Hacker News: rdschouw

New comment by rdschouw in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

rdschouw — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:39:44 +0000

Why not disconnect your smart TV from the internet and use [insert favorite streaming box]?

I use Apple TVs on all my smart TVs and none of them have ever been connected to the internet. No ads with consistent interface across TV brands.

New comment by rdschouw in "Simplenote is no longer in active development"

rdschouw — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:47:04 +0000

Standard Notes is in the same position as Simplenote was 10 years ago. Automattic acquired Simplenote but never really did anything with it. Standard Notes was acquired by Proton last year and development has slowed to bug fixes only. I would be wary to migrate to Standard Notes.

New comment by rdschouw in "Simplenote is no longer in active development"

rdschouw — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:43:26 +0000

The clients are open source but the server is not.

New comment by rdschouw in "Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025"

rdschouw — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:49:37 +0000

Do you have MacOS by any chance?

MacOS does not support S.M.A.R.T over USB.

New comment by rdschouw in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

rdschouw — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:05:22 +0000

I got 28 online right now according to my Eero. 3 people, with smartphones and laptops. Several game consoles, a few Apple TVs and music streaming devices, Ring camera, Zwave Hub, printer, washing machine, garage opener, Ring doorbell and an assortment of Echo dots.

New comment by rdschouw in "Don't squander public trust on bullshit"

rdschouw — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 01:11:21 +0000

You can turn them off.

I used to live in NJ and they sent these types of alerts all the time. AMBER alerts in the middle of the night, "Flash Flood" alerts after two drops of rain. It made no sense and I turned them all of off.

I live in IL now and I turned them back on because tornados are actually a thing here but also I haven't received any other irrelevant alert.

New comment by rdschouw in "US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices"

rdschouw — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:17:05 +0000

How do you mean? Here in Illinois they are free. It was also free in New Jersey.

New comment by rdschouw in "The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds"

rdschouw — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 18:44:37 +0000

I had a robin nest in my backyard close to my French doors. Every day one of them would pass by the doors, see their reflection and then attack it. Apparently they like to keep out competitors when they're nesting. They would at it for hours until I obscured the lower half with some potted plants.

New comment by rdschouw in "Raspberry Pi 5"

rdschouw — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:25:11 +0000

Power consumption is a consideration though depending on your use case and setup. A Pi 4 draws about 3W on light load and these G3 Minis take 10-12W.

Of course if you deck out a Pi 4 with a SSD and a fan, it'll come much closer to the G3 Mini in terms of power consumption.

New comment by rdschouw in "Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome"

rdschouw — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:12:16 +0000

Yea or Google's prompt to choose a web browser on their IOS apps when I click a link in their Gmail app for instance.

New comment by rdschouw in "Giving up the iPad-only travel dream"

rdschouw — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:05:23 +0000

3 devices? I usually have 4 devices. I bring my Iphone 13 Mini, iPad Mini, Macbook 12-inch and Steamdeck (and before the Switch). The iPad is for content consumption. I can watch 8 hours of TV on it without breaking a sweat about battery life. The laptop is to work and the phone is to communicate. Steamdeck is just for play.

I do try to buy the lightest and smallest version of every device. The steamdeck is honestly the most unwieldly device I carry around. Everything else fits without a problem in my messenger bag.

New comment by rdschouw in "Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars"

rdschouw — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:59:57 +0000

Here in the US Mid West suburbia it is a problem as well. Same applies to insane subwoofers. What's up with that?

I always say to my wife that I can't wait until all cars and bikes are electric. In a decade or so this problem will go away by itself.

New comment by rdschouw in "StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet"

rdschouw — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:28:39 +0000

I am using a Surface Go 2 with Arch / Wayland / Gnome. I use the Linux surface kernel and all of the hardware works except the IR camera and webcam. Overall, it is a good experience. I love using it as a notebook with the pen and Xjournal++. Battery life is 7 hours or so.

The OSK pops up when I need to. There is a Gnome extension to make it work better like adding ctrl, alt and cursor keys for instance.

I also use Gnome extension to force apps to open maximized.

I use it primarily as a tablet at home and a travel laptop for work. I am quite enamored with it.

New comment by rdschouw in "Threads users down by more than a half"

rdschouw — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 14:22:57 +0000

Based on my own old Twitter circle, I see that:

A. Attention-seekers have gone to Threads or stayed on Twitter

B. People who are into niche interests and not part of group A are very active on Mastodon.

Mastodon to me very much feels like early-days Twitter. I truly I hope it stays like this. Threads might even be blessing in disguise for Mastodon network when it develops into a network similar to Instagram (content creators, brands, attention-seekers).

New comment by rdschouw in "Amazon Allegedly Tricked Users into Prime and Sabotaged Their Attempts to Cancel"

rdschouw — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:12:37 +0000

Yea it's pretty awful. They also by default select a faster shipping method which costs $6.99 (most of the time per item, sometimes multiple shipping charges for the same order). Every checkout I have to go through:

1. no, I do not want a prime membership for $1.99 for 1 week

2. no, I want free shipping on these items (careful check if the order is split up in multiple shipments)

3. no, I want free shipping on this item.

8 out of 10 orders my stuff arrives earlier than the paid shipping option offered during checkout.

New comment by rdschouw in "Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)"

rdschouw — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:54:08 +0000

You mean this? https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sor...

New comment by rdschouw in "Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, AI (WASM and WebGL)"

rdschouw — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:41:18 +0000

Any chance you have a docker-compose.yml you can add to your repository? ;-)

Great concept! Congrats on your launch!

New comment by rdschouw in "Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch"

rdschouw — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:02:40 +0000

Good actually. It still has 2 days life time but I tend to charge it daily for 15m to keep it running forever. When I am wearing my Pebble Time Steel, I make sure that it has 50% charge before switching it off. This tends to keep the battery level between 20 and 80% between charges. I think that's the sweet spot.

New comment by rdschouw in "Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch"

rdschouw — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:10:27 +0000

I use my Pebble Time Round or Pebble Time Steel daily on IOS using the official Pebble app.

Every major IOS release I think this is the time my Pebble app stops working but it is still going strong on IOS16. Safe for another year. :)

New comment by rdschouw in "The deception of “buying” digital movies"

rdschouw — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:38:38 +0000

An Apple TV 4K with Infuse app does all of this without problems and supports many kinds of storage backends.