Hacker News: moepstar

New comment by moepstar in "Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880"

moepstar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:53:39 +0000

...that and - combined with clickbaity headlines that are, sometimes, not all that newsworthy... ugh... i actually do filter 'Tesla' from my RSS feeds because it is that bad...

Only HN gets a free pass - most of the time...

New comment by moepstar in "Tesla Roadster"

moepstar — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:43:32 +0000

???

Rip away center tunnel carpet on rhs (lhd vehicle), remove 2 screws from below glove compartment, fold away panel, remove cap from filter compartment, remove 2 filters - put back together in reverse order.

That's literally a 20 minute job if you about know what you should be doing - a.k.a. read about the process in the free service manual of Tesla (only need an account, free) or watched a YT video...

New comment by moepstar in "Siri is so bad at everything"

moepstar — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:52:50 +0000

I still think they’re in denial that their “Home” product as a whole isn’t going anywhere and still wait for them to just drop it…

That being said - not adding any more examples of “Siri bad because” for my blood pressure staying on normal levels - one thing that also is one more example how hard Apple fail at basic things:

Ok, so there’s this feature that charges your phone until it presumes you’ll need it?

Why on earth does it arbitrarily decide to be finished at 04:00 when I did set an alarm to 06:30?

Why oh why…

New comment by moepstar in "New Apple TV 4K"

moepstar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:24:05 +0000

Laggy / stuttering interface may well be a unsuitable HDMI cable…

Yes, really - switching cables instantly got rid of any stuttering in the UI no reboot or setting could fix for me - if I wouldn’t have experienced it myself I probably wouldn’t have believed it..

New comment by moepstar in "New Apple TV 4K"

moepstar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:19:02 +0000

Ok, but what do you actually use the storage for on an Apple TV?

I still don’t quite know why i actually got a 64GB 4K first gen ATV when, in practice, a 32GB would’ve sufficed?

Do people really play games on these? Install that many apps on them?

New comment by moepstar in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

moepstar — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:49:44 +0000

FWIW, neither the KIR nor the OOB patch did fix the black screen problem for us on Citrix.. waiting for another round of updates... yay.

New comment by moepstar in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

moepstar — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:06:33 +0000

> remote access and pasting issues

And, to top it all off, not even the Microsoft-issued "Known Issue Rollback" semi-fix did the trick, at least not on Citrix...

New comment by moepstar in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

moepstar — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:41:12 +0000

Yes, that dangerous effect is indexed as GWP - global warming potential.

CO2 has a GWP of 1 in this context, while other refrigerants are worse - for example, R32 has a GWP of 675 (so 675x worse if it escapes), not sure about R290 (Propane), which I believe is either about 40 or 14…

Regarding EoL: At least around here, household appliances such as fridges are brought to a recycling yard and are properly taken care of in that regard… and as for heatpumps - those are only to be installed by certified professionals, for this very reason.

New comment by moepstar in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

moepstar — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:42:42 +0000

That’s actually a good thing to me, wasn’t going to get another Apple Watch anyways - now that’s an even firmer decision now.

My reasoning so far was that I absolutely didn’t get the use out of it I envisioned and, to my even bigger surprise, the integration between Watch and iPhone wasn’t even that good…

New comment by moepstar in "One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner"

moepstar — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:21:15 +0000

Lay down the pitchfork, this _is_ on the dashboard - and has been since sometime in 2023: https://tesla-info.com/release/2023.38#Location%20Sharing

New comment by moepstar in "The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay"

moepstar — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:42:52 +0000

> Seat position profiles is a great feature, making it automatic is completely unnecessary.

Driving a Model 3, I disagree - having seats and basically everything else adjust as soon as you open the door is the biggest boon I can imagine. I totally wish the rearview mirror would adjust as well…

New comment by moepstar in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

moepstar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:22:19 +0000

…which is also never in an ideal angle for production..

Sono Motors tried it and went under..

In theory, it sounds great and even obvious, but once you get into the details - not so much..

New comment by moepstar in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

moepstar — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:04:25 +0000

Windows 8, Windows Vista, and - ohmygoddidthatreallyhappen - Windows ME.

New comment by moepstar in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

moepstar — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:22:35 +0000

At least Debian and Ubuntu have /etc/machine-id, presumably easily changed - but it’s there.

New comment by moepstar in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

moepstar — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:27:01 +0000

...especially considering someone has to justify their token spend...

New comment by moepstar in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

moepstar — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:10:03 +0000

The old S5 ones are very easy - factory reset, connect to wireless AP, run utility, done.

New comment by moepstar in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

moepstar — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:00:36 +0000

Also very fond of the Roborock S5, in fact I recently got a second one for the other floor - totally took it apart, cleaned it, put it back together and stuck Valetudo onto it. The first one is from 2017 and still going strong - issues so far: battery replaced (only recently), laser motor replaced, fuse replaced. Aside from the fuse it was very easy and doable for basically anyone.

New comment by moepstar in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

moepstar — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:18:42 +0000

I could probably $searchengine this, but not being into keyboards: none of that made any sense to me :D

New comment by moepstar in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

moepstar — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:05:50 +0000

Yes they did: https://gitlab.com/nightmare-eclipse

That git account was posted on their blogspot...

New comment by moepstar in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

moepstar — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:36:47 +0000

Password App surely is a good alternative, however i don’t think there are clients for Linux or Windows? …and that is where Bit/Vaultwarden comes into play.