Hacker News: folmar

New comment by folmar in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

folmar — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:58:31 +0000

My Thinkpad T490 will happily take any power provided voltage is high enough (15V+).

New comment by folmar in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

folmar — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:36:53 +0000

If you don't use a lot of quota the cheapest monthly Claude Code is $20, Kimi Code is $19, i.e. the cost difference is minuscule.

Kimi wants my phone number on signup so a no-go for me.

New comment by folmar in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

folmar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:39:55 +0000

Heavy duty trucks run well on electric in the EU at least, as the work time regulation make for regular charging and lower speed limits for trucks makes the consumption manageable.

New comment by folmar in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

folmar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:51:01 +0000

Electric excavators are there, as they are low duty cycle, see sibling comments for details, but high load percent for long time is a killer for battery tech.

I could imagine tethered tractors with power line tensioned in the air, but the grid building cost will be quite high for intermittent usage. Only some land usages and plot shapes would work economically.

New comment by folmar in "3.4M Solar Panels"

folmar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:01:43 +0000

In EU it would be some $3k for inverter, $5k for panels, another $5k for cables, connectors and mounting and that's it if you DIY everything. Prices with VAT included.

New comment by folmar in "3.4M Solar Panels"

folmar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:53:03 +0000

I only get the following message:

Access Denied Error 16 www.ercot.com 2026-04-22 19:52:02 UTC

If you believe you have a valid business reason for accessing ERCOT resources, please contact the ERCOT Service Desk

New comment by folmar in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

folmar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:05:50 +0000

For physical machines of course yes.

The linked one is VPS, so all trouble fixing is easier.

New comment by folmar in "Pebble Production: February Update"

folmar — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:43:30 +0000

_This item does not exist_

Please post the item title, aliexpress links tend to be short-lived

New comment by folmar in "OpenAI should build Slack"

folmar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:05:51 +0000

> It drains my laptop's and iphone's battery like no tomorrow

Use Teams in Firefox with ublock for battery issues, somehow it consumes much less.

> It's the only software I use that, for some reason, has an effect on my typing accuracy.

That's because the typed letters appear with a large (often even ~1 s) delay. Close your eyes while typing and you'll be back on you track.

New comment by folmar in "OpenAI should build Slack"

folmar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:01:31 +0000

> The main problem now is that it works fine

Except from:

* notifications for channels

* search

* using more than one org (needs app restart!) although screen sharing between 'classic' and 'web' editions works only if sender's and receiver's graphic cards share a hw-accelerated video format blessed by teams. Not, it's not easy to check what edition you are running and you can't change it without poking js variables by hand

* inconsistent read statuses between devices

* 'incoming call not shown at all' bug (but you get a missed call notification)

* can't join two video calls even in two separate windows

* random audio device switching on every morning (even if you don't close the app and computer for the night)

New comment by folmar in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

folmar — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:53:22 +0000

> My understanding is that for car rental purposes, anything using Visa/MC (and not a national debit network like Visa Debit in the US) will work, it doesn't actually need to be backed by a revolving credit.

Many companies will refuse all debit cards, or all cards with "electronic use only" restriction, at least for the deposit, irrespective of the payment network involved.

New comment by folmar in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

folmar — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:14:57 +0000

I use it for a non-it non-engineer group and everyone is happy with browser experience.

The mobile app is worse as it only allows writing in a few views that are not easy to access, and is becoming slower over time.

New comment by folmar in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

folmar — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:25:25 +0000

The killer feateure is that it's very easy to move last $x messages to another topic, so if someone writes a short note that begins a conversation everyone is free to reorganize it, and also moving messages between threads is easy and nice.

New comment by folmar in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

folmar — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:27:11 +0000

Wake word is not expensive, you can do it on esp32 https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-sr/en/latest/esp32s3... (and then send audio to something more beefy as TTS will be marginal at best).

New comment by folmar in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

folmar — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:09:34 +0000

If you have a lot of not very time sensitive jobs, e.g. large merge trains, it was reasonable to have a not very fast runner run close to full utilization. Now that you'd pay by the run-minute, it'll be cheaper to move to a faster runner and run it at 10%.

New comment by folmar in "Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux"

folmar — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:46:04 +0000

It's not usual for PC, but if you select "remove animation" on Android you're good on 2 fps. Many applications do like crap as the first placeholders are given little attention, but there are only big refreshes, and only handful of apps written so bad that they ignore the setting and make animated placeholder.

The only thing is that you need to stick to Page Up/Page Down for scrolling.

New comment by folmar in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

folmar — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:30:10 +0000

Bromite is unmaintained anymore, Cromite is the current fork.

New comment by folmar in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

folmar — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:22:43 +0000

I've never seen one in Poland.

New comment by folmar in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

folmar — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:51:52 +0000

Apparently Toyota+Lexus are ordering the most blinding lights without any reason. Talk to the dealer - if no one complains, they don't feel the need to fix.

New comment by folmar in "Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers"

folmar — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:28:06 +0000

Even if, that does not help. When asked for a birthday I need validation of the date in country when I was born, not the country I'm in, not the locale I'm using for display and not the locale server/requesting company is in.