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New comment by jabroni_salad in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:21:12 +0000

Home: eero. they actually work really well.

Business: aruba instant-on. They cost more and updates are much less frequent. They are also more reliable and the support experience is far superior even though it is HP.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

jabroni_salad — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:10:07 +0000

The autotyper can with a little bit of finangling. Every browser has a 'url in title bar' extension avaialble and then you can use that for your autotype matching. If you do not like to use extensions, changing a page's title is a trivial bookmarklet or userscript to make I would think.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

jabroni_salad — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:53:22 +0000

I have a GTI and with cruise control on, the speedo and my phone's gps reads exactly the same speed.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time"

jabroni_salad — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:56:39 +0000

this is one of the funniest recurring threads on HN. developers finding out what other developers are requiring from their customers. Bonus points for developers finding out that non-cloud solutions still dominate some industries.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Fox to buy Roku"

jabroni_salad — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:57:53 +0000

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Wf_jy5WqOPShczFKQB2...

shield is still competitive. It has become a little laggy but apparently that can be fixed by swapping out the launcher.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "The Future of Email"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:27:50 +0000

for me there were two:

no caldav support so I couldn't get my next appointment as a widget on my phone. Similarly, your contacts in proton are trapped there and cannot sync with any other system (such as your phone...)

limited quantity of aliases compared to fastmail. this is actually a really sticky feature with fm from what I've been seeing. I would have to rename a bunch of accounts or switch to using a catchall to transfer out.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

jabroni_salad — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:59:52 +0000

For any lenovo enjoyers, know that you can swap Fn and Ctrl in the bios options.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing"

jabroni_salad — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:48:56 +0000

I tried to play Elite Dangerous in VR. It is a very nice game to do that with but personally I found the heavy HMD got uncomfortable inside of a half hour, and I had difficulty reading text. It's fine for combat missions but if I want to design a trade route I'd rather just use my normal monitor.

The other problem is that I have a fancy throttle and stick with lots of extra buttons and switches. I know common functions by touch but if I wanna toggle exterior lights or something I have to look down and find a label.

For me choosing a screen + head tracking vs VR is like choosing to use speakers instead of headphones. The headphones sound way nicer and give much more immersive soundscapes but sometimes you want to have some tunes going and not have your ears get sweaty.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

jabroni_salad — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:52:18 +0000

Yeah, 1u is gonna do that. Get something that can accommodate a big tower air cooler such as the Hyper 212 and your airflow will be quieter than the disks.

I don't run it anymore but my old server was a dual xeon (with two of those coolers crammed in) and I rarely heard a peep out of it.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

jabroni_salad — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:33:19 +0000

I browse everything at 125% and HN is fine on my machine so I decided to check. It depends on your width.

1080px wide (aka on my vertical monitor) HN comments stop reflowing > 300%

At 1920px wide it never stops reflowing.

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

jabroni_salad — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:45:05 +0000

My VW wrongly reads a speed limit off of frontage roads instead of my actual road every single day. When the car was new I tried the speed limit beeper just to see and it isn't worth it.

The speed limit display is great for simple highways and I appreciate the warning when I reach a speed zone, but not ready for anywhere complicated.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:35:14 +0000

If you are referring to an organization rather than a family, have a look at Pleasant Password Server.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:31:38 +0000

My first bitwarden invoice is dated november 2019. My concern here is 'squeeze' type activities that other companies with strong M&A leaderships have brought to their customers. For consumers, loyalty is exploited, not rewarded, and one must be vigilant for signals to jump ship.

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

jabroni_salad — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:09:47 +0000

according to some guys on r/askcarsales the manufacturers have required KPIs for onboarding app users so they just have to do it.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

jabroni_salad — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:05:25 +0000

To tack onto this a big annoyance for me right now is the lack of knowledge in the community about frame pacing and how to configure the computer.

The user will say 'it lags' but does not mention if they have tearing enabled in wayland, what are their 1% lows, have they set an fps cap, what vsync settings have they chosen in-game. On top of that there is an ecosystem failure as not every game supports arbitrary caps and you have to configure some mangohud thing.

Linux is only a 'just click play' experience if you have no standards because I have never had this stuff be correct out of the box on a fresh install.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

jabroni_salad — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:12:14 +0000

It is not just troopers, it's a lot of IL state employees. Pay being ballooned in the final few years of service is just one of the many reasons the Illinois pension system is in crisis.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:40:56 +0000

sorry, I ninja edited my comment to avoid having an identical discussion as the previous many times I brought up this topic.

It is nice that you know what the law is but that isn't the same as the law being followed. Also the bank was PNC, not the biggest guy ever but not a small player either.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:29:35 +0000

When my bank account got drained, I could not pay rent or any bills. I had enough cash for about a week of food. It took 4 weeks for the bank to decide I could be made whole. Ever since then I have never even put a debit card in my wallet. I know what the laws say. I have read endless "well banks usually[...]" type messages. and yet all the same I one day awoke to find myself transformed into a giant cockroach.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

jabroni_salad — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:02:09 +0000

I did a second visit to yellowstone during the winter and it absolutely ruled. Most of it is closed to only commercial operators but the Lamar Valley area is fine if you can get a vehicle with studded tires.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

jabroni_salad — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:17:48 +0000

Not even just for their category. "NYT bestsellers" has been manipulated like this since inception.