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New comment by pyreko in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

pyreko — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:53:14 +0000

Exactly, and like, if one literally looks up "Lego catalogue" and actually read it you'll get a bunch of sets - even the brand tie-ins, which aren't new at all - and these are basically the same types of sets I grew up with and would happily build and then take apart as a kid to do other stuff with...

New comment by pyreko in "12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date"

pyreko — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:49:34 +0000

I mean yes, there are kits like this that are clearly meant for one kind of build, but nothing stops someone from just getting bulk kits or taking apart other sets? There's lots of other stuff on their catalogue which look just like the stuff I grew up with.

I swear every lego-related post you see people dooming about this when all they look at are the giant sets clearly targeted towards adults that _want_ this sort of thing and not the plethora of other stuff.

New comment by pyreko in "Shopify Is Down"

pyreko — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:33:30 +0000

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/2053630840458944849

Apparently not

New comment by pyreko in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

pyreko — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:19:41 +0000

I think they were kinda competing for some people even before then, there was a good amount of time where people looked at Pis as a decent small, cheap, and low-power computer to throw server stuff at. Back then there wasn't much competition but mini PCs have entirely trounced them for this now outside of certain niche cases.

New comment by pyreko in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

pyreko — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:30:30 +0000

Yep, where I work I know people easily spending over a few thousand dollars a month.

New comment by pyreko in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

pyreko — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:17:44 +0000

Yep, there's a plethora of tweaks and stuff out there to mess with Kobos to make them your own, and it's not hard to do.

Been super happy with my Kobo Clara.

New comment by pyreko in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

pyreko — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:21:40 +0000

Ah yes, most people who play any sort of video game own a $2000 graphics card :p

New comment by pyreko in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

pyreko — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:14:42 +0000

Having been there recently, it's about as annoying as taking out your phone to pay for something. Some systems also support NFC now, though the most common is still QR. Also helps that their QR scanning tech/transaction processing is really fast, many transactions were as fast or even faster than me scanning with a card from my experience.

(Also if you want to talk annoying payments don't get me started on how insane it is that the US still requires me to hand over a physical card at most restaurants to take over to their register... sorry I just can't help but get annoyed by this lol)

New comment by pyreko in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

pyreko — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:24:42 +0000

I mean it doesn't really help the analogy when most of the examples in the Wikipedia link mention how it's either not done anymore for that sport or very rare nowadays.

New comment by pyreko in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center"

pyreko — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:10:14 +0000

Yeah if anything I've always had the opposite problem with my FW13 (12th gen Intel era) - removing the expansion cards is a pain in the ass with how tight it is. Curious if it got looser over time.

Regardless, glad to see they're just outright redesigned the expansion card mechanism, hopefully this stops issues on both ends of the spectrum.

New comment by pyreko in "Not buying another Kindle"

pyreko — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:50:17 +0000

> Kobo

I've never had to interact with the Kobo store (which I guess is what you mean?) and just chuck the epubs I have manually, they all just work out of the box.

The only DRM-related thing I've dealt with is me hooking Libby up to it to read a book I borrowed.

New comment by pyreko in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

pyreko — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:13:53 +0000

It's also near the very top of the home feed too - it's even above videos for me, the only thing on top of it is ongoing livestreams. So if I want to use the feed, I have to scroll through a giant shorts section. Then its a row of videos, and then it's another row of just shorts. Again, I DO NOT WATCH SHORTS, but YT really wants me to watch them from the looks of it.

Of course, I then see one row of videos and then the damn "YouTube Playable" section so maybe the moral of the story is that the main page is unusable outright.

New comment by pyreko in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

pyreko — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:03:55 +0000

Right but before they _didn't_ have an entire dang section for shorts lol. It's near the very top too, so I literally could not avoid seeing it. If they treated it as a normal video I wouldn't care as much.

And unfortunately many YouTubers who do make normal, good content also make shorts because it's incredibly algorithm-friendly, so there's no avoiding it unless you blacklist every creator that dares make shorts.

New comment by pyreko in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

pyreko — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:56:34 +0000

Ehhhh not recently. They have an entire shorts section on my subscription page now, and shorts are _heavily_ pushed on my home page feed despite me trying to dismiss them multiple times.

Like yes I can hide them all using ublock on desktop and morphe on Android, but that the fact I have to do it to avoid them is because they're pushing shorts harder as of late, it used to also be pushed but not as much from my personal experience.

New comment by pyreko in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

pyreko — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:23:11 +0000

fwiw I don't use it personally but some people on my team use it while the others use git, and nobody complains.

New comment by pyreko in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

pyreko — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:45:54 +0000

TIL, it's not a perfect solution but given how rough telecoms are here it's at least something I guess.

New comment by pyreko in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

pyreko — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:33:21 +0000

Kinda curious what model/when you tried it. I recently picked up a dirt-cheap Surface Go 2 and everything I've tried works great ootb including pen/touch, at least with Gnome, which was very surprising. Runs way smoother than the Win11 it came with too.

From my limited understanding it seems like a few years ago you needed a separate kernel for at least that model but nowadays everything's upstreamed seemingly.

New comment by pyreko in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

pyreko — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:53:19 +0000

ublock origin lite is straight up on the app store now, should work with any moderately recent version of iOS/iPadOS. Installed this on my family's Apple devices and it works pretty well.

There's also been other adblock apps for a long while, though (adguard comes to mind).

New comment by pyreko in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

pyreko — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:47:39 +0000

Flew from PEK a few months ago and yep, they easily spotted my power bank (wasn't trying to hide it to be fair but they clearly weren't half-assing it) and were very thorough in checking if it had the CCC certification (had bought one specifically with it so thankfully it was let through).

New comment by pyreko in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

pyreko — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:22:44 +0000

Yeah like... on Windows that's the exact same steps you would need to take if you insisted on using binstall? You might have slightly different steps for installing rustup for Windows (e.g. you need to install Visual Studio).

The other path I can see (looking at https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/install-and-setup/#windows) is that you could maybe instead use winget directly.

Though honestly IMO this is more of a failure on the jj devs to not provide something that can be installed straight using apt, I guess (looking at https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/install-and-setup/#linux). For Arch for example you just install it from the official repos.