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New comment by c9fc42ad in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

c9fc42ad — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:32:31 +0000

It used to work that way but there was an update that forced it to go through their app and you needed to make an account. I had used mine for a couple years until this became a requirement then I just gave it away and went back to my dumb scale and manually entering the value into the Health app

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices"

c9fc42ad — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:19:50 +0000

Excited to use this on the Retroid Pocket 5. Currently using https://knulli.org/ on an RG35XX-H and found it to be really nice also

New comment by c9fc42ad in "‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’"

c9fc42ad — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 23:15:13 +0000

You might enjoy Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, although it's pretty shallow in most areas, you can configure the position and composition of your army's units and then watch the battle play out in real-time.

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface"

c9fc42ad — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:13:06 +0000

For threads you could implement something like Telegram's "Reply" feature. E.g. long press or swipe on a prior entry when typing a message, then when it's sent it has a clickable link to the prior message embedded above it.

Either way I'm definitely going to be checking this out as it's very similar to how I already use the Notes app for journaling type entries.

New comment by c9fc42ad in "55 GiB/s FizzBuzz"

c9fc42ad — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 18:10:37 +0000

This tends to happen at a smaller scale with gaming consoles. Towards the end of a generation, the games coming out usually perform/look a lot better than the ones at the beginning of the generation. I'm assuming due to a lot more careful optimizations due to not being able to change the hardware.

I've always been curious about how far we could really push modern computers if somebody wanted to spend the time going to the lengths in the original post when creating practical software. Of course it's usually not worth the tradeoff, but it's interesting to think about.

New comment by c9fc42ad in "The smart home is flailing as a concept"

c9fc42ad — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 23:45:59 +0000

> (I did wish I had more control at the wall; I only had on/off switches and would have liked to have a dimmer and a button to toggle different programs.)

For what it's worth this is possible now with their Smart Button

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations"

c9fc42ad — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:22:59 +0000

This is really cool! Do you have any in depth posts describing the ML behind this?

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B"

c9fc42ad — Wed, 26 May 2021 17:17:16 +0000

In the _middle_ of my backswing, sir?

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”"

c9fc42ad — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 23:41:26 +0000

Also 'askew'

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon"

c9fc42ad — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 02:58:26 +0000

Also same. I'd also like the ability to pay maybe a bit more and be able to gift full access to friends/family.

New comment by c9fc42ad in "My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card"

c9fc42ad — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:35:39 +0000

It was even originally designed to be calculated mechanically

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia"

c9fc42ad — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:42:52 +0000

This is true, it wasn't until I started photography that I realized how much darker it was inside compared to outside.

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop"

c9fc42ad — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 01:52:15 +0000

Why not make an account and subscribe to whatever you find interesting? Then just avoid /r/all

New comment by c9fc42ad in "XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint"

c9fc42ad — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:46:59 +0000

These always miss my favorite hidden feature of mspaint: Control + Scrolling should be able to increase/decrease the size of the brush to sizes much larger than you can normally select. Instead, this just zooms the browser but maybe it could be changed to alt + scroll or something.

New comment by c9fc42ad in "My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards"

c9fc42ad — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 22:25:23 +0000

kitboga does this on Twitch, Jim Browning also has a bunch of YouTube videos of doing this. There's even a community for it on reddit: /r/scambait/

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos"

c9fc42ad — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:24:29 +0000

I agree that the camera software should just let you pick any shutter speed, but you can get a pretty cheap remote button or intervalometer for <$30, or even DIY one for cheaper. What does the $160 canon button give you that a cheaper version doesn't?

New comment by c9fc42ad in "In-person DEF CON 28 cancelled"

c9fc42ad — Fri, 08 May 2020 21:57:36 +0000

I think it was a play on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education"

c9fc42ad — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:47:07 +0000

I had a similar experience about 8 years ago in Intro to Linear Algebra. I had been attending lectures at my school but I ended up missing a day so I decided to find the corresponding lecture from MIT. It turns out, I was able to watch a lecture from the author of the textbook we were using. Even crazier, the lecture I watched online ended with him working through an example problem but he did not finish.

When I went to the next class in person, our professor was finishing up the exact same example problem from the lecture video. It could have just been coincidence that that exact lecture lined up the way it did, but it kind of opened my eyes to how silly it was to have professors repeating the same thing year after year.

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds"

c9fc42ad — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:03:11 +0000

https://youtu.be/rvrZJ5C_Nwg?t=144

New comment by c9fc42ad in "Vim rendered on a cube for no reason"

c9fc42ad — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:53:43 +0000

Oh man, compiz-fusion is what got me interested in Linux. I remember seeing videos circa 2007-8 of people's desktops with all sorts of crazy stuff. Cube desktops, wobbly windows, fire trails, etc. I spent forever figuring out how to dual boot Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows and learned a ton so I could setup these effects. Fast forward 12 years and now I only use Linux on servers without a desktop interface at all.

While this stuff may seem silly and pointless, you'll never know who it'll inspire to dive in to a whole new world. I'm glad it's being maintained still