Hacker News: fanatic2pope

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:44:35 +0000

This looks great, but why is there no "plus" version for Android?

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic"

fanatic2pope — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:03:32 +0000

Aimmunity

New comment by fanatic2pope in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

fanatic2pope — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:16:21 +0000

Toast, can you hear me? This is Clem Fandango.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

fanatic2pope — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:47:27 +0000

You can get USB controlled CEC injectors for HDMI.

https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hdmi-cec-adapter

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:51:06 +0000

Once a year I go through my photos and select my favourites and have them printed to paper. Using Google's print service (as an example) you can spend about $80 to have 150 photos printed into a book. If you do this once a year you will soon have a lovely shelf of paper photos you can easily store, easily look at and show to other people and hand down to your kids and their kids, etc. Long term I suspect my collection of books is far more likely to survive than my google account.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

fanatic2pope — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:08:08 +0000

A TV without software sounds like a dream. Just give me a working HDMI-in port and I'll take care of the rest, thanks!

New comment by fanatic2pope in "How to build a circular LCD clock"

fanatic2pope — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:43:33 +0000

Working now.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "How to build a circular LCD clock"

fanatic2pope — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:56:42 +0000

FWIW your link comes up as a blank black page on Firefox/Linux.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:07:41 +0000

Except for that one hit movie (Rumble in the Bronx) when Vancouver stood in for New York.

https://imgur.com/a/jr1KARI

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE"

fanatic2pope — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:35:31 +0000

I wonder how far we are away from people being arrested for holding up blank pieces of paper.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

fanatic2pope — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:17:35 +0000

If they just abandon them then a subsequent administration can simply re-activate them without being forced to spend even more money.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Oh good, screwworms are back (2025)"

fanatic2pope — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:17:14 +0000

Umm, yes? The funding was put in place because of the problem.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:47:56 +0000

This type of concern could be ameliorated through the proper application of consumer protection laws concerning privacy and the right to modify and repair the things we own. The US doesn't want China to be able to spy on drivers because the US wants to be able to spy on drivers, which is why the proposed "solution" to your concerns is to simply ban Chinese cars. It's not about privacy or protecting consumers, it's about deciding which wolf gets to eat the sheep.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

fanatic2pope — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:30:45 +0000

I really enjoyed Newgrange in Ireland. It's huge, you can go inside it and as part of the tour they turn out the lights and simulate what it looks like on the solstice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

fanatic2pope — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:34:08 +0000

Alberticide

New comment by fanatic2pope in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

fanatic2pope — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:20:42 +0000

What are you hiring for?

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Declining America"

fanatic2pope — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:34:30 +0000

This is a naive response to the concerns Tim has expressed, and displays a deep lack of critical thinking around how the decline of the US' status in the world is impacting it's role as the home of "cutting edge technology".

New comment by fanatic2pope in "I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert"

fanatic2pope — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:35:30 +0000

Watching cat videos feels a lot like that.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:20:54 +0000

In the case of Bambu you'd want to do this to prevent surprises like your printer from randomly starting to print due to a "cloud error".

https://www.techradar.com/pro/did-your-3d-printer-start-prin...

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

fanatic2pope — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:29:13 +0000

I gave up on real time synchronization and I just do manual periodic bulk downloads. In my case using google takeout, but I'm sure Apple lets you do the same thing.