Hacker News: albatrosstrophy

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

albatrosstrophy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:15:13 +0000

Kindly elaborate? Coming from someone who still uses AI mainly to draft emails and raspberry Pi as sandboxed automation project.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Pebble Production: February Update"

albatrosstrophy — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:44:23 +0000

If battery life really is high up your list, look up Amazfit. The Bip 6 can last up to a month as a dumb watch health tracker. It's got some decent watchfaces too. Another Amazfit product that's popular is their Helio Strap, essentially a Whoop band rip off that does not require a monthly subscription but works just as well.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability"

albatrosstrophy — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:50:57 +0000

Still the best cloud service for me for my Windows. But I'm interested to hear how you set up Drive and Syncthing. Is the UI as familiar to use as the the standard Windows folder?

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C"

albatrosstrophy — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:39:52 +0000

The battery is the single reason why I got the Amazfit. I use as a dumb health tracker and occasional GPS running. It easily lasts 4 weeks on a single charge. That's one less proprietary charging cable to bring on a trip.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

albatrosstrophy — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:03:16 +0000

As someone who' just counting steps, I'm genuinely curious what's your average steps per day? And how many steps over 10 years?

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Mistral OCR"

albatrosstrophy — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:00:36 +0000

And here I thought after reading the headline: finally a reliable Arabic OCR. I've never in my life found a good that does the job decently especially for a scanned document. Or is there something out there I don't know about?

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu"

albatrosstrophy — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:50:44 +0000

I wouldn't say it's a downgrade, but I had to run Windhawk and other mods just to make sure the start menu doesn't look like a phone's app drawer.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore"

albatrosstrophy — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 04:26:53 +0000

Interestingly while the minorities have a higher birth rate compared to the majority Chinese, the ethnic breakdown remains the exact same throughout the decades. This is because Singapore's unsaid migration policy is such that the government takes in more immigrants of Chinese ethnicity to make up for the shortfall.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "“Tinder for Canceling Meetings”"

albatrosstrophy — Tue, 09 May 2023 09:08:46 +0000

This is obvious yet brilliant. I've been working for so long without realising that meetings are a process, not the end. I.e. they have to lead to something.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You?"

albatrosstrophy — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:32:32 +0000

I would appreciate an archive link though

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Bookshop.org survives and thrives in Amazon’s world"

albatrosstrophy — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:13:02 +0000

I'm sad Bookdepository is closing.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print"

albatrosstrophy — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:52:33 +0000

You seem to be describing an Android tablet with e-ink display. Aside from Remarkable, what else is out there worth buying?

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Touchpad Blocker: Disable touch-pad while typing"

albatrosstrophy — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:59:43 +0000

I always have this problem. Not sure if I want the mouse pad to be totally deactivated while typing. I don't mind the pointer moving (might be a valid input anyway), but the clicking should be disabled so that the typing doesn't accidentally appear on an unintended area of the screen.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement [video]"

albatrosstrophy — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:32:16 +0000

Well these days they call it ASMR. But you're right he's one of the first to strip away all unnecessary sounds. Makes for a very therapeutic video.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Blood Test Only Needs a Drop and a Smartphone for Results"

albatrosstrophy — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:11:16 +0000

I have no intention of being snarky here, but perhaps someone can break it down to a layman how this might differ from Theranos' approach?

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "The Age of PageRank Is Over"

albatrosstrophy — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:37:05 +0000

I like your idea of the search engine. It's what I miss from Google. At one time (2006?) we had the option to google search only forums and discussions, and that helped me get quality answers to my queries.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Evolving my note-taking processes"

albatrosstrophy — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 23:14:15 +0000

I came across this recently, not sure if it's something that might help.

https://www.scrintal.com/

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "The Hajj Trail: historical simulation of the hajj journey"

albatrosstrophy — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:20:10 +0000

I'm not a big fan of the Saudi government, but people die in stampedes there EVERY year? As someone who follows the hajj closely, the last stampede was in 2015, and previously 2006. Not that these are insignificant, but they are a rarity considering some 2 million people descend into a small city over a 10 day period. And there have been commendable efforts to avoid a repeat.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Our search for the best OCR tool (2019)"

albatrosstrophy — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:20:18 +0000

How about foreign languages? I've never had one good enough for Arabic. 3 years ago when needed it for a project, no OCR I found could read a properly scanned Arabic page. Had to go on Fiverr and paid a transcriber instead.

New comment by albatrosstrophy in "Show HN: Find out where your supplements are made & sourced"

albatrosstrophy — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 07:25:57 +0000

Myprotein is one of bigger brands in the UK and many other countries. Wonder if it can be included?