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New comment by bighead1 in "Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64"

bighead1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:20:04 +0000

i hate ai, and i love the c64, but i'll allow it.

New comment by bighead1 in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

bighead1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:28:37 +0000

You could replace the word Germany with the US and this article would still make sense.

New comment by bighead1 in "Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices"

bighead1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:00:52 +0000

in my hands, safari is a brainrot app. i can easily while away 3 hours on wikipedia. in my opinion, it's not the apps but the device itself, the shiny-glowing-info-dopamine-device.

Perfect point, if i uninstall one app, I just divert my attention to some other app.

New comment by bighead1 in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

bighead1 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:16:01 +0000

counterpoints:

pascal, eiffel, ada, C, APL, dylan

New comment by bighead1 in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

bighead1 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:51:12 +0000

Why wouldn't they just take a taxi driven by a human? Or a bus (also driven by a human)?

New comment by bighead1 in "iPhone dumbphone"

bighead1 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:58:12 +0000

the only thing missing from this setup is the ability to unlock remotely (as I can with my kids' devices). for some reason apple won't let an adult (fully) manage the screen time of another adult.

my wife has the password for my screentime, but i can't send her a request if we're physically apart. which means i'm out of luck, or she has to share the actual code with me, which then requires her to change it (and remember the new one)

New comment by bighead1 in "iPhone dumbphone"

bighead1 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:55:42 +0000

i've been using the blank spaces launcher for this. it has its flaws for sure, but the feature most useful for the scenario you describe is the "Lock Distractions" feature. In order to use safari, you have to go through a "mindfulness" exercise, and then you can unlock safari for a small amount of time (1 minute, 5 minutes, up to 20). I find this is just enough to keep me out of random wikipedia pages all day, but still allows me to pull up a webpage when i need to do some very specific task (like unsubscribe from an email list).

New comment by bighead1 in "MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS"

bighead1 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:20:08 +0000

This comment reminds me of a simple `esp32` project I saw recently that lets you send your LLM requests via SMS. It basically offloads everything. Particularly useful when you don't have a decent data connection, but can still send SMS.

edit: found it https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1n7r3vl/a_textbot_...

New comment by bighead1 in "MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS"

bighead1 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:14:58 +0000

Love this bit from mentra's careers page, https://mentra.glass/pages/careers

  This is not the place for

  * Prioritize work-life balance