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New comment by StumpChunkman in "They're Made Out of Meat (1991)"

StumpChunkman — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:33:59 +0000

Agreed! I love the saxophone riff for the opening/closing song.

Also, funny to see Ben Bailey outside of a taxi cab.

New comment by StumpChunkman in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

StumpChunkman — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:21:31 +0000

Agreed with OP. It's very handy. I made the switch after trying to tinker with running third party utilities to do this and running into issues. I found Apollo and it all just worked. Now I can stream in 4K HDR to my living room TV (which is not even what my physical PC display is). It's compatible with all the regular clients too which is nice.

New comment by StumpChunkman in "Steam Frame"

StumpChunkman — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:26:49 +0000

Anybody know the limiting factor to providing lower IPDs on VR headsets? My wife had always struggled with this with an IPD in the 50s when we were exploring early gen VR headsets. The Frame bottoms out at 60.

New comment by StumpChunkman in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

StumpChunkman — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:53:47 +0000

What causes very active discussions like this to drop off the front page so quickly?

I saw another newer post that was probably made because the poster didn't see this post, and a comment made in there linked to this discussion.

New comment by StumpChunkman in "Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"

StumpChunkman — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:09:04 +0000

On a meta note, I come to HN for the typically more informed and sometimes expert takes on the issues and articles that surface here, especially for tech related news. It's interesting how even this site is not insulated from some absolutely insane misinformation about EV's that starts to show up in the comments whenever they are brought up. I mean, just look at how many comments this article about brake dust has generated.

New comment by StumpChunkman in "Synology press release regarding changes to HDD compatibility"

StumpChunkman — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:09:37 +0000

> That is really hard because that was the interest of geek products like Synology to be like your own computer, that you can easily ticket and use whatever disk in whatever configuration that you wanted, even if at your own risk sometimes

Exactly that. My risk tolerance and multi-backup strategy means I use cheap old data center HDDs from Ebay for a fraction of the price. Now, if my NAS hardware itself goes kaput or I want to add new devices in the future, I may have to worry about the cost of my drives ramping up or risk potentially losing functionality.

The fact that they say "In addition, the migration of hard disks from existing Synology NAS to a new Plus model will continue to be possible without restrictions." to me means that this isn't due to a technical restriction, but just a desire to increase their HDD revenue stream.

Makes it very hard to recommend Synology going forward. This is not the first seemingly anti-consumer step they've taken recently.