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New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Bob and Van"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:23:52 +0000

He lives on Fire Island, that's about as political as flying the American flag in Orange County.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Bob and Van"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:16:52 +0000

I would shocked if it was, Accidental Tech Podcast is not a political show but they don't hide the fact that all three hosts are very liberal.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)"

rhinoceraptor — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:27:27 +0000

Their machines are x86 but they've rearchitected basically everything else in the pursuit of a cohesive and integrated machine, they don't even have a BIOS. The secret sauce is having full control of the software stack, and as close to full control of the firmware as is possible on x86.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

rhinoceraptor — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:47:20 +0000

It's crazy how nothing has been done in the US about this. I got an egg allergy in my late 20s, I had never thought about it before and now eating at restaurants is such a hassle. Even the delivery apps seem to have zero affordances for food allergies, at least with a restaurant you can get some assurance by asking the staff.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

rhinoceraptor — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:44:17 +0000

I do really love LMNT, it's basically the only one I've tried that actually has a sizable dose of sodium, has no sugar, and tastes good.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

rhinoceraptor — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:55:45 +0000

True. Plus the big streaming services' business model now is low quality content produced in house or with cheap royalties, that people put on in the background. They might have a prestige show or two, but that's just a hook to get you to subscribe, they'd much prefer you watch the cheap stuff.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

rhinoceraptor — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:16:24 +0000

A UHD Bluray tops out at about 150Mbps, most home internet is capable of that. It would just cost too much for the streaming services to support it.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

rhinoceraptor — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:58:35 +0000

A 4K movie uncompressed would be something like two or three terabytes depending on the format. I think Arri are the only cinema cameras that can even shoot uncompressed or losslessly compressed, the rest shoot lossy compressed video in their native raw formats.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "The case for physical media ownership"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:59:19 +0000

There definitely seems to be a trend with Gen Z and younger to go back to iPods and physical media. Vinyl record sales are continuing to climb, and CDs seem to be climbing too, now that vinyl records are no longer cheap.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "If you can't hold it, you don't own it"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:53:44 +0000

I've never heard of a blu-ray that requires an internet connection. My Sony UHD blu-ray player has an ethernet port but I've never connected it to the internet. A few of my late 2000s era big studio discs advertise online gimmicks like polls, new movie trailers, etc. but I assume all of those servers are now dead.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "The case for physical media ownership"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:49:19 +0000

Discs can rot, but I would still take a large blu-ray collection over a large MKV collection stored digitally. The odds that your entire blu-ray collection will all rot are much lower than a catastrophic data loss.

And most people are not good enough sysadmins to keep a collection of digital files from being lost over decades. And even more so when the digital files are pirated, which makes them more or less fungible, they can be redownloaded so investing in backups is not a priority.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "The case for physical media ownership"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:42:06 +0000

I have a TrueNAS server with Jellyfin, but I'd still much rather have a physical blu-ray, especially if it's something with a Criterion release. I think the "inconvenience" of physical media is enjoyable. It makes me commit to actually watch a movie and not just have it on in the background while I look at my phone, much like how a physical record makes me commit to listening to a full album.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "The case for physical media ownership"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:29:10 +0000

It seems like more and more people are moving back to physical media, I'm seeing more blu-rays and DVDs at retailers. There are just too many streaming services, each with distinct catalogs which creates two problems: it's too difficult to find specific titles when you know what you want to watch, and it's too difficult to find anything worth watching when you don't.

I'm not someone who keeps the TV on in the background, so I'd much rather spend $100 a month on physical media even when I don't plan on watching them immediately, than spend $100 a month on five different streaming services that I barely even use when I did subscribe to them.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

rhinoceraptor — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:05:52 +0000

How are Anthropic and OpenAI going to compete on price when they're both already deeply unprofitable?

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Separate the Cord from the Device"

rhinoceraptor — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:37:47 +0000

That's one of the reasons I love Festool's tools, nearly all of them have detachable power cords. It's a proprietary connector, but it makes it very convenient if you own a few of their tools. Both the power and dust hose have twist lock connectors that stay firmly attached in use.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "I hate soldering"

rhinoceraptor — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:26:24 +0000

I swap the tips on my Hakko without letting it cool down, I just use a Knipex pliers wrench so I don't burn myself. I keep my spare tips in an altoids tin, so I can drop the hot one in there without burning anything.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:57:04 +0000

For whatever reason, in my experience, the 1st gen Airpods Pro seem to pair much more easily to non-Apple devices than the 2nd gen. I have a 1st gen pair more or less dedicated to my Linux PC, and they auto-pair 99% of the time within a few seconds.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:47:46 +0000

I have good wired earbuds and over ear headphones, but I still almost always go back to bluetooth. If I'm vacuuming, mowing the lawn, etc. I use my Airpods Pro. If I'm practicing drums or working with loud tools, I use my bluetooth 3M Worktunes.

Being able to get my phone out of my pocket and not have to worry about the cable is worth all the tradeoffs. At my desk, I have studio monitors, which I prefer over any headphones. For video calls, I use just the right Airpod to prevent echos, and so I can still hear myself.

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

rhinoceraptor — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:10:20 +0000

How wouldn't this also apply to things like useradd(8) or simply automated user account setup, e.g. like cups, sshd, etc? Do we need to add this to vi for use in vipw on UNIX?

New comment by rhinoceraptor in "The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth"

rhinoceraptor — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:13:32 +0000

If you have an analog oscilloscope, it's really cool to put a guitar signal into it, you can play an open string and see all its harmonics, then play a harmonic and you just see the one harmonic.