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New comment by hypercube33 in "Googlebook"

hypercube33 — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:31:53 +0000

I feel the real problem is poor standardized sizing for clothing in store and worse online. I swear every store has their own unique sizes and when it comes to no names on sites like Amazon it's just pure good luck.

As far as this laptop is concerned I feel like it's a repeat of that super expensive chrome book that fizzled out because it was basically nerfed by Google unshockingly. As one of the top posters here if they delivered quality hardware, good Linux and solid Google support and even gapps, this would be an absolute win. instead i can only guess what this is unless I missed any real information on the site it's just a metal Chromebook with extra AI?

New comment by hypercube33 in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

hypercube33 — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:52:18 +0000

A fun background show (for those of us with ADHD?) I like to have on is Computer Chronicles - a weekly show that basically documented the weekly history, for the most part, of the evolution of personal computing. It basically starts out as "these things are cool and can run spreadsheets" to evolution into music, the internet, and beyond. Lots of crazy things happen in the 1980s that we're now realizing today like touch, voice, and ai that people kept saying we'd be 2-4 years away from...I guess that is marketing speak for 20-40 years, but it's still seems very relivant to today.

New comment by hypercube33 in "The Visible Zorker: Zork 3"

hypercube33 — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:29:45 +0000

look under the leaves.... Zork is still a work of art to me

New comment by hypercube33 in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

hypercube33 — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:25:09 +0000

Did they ever fix PCIe over thunderbolt security? seems like the security for it prompting to enable on plug vanished in 2019...it could read memory in some systems and that probably didn't matter if your machine was locked or not

New comment by hypercube33 in "Ti-84 Evo"

hypercube33 — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:49:30 +0000

I mean a laptop running windows can use the old power toy calculator or something like speed crunch to do graphing and I'm sure Linux has countless others, with Chromebooks probably having more for free online as well, I can only assume.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Ti-84 Evo"

hypercube33 — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:29:26 +0000

My dad got a free palm pilot m125 or something and I used a ti/HP calculator emulator on it since my parents thought buying a $99+ calculator was too expensive. fun writing apps in basic for that thing and the games for it were the best mobile ones. I did envy people with Mario and drug wars on their calculators though.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

hypercube33 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:03:34 +0000

To me this is like asking who owns the binary files a compiler generates.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)"

hypercube33 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:23:36 +0000

Honestly asking though is it worth that trade off? I enjoy watching people benchmark older Intel x86 based chips and without cache they are frankly awful slow. I'm not sure two without cache beat one with. The BeBox did run a totally different processor though so I have zero domain knowledge for that which is why I'm genuinely curious.

New comment by hypercube33 in "When the cheap one is the cool one"

hypercube33 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:22:35 +0000

It's cars too - you'll get muted blue, 5 greys a black, white and better enjoy being boring.

Near 2000 everything came in wild colors. I fondly miss bright red motherboards even, or orange ones.

New comment by hypercube33 in "How to remove One UI from a Samsung device?(2025)"

hypercube33 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:14:56 +0000

I loathe oneui so on my S21 I loaded Google asop apps and pixel launcher and disabled everything Samsung I could. been doing fine on this for 5 years and 4 before that on my s9.

New comment by hypercube33 in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

hypercube33 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:50:24 +0000

Probably cheaper and freed up PCIe lanes for desktop boards (marketing?) now yeah it doesn't make a lot of sense.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

hypercube33 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:27:28 +0000

I finished a mod for Quake 2 I started in 1998 finally a few weeks ago. AI is really helping me get past the COVID burnout I was running of too many projects I half did. Fixed terminals (an rdp tool) today. Working on OpenRA bugs I opened issues 10 years ago now - engine is 10x faster and pathfinding mostly works properly.

New comment by hypercube33 in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"

hypercube33 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:56:04 +0000

It actually doesn't it feels horrible. you can't paste files from a samba share or large ones take so long to copy that they ultimately fail.

New comment by hypercube33 in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

hypercube33 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:49:56 +0000

Thats just port speed, charging and other features are all a crapshoot on USB making Thunderbolt the sane version of the "USB-C" family where it requires a set of things (speed, charging wattage)

New comment by hypercube33 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

hypercube33 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:02:22 +0000

For me you open a markdown editor and draft up a code plan and details of what you'd do as a coder at a high level then bust into whatever tool in planning mode (I usually fire this into the opus 4.5 model) and have it break it down into concise steps and then hand it off to a simple model (gpt spark, sonnet, composer or whatever) to execute. when I feel frisky I'll just have opus one shot it and it can be done in a few minutes.

New comment by hypercube33 in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

hypercube33 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:14:29 +0000

Scary that I can relate to this and then am reminded by the star trek episode they make you relive a memory every few minutes forever. Never put these two together, oof.

New comment by hypercube33 in "First per-image PCA decomposition of Kodak suite reveals deliberate curation"

hypercube33 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:59:49 +0000

Can someone explain what this is like I'm the idiot I am?

New comment by hypercube33 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

hypercube33 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:30:07 +0000

Saturn with an updated i4 please

New comment by hypercube33 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

hypercube33 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:44:10 +0000

The other name for these filters are "oil bath filters" basically it snorkles the intake air through oil and that sticks to any dust and dirt.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

hypercube33 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:32:56 +0000

I have the original 1940's Minneapolis Moline R and my wife has the original Farmall H and we both currently live in the city (but grew up farming or close to it) so we're not city kids, but somewhere stuck in between. I deeply get the feeling of using a non-tech machine, and how simple it is but intuitive to use. We used a pain mixing stick to check the gas level in our tractors on the farm, I don't think the gas gauges ever worked. You'd have to whack the starter with a wrench since they didn't ever work half the time. They worked over 60 years before they got their first oil change (my grandpa didn't believe in changing them - but my dad and I think it's just because you'll never get the canister filter to seal ever again if you did change it)

Great memories.