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New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "A dock that wakes up reliably"

LennyHenrysNuts — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:58:38 +0000

Never thought it could be the monitor. I have an HP dock with an HP laptop for work and it's totally unreliable waking from sleep.

My chances of getting new monitors are slim in this climate but it's a new avenue of investigation at least.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC"

LennyHenrysNuts — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:00:22 +0000

I stopped buying consoles after the PS3 and the PS Vita, with the exception of an Anbernic Cube XX.

Nowadays if I game at all it's PS1 and SNES classics on the Cube XX.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs"

LennyHenrysNuts — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:56:12 +0000

My company: Use AI! Use AI!

No wait

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

LennyHenrysNuts — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:48:50 +0000

Sony actually allowed "OtherOS" until Geohot screwed it up for everybody and they locked it down.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "China's public QR codes are being hijacked to redirect users to porn and scams"

LennyHenrysNuts — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:33:08 +0000

I had this idea myself a few years back for less grubby, more subversive purposes. But, typical me, I never followed through with it.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Starring the Computer"

LennyHenrysNuts — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:42:50 +0000

For me, the Atari ST, the Commodore +/4, the Commodore 64 etc. I am saddened that the Dragon 32 never made it onto the silver screen.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)"

LennyHenrysNuts — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:58:32 +0000

She had me for the first 300 milliseconds. Very funny.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home"

LennyHenrysNuts — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:49:37 +0000

At work, yeah, fine I guess. Outside of work? No way. And I don't mind being called a Luddite, I know what I am.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Should every baby's DNA be sequenced?"

LennyHenrysNuts — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:16:47 +0000

Gattaca was such a good film.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Sony erases digital content from libraries"

LennyHenrysNuts — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:09:30 +0000

I remember when Amazon did something similar with the kindle maybe a decade ago, I was livid. I vowed never to own a Kindle and bought a Kobo and installed Koreader on it.

I hear this today, and now I just shrug. I'm past caring and I hate that.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Knoppix"

LennyHenrysNuts — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:04:00 +0000

The OG live distro. This thing saved my butt on multiple occasions. I haven't even thought about it in a decade.

I feel a bit bad about that.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours""

LennyHenrysNuts — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:34:39 +0000

No it didn't

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

LennyHenrysNuts — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:46:54 +0000

This is gloriously bonkers.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes"

LennyHenrysNuts — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:21:09 +0000

I don't think many people realize how far ahead the Archimedes was at the time.

I got to borrow one from school for the entire summer holidays - a friend and I manhandled the beast to my house - and I spent six glorious weeks with it.

I'd love to find one but I expect they're hard to find.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "OpenClaw had a rough week"

LennyHenrysNuts — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:39:01 +0000

I disabled it last week - I'll just do stuff by hand. At least if I mess it up I know who to blame.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "What British people mean when they say 'sorry'"

LennyHenrysNuts — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:53:54 +0000

Please, stop using the word British for the English. Welshmen are not English, the English are not Scottish.

English politeness is not necessarily a feature of our Celtic brother and sister's national character.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Permacomputing Principles"

LennyHenrysNuts — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:38:14 +0000

I'm not a greenie by any stretch of the imagination but I'm a strong believer in Repair, Re-use, Recycle.

I'm writing this comment on a Lenovo Yoga I bought for $10 and fixed up. It's a quad core with 4GB of soldered RAM and a 128GB SSD but I slapped CachyOS on it and it works for nearly anything I want to do when I'm out and about. The battery lasts me about 3 1/2 hours. I've picked up CRT monitors for virtually nothing and they work just fine.

We throw things away too easily.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Pen pal programs endure in a digital age"

LennyHenrysNuts — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:31:43 +0000

There's also a subreddit for international pen friends for adults. It jives with their fountain pen subreddit pretty well.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Claude for Creative Work"

LennyHenrysNuts — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:00:46 +0000

I don't think that word means what Anthropic thinks it means.

New comment by LennyHenrysNuts in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

LennyHenrysNuts — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:02:35 +0000

Gaming is more than viable on a Linux PC these days.

I'm using CachyOS with a PS2 controller or mouse and keyboard. I had to do virtually zero tinkering.