Hacker News: JimmyBiscuit

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

JimmyBiscuit — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:36:42 +0000

They sold me a Pixel phone with a broken battery (I think 6a? Where the battery fails after 400 charging cycles). I got an email and the offer to just get 100$ in cash from them instead of sending my phone away to get it fixed. I never received the money after filling out all the forms. Fuck google.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Starlink Mini as a Failover"

JimmyBiscuit — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:01:21 +0000

It honestly has to be very strong rain for it to create connection issues. I dont know where you live but here in germany we have that maybe once or twice a year with our antenna.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)"

JimmyBiscuit — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:30:07 +0000

> Peter Turchins elite over production is my new nightmare

The Lamborgini Urus is a sign of the apocalypse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6_Z0yGwtx0

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

JimmyBiscuit — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:17:01 +0000

> having to be social because you will get depressed if you aren’t

Tbh often I see going out and being social as a kind of pre-payment so I can be a shut-in nerd for the other day of the weekend without feeling bad.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

JimmyBiscuit — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:48:53 +0000

Hmm I wonder what superpower got most of the oil from venezuela and iran. I think it starts with a C

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

JimmyBiscuit — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:01:15 +0000

Im just running a Nextcloud on a raspberry pi to sync everything. Works flawlessly for multiple years now.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

JimmyBiscuit — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:26:21 +0000

Umm this doesnt seem to be true: https://www.semafor.com/article/02/20/2026/cantor-fitzgerald...

Or is there another source for this claim?

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

JimmyBiscuit — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:09:10 +0000

Theres C++ in military airplanes, they just cut out 90% of the features: https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

And heres a nice video about it: https://youtu.be/Gv4sDL9Ljww?si=Z4riPMKAKcIKaU0s

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

JimmyBiscuit — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:40:36 +0000

Not the guy but you can just buy your ebooks from someplace else and use calibre to convert/send them to your kindle.

Im kinda cheeky and use Amazons Send-to-Kindle service to send ebooks in epub format to my kindle via wifi

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched"

JimmyBiscuit — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:09:19 +0000

Oh no youre one druggie friend (that you didnt know about having a drug addiction) that visits you sometimes got caught by the cops. Oh no they think youre their drug dealer since his license plate got recognized in your driveway a few times. Oh no they are kicking your door in with a search warrant and shoot your dog.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

JimmyBiscuit — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:31:15 +0000

Yeah, I can tell you that the only thing CCTV does is making the thief wear hoodies. And you get some clips of them carrying expensive bikes around the corner out of CCTV range to their parked transporter.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

JimmyBiscuit — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:25:10 +0000

In small shops youtube is quite a handy source of information. I have to prototype and 3D print lots of stuff.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits"

JimmyBiscuit — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:18:11 +0000

"ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd2qv58yl5o

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly"

JimmyBiscuit — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:34:22 +0000

Its not that simple. Smokers that dont die suddenly (how many are those actually?) dont die much earlier because healthcare improved and also:

- kill/cause damages through passive smoke

- can/do cause enormous health bills (my dad struggled on for almost 6 years)

- cleaning up their trash costs money

- set fire to stuff with thrown cigarette butts

- often dont just die and just cant work anymore thus stopping working earlier, create less value in general

I'd love to read up on current studies/research but lots of studies are 10+ years old now but the damages seem to outweigh them not having a retirement.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

JimmyBiscuit — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:10:42 +0000

All the things you listed arent things you interact with by pressing on them thousands of times in a day. Its a hard problem to make a keyboard that feels nice, looks nice and is waterproof. Its even harder if you know that the payoff isnt that marketable, I dont think I have ever seen a mainstream laptop advertisment talking about that you can spill stuff on it. Phones barely have buttons or holes anymore and it took us quite a while for the flagship-phones to be water-resistant.

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

JimmyBiscuit — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 08:08:22 +0000

Im sorry but the video feels a bit disingenuous with the way he is cutting the lime. With the normal knive he just pushes straight down on the lime and with the vibroknife he actually does a slicing move. Same with the cheese. It doesnt feel like an honest comparison

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?"

JimmyBiscuit — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:04:32 +0000

>As a creator, how am I supposed to create, when all avenues lead to "source it in China"? That... Is huge.

Trying to make a thing and not sourcing stuff internationally is almost impossible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C"

JimmyBiscuit — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 08:31:31 +0000

I have a Garmin Instinct 2 Solar. The Solar feature is more of a gimmick, unless youre out in the sun the whole day for weeks it doesnt really make a difference.

But it doesnt matter much, the battery lasts 3 weeks. Its a great watch if you like the old-style digital watch screens

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight"

JimmyBiscuit — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:32:26 +0000

To follow the sun it would have had to fly over 1000mph for the whole duration of the flight. So I guess it circled

New comment by JimmyBiscuit in "The future is not self-hosted"

JimmyBiscuit — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:12:45 +0000

The dude set it up to use Tailscale, so not really public. But it was only mentioned in passing.