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New comment by itomato in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

itomato — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:55:25 +0000

This might be nice on one of those pocket x86 machines, but I'm not nostalgic enough to try it out.

New comment by itomato in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

itomato — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:53:37 +0000

Oh, we had an "enthusiast" customer back around the turn of the century who swore by this and NetZero.

Microsoft is still doing fine, sir.

New comment by itomato in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

itomato — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:44:01 +0000

Blue: water. Purple: plasma. Red/orange: blood/lava

New comment by itomato in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

itomato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:44:13 +0000

While not the "oh shit" moment, the wave has the same shape.

I have an DigiTech GNX3000 effects pedal board - a digital modeling "workstation" that needs the aged Windows native software or Gdigi to make the most of.

At best, the experience with gdigi was passable; raw access to the patches and controls, the ability to control it from the laptop, etc.

In an hour or so, I had a functionally superior webmidi version up and running in Vercel using their v0 code. It kicked off a wave of subscriptions and referral chasing.

I made it a template - because there are so many gnx3k users out there: https://v0.app/templates/digitech-gnx3000-sysex-tool-GC5LzXA...

New comment by itomato in "Show HN: A free Linux adaptation of NETworkManager by BornToBeRoot"

itomato — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:14:55 +0000

Oh wow, thinking about using Python in the GUI for network management makes me recall WiFi Radar and what it was like relying on Python inside Xorg for my network connection setup.

I respect the effort.

New comment by itomato in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

itomato — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:06:22 +0000

That would just about cover the price of a B&MF franchise license.

New comment by itomato in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

itomato — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:05:21 +0000

Good luck finding his will in the home directory of the backdoor account.

New comment by itomato in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

itomato — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:08:16 +0000

Meshtastic and MQTT are part of my home network

https://openwrt.meshtastic.org/

New comment by itomato in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

itomato — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:09:38 +0000

I already did. Quake 3 Arena also, but that’s not in the Marketplace (yet).

We are going to chat about it on June 9 in an online Developer Event

New comment by itomato in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

itomato — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:05:15 +0000

Yes. Quake 3 Arena Multiplayer too.

New comment by itomato in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

itomato — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:04:28 +0000

You can find correlations with stock price and positive user perception that were held up in product.

It came with its share of paper cuts too, like going from 4.x to 6.x or literally anything challenging to the rickety boxes of OFBiz and wholly-different products skinned for looks-maxxing.

Those engineers dipped out a while back and took their $280 shares with them.

New comment by itomato in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

itomato — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:26:29 +0000

I don't have data, but my guess would be Debian or Slackware

New comment by itomato in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

itomato — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:28:51 +0000

"Steal" is more likely. That's what happened to me. Luckily it was paired and I was able to find it on the agent's person. "It fell."

New comment by itomato in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

itomato — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:13:01 +0000

It impacted an industry and not an art form?

New comment by itomato in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

itomato — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:13:24 +0000

If you’re an artist and you feel like your audience was stolen by AI slop, you didn’t have a real audience and you aren’t a real artist.

Go suffer until something good happens in your fingers.

New comment by itomato in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

itomato — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:08:54 +0000

Why should there be?

Why is this the measure of success?

New comment by itomato in "I hate soldering"

itomato — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:07:03 +0000

Too similiar to "soldiering" and nobody wants to go there.

New comment by itomato in "I hate soldering"

itomato — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:05:52 +0000

Pinecil is a nice idea until it stops working due to a lack of strain relief for the power input or the clips snap and your tip falls out.

You need a Pinecil to repair your Pinecil and don't forget plenty of spare parts.

New comment by itomato in "Googlebook"

itomato — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:53:59 +0000

It's refreshing to see Marketing step into the Product Owner role. Let's see what they do with the oppportunity.

New comment by itomato in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

itomato — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:36:22 +0000

Then what?