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New comment by mrbigbob in "TN's Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers"

mrbigbob — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:20:10 +0000

i wonder how long until this struck down as unconstitutional

New comment by mrbigbob in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

mrbigbob — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:30:43 +0000

Senheiser's CONSUMER side of the buisness is basically dead. Senheiser still makes headphones and such with the focus more on business/production products

New comment by mrbigbob in "AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'"

mrbigbob — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:37:52 +0000

reminds me when google introduced radar for their pixel phones called project soli. https://research.google/blog/soli-radar-based-perception-and.... i have a feeling that these will be as successful. its a solution in search of a problem in my eye

New comment by mrbigbob in "EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair"

mrbigbob — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:25:47 +0000

This will go absolutely nowhere and personally am tired of hearing about some good bills that become nothing. The US will not even let the military have the right to repair. https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/us_military_right_to_.... The US is beholden to defense contractors and corporations. The government cares very little if at all about the quality of life of anyone

New comment by mrbigbob in "It's Time to Bring Tiny EVs Like the Honda N-One E to the US"

mrbigbob — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:56:15 +0000

while id love a more affordable EV for sure I dont see that happening anytime soon in the US with current administrations hatred of electric vehicles. Second, i dont understand how a website dedicated to car news thinks a very small car will sell well in the US when it sadly seems clear to me that the vast majority prefer larger cars for at least the last 30 years.

New comment by mrbigbob in "GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot"

mrbigbob — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:49:51 +0000

Like others have said to justify their spending/make shareholders happy. its exactly like why is web search a part of windows search feature ? The answer is simple: gotta make Bing look good to shareholders

New comment by mrbigbob in "Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying"

mrbigbob — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:35:09 +0000

while arctic make fairly good high performing fans for cheap their bearings/acoustics are kind of bad. i bought 5 of the original p12 max fans with the ball bearings. they all made a chirping noise at various rpms (even after getting 5 new ones from arctic). the new p12 pro fans perform great but around 1200 rpms the motor is very loud and annoying

really wish arctic would now focus on the acoustics of their fans because its there weakest point. i wouldnt mind spending a bit more per fan if the sound profile wasnt just straight terrible which personally theirs are to me at the moment

New comment by mrbigbob in "Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers with Hand Gestures"

mrbigbob — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:01:31 +0000

For those curious meta actually bought out a company that orginally pioneered this idea (wrist controller) from a company called CTRL+Labs in 2019. Here is a verge article that has some photos of the prototype from CTRL-Labs. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17433516/ctrl-labs-brain-c...

New comment by mrbigbob in "Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default"

mrbigbob — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:54:23 +0000

THe same people who wanted web searches to appear in windows search bar, the higher ups at microsoft. they juice their numbers and say "See, look how many people are using our recall product. just like "See, look how many people are using Bing (in case of the web searches in windows search).

New comment by mrbigbob in "Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling"

mrbigbob — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:02:27 +0000

Here is an article from Johns Hopkins with a little more information on the newly created material. https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/250521-apl-thermoe...

New comment by mrbigbob in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

mrbigbob — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:35:58 +0000

might i suggest purchasing a bidet. you can get one for less than $50 on amazon and it will help you dramatically cut down on toilet paper. it also makes you feel so much cleaner. my two cents

New comment by mrbigbob in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

mrbigbob — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:13:09 +0000

Look at your local community colleges if you are in the US. a lot of them have classes for simple every day car repair to classes to become a certified mechanic

New comment by mrbigbob in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

mrbigbob — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:09:03 +0000

if there are harvard alum are cheering this on they are morons without a doubt. Trump couldnt care less about truth seeking in the slightest he just wants complete and full control with his delusional backwards thought process. you can want change on something but that doesnt mean that when another individual/goverment comes along theyre going to change something for the better.

people were unhappy with bidens handling of israel so they voted for trump and where did that get them?

New comment by mrbigbob in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

mrbigbob — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:00:03 +0000

I agree, it was very annoying hearing how great the economy was doing when inflation and just the general cost of living rose significantly starting with covid and when anyone tried to have a talk about that a lot of people would just parrot how great the economy was doing and everyone they knew was doing fine. thats great for you but that doesnt mean what your experiencing is what a lot of other people are.

New comment by mrbigbob in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

mrbigbob — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:50:28 +0000

"For instance, educated professionals were a major base for the original Nazi Party." Thats not entirely true. While there were definitely many people in education who supported the nazi party there were still quite a few in the education field during the beginning of Hitlers power who were not and many fled to other countries starting around 1933. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/Online/5299/The-scientific.... it was why albert einstein spent a great deal of time in the US.

Through laws they shaped and molded the education to be inline with nazi ideology and only those who towed the line were allowed to continue to teach/study. heres a small article from the US Congress (shocked its still up) that discusses higher education in germany during nazi occupation. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116973/documents/...

Basically if you disagreed with the nazi party you were fired/expelled in the beginning and later sent to camps. the entire point of studying history is so we dont repeat it and just looking at the amount of US universities bending to the republican parties ideals on what they believe is scarily similar to early nazi germany.

I dont get how people dont understand that the strength of the US for the longest time has been our diversity; especially in education. hell, after world war 2 we actively recurited many nazi scientist to help us with the space program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip many would argue it is the reason why we beat the soviet union to the moon. the harm that is slowly being done to this country will take decades to repair if it can be and i dont believe that is being hyperbolic

New comment by mrbigbob in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

mrbigbob — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:00:20 +0000

For those who have tinnitus there are two sites i like to visit. one is a site that tracks new/experimental treatments for tinnitus (gives me a little hope on bad days) https://www.tinnitustreatmentreport.com/

the other is tinnitustalk support https://www.tinnitustalk.com/. it also covers upcoming possible tinnitus treatments and ways of coping with it

New comment by mrbigbob in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

mrbigbob — Thu, 22 May 2025 12:56:19 +0000

you could have gotten tinnitus from medication. some medications (quite a few of the stronger antibiotics) are known as being ototoxic. my tinnitus started while taking antibiotics for a bad infection. I cant prove it was my antibiotic, but the antibiotic was ototoxic

Google restores Nextcloud users file access on Android

mrbigbob — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:43:23 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accuses-google-of-big-tech-gatekeeping-over-android-app-permissions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998563

Points: 49

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New comment by mrbigbob in "EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program"

mrbigbob — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:18:30 +0000

Why do we have to reinvent the wheel! We have the program and its been established for over 3 decades.

Im so tired of the arguement of its not perfect guess we should get rid of it, start from scratch, and the new system will have none of those problems.

This isnt about government excess spending either. If the government was really concerned about excess spending they would take a real deep look at DOD spending and the number of cost plus contracts

New comment by mrbigbob in "There are two types of dishwasher people"

mrbigbob — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:56:18 +0000

actually its quite the opposite. because the hot water is constantly recirculating its hard for the bacteria to grow. Kind of like why they say never drink from stagnant water but water that is flowing is safer (not neccessarily safe to be clear)