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New comment by interloxia in "Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose"

interloxia — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:21:22 +0000

Sometimes. My Bosch washing machine died young due to cheap bearings. The AEG dryer had soldering problems and the German dishwasher's time light projector died slowly.

https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/topic3652484.html#1966024...

New comment by interloxia in "Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer"

interloxia — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:46:48 +0000

"I felt like I may be uniquely equipped to make this problem much more complicated than it needed to be."

Worth it!

New comment by interloxia in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

interloxia — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:53:17 +0000

Or all of those feet in BC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discover...

try botany:

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA

New comment by interloxia in "Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand"

interloxia — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:56:03 +0000

I love clearing cookies.

New comment by interloxia in "An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)"

interloxia — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:06:29 +0000

My old Sony xz2c's USB C port wore out after about three years use. About the same length of time they bothered to update Android. :/

New comment by interloxia in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

interloxia — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:18:45 +0000

Philips knows how to penny pinch. Don't buy the more recent low end models.

Their kid's app has been great.

New comment by interloxia in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

interloxia — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:04:19 +0000

How about the us citizen who is a permanent resident in Germany? German family? Business partners?

New comment by interloxia in "GPT‑Live"

interloxia — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:26:28 +0000

Any feedback from different locations or cultural groups?

One group's expectation of interruption for pleasant conversational flow can be just as off-putting as another's expectation of patient silence.

New comment by interloxia in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

interloxia — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:08:23 +0000

Also .net.au and .com.au are not available for personal use.

New comment by interloxia in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

interloxia — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:04:11 +0000

That's how we end up with stolen generations of kids taken from parents.

It was bad and suggesting state violence for lack of compliance with your world view is bad.

New comment by interloxia in "Using Home Assistant in a botanical garden"

interloxia — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:34:16 +0000

"No vendor sells you a product for that gap, because the gap spans two vendors. So nobody can cross-examine the building. Including you, who owns it."

Power monitoring is surprisingly effective. Open data is better but a few shelly/whatever devices works even for dumb devices.

New comment by interloxia in "Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon"

interloxia — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:03:13 +0000

I would argue that my old 4790K with dual channel ddr3 19200, at 10x power, is similar or better. That box lasted way longer than was reasonable.

New comment by interloxia in "Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components"

interloxia — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:08:46 +0000

My kid has a Fisher-Price Kid Tough camera. It's excellent for us but the pictures are so bad even the kid is disappointed.

It would be fun to repace the guts with something like this project but a long boot time is a deal breaker.

Perhaps the software can be optimised or a DIY friendly pi pico project is the way.

New comment by interloxia in "Identity verification on Claude"

interloxia — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:47:40 +0000

Where possible, I believe it's our duty to educate those who know or care little about how their devices work. Unfortunately stats aren't persuasive for my family, but they might be for some as a starting point.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/victims-identity-th...

Victims of Identity Theft, 2021

October 2023, NCJ 306474

https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/vit21.pdf

New comment by interloxia in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

interloxia — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:15:27 +0000

Here are our top ~500 English picture books from Open Library that my kids liked enough that we've read at least twice.

The quality of the scans are usually poor and occasionally pages are missing and many have been removed. It's been great for us.

https://openlibrary.org/people/duiznwudidj/books/want-to-rea...

New comment by interloxia in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

interloxia — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:23:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_flux_motor

New comment by interloxia in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

interloxia — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:45:01 +0000

https://www.google.com/maps/place/32°18'22.7"N+64°48'59.9"W

New comment by interloxia in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

interloxia — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:41:26 +0000

A couple of photos (also seen in terhechte's comment) https://images.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search/?searchQuery=f...

The gallery has some images and photos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Dockyard,_Bermuda

New comment by interloxia in "Apparently Google hates us now"

interloxia — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:15:14 +0000

Users, ad-block users, and scrapers all consume the publicly-available content whether you like it or not.

I expect the difference is that the scrapers are the most likely to regurgitate the content one way or the other.

New comment by interloxia in "I 3D Printed Origami [video]"

interloxia — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:35:18 +0000

The mini linear motion volumetric display is pretty neat too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgT20tHpk1g

Reminds me of Henry Segerman's expanding racks. Geared crazyness! https://www.youtube.com/@henryseg/videos