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New comment by drumttocs8 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

drumttocs8 — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:43:54 +0000

Are you asking how the open source ecosystem works in general?

In my experience, if the dev wishes to be compensated in dollars, they also sell a commercial license, cloud services, etc.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

drumttocs8 — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:13:41 +0000

Sorry, why would I invest in a failed airline with an anonymous collective with no defined leadership?

How could it do anything but fail?

New comment by drumttocs8 in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

drumttocs8 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:07:07 +0000

It's amazing how much I was able to build for $40/mo- something that would have taken a team of 100 twice the time just a few years ago.

Will always be grateful for the greed of trillion dollar corporations that subsidized me.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

drumttocs8 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:39:45 +0000

Exactly, it was just simply much cheaper and perfect for my usecase.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Claude Code Routines"

drumttocs8 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:38:21 +0000

Can someone tell me what this does that n8n doesn't?

New comment by drumttocs8 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

drumttocs8 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:12:16 +0000

For what it's worth, this is basically why and how I run MalwareBytes Windows Firewall Control

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

drumttocs8 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:11:34 +0000

Would be really interesting to know what % of Microsoft devs use MacOS at home.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

drumttocs8 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:23:00 +0000

My 256gb Mac Mini currently has 65gb of "System Data" and 40gb of "MacOS"

New comment by drumttocs8 in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

drumttocs8 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:18:15 +0000

I would honestly be embarrassed to call myself "micro soft" in general.

Unless you're into that kind of thing.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

drumttocs8 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:50:27 +0000

Here's a decent map of Flock installations for those interested in doing field research:

https://banishbigbrother.com/flock-camera-map/

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

drumttocs8 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:40:04 +0000

100% agree. Interestingly, the only politicians who talk about removing Citizens United or even just strengthening consumer protections are considered "far-left" in this country.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

drumttocs8 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:29:33 +0000

Super cool.

To be fair on your point about only displaying status when they need attention vs displaying everything at once- this is easily achievable with a bit of IF ELSE logic with most cards in Lovelace.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

drumttocs8 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:55:52 +0000

You are hitting on the fundamental difference in political views.

Half of this country believes problems are systemic and can be fixed. The other half believes they are a natural consequence of culture, race, and invisible flying creatures that tempt you to do bad things.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

drumttocs8 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:05:01 +0000

Malwarebytes Windows Firewall Control may annoy me sometimes, but this is exactly why I run it.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

drumttocs8 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:08:08 +0000

Yep, Ableton is why I have a Mac Mini on my KVM.

New comment by drumttocs8 in "A website to destroy all websites"

drumttocs8 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:43:08 +0000

I liked House of Leaves in high school

New comment by drumttocs8 in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

drumttocs8 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:42:56 +0000

The only thing I could think to build on blockchain is electric utility metering / settlements data, but I fear I'd be laughed out of the room at this point

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

drumttocs8 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:29:00 +0000

You have nothing to hide given the current, reasonable definition of crime.

What if that changes?

New comment by drumttocs8 in "Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live"

drumttocs8 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:28:21 +0000

Yeah, but I mean... pizza and beer...

New comment by drumttocs8 in "An end to all this prostate trouble?"

drumttocs8 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:21:23 +0000

The other difference, of course, is that the mechanic can just RTFM