Hacker News: chocochunks

New comment by chocochunks in "A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines"

chocochunks — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:11:19 +0000

I think you mean that setup does not make good espresso compared to an espresso machine. As someone that enjoys good coffee but doesn't particularly like drinking an overly strong thimble of coffee, a cup of milk on top of a thimble of coffee or a grossly stringent cup of coffee I hate the equation that espresso is the best coffee. My favourite bits of coffee, what I enjoy in lighter roasts is lost in espresso. Espresso is nice for cafes because it's a quick non-batch brew, that's about it.

You can have good coffee from any method.

New comment by chocochunks in "The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR"

chocochunks — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:22:22 +0000

You can get prescription lens inserts. If you're just near sighted some of the models have built in adjustment.

New comment by chocochunks in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

chocochunks — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:03:47 +0000

Eh. I don't think the Macbook's trackpad is that good. It's better sure, but it's still not as intuitive panning or rotating over the image directly on a touch screen. And it's still useless for drawing.

New comment by chocochunks in "New iMac with M6"

chocochunks — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:57:22 +0000

There's plenty of bad panels in Apple displays posted on Reddit and other forums.

(e.g., https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/studio-displays-with-sc...)

Maybe the panel lottery is more in your favour but it isn't gone.

New comment by chocochunks in "OLED iPad Mini"

chocochunks — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:17:28 +0000

Pro-motion, 120FPS display.

New comment by chocochunks in "New iPad mini"

chocochunks — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:13:18 +0000

That's the whole iPad line. No multi-user because they don't want families to buy only one iPad, no support for running apps outside of the app store, etc.

New comment by chocochunks in "Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought"

chocochunks — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:25:21 +0000

Xbox One was originally going to require frequent online check ins, I think daily or weekly, games on disc were going to tie themselves to your account and publishers could choose whether or not you could resell them at select retailers or share them with your friends, IIRC you could share a game one time with a friend. They also didn't focus on games when showing it off and it was priced $100 higher than PS4 despite being weaker because of the bundled Kinect nobody wanted.

They are not doing super amazing this gen. Reports have them selling 1/3rd the units of PlayStation 5, Game Pass has stalled, they apparently used a JIT manufacturing setup and so were much more affected by the component shortage, so a console that was $500 at launch is now $800.

Funnily enough, because they put in serials into Xbox One games for tracking they did recently launch a really cool disc to digital service that gives the best benefits of physical and digital.

New comment by chocochunks in "MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada"

chocochunks — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:14:43 +0000

While sports betting was allowed, in the past I don't think it was allowed to be advertised beyond like lottery displays. You would not see ads during Hockey Night in Canada for it either on the boards or during breaks. Now they are all over and run by third parties.

New comment by chocochunks in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

chocochunks — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:48:34 +0000

GKCs aren't perfect, but both PS5 and Xbox Series consoles have had games where the disc is near useless too, either with only part of the game on the disc (e.g., Oblivion Remastered) or virtually none of the game on the disc (Indiana Jones). GKCs are at least upfront and clear on the packaging. I wish they had banned the practice of codes in a box. THOSE SUCK.

And just yesterday I had to use my modded 3DS to rescue a physical 3DS cart that wasn't booting. Luckily I was able to but there's no guarantee a physical game will last forever either.

New comment by chocochunks in "EA is shutting down BioWare"

chocochunks — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:52:55 +0000

BioWare didn't make NWN2, that was Obsidian on the same Bioware engine that powered KOTOR 1 & 2 and NWN1.They did do Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 which were originally published by Interplay.

New comment by chocochunks in "Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake"

chocochunks — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:18:07 +0000

It had a 3DS version, and that was more of a remaster than a remake. Spruced up graphics and some QoL things but basically the same bones.

New comment by chocochunks in "Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana"

chocochunks — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:46:45 +0000

Furigana works on Kindle, although IIRC you have to use AZW3 or I guess KFX.

New comment by chocochunks in "I love software rendering"

chocochunks — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:21:24 +0000

It's not just the gamma correction. Things like water are different in GLQuake.

DF Retro has good comparison of software Quake, GLQuake and VQuake (for the Rendition Verite).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KxRXZhQuY8

New comment by chocochunks in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

chocochunks — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:34:18 +0000

It depends on the colour display. Kaleido screens use a colour filter over a B&W screen so they are just as fast as refreshing as the B&W ones. The other colour eInk displays are much slower which is why they've seen less uptick in consumer eReaders.

New comment by chocochunks in "It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360"

chocochunks — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:21:44 +0000

Because it's about how they modded their 360 and Peer Pressure was only released on the same day this blog post went up.

New comment by chocochunks in "New Apple TV 4K"

chocochunks — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:27:31 +0000

You can use Kodi as a Jellyfin front end. Personally I don't care enough about streaming TV to mobile devices and I only have 1 TV I watch on so the extra complexity of Plex or Jellyfin seems not worth the hassle.

And I definitely don't want to pay for something like Plex.

New comment by chocochunks in "New Apple TV 4K"

chocochunks — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:58:09 +0000

There's a tool built on top of yt-dlp, ytdl-sub that can automate it for you. It will check if there's new vids in the channels you're interested in and download them and can make metadata for Kodi, Plex, etc. for them too. It can also delete old ones if you want.

New comment by chocochunks in "New Apple TV 4K"

chocochunks — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:35:42 +0000

I think the only problems I've had on mine were network related and I would have had the same problems with an ATV since it can't magically fix DNS or my NAS being off.

If you want a privacy focused solution it's probably the most private. Yeah, admittedly harder to use but I'm not recommending it to my parents.

New comment by chocochunks in "New Apple TV 4K"

chocochunks — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:03:22 +0000

Doesn't seem like it. Siri AI is not even available in all languages yet either. $429 CAD is crazy. You can get a whole mini PC and a Bluetooth remote for less and slap LibreElec on it even at today's crazy prices. And it'll be a better remote too.

New comment by chocochunks in "Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers"

chocochunks — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:32:00 +0000

Audible does X credits per month subs and a credit is 1 book. I guess there are Netflix style ones too now.