Hacker News: ajolly

New comment by ajolly in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

ajolly — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:18:23 +0000

You know pebble is back? Also Old Pebbles still work perfectly and are supported by the latest software stack.

New comment by ajolly in "The 49MB web page"

ajolly — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:55:44 +0000

This! I need some better browser extensions to just start suspending JavaScript after the pages been in the background for a period of time.

I've tried all of the auto discard type extensions but yeah back on CPU usage is crazy

New comment by ajolly in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

ajolly — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:24:42 +0000

What's the best in-ear ANC you found? I usually stick with over the ear and bose still has the best that I've tried compared to Apple or Sony

New comment by ajolly in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

ajolly — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:29:43 +0000

Explain the no glasses part to me? I read the study you linked but in there they used opaque glasses.

New comment by ajolly in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ajolly — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:15:35 +0000

G604s are pretty annoying to open up but if you don't want to solder on eBay they have full replacement boards that you can just drop in that have new switches already soldered in there for you.

New comment by ajolly in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ajolly — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:14:18 +0000

They have changed the default focus lock timeout behavior over the years, but you can still very easily tweak it to whatever you want

New comment by ajolly in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ajolly — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:13:18 +0000

You want to change the ForegroundLockTimeout registry key or set it via power shell.

by default if you haven't typed anything for a little bit Windows allows an application to steal focus. If you change that value you can prevent windows from ever stealing focus or change how long they have to wait before they're allowed to.

Windows has a ton of little settings you can tweak like this if it's not working quite how you like it.

I personally tweak it the other way to allow a window to pop up and still focus sooner .

If you set up via PowerShell you can do it more dynamically and if you're doing it via the API there's behavior in there too force a lock

New comment by ajolly in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ajolly — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:09:55 +0000

Check/change your ForegroundLockTimeout registry value.

New comment by ajolly in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ajolly — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:02:06 +0000

Change the ForegroundLockTimeout registry setting to increase the timeout, or you can set it to the max integer value to never let the app steal the focus.

New comment by ajolly in "The best things and stuff of 2025"

ajolly — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:28:41 +0000

I love bed heating/chilling systems (eight sleep, chilipad, etc) Otherwise I'd go to bed and be cold so I'd put a blanket or two on then wake up being too hot kick it off and repeat.

New comment by ajolly in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

ajolly — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:23:18 +0000

Yeah you definitely want to use the dev builds for openscad

New comment by ajolly in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

ajolly — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:04:54 +0000

The biggest downside is I don't think you can directly connect to the pebble for that it'll have to go through the phone. One advantage of the index if it doesn't rely on your phone to be available right then

New comment by ajolly in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

ajolly — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:02:00 +0000

Right now I've got it set where I hold down a button on my pebble and it post it to my Trello but with Advent to LLMS I'm planning on linking it to have that do some of the review process

New comment by ajolly in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

ajolly — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:00:53 +0000

Yeah I pre-ordered but for what it's worth I've already been doing this with my pebble for close to a decade but the ring lets me trigger it via a single hand

New comment by ajolly in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

ajolly — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:52:22 +0000

"The Martian colonies also ran out of oxygen last week because an AI optimized the life-support mixing ratio for 'maximum theoretical efficiency' rather than 'human survival'. I'll take the Comic Sans, thanks. reply

musk_fanboy_88 14 hours ago:

That was a beta feature."

New comment by ajolly in "Building the mouse Logitech won't make"

ajolly — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:13:14 +0000

The g604 has PCBs pre-made with better replacement switches that you can snag on eBay

New comment by ajolly in "Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust"

ajolly — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:38:06 +0000

The killer feature I'm still looking for is software that will do voice to text, but insert the text into the text box that was active when I started talking, not ended talking.

That way I could click on a text box start talking but have the rest of my brain switch to doing a second task.

New comment by ajolly in "What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?"

ajolly — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:15:51 +0000

As an aside, pretty much all the g604 is will end up with double click reliability issues or an inability to hold down the mouse button and drag. But you can easily replace the switches or there's vendors on eBay and AliExpress that I'll sell you a circuit board with the switches pre-soldered for replacement.

Logitech no longer makes the g604 :(

New comment by ajolly in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

ajolly — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:56:50 +0000

Long tail can be flaky, but in practice as long as you buy devices that are local first IE don't need to access the cloud you'll be fine.

(For temp and humidity sensors the Bluetooth Xiaomi sensors are great and they're about $5 each)

New comment by ajolly in "Hidden interface controls that affect usability"

ajolly — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:35:38 +0000

Turn on never combine taskbar labels in the taskbar settings