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New comment by roamerz in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

roamerz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:13:26 +0000

>> rather than putting an employee to respond to things on Sunday.

Maybe just maybe they didn’t put him here, rather he just a normal guy who reads HN, who is passionate about his role, and is here on his own time.

New comment by roamerz in "How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon"

roamerz — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:20:10 +0000

You have to be careful with that on Best Buy as well.

New comment by roamerz in "How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon"

roamerz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:22:50 +0000

They do show stock on their website. For other things such as price matching their chat service has worked well for me and seems to be backed by real people. I can't remember the last time I tried to call in.

New comment by roamerz in "How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon"

roamerz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:18:51 +0000

What would make me question the timeline more is if we still had a B&M Circuit City in town!

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roamerz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:50:33 +0000

>> although they usually get me buying something I didn't go there for

Me too but I enjoy browsing through the store so it’s (sometimes not so much) cheap entertainment.

New comment by roamerz in "How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon"

roamerz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:12:19 +0000

Our Best Buy is great. Usually pretty good stock and good variety. People there seem to be pretty nice as well. Bought a laptop there a few weeks ago. The one I wanted was in stock, they had a good price and gave me a fair trade in for my old one. Wife loves the place too as she can try on all their phone cases before she buys. It’s great to have a local option so that is one of the reasons I also choose to support them.

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roamerz — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:43:48 +0000

I’ve been pretty happy with Reolink. No subscription required and uses local storage. Notifications are done through smtp which works pretty well. Mobile app is pretty solid as well.

New comment by roamerz in "Zulip.com Values"

roamerz — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:35:00 +0000

Absolutely love Zulip. I think they are the #1 open source project out there for many reasons. Here are a few that come to mind:

1. Open source and the commitment to keep it there. 2. The continued technical excellence of the product. 3. Excellent and up-to-date documentation 4. Open to the public development effort that allows public participation (chat.zulip.org) 5. Availability of help from front line engineers and owners as well as the community. 6. Modern and organized UI with many options to tailor it to use case and environment. 7. Excellent choice of tech stack which has evolved to keep up with new technology. 8. An excellent place for aspiring developers to learn not only coding but other skills such as communication and relationship values.

New comment by roamerz in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

roamerz — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:18:40 +0000

Thankfully we have options - Kid Rock will be performing an alternative half-time show and it's available on X and Youtube @ 8PM.

New comment by roamerz in "UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction"

roamerz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:12:37 +0000

>>Is that unreasonable

It’s not unreasonable to report the facts and let the reader decide. The carbon tax is a readily available fact where in your example is subjective.

New comment by roamerz in "Ask HN: How did you learn to code?"

roamerz — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:29:58 +0000

Using an 8051 on a breadboard writing ASM in a text editor and debugged with a tektronix storage oscilloscope. It was super fun.

New comment by roamerz in "FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf]"

roamerz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:16:36 +0000

Won’t DJI’s current offerings still be available? I bought a Phantom 4 Pro 5 years ago that I use for mapping and it still does the job. I would expect that Enterprise drones would work the same way. Sure we’re not going to get the next new better faster model so in that scenario it does give time for a domestic company to engineer an offering.

New comment by roamerz in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

roamerz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:15:41 +0000

The reasons are clearly stated and widely reported by multiple news sources: The Trump administration ordered an immediate pause on five major offshore wind projects, citing national security risks due to radar interference.

Not much on details besides a “classified study“ but sounds pretty transparent to me?

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roamerz — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:48:18 +0000

They were approved by a prior administration that prioritized green energy over national security.

There are several other comments above that allege other countries have come to the same conclusion regarding offshore wind farms having a negative affect on radar.

New comment by roamerz in "TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse"

roamerz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:07:26 +0000

I wonder how many true citizens have actually been deported? Do you have any specific cases to cite? The sheer number of people that are being processed is due to prior administrations open border policy. They didn't enforce the law that has been approved by congress (since you mentioned congressional approval) and by doing so have created the situation which we now find ourselves. Want to change the law? Do it correctly.

The troops were there to protect Federal Law Enforcement and Federal property. I imagine that would happen in any case regardless of political affiliation. In any case I 100% support that. Federal Officers are there to enforce the law.

>>freedom from criminal prosecution for effectively any act. Were you referring to Biden's son? Seems within scope of the comment.

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roamerz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:34:32 +0000

The emotional hate I see is mostly centered around the person and not his policies. I am hopeful yes that once that divisive aspect is gone we can at least have somewhat normal discourse about policies and centrist ideas.

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roamerz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:45:18 +0000

>> Why is nobody screaming about this?

Probably because this is the least of our worries comparatively.

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roamerz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:41:44 +0000

>>I don’t know how to connect constructively

Yeah we probably never will. The part of him that everyone hates is creating a division in the nation. On the flip side I disagree so much with what the Biden administration did I am willing to accept his faults and will bide my time until Vance and Rubio take office when hopefully the hate will subside and we can start to come together as a country.

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roamerz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:33:46 +0000

Isn’t that crazy? Absolutely not a good look and an insult to the institution of the office of the Presidency.

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roamerz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:27:27 +0000

>> biggest asshole ever elected to office

I do agree and more was just trying to moderate my comments.