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New comment by alargemoose in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

alargemoose — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:34:27 +0000

This is even more of a knock to Microsoft but the overheating during sleep issue can affect any windows laptop made in the last 5 or so years. The cause is nothing surface specific, it’s Microsoft enforcing “Modern standby” and blocking S3/S4 sleep states in windows. My best understanding is that some bug causes the system to stay awake after one of the periodic wake ups to check for updates/notifications that happen in modern standby.

New comment by alargemoose in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

alargemoose — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:42:22 +0000

I also had this starting a few months back. I changed the email address (really, just an alias to the same mailbox as before) and the notifications stopped.

New comment by alargemoose in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

alargemoose — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:43:19 +0000

My “trick” for this was getting a dog in my early 20s, while living in an apartment, doesn’t matter how much I wanted to sleep in, they needed to go out, so I had to get up. And without thinking I moved my sleep schedule to accommodate this. Worth it.

New comment by alargemoose in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

alargemoose — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:07:46 +0000

I went with gitea, but for the same general reasons. I like It has the option to mirror repos up to GitHub for the stuff I actually want to share with the world. Is there anything that made you choose forgejo specifically? I’m not eager to move platforms, but I know there’s more options that have popped up in the years since I first stood up my gitea instance.

New comment by alargemoose in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

alargemoose — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:51:15 +0000

Heads up that the switch 2 launched last May! (Depending on region) though they announced the next mainline Pokémon game won’t launch till 2027.

New comment by alargemoose in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

alargemoose — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:23:55 +0000

I don’t care how practical it may or may not be, this is my new favorite LLM benchmark

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

alargemoose — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:49:23 +0000

Do you recall what podcast? I know hearing him say this was intentional is only gonna make me frustrated, but I’m dying to hear the justification for such a bad decision.

New comment by alargemoose in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

alargemoose — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:07:45 +0000

It’s actually not. 60% opposed,+20% not sure is 80% of the population would count as a “vast majority”

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53787-scant-ameri...

New comment by alargemoose in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

alargemoose — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:42:08 +0000

I had Xfinity for 4 years and my IP changed once in that time! Now I have fiber from centurylink, and it changes anytime I need to reboot the fiber modem or my firewall. Different companies, same metro area though. That too makes me wonder about how both manage their allocations give the difference in IP assignments.

New comment by alargemoose in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

alargemoose — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:29:49 +0000

My personal favorite example of this in football

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g4SEPufzG7s

New comment by alargemoose in "Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal"

alargemoose — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:24:14 +0000

This is great. I’m working on something similar for tracking college football games from the terminal. Right now it just shows a List of active games with minimal navigation. lots of great inspiration.

New comment by alargemoose in "Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub"

alargemoose — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:45:02 +0000

It’s also common within Microsoft. I can’t speak to when/why they decide to do it, but the leads for the Microsoft Gaming (Phill Spencer) and LinkedIn [acquired 2016] (Ryan Roslansky) are both CEOs in the org chart at Microsoft.

New comment by alargemoose in "China's Mini PC Production [video]"

alargemoose — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:03:34 +0000

Very good point. I know there’s a “clip” there to keep it secure, but certainly could get moved during shipping.

New comment by alargemoose in "China's Mini PC Production [video]"

alargemoose — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:45:09 +0000

This came up in my recommendations yesterday and I ended up losing a few hours to videos on this channel! The one thing I didn’t understand was why at ~14:00 they’re gluing the CMOS battery down!? That battery will certainly last less than the useful life of the PC. Seems like a surprising choice.

New comment by alargemoose in "Introducing Qodo Gen CLI: Build and Run Coding Agents Anywhere in the SDLC"

alargemoose — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:08:38 +0000

For anyone else that, like me, doesn’t know the acronym. It stands for.

“systems development life cycle”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_development_life_cyc...

New comment by alargemoose in "A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon"

alargemoose — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:31:04 +0000

I’ve adored Jon’s writing for years, so a book is exciting! But it does bum me out a little bit that it will be “just” a book. Compared to the dynamic and multimedia formats of “Tim Tebow in the CFL” and “Football 17776”. The writing is excellent, but the dynamic and multimedia nature of his previous work will be missed. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!

New comment by alargemoose in "Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests"

alargemoose — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:53:54 +0000

I think you have this backwards. OP is saying sleep apnea is common, but we’ve only had CPAP machines to compensate for it, since the 80s. I don’t see them trying to implicate CPAP as the cause of an increase in dementia.

New comment by alargemoose in "My Experience Biohacking"

alargemoose — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:45:09 +0000

I’ve had one for ~7 years now and fly multiple times a year. I’ve never had it set off the metal detector, or more modern scanners at any security checkpoint in the US, or Mexico.

New comment by alargemoose in "Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes Support (SG)"

alargemoose — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 19:24:19 +0000

I know of at least 1! “Before your eyes” though i played it on a PC with a webcam, and I believe the mobile version is only available for Netflix subscribers, but I would strongly recommend it! It has a well told story with an very unique means of interaction

https://www.beforeyoureyesgame.com

New comment by alargemoose in "New Mac Mini with M4"

alargemoose — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:02:02 +0000

I would second this! The N100 is super efficient., and can often be found for around $150. I can also recommend looking at used intel “NUC” mini PCs if you’re budget conscience. I have a couple of 5th gen i5 NUCs i got for $60 that that run multiple VMs and LXC containers as part of a Proxmox cluster.