my home in the Seattle area, but I got opted for the 2Gbps) and I have Starlink as backup/failover. I previously used my mobile service for that but learned the hard way that when there's a large internet outage in the area, as it did when we had a bad storm, so does mobile service, either power loss or it can't support the influx of everyone using their phone internet. So now I have starlink as a backup. It's a very small portable unit that I can also take when camping. It's a great service. Also it's powering a lot of airlines now, it's fast and reliable to the point I can watch youtube and tiktok on my flights.
swingandamiss
·8 dni temu·discuss
No, I just created a new alt account. I have a year 1 account as my main.
swingandamiss
·8 dni temu·discuss
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swingandamiss
·9 dni temu·discuss
Thanks. This is very useful. I'm surprised at push back I always get on this topic so it's nice to see I'm not the only one. I thought tech people were concerned about privacy, but I guess not? I know discord and a few other apps offer a "streamer mode" that hides the username so you don't broadcast it to your audience if you stream, I wish more apps and sites adopted that feature.
swingandamiss
·9 dni temu·discuss
I rarely type my password or PIN. And if I did, I'd make sure to hide my screen. But I frequently casually read HN, reddit, and other sites casually and in public places. It would be nice if my username wasn't so visible to others.
swingandamiss
·9 dni temu·discuss
Then I can't vote up/down, hide, or flag posts and logged out users will get cached pages.