Hacker News: TechPlasma

New comment by TechPlasma in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

TechPlasma — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:59:20 +0000

I think the ship really punted the booster during stage separation. And caused the boost back failure from sloshing.

Also I think Ship now has methane thrusters on it. They were operating with a clean blue flame in short purposeful bursts.

New comment by TechPlasma in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

TechPlasma — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:57:47 +0000

Now that you have a custom touch-screen. How long until you release a tablet (Surface-pro-like) form factor? I'm still using my 2017 Surface Pro because the form factor is amazing, but no one has come up with anything to compete with it.

I know it's not the most ideal form factor for a repairable device, but I can dream.

Building a new Flash

TechPlasma — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:16:03 +0000

Article URL: https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253177

Points: 741

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New comment by TechPlasma in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

TechPlasma — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:10:32 +0000

I literally just came across and installed your project on my server today. It's fantastic and with it I was able to cancel my readwise subscription. Great work!

New comment by TechPlasma in "Media Player Classic Qute Theater"

TechPlasma — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:42:41 +0000

Hey this is the one I use. Back on windows I used to used MPC-BE and this has been a fantastic replacement for it since moving to Linux. All the features I want in a nice interface with great shortcuts and extra features.

New comment by TechPlasma in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

TechPlasma — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:52:26 +0000

This. OMG Affinity is the ONE piece of software I actively miss. I tried the wine setup for it and it just doesn't work to a usable extent.

New comment by TechPlasma in "Affinity Studio now free"

TechPlasma — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:15:37 +0000

IF the new app truly has all the features of V1 and V2 of the affinity apps. And IF it's truly free. Would it would damn sure be nice of them remove the license requirement from the V1 and V2 versions which I both bought and loved. And let users continue to enjoy these pieces of software for years to come without having to sign up for this new program which I don't trust at all. I've used and loved it for close to 10 years now. And it's fantastic software. But I just can't trust software without a proper non-subscription business model. I'm not going back to fucking Adobe and it's ilk.

New comment by TechPlasma in "Obsidian Bases"

TechPlasma — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:36:10 +0000

I don't want to manage that many files. I'll fully admit that I'll hit my limits before the computer cares.

New comment by TechPlasma in "Obsidian Bases"

TechPlasma — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:28:27 +0000

This is my main complaint for Bases. It forces you to split your data into many many small files.

I don't need entire files for each individual book/movie/task I want to manage.

They'll have maybe 4-5 properties at most with not much content in them.

File system, and syncing operations will take a massive hit if I have to manage that many files.

New comment by TechPlasma in "Open source can't coordinate?"

TechPlasma — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:57:37 +0000

Android is the most Pervasive yes, but I would consider it too focused on a specific type of platform, and one that is becoming more and more closed off. ChromeOS might be a better example, but much like android, it is also very closed off from the rest of the ecosystem.

New comment by TechPlasma in "Open source can't coordinate?"

TechPlasma — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:09:55 +0000

This feels very right. The problem is there are few entities invested enough in Linux as a consumer platform, that have the motivation to push things forward. To make the decisions on what their "Reference" system is.

Valve is maybe the closest?

New comment by TechPlasma in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"

TechPlasma — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:51:56 +0000

Do you have a link to the Android app?

New comment by TechPlasma in "VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun"

TechPlasma — Fri, 02 May 2025 21:25:54 +0000

The Path will reveal itself to you as you play. There is usually only one and it is correct.

Memorizing levels in Beatsaber isn't required to do VERY well. I very rarely ever play a level more than once in a session. And actually tend to struggle with highly repetitive "memory intense" sections of songs where it DOES become a rhythm game.

But if you follow the blocks they will lead you to where the next block will be.

New comment by TechPlasma in "We're bringing Pebble back"

TechPlasma — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:57:08 +0000

If I remember correctly (and I could be wrong) Fitbit only ever bought the software side of Pebble (and the developers effectively), gutting the company and leaving Eric with the Hardware side of things...

New comment by TechPlasma in "We're bringing Pebble back"

TechPlasma — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:09:15 +0000

Yeas! I moved over to the Garmin 265 since it felt like the most pebble-like watch. But the controls aren't nearly as immediately intuitive. Pebble nailed the OS and nothing has ever matched it.

New comment by TechPlasma in "The engineering behind the San Antonio River Walk"

TechPlasma — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:35:02 +0000

Grew in San Antonio as well and one of the best parts about the Riverwalk is that it offers a fantastic pedestrian corridor across almost the entirety of downtown San Antonio and connects a lot of really interesting places, The missions down south, Pearl Brewery and it's shopping district, downtown mall and Convention center as well as La Villita and The Art Museum.

Sure you can walk the streets but getting around via the Riverwalk is actually extremely pleasant. I really love how convinient of a convention city San Antonio is.

New comment by TechPlasma in "What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle"

TechPlasma — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:23:06 +0000

The verge has seemingly been doing this a lot recently and it's been very annoying. It's not obvious that any given article will be paywalled or not. It would be nice if they at least marked them.

New comment by TechPlasma in "Tesla Robotaxi"

TechPlasma — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:24:11 +0000

I think their "robotaxi" is kinda pathetic. But goddamn... That bus is one of the single most beautiful vehicles they have ever designed. I absolutely love it. (Fan of Art Deco and streamliner locomotive design)

New comment by TechPlasma in "Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc"

TechPlasma — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:34:25 +0000

Wait to they hear about that one "Lock-picking Lawyer" then they'll always be scott free.

New comment by TechPlasma in "Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out"

TechPlasma — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:39:07 +0000

I just really want Tab Groups.

This is a nice step forward.