Hacker News: hamdingers

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

hamdingers — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:52:41 +0000

Google Photos is a great value proposition, but it's still only 1 copy in 1 medium. If you count your phone as another copy/medium you still need a 3rd copy somewhere if you want to follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy.

> not accessible to my family

My family has no trouble with it, the UX is excellent. My retirement age parents are regularly adding photos to shared albums and things like that.

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

hamdingers — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:45:45 +0000

I made the switch from photoprism to immich a couple years ago and the app is far better. Sad to hear it hasn't improved in the mean time.

New comment by hamdingers in "Just Bury Your Trash"

hamdingers — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:39:36 +0000

The cardboard isn't the problem, the plastic is. Looking at energy use of packaging alone is myopic as other comments in this thread have already pointed out.

I can go to a bulk store like re_grocery with my own reusable airtight container and buy fresh uncrushed cereal with zero packaging. This should be an option in every grocery store.

New comment by hamdingers in "9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes"

hamdingers — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:15:52 +0000

Your monitor refreshes a bit faster than my motorcycle. '09 Yamaha FZ6 14k redline, 240hz would be about 14,400 rpm.

New comment by hamdingers in "Just Bury Your Trash"

hamdingers — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:33:27 +0000

Just let me buy things without forcing me to buy so much trash too. Every grocery store item is over-packaged.

New comment by hamdingers in "American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career"

hamdingers — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:08:27 +0000

It takes a rare multi-talented person to do this though. First you have to attain mastery of the craft itself, then you have to master (or at least be competent in) the art of communicating it to others.

Some mechanics are just good mechanics, and that's okay.

New comment by hamdingers in "Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates"

hamdingers — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:01:25 +0000

That's missing the point. There were official native MacOS builds and now there aren't.

Can't be too mad about it though, it was free back then too.

New comment by hamdingers in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

hamdingers — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:36:59 +0000

Do you never have agents working on multiple tasks in parallel? You'll become much more productive when you figure out how to stop micromanaging.

New comment by hamdingers in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

hamdingers — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:38:44 +0000

I have never had any interest in using Bambu's cloud. It works in LAN mode with none of this rigamarole.

If you want to feed all your print activity to Bambu's servers anyway, why bother using an open source plugin in the first place?

New comment by hamdingers in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

hamdingers — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:47:14 +0000

It's the networking plugin that talks to the printer over the network (while exporting gobs of telemetry to Bambu's servers).

Without the networking plugin you cannot monitor your printer or send prints to it remotely. You can copy files to a flash drive and print that way.

New comment by hamdingers in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

hamdingers — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:39:35 +0000

Probably this one: https://github.com/greghesp/ha-bambulab

It's excellent for monitoring and setting up automations around printer events, I use it all the time too.

New comment by hamdingers in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

hamdingers — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:36:38 +0000

I only sent one test print through Bambu so I can't make a comparison, but it's <10s from clicking print to the printer starting its warmup dance.

Speed is not why I set my printer up this way though. I live in a state that may ban 3D printers unless they include invasive surveillance, so I wanted to get a high end pre-ban printer in case that becomes law.

New comment by hamdingers in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

hamdingers — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:49:38 +0000

For current owners who want to avoid Bambu's servers entirely, consider LAN mode with OrcaSlicer and this open source reverse engineered networking plugin: https://github.com/ClusterM/open-bamboo-networking

I have verified that my P2S in LAN mode never attempts to make external connections at all (blocked it anyway, of course) and OrcaSlicer + this plugin never attempts to connect to any of Bambu's servers.

My P2S is easily the best printer I've ever had, they really do make incredible machines, it's a shame they have created this ridiculous situation just to (as far as I can tell) collect telemetry.

New comment by hamdingers in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

hamdingers — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:13:00 +0000

Have you heard of the Goomba fallacy?

New comment by hamdingers in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

hamdingers — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:42:04 +0000

Yes they do, but is it enough?

Given a fixed per-gallon gas tax, if you assume a 3000lb, 2 axle vehicle that gets 30mpg is paying enough road tax to cover its usage, then an 80,000lb, 5 axle vehicle would need to consume 320 gallons per mile to be paying gas tax proportionate to its road usage.

They don't (thankfully), so it's not. Trucks are massively subsidized by everyone else.

New comment by hamdingers in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

hamdingers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:59:18 +0000

I don't see how. Regardless of how you feel about the lawfulness of the overall situation, Tunick gave an agent false information which resulted in the phone being wiped. That's intent.

This requires no action whatsoever from the phone's owner, you could even be unconscious/dead and it would still work.

New comment by hamdingers in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

hamdingers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:56:52 +0000

When I've gotten secondary screening the first thing they do is take all my belongings and rifle through them on a table. That seems to be standard practice and I'm sure it was step 1 in Tunick's ordeal.

Both approaches have situations they wouldn't work in. If you're extra paranoid you could do both.

New comment by hamdingers in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

hamdingers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:45:37 +0000

I was imagining only the BLE beacon living in one of those little faraday pouches people put their key fobs in. They should be pretty much transparent passing through the x-ray and a pouch with an airtag in it wouldn't raise any suspicion at all at the airport.

Only once you're getting invasively searched would they (ideally) dump the pouch out into the tray with your phone.

New comment by hamdingers in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

hamdingers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:16:11 +0000

Or keep it in a faraday bag and have the phone wipe if it sees it. If you're ever searched (or otherwise indisposed), they'll open the bag and wipe your phone for you.

New comment by hamdingers in "Kobo can run apps now"

hamdingers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:40:16 +0000

Ah yeah, mine takes a while to connect to wifi too. I assumed that was just how it was, luckily I do it rarely.

I got the BW over the Color only because I had read the color screen wasn't as sharp, though I've never compared them side by side.