Hacker News: krabizzwainch

New comment by krabizzwainch in "EA is shutting down BioWare"

krabizzwainch — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:13:25 +0000

I will always defend Andromeda as not being as bad as everyone said. I enjoy going back and playing it, and they were a few better writers away from having a really good game. I cared more about the Irish redhead copilot than about any one of the actual companions.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

krabizzwainch — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:34:49 +0000

I still don't understand we are comparing a brand new company's engineering to Apple, who have been making laptops for what, 40 years now? Apple's GPUs used to over heat a fry the laptop. They used to make keyboards that would fully break because of a piece of dust, but they were riveted down so they were irreplaceable. Titanium powerbooks had hinges that would break in a year.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

krabizzwainch — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:17:10 +0000

ALL thermal paste ages. There is no thermal paste that never needs to be changed.

Thats like BMW saying their transmission fluid never needs to be refilled. It absolutely does, its just financially more lucrative for them if the transmission explodes and you have to buy a new one or a whole new car.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

krabizzwainch — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:55:26 +0000

I appreciate you taking the time to respond to me. You were right to call out my criticism of Conde, and hearing more about what their involvement is with Ars does clear that up. My comment about "writing for money" was a poorly worded way for me to say that the writing itself is your career, and specifically writing about current tech. Current tech, unfortunately for my tastes and opinions, does involve a lot of AI now.

As to the rest of your points about not wanting to or not having the time to learn it, I understand. I went through many a tutorial before things started clicking with me. In fact, the only way I made python click for me was combining the abstract code WITH something physical like a screen or lights or buttons. I feel attached to the things I spent the time on because of the blood sweat and tears it took to make them work.

I also think reading the repo sent me into a rage because it looks like all the other claude written code, specifically the worst code I've had to implement from someone who did the whole "works on my computer, your problem now".

New comment by krabizzwainch in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

krabizzwainch — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:45:28 +0000

I have been stuck mentally on this article since it came out. Like, learning enough python to send the time to the display would still have made this a weekend project (I even went and found an adafruit 7 segment pi hat site and read their sample code). The effort is the interesting part to me, I want to read janky code that paints some kind a picture of someone learning. I don't care about finished, "polished" projects. I don't care that AI can know every single possible error that'll pop up and prevent it from happening, I want the clock to break and for the maker to say ohhhh yeah oops thats dumb.

I have had an eInk pi weather display in my living room for like 4 years now, pulling data from openweatherapi every half hour. It's my second favorite project (I made an eReader once... if you like waiting 5 seconds for a page to turn, do I have a product for you!) and I use it every single day. Sometimes it doesn't update when I didn't account for a possibility I didn't know about, and thats okay.

I get that this is someone writing for money and I have no experience in that realm, and I'm sure conde nast prefers faster writing for something less in depth... but I almost feel I should spend my monthly $3 elsewhere.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

krabizzwainch — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:52:44 +0000

I absolutely knew who made this video before clicking on the link too

New comment by krabizzwainch in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"

krabizzwainch — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:48:14 +0000

As someone who currently automates the payroll flow generated by someone who doesn’t actually know what it does, I can confirm I am going crazy. My boss will do nothing about it because her boss can’t get finance to let us hire more people. I plan a strongly written resignation letter whenever I find something else.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "Steam Machine launches today"

krabizzwainch — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:18:56 +0000

Something that only benefits people with the most disposable income is a bad thing. I will preach from any platform that I have that scalpers are shit people.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "I Fired Google"

krabizzwainch — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:54:02 +0000

I have an old iPhone 14 Pro and I haven't been able to get too much working as far as adblocking outside of the pihole. Firefox for iPhone is bad and Mozilla has committed to simply not fixing it. But I want my bookmark sync so I'm stuck.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "I Fired Google"

krabizzwainch — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:26:41 +0000

I think that this is a really good article for a reason that none of us are mentioning. This is not a tech blog saying this. This is a cooking/gardening/home blog. I use these terms jokingly, but we are nerds on hacker news and this blog writer is a normie. Regular people are getting fed up with how bad google is getting, not just the nerds.

Companies don't care when nerds complain. We always complain. But when their normal user base starts jumping ship, then they could very well start listening.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "I Fired Google"

krabizzwainch — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:23:02 +0000

I stopped reading your false claim about their claim being false.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "I Fired Google"

krabizzwainch — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:22:19 +0000

Don't forget a pihole! Sometimes I really do forget how obnoxious the internet is until I try to look at a website when I'm outside of my ad free setup at home. Which in a way keeps me from browsing around websites on my phone and wasting time in that way.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

krabizzwainch — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:50:54 +0000

I keep going back to Sublime Text when everything in VS Code becomes too much. Last time I looked at Sublime, I was like “Damn, the last update was from 2024? Must be dead.” Until I realized the lack of updates was because it was fully functional for what they wanted as is without connecting to the internet at all.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

krabizzwainch — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:47:08 +0000

It’s certainly easier to have a computer do all the thinking for you.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

krabizzwainch — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:43:52 +0000

My newest discovery with the iOS version of foobar2000 is that it can read the files for things I have bought on iTunes and downloaded through the Apple Music app without a subscription. I was trying to go back to an iPod but lack of Bluetooth killed me.

This seems like the best of both worlds for me.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "A Tiny E Reader"

krabizzwainch — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:30:11 +0000

I know everyone has pointed you to Boox/Onyx devices, but Supernote is also android based. You have to sideload apps or add a 3rd party App Store. I use it for reading in Kobo and KOReader and note taking at work.

New comment by krabizzwainch in "When the Internet Was a Place (2025)"

krabizzwainch — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:33:09 +0000

We simply exist as vessels to be advertised to.

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

krabizzwainch — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:14:09 +0000

Does sex and dancing not involve feelings and the soul? Is prostitution not a societal issue worth discussing through song?

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

krabizzwainch — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:55:03 +0000

I do try to stick with Bandcamp, but a few bands I want just don’t use it.

My wife rolls her eyes at me and my iPod

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

krabizzwainch — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:53:43 +0000

I bought music from iTunes 2 days ago for the first time in like 15 years. I’ve gone back to the iPod life. But I’d almost never buy anything that would be considered chart level music. I was scrolling through the top 100 thinking “who is buying all this crap?”