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New comment by intrikate in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

intrikate — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:16:35 +0000

You could just... turn off the power.

New comment by intrikate in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

intrikate — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:56:21 +0000

I'm with you. It was brown, and if I remember right, in the light the edges had a sort of greenish tint to them? I thought it looked so cool, hadn't seen anything like it before.

New comment by intrikate in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

intrikate — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:18:50 +0000

I mean, if it's possible to configure and there is at all a reason for someone to configure it as such, then it makes the most sense to treat it as a very valid possibility, right?

New comment by intrikate in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

intrikate — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:11:38 +0000

> The average consumer is basically a vacuum cleaner.

Yeah, this has been the hardest pill to swallow, as a creative and person that enjoys art. They know it's all least-common-denominator bullshit and they like it anyway. A lot of people truly just don't care about the meaning or any message in the art, they just like explosions and pretty people.

And that's fine, I guess. There's nothing wrong with it. It just... makes me feel a little empty inside.

New comment by intrikate in "CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026"

intrikate — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:29:52 +0000

I mean, I could take an amplifier, my speakers and my turntable all with a big battery station anywhere I want to play records. Less convenient, sure, but "I can take it with me!" is not the win you expect here, haha.

New comment by intrikate in "Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers"

intrikate — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:34:34 +0000

If only; you can definitely get "audiophile network switches" which provide a cleaner sound when you pull your music from Roon over them, or something.

Audiophiles are the easiest marks on earth, man.

New comment by intrikate in "Tidal AI Policy"

intrikate — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:02:41 +0000

> Samplers and grooveboxes absolutely play music by themselves.

I disagree. You cannot take your Akai MPC out of the box and ask it to play music. You have to load samples, you have to arrange them and you have to instruct it to play. That seems like a far cry to me from "playing themselves." You still have to... write the music.

New comment by intrikate in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

intrikate — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:46:57 +0000

Autologin is trivial to set up on most operating systems. There are solutions for using CEC to control your television as well. I'm not a programmer, but I was able to set this up with minimal issue.

If you don't want to have to solve these problems, that's fine, but please don't parade around as if these are insurmountable, unsolvable problems.

New comment by intrikate in "Steam Machine launches today"

intrikate — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:50:34 +0000

Reaper is neither Free nor Open Source.

New comment by intrikate in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

intrikate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:38:15 +0000

This reads like a kneejerk reaction to the title, which I understand. I think it's deliberately written that way to draw you in, but I get how it could be upsetting.

Her point isn't that "fitness is white supremacy," and not even remotely close. Just that the social media and culture around wellness and fitness can give off white supremacist, fascist energy by presenting an extremely unobtainable and yet highly idealized state of being, where everyone is very thin and white and fits within the stereotypes of the gender assigned to them, which is not remotely how the world at large can be.

Actually, reading it again, I don't see the author calling out anyone in particular, just noting that the culture around a thing they otherwise enjoy makes them uncomfortable, and why.

New comment by intrikate in "Every Frame Perfect"

intrikate — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:25:58 +0000

I don't turn them off entirely, I kind of enjoy the feeling of momentum animated elements can provide, but I definitely do go in and speed them up massively. I find that when a phone is feeling unresponsive or sluggish, it's usually because I'm moving two steps ahead of the animation and it has to catch up. Feels like tripping on your own feet.

New comment by intrikate in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

intrikate — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:17:57 +0000

I purchased an iPhone 15 a few months ago and ended up making this discovery myself. CarPlay would refuse to launch unless I enabled Siri. I didn't do any of the Siri setup, or anything but the app would hard refuse to launch unless I went and toggled on Siri. Maybe that's different depending on your make/model, or the specific infotainment system in your car, but in my '21 Kia Forte, Siri is a very hard requirement.

New comment by intrikate in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

intrikate — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:18:45 +0000

It seems to me that anyone going out of their way to compare current prices against prices from five or more years ago to adjust for inflation is not the average consumer, and shouldn't be juxtaposed as such.

New comment by intrikate in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

intrikate — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:12:01 +0000

This is a really interesting thing to think about. English is my mother tongue, and I'd never really considered this, it's always just been part of the language.

If I ask my partner to turn the volume "up," I am asking them to literally move the volume knob "upwards" towards the maximum limit. The physical motion doesn't literally track with televisions and remotes, for example, but you're still moving (turning) the volume upwards towards maximum.

That's how it shakes out in my head? You're moving something upwards towards the maximum. More is bigger, bigger is up.

New comment by intrikate in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

intrikate — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:49:10 +0000

Ah, okay, that makes your original comment make more sense. Thank you for the clarification.

New comment by intrikate in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

intrikate — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:03:36 +0000

I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. If you don't understand, you aren't smart enough to and shouldn't try? If you learn slow, just stop because you're... slower? What are you talking about?

New comment by intrikate in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

intrikate — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:25:46 +0000

"...Flowers said, "I believe personally that guilty people act defensively. If you don't have anything to hide, then it shouldn't be a problem."

Oh boy, back to this crap again. If that's true, for you to be acting this defensively sure is sending some signal.

New comment by intrikate in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

intrikate — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:22:34 +0000

Are 'working' and 'learning' not part of 'living?'

New comment by intrikate in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

intrikate — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:24:31 +0000

I am so sorry to piggyback on someone else's comment for this, but this thread has piqued my interest in what I can do to de-smart my 2021 Kia Forte LXS.

Any chance you can get the service manual for it? I appreciate it, even if you can not.

New comment by intrikate in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

intrikate — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:07:39 +0000

It was a big enough deal that Nintendo put out advertisements in 1990 [0], asking people to not use "a Nintendo" to refer generically to other video game systems, specifically out of fear of genericization.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/5m9grz/theres_no_...