Hacker News: hkchad

New comment by hkchad in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

hkchad — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:59:44 +0000

I dropped Chrome about 2 years ago. FireFox does everything I need it to do and more.

New comment by hkchad in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

hkchad — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:09:53 +0000

I have a M5 MAX with 128, local models are toys compared to hosted ones. I've spent a lot of time and money trying to make it work even 1/2 as well.

New comment by hkchad in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

hkchad — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:46:45 +0000

Probably have to turn it upside down to charge it

New comment by hkchad in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

hkchad — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:29:54 +0000

Goodness, that's a 10x increase since I got mine in 2014, no way in HELL I'd pay their new price. What on earth are they thinking.

New comment by hkchad in "Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt"

hkchad — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:30:45 +0000

They can't get out of SES sandbox /s

New comment by hkchad in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

hkchad — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:20:39 +0000

Everytime I read these post I'm glad I bought a lifetime pass 12 years ago, very well got my $$'s worth over the years.

New comment by hkchad in "We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries"

hkchad — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:32:18 +0000

Why? I use to manage one on a classified air-gapped network, back before Atlassian was all Cloud Based or 'Data Center' license junk. We had Stash, Jira, Confluence, FishEye, HipChat, everything hosted on a non-internet connected network.

New comment by hkchad in "Airbnb and Vrbo are going downhill like a hippo on a water slide"

hkchad — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:46:12 +0000

Rarely is it worth it for me to deal w/ AirBnb type places anymore. After all the fees and extra work trying to understand each of their 'rules' I find getting a hotel is just easier. Unless I'm trying to stay at a particular destination for several days in a row and need a 'home base' hotels are just more convenient as long as all I need is a place to crash at night. They make the beds and cook me breakfast and I don't even have to start the washing machine when I leave...

New comment by hkchad in "Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery"

hkchad — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:11:15 +0000

Saw this headline and thought, HA been doing this for YEARS, yea, need to add a (2017) to the headline...

New comment by hkchad in "Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009)"

hkchad — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:46:28 +0000

Me and a few buddies used it to plan trips and coordinate plans, it was awesome. The shutdown of Wave and Google Reader is what turned me off to investing any more of my time into Google products.

New comment by hkchad in "Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?"

hkchad — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:59:26 +0000

Life takes about 1/2, Mortgage, Insurance, Tuition, Utilities. SCUBA takes the rest, gear/travel. When SCUBA doesn't take the rest it goes into retirement/investments.

New comment by hkchad in "SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people"

hkchad — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:38:36 +0000

I have garbage cell signal in my house, was only an issue for sending/receiving large pictures/video's over iMessage, apparently those don't send over WiFi for some unknown reason as well... I called Verizon and they sent me a Fem2Cell, problem solved.

New comment by hkchad in "Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?"

hkchad — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:54:43 +0000

I'm using JetBrains w/ GitHub CoPilot, the amount of context it has around what I'm working on is next level, it's not just 'code complete' but it's 'context aware' as well, say for example I need to open a csv and parse out a few columns by the time I have named the file it's giving me the entire block of code WITH the proper column names of the files, all you do is hit tab and refactor. You won't get that just w/ copy/paste.

New comment by hkchad in "Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux"

hkchad — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:15:48 +0000

I finally go so fed up with drop box, every time I login more and more popups trying to get me to upgrade, etc. It was the final push to just use my NAS Software to self host my files. In the past it wasn't as reliable as DropBox but with hardware now and Tailscale its much easier and much better experience.

New comment by hkchad in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses"

hkchad — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:22:35 +0000

This happened to me last week, used uBlock origin to set it back to 8 video's per row.

New comment by hkchad in "Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move"

hkchad — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:23:05 +0000

I have 3 Synology NAS units with about 80TB of total disk space across the 3. When I replace them I will not be replacing them with Synology, they have lost me as a customer. I switched to Synology after having done the homebuilt NAS for years and just wanted something that works. OSS has come a long way since then so time to go back to what I know and can trust.

New comment by hkchad in "Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar"

hkchad — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:33:02 +0000

Yea but whats the price? Even w/ insurance a lot of the GLP-1's are hundreds of $$/mo and most can't afford that outside of hollywood.

New comment by hkchad in "New Windows 11 trick lets you bypass Microsoft Account requirement"

hkchad — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:14:32 +0000

I've always setup Windows w/o connecting it to the internet first, never had to resort to any 'tricks' to bypass the account issue.

New comment by hkchad in "YouTube, when the walls fell [video]"

hkchad — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:53:25 +0000

OMG I'm dying lol

New comment by hkchad in "Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie"

hkchad — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:14:18 +0000

You don't need Compass to keep the On Call Schedule, that's part of Operations which is where all the alerting stuff migrated to as well.