Hacker News: AstroJetson

New comment by AstroJetson in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

AstroJetson — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:25:09 +0000

You must have spoken to me, I hate it today has as much as I did back then.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Show HN: PitchTrail – Perfect Pitch for Kids"

AstroJetson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:40:03 +0000

I have a similar app called BSharp on my phone that I try to get better at.

I'm using it with a smaller child, she loves trying to keep the notes going.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

AstroJetson — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:53:28 +0000

Membership is only $65 a year and I save more than that on diapers. So it pretty easy to cover the fee.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Half-Baked Product"

AstroJetson — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:58:30 +0000

I have a friend whos kitchen is almost the size of my apartment. They have a "dish" dishwasher and a "glass" dishwasher with different inside configurations. Woe to me that only has a sink and loaded into the wrong dishwasher.

(They also have a fridge and then two pull out drawer units, one is for keeping extra snacks frozen things (like ice, ice cream, juice etc.) and the other is for veggie / meat.)

New comment by AstroJetson in "Half-Baked Product"

AstroJetson — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:52:31 +0000

How did they turn down your Black Olive and Pineapple Pizza? Asking for a friend.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Knoppix"

AstroJetson — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:00:07 +0000

My first efforts in cluster computing was Cluster Knoppix. I would go into the training lab with 25 PCs and boot them all into a single cluster. When I was done for the night it was an easy reboot back.

Fun times

New comment by AstroJetson in "Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine"

AstroJetson — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:58:59 +0000

It's like pocketmod. I've had these for years for making shortcut manuals.

https://pocketmod.com/

New comment by AstroJetson in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

AstroJetson — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:43:51 +0000

I messed around some, talked to two people. Watched the birds fly.

I did the "go to next town" It worked, but then I got to (https://emilesilvis.com/) and got stuck. The Town Square is in 1/2 the page, so you can't get to the two ends to be able to go to the next town.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

AstroJetson — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:58:45 +0000

I really like the Fruit Jam. I was also excited about Frank's OS, I'm looking to see how hard it would be to port over.

New comment by AstroJetson in "The Free Universal Construction Kit"

AstroJetson — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:08:34 +0000

I’m disappointed that VEX IQ didn’t make the list of connections. For a System they have a lot of well thought out parts, they need help on the decoration side and smaller gear patterns.

New comment by AstroJetson in "The Cult of Costco"

AstroJetson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:38:45 +0000

Sometimes you need 1 item, like a chicken for dinner or ribs to grill. Pro tip, don’t take a cart. Go in, get your two/three things and walk out for under $40.

Take a cart, always over $100.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

AstroJetson — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:09:34 +0000

Some of us don’t, but for about $2k they will drain the fluid out and refill will floater free materials.

Changed my life, I thought I was living in a small crowd of fruit flies.

New comment by AstroJetson in "I built a pint-sized Macintosh"

AstroJetson — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:02:31 +0000

There is a version for the Adafruit Fruit Jam Board. It’s pretty cool, it was fun to go back in time. About 75 all up in costs.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices"

AstroJetson — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:39:15 +0000

Does this mean my Beanie Babies are not worth $250 each? Asking for a friend... /s

New comment by AstroJetson in "Access to a Shared Unix Computer"

AstroJetson — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:13:50 +0000

One very overwhelming overworked volunteer. It’s a free service, so patience is a virtue.

New comment by AstroJetson in "One year of keeping a tada list"

AstroJetson — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:03:15 +0000

I have the same system, todo become done. I also add done things that I didn’t expect/ plan to do. (Life’s curve ball). I also started tracking “what is the worst thing that happened today”. That’s added perspective that I may think I had a bad day, when in fact I got these things done and the worst thing was actually pretty minimal.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

AstroJetson — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:16:22 +0000

I think the BOFH answer would be “They ride Elevator #2 to sub-basement 3.” Plot twist, there is only sub-basement 2.

Two pints of ale please!

New comment by AstroJetson in "Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices"

AstroJetson — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:26:56 +0000

I have an iPad Air that I love, made in 2014, last iOS is 12.5. I’d love a slightly more current browser, but the rest of the software is working fine. I spend 6-7 hours using it each day.

Just a browser is all I want.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Employee quits job over an Nvidia RTX 5060"

AstroJetson — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:07:46 +0000

It’s like the days when I traveled for work, and some bright spark in finance said the bonus points belonged to the company. We had a few go-arounds about it. It got ugly in the company, and I refused to fly. Then about a dozen other employees refused to fly. I still went to customer locations, but I drove. What could be a one day trip to Chicago became 3 days out, one day there, 3 days back. Mileage, food and hotels were easily 4 times the cost of the flights. They backed down.

New comment by AstroJetson in "Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines"

AstroJetson — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:29:05 +0000

Thanks for the memory reminder, I read them when they first came out. They are still highly amusing today!