Hacker News: jpk2f2

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

jpk2f2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:53:28 +0000

Hardware prices, especially RAM, have skyrocketed. Priced out new baremetal servers recently and prices were 3-6x what we paid 4 years ago for the newer equivalents.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

jpk2f2 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:09:22 +0000

Because you should never fully trust any IoT product that you don't truly have control over. There's nothing stopping a faulty or malicious update from being pushed out, or their update servers being compromised (see notepad++ recently). So why increase your risk, if you don't truly need it online?

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

jpk2f2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:00:45 +0000

Using it daily without plugins is, by definition, a "usable system".

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

jpk2f2 — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:39:17 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean, it works outside of Steam. For example, SDL has full steam controller support.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

jpk2f2 — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:34:40 +0000

That only applies to the automatic refund. I've refunded a handful of games well past that window, so long as you justify it, I've never had an issue.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

jpk2f2 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:59:05 +0000

- For homes with close family (parents and siblings), I setup a subnet router and local DNS server on a Dell Wyse, making it one of their DNS servers so it can point them to services

- Yes, they should have their own account. However you can only add a few before you need to move to a paid version

- You can disable the expiry for nodes, which should keep it connected and prevent you needing to sign in again for them, for the most part

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105"

jpk2f2 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:54:12 +0000

From 8 to 105...97 years. I'd say that qualifies as "almost a century".

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

jpk2f2 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:12:29 +0000

No. It was originally 50%, unclear what the current numbers are (it was supposed to decrease over time as they train local replacements).

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

jpk2f2 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:08:45 +0000

Windows automatically reinitializes the TPM if it's reset boots normally, most end users will not notice any issues unless they have Bitlocker or biometrics configured.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

jpk2f2 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:20:55 +0000

Not only did it happen at the worst possible moment, it took out a second engine on it's way out and over the plane. Two engines should've been enough to get off the ground and potentially land the plane, but one engine on a trijet isn't enough.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state"

jpk2f2 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:16:34 +0000

bypassnro no longer works for Windows 11 Home, unfortunately. If you're using an ISO built prior to the change (a few weeks ago?), you'll be fine.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state"

jpk2f2 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:15:08 +0000

Pro does not. We only use Pro and Enterprise, and Pro certainly does not actually require a Microsoft account (as of last week, anyways). The options given do make it appear to be required, but it is not.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state"

jpk2f2 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:47:30 +0000

You don't need IoT, just the normal LTSC (2027, and then security updates until 2032, iirc). And there are easy ways to swap to it, present on GitHub...

Main downside is other applications dropping support for 10, if relevant. I only swapped my main system due to Fusion 360 notifying me they were dropping 10 in January 2026.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state"

jpk2f2 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:44:07 +0000

I largely agree with your points, but in this context -

* A microsoft account is only needed for Windows 11 Home. A "semi-power user" is hopefully not using that edition of Windows...

* I'm also greatly annoyed by the right click - but holding shift when right-clicking opens the expected menu, removing the extra click requirement.

Some of my own annoyances though:

* The taskbar/windows button seems to just...crash...sometimes. It'll eventually restart, but extremely annoying. Left clicking taskbar icons still works, but right clicks or the start button don't work as expected.

* Additional clicks to change audio devices...drives me crazy on my main system.

* I like the autosaving aspect of notepad, but they've killed the main reason I used it - an instantaneous, lightweight text app. It's still quick, but is noticeably slower.

* Settings and Control Panel is still a mess, and even less usable than Windows 10 was.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "DrawAFish.com Postmortem"

jpk2f2 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:05:21 +0000

I've never understood why everybody gets upset over New Zealand farmers.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"

jpk2f2 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:15:42 +0000

I used to have a Bloomberg heat pump dryer when I lived in a historical apartment. I was fairly happy with it, only real downsides was that it did take longer to dry compared to my prior electric and gas dryers, it tended to pickup a musty smell, and it was relatively complex and difficult to repair compared to a simpler dryer (had some minor failures over the years). Upside was the efficiency and not needing an exterior exhaust.

Been a number of years since then, so I'm sure they've improved even more and are hopefully somewhat cheaper.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "Meta announces Oakley smart glasses"

jpk2f2 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:14:13 +0000

The same way you prevent employees snapping photos of secrets on their screen. By making and enforcing rules on their usage.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Just Won't Die (2019)"

jpk2f2 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:51:10 +0000

You have it flipped. The "good" versions are in all caps, the newer models are lowercase. I have some old, borosilicate pyrex and the name is capitalized. If you look up a new pyrex measuring cup, you'll note that the name is lowercase.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill"

jpk2f2 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:45:24 +0000

Problem solved - AT&T just announced that they're no longer supplying home internet in NY.

New comment by jpk2f2 in "US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods"

jpk2f2 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:42:13 +0000

Thanks, that article was fascinating. I wasn't aware of how complex swapping it out could be, its continued use makes a lot more sense now.

I'm very curious on what's going to happen with cocktail cherries - I believe they use Red #3 (it's one of the only permitted uses in the UK).