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New comment by mcpeepants in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

mcpeepants — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:53:16 +0000

The app ecosystem argument is totally valid, yeah. Paying to get access to that makes sense if you and the people you are sharing with benefit from that.

I guess I view the server-side as mostly fungible, because me and all the people I share with are more technical, have a separate media player (Apple TV etc), and are either light users content with the Jellyfin app, or use a third-party app like Infuse on iOS. I look at the media server software as more like a "media fileshare with metadata and easy user management", but I get why that's not the case for everyone.

New comment by mcpeepants in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

mcpeepants — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:06:47 +0000

Honest question, I haven't looked in a while - what does Plex offer over Jellyfin that would make it worth a monthly payment, or even $250-$750 one-time? When I ran the calculus a few years ago I came up empty.

New comment by mcpeepants in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"

mcpeepants — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:27:01 +0000

I just replaced a T530 with a T14 gen 1 (R7 pro), and…yes. Super happy with the upgrade, for less than $300 mind you, even though I still love the old thickpad. It will live out its years in the rack, taking up an impressive amount of 1U.

New comment by mcpeepants in "Bye Bye Gmail"

mcpeepants — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:31:27 +0000

Exactly this! After ~3 years I rarely receive an email with the Gmail tag now that all contacts/services have been switched over (or unsubscribed). Fastmail is easily my most valued paid service, and yet I never have to think about it. Just works very well.

New comment by mcpeepants in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

mcpeepants — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:09:53 +0000

why assume the billing model is being imposed by the customer rather than the service provider?

New comment by mcpeepants in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

mcpeepants — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:26:57 +0000

> hyper-malleable control surface [...] (the stream deck is popular for a reason!).

I agree with the sentiment - making a control surface that adapts to the user's current task makes total sense to me, and is a compelling feature in theory.

The execution (and how the touchbar differs from the Stream Deck) is where I think the argument falls apart. There is effectively zero ability to navigate the touchbar without using your eyes and taking your focus off the display, and your work. The Stream Deck can easily be used without looking. A static grid of real buttons whose function changes within context is a more useful implementation in the real world, even though it is technically _less_ capable.

IMO the touchbar concept is flawed in exactly in the same way as the modern car user interface.

New comment by mcpeepants in "Lua 5.5"

mcpeepants — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:47:28 +0000

could it be that game mode is attempting to run the game in compat mode even though you are running the native build?

New comment by mcpeepants in "GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability"

mcpeepants — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:46:55 +0000

This works:

  $ZAI_ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=xxx
  $ZAI_ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=xxx

  alias "claude-zai"="ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=$ZAI_ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=$ZAI_ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN claude"

Then you can run `claude`, hit your limit, exit the session and `claude-zai -c` to continue (with context reset, of course).

New comment by mcpeepants in "Coarse is better"

mcpeepants — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:23:19 +0000

they put a special coating on the model to discourage this behavior

New comment by mcpeepants in "Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components"

mcpeepants — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:54:52 +0000

> Most frameworks also by default block ALL environment variables on the client side

I’ve been out of full stack dev for ~5 years now, and this statement is breaking my brain

New comment by mcpeepants in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

mcpeepants — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:45:48 +0000

The incentive seems very thin/weak. Pay extra now to push DP adoption and hope that in ~10-15 years you can drop the HDMI port? Meanwhile you still pay the cartel, and they invest your money directly against your interests. And it all hinges on predicting consumer adoption which is nearly impossible. I honestly don’t see how they could justify making such a step in that direction let alone a significant one.

New comment by mcpeepants in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

mcpeepants — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:20:33 +0000

wireless charging at the expense of size/bulk

New comment by mcpeepants in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

mcpeepants — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:53:15 +0000

why would the tool minify the script it generated?

New comment by mcpeepants in "Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it"

mcpeepants — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:44:27 +0000

or just keenly aware of their own strengths, weaknesses, and time budget for this? the leap to “over scoping” is wild.

New comment by mcpeepants in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

mcpeepants — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:52:05 +0000

I think they mean something like (or what I think of as) “RPC calls, but with the flexibility to select a granular subset of the result based on one or more schemas”. This is how I’ve used graphql in the past at least.

New comment by mcpeepants in "MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces"

mcpeepants — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:44:40 +0000

MCP is a Protocol. The server and the clients are just that. It truly is a rebranding of “API” seemingly just because it’s for a specific purpose. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… call it whatever. But I don’t understand the need to sell it as something else entirely. It is quite literally a reinvention of RPC.

New comment by mcpeepants in "Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec"

mcpeepants — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:05:39 +0000

z.ai hosted GLM 4.6 works great with claude code, drops right in

New comment by mcpeepants in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

mcpeepants — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:29:01 +0000

I took it at face value - “has someone already put for the effort?”. You know, assume positive intent and all that.

New comment by mcpeepants in "Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at"

mcpeepants — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:32:53 +0000

I verify all dates manually by memorizing their offset from the date of the signing of the Magna Carta

New comment by mcpeepants in "I don't like curved displays"

mcpeepants — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:55:43 +0000

I experience this too, and always thought it might be caused by a change in alignment of my eye and the “center” of the lens with new frames and lens shape.