Hacker News: death_syn

New comment by death_syn in "Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35"

death_syn — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:15:11 +0000

You need to get a dumb brick for that Rock 5B. Looks like you got one of the ones with a bad firmware. When it negotiates the power drops out. There're tons of forum posts.

New comment by death_syn in "Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?"

death_syn — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:07:54 +0000

I've had the HP Dev One now since shortly after introduction. It has been rock-solid and everything just worked. Also the memory and SSD are upgradable easily enough.

New comment by death_syn in "Ask HN: What brand of laptop do you use?"

death_syn — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:20:55 +0000

I used to use ThinkPads exclusively, but Lenovo's priorities for ThinkPads no longer match mine.

I've since moved on to HP Dev One. It's well-rounded for me, was easily upgraded to 64GB of ram, and came with Pop! OS out of the box. I've also used System76 machines in the past with success, but I'm rather attached to having a pointing stick.

My dayjob provides a Dell XPS 13 (factory-loaded with Ubuntu) which is an acceptable machine, but I don't travel with it much.

I always use GNU/Linux. Of late I've been sticking to LTS Ubuntu or Pop! OS releases. I'm a strange case though, because my desktop is LXDE, and all I ever really do is run a browser or two with a pile of terminals, so I'm not running heavy desktop apps like Slack, Discord, or LibreOffice.

New comment by death_syn in "Zero Trust SIM"

death_syn — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:55:35 +0000

It sounds a lot like Enterprise Google Fi to me.

New comment by death_syn in "FCC asked to probe US carriers locking handsets to networks"

death_syn — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:05:27 +0000

Simple solution here: don't buy locked phones anymore. My last locked phone purchase was in 2011. In the US, you don't need to buy a locked phone anymore to get service.

New comment by death_syn in "Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory"

death_syn — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:35:20 +0000

I'm interested in how these compare to quality Chinese tools like Harbor Freight's ICON line.

New comment by death_syn in "HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS"

death_syn — Sat, 21 May 2022 12:46:48 +0000

It has a pointing stick!! Heck yeah!

New comment by death_syn in "Ask HN: Does anyone use a Raspberry Pi as your main computer?"

death_syn — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:18:19 +0000

I'm on a Pi4 8GB now with a 1TB USB SSD (Adata). The only issues I generally have are anxiety around Chromium staying up to date (it is still on version 98.0.4758.106 as of this writing.) and YouTube video playback can drop a lot of frames if the system is any kind of busy. I run Raspberry Pi OS 11 on it at present.

New comment by death_syn in "Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days"

death_syn — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:17:06 +0000

I love that it is just Ubuntu underneath, so I just install `lubuntu-desktop` and I've got my preferred desktop environment, while not losing the benefits of their kernel tuning and such.

New comment by death_syn in "Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days"

death_syn — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:15:39 +0000

I also used to always run ThinkPads (and Precision workstations with pointing sticks). I these days run a System76 Lemur Pro with a USB thinkpad keyboard I stick on top. The built-in keyboard is good, but trackpads and I have never gotten along. They've come a long way. Another option that friend got was the Frame Work. I helped him assemble it, and it also is a great GNU/Linux machine. Everything just works.

New comment by death_syn in "Americans are drowning in spam"

death_syn — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:52:29 +0000

Twilio is often a source of the spam texts and calls, so it would make sense for a cellular service provider to block them.

New comment by death_syn in "Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony"

death_syn — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:36:59 +0000

As long as Chrom(e|ium) isn't limited to one architecture/platform like MSIE was, I don't see this as a problem. I'm using Chromium on my Raspberry Pi right now to post this. I could never dream of doing such a thing 20 years ago. I'd have to hope someone hadn't broken the site for Mozilla and that it wouldn't crash repeatedly. The MSIE-dominant days were bad, but we're nowhere near that now.

New comment by death_syn in "Show HN: Firezone, an open-source WireGuard-based alternative to OpenVPN AS"

death_syn — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:18:40 +0000

OOh! If there's not already a port for Raspberry Pi OS, might be a fun project for the weekend.

New comment by death_syn in "The economics of dollar stores"

death_syn — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 14:25:04 +0000

When the pandemic hit, I switched my shopping almost exclusively to Dollar General, because despite the slightly higher prices compared to Walmart (sometimes) and Aldi (almost always), the number of customers in the store was always pretty light at any one time. I did still have to go to one of those places for things I couldn't get there (premium cheeses, premium meats). But, that became a once a month outing at most versus my weekly shopping trip, which turned from 20-30 minutes to 10 minutes in total, with less exposure to other humans. I honestly believe the Dollar General may have saved my health as far as COVID exposure risk goes.

New comment by death_syn in "Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired"

death_syn — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 03:37:55 +0000

The Grand Tour and other related shows are the only thing keeping my Prime subscription going.

New comment by death_syn in "Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail"

death_syn — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 02:54:14 +0000

Daemontools-encore is a fork with minor feature updates, and there's also a whole ecosystem of choices like Runit, S6, and nosh to look at if you're really interested.

New comment by death_syn in "Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?"

death_syn — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 01:11:05 +0000

I still use it as my primary form of communication. Only one job in my professional career have I NOT gotten from IRC. I use it mainly for conversational chats these days, though I still do get/give support on Freenode occasionally.

I know Slack is the new darling for these things, but their WebUI is so inefficient compared my IRC muscle memory. Wee-slack is great for the Slacks I can use it on (but nearly none of the community Slacks have open API slots for it.)

New comment by death_syn in "The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds"

death_syn — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:43:05 +0000

When it comes to super old phones, what would you do about security concerns?

New comment by death_syn in "Why Some Phishing Emails Are Mysteriously Disappearing"

death_syn — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:45:17 +0000

But it isn't altering the mail content at all, it's altering the DNS records outside of it.

New comment by death_syn in "Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10"

death_syn — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:25:53 +0000

Well, I gave this a try on my Windows machine. I tried to generate a key pair to pass around. I have yet to figure out how to give ssh-keygen a path spec it can write to. Even no path (just file name for the key in the current directory) fails with "invalid argument"

So on that note, anyone know how to report bugs on this? Cursory Googling isn't turning up much.