Hacker News: fignews

New comment by fignews in "List of domains censored by German ISPs"

fignews — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:31:41 +0000

My small”ish” German ISP advertises Google DNS in its DHCP response

New comment by fignews in "FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools"

fignews — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:27:54 +0000

All Miele refrigerators (at least currently) are made by Liebherr.

New comment by fignews in "Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link"

fignews — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:11:39 +0000

Check out attended sysupgrade

New comment by fignews in "Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free"

fignews — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 09:29:29 +0000

Much higher FPS and resolution than what FLIR even offers consumers.

New comment by fignews in "Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free"

fignews — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 09:27:23 +0000

You are correct. I have the same camera as OP (v1?) but the usbc version does not work with iOS. Can’t understand why. It’s very infuriating.

New comment by fignews in "Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospitals, schools use it: Musk"

fignews — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 07:45:29 +0000

Mexico is the #1 trading partner with the US (even beating China) can Brazil really be compared?

New comment by fignews in "Home Assistant Presence Simulation"

fignews — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 07:06:15 +0000

As a Linux systems engineer I’ve looked behind the curtain at HAOS and was very impressed by how well things are implemented. Been running it for years in KVM and have never had an issue.

New comment by fignews in "Why Discover is no American Express"

fignews — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:06:36 +0000

Live in Germany, use Amex works at 60% of the time. Visa 80% of the time. Many businesses are cash only (less after Covid)

New comment by fignews in "The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)"

fignews — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:58:52 +0000

Thank you

New comment by fignews in "Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?"

fignews — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:55:57 +0000

I saved money by not buying a badly insulated house. There were some walls that shocked me in how little they were insulated. Also found a roof leak in another house

New comment by fignews in "Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?"

fignews — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:49:17 +0000

Used my Infriray while house hunting. Possibly saved me big time €. Great also for spotting leaks any water in/on surfaces shows up quite clearly. In the same vein I use it to spot pet accidents.

The infriray is the Chinese knockoff brand which is actually better than flir because they don’t have to follow the US weapons law. So with it I get 30(?) fps instead of the ~5 with flir. Resolution is better too. It’s very sensitive and can clearly show a hand print on a surface for a minute or so even if you only touch it for 1/2 a second.

New comment by fignews in "The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)"

fignews — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:20:04 +0000

How do you generally know when the long test is over? Is there a way to get a notification of completion? Is it ok to begin using the drives while testing? I personally run my new drives through a few rounds of badblocks

New comment by fignews in "Toyota got mocked for rejecting EV hype – not anymore"

fignews — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:31:04 +0000

Who said anything about houses? An apartment dweller can have a power outlet installed at their parking spot. For people that have to endure street parking lantern charging is becoming more and more prevalent. Back when I didn’t have a private charging I would charge while doing my grocery shopping. Of course there’s always work charging.

Back in the day luddites also pointed out the lack of gasoline infrastructure. A horse is much less annoying obviously.

New comment by fignews in "Toyota got mocked for rejecting EV hype – not anymore"

fignews — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 08:22:24 +0000

Starting with a full tank each morning is the opposite of annoying to use. Having to go out of my way to a gas station to pay more per mile is the annoying thing.

New comment by fignews in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

fignews — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:35:20 +0000

NextDNS also, just set it up :)

New comment by fignews in "Tiny UPS for Tiny NAS"

fignews — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:00:10 +0000

Hi, I have the ZMI QB826G and I'm 99% sure it blips the power when starting passthrough. Do really like the thing though (except for the display that remains on while in use and is fairly bright)

I have another solution for you: I've been using https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005005036674891.html for my router and it's been pretty good so far for the six months or so I've had it. I was made aware of it from an electronics Youtuber I trust who did a teardown and was impressed with the quality and safety. Sorry I can't find the video at the moment.

New comment by fignews in "StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet"

fignews — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:05:18 +0000

Been using wayland on Fedora for years and I don’t know what you’re talking about. Intel and AMD graphics here.

New comment by fignews in "The Guide to Sleeping in Airports"

fignews — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 07:22:53 +0000

Delta was having issues so they moved me over to a Hawaiian flight (they aren’t really partners) The flight attendants where so rude (and other problems) I’ve vowed the same.

New comment by fignews in "FOSDEM 2023: Glad to Be Back"

fignews — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 13:57:00 +0000

Ended up speaking to a C# dev from the Italian speaking part of Switzerland but obviously not a common language.

New comment by fignews in "FOSDEM 2023: Glad to Be Back"

fignews — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 13:55:02 +0000

Not yet. Not surprising though considering the insanely high density of people...