Hacker News: rocketvole

New comment by rocketvole in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

rocketvole — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:57:55 +0000

I remember this! Its crazy because the comments section on that thread seems more curious about the setup (with albiet one long thread about home costs). Massive contrast to this one.

New comment by rocketvole in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

rocketvole — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:42:46 +0000

same. still rockin a 2016 era dell xps 13. I was about to pull the trigger on a few laptops but I always psych myself out because I assume prices will drop and I can pick them up secondhand. big mistake...

New comment by rocketvole in "'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent"

rocketvole — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:21:26 +0000

I feel like this has already been a thing, at least in the US. In aldi, there is a popup when paying that asks if I want to bnpl.

New comment by rocketvole in "DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi"

rocketvole — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:17:32 +0000

stories like this give me hope. If a company is willing to pay for this dingus's ticket (or they can afford to pay out of pocket), I might be able to break into the cybersec industry :)

New comment by rocketvole in "Minuet, a KDE application for music education, calls for testers"

rocketvole — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:27:03 +0000

man, my respect for kde continues to increase

New comment by rocketvole in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

rocketvole — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:26:20 +0000

You could replace "robotics" with "AI" in what you wrote above, and it would sound like what people were saying about llms when they first came out. Not trying to glaze one way or another but historically this take is outdated.

New comment by rocketvole in "After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch"

rocketvole — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:45:57 +0000

Electronic devices that only need to do a handful of basic things like smartwatches and ereaders theoretically have less software complexity, which makes writing good software for them theoretically easier. in the age of ai, the threshold of "complex" has changed drastically- giving rise to even more open source adoption. Open source versions of these sw/hw tools seem to be a natural step forward.

New comment by rocketvole in "Resetting Xbox"

rocketvole — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:55:54 +0000

I feel like these games exist- they just aren't popular, or are typically subpar in one way or another. The problem is that I feel like video games have become like music- there is innovation happening in genres, but there are so many and have fragmented off so much that I cant really recommend to you a game I find to be genius because there's a good chance that you can't appreciate the gameplay. That's not a knock on you or anyone else as a gamer.

New comment by rocketvole in "Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?"

rocketvole — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:30:34 +0000

if they are using the next gen iphone soc it'll have 12gb soldered on.

New comment by rocketvole in "Microsoft will end Office 2021 support in October"

rocketvole — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:38:40 +0000

Does anyone know how to get math and formulas to play well if I am switching to libreoffice? This is genuinely my only concern. It seems that inline formulas are difficult and clunky to edit.

New comment by rocketvole in "Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us"

rocketvole — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:13:50 +0000

It's really hard to recommend Prusa for the average person when non-enclosed printers go for 1k usd and multifilament is >2k, while creality and bambu go for 700 for multifilament, and much cheaper for single filament.

I'm not saying is the wrong thing, but it's the same reason casual users look at framework and balk at prices.

New comment by rocketvole in "PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons"

rocketvole — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:44:26 +0000

The tech behind this is fascinating- isn't this just how a wiimote works? So simple yet shocked that no one has thought of this before. Pricing seems incredibly reasonable as well (30$ for a lifetime license). If I didn't have a VR headset I would've bought this instantly.

New comment by rocketvole in "Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests"

rocketvole — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:03:20 +0000

could try lobsters, pretty much everything posted is the same

New comment by rocketvole in "Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta"

rocketvole — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:21:31 +0000

where do open source apps fit into this philosophy?

New comment by rocketvole in "Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance""

rocketvole — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:15:46 +0000

Ada Palmer is also the author of "Terra Ignota" which is a highly philosophical and operatic sci-fi series. Incredibly ambitious and unique imo- highly reccommend

New comment by rocketvole in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

rocketvole — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:25:21 +0000

From the perspective of someone with a touchscreen windows device, I agree. I rarely used the touchscreen not because it wasnt useful, but because it was unwieldy on windows.

I bought a 2 in 1 and the experience is much better, simply because i can detach the keyboard and use it as a massive tablet. its not as fluid as an ipad, but most of the time its simply mildly annoying to get to the app/browser i want, then I scroll and tap the same way I would on an Ipad. On my regular touchscreen laptop, I have to lift my fingers to use the interface, which simply adds delay for... the ability to scroll a pdf, afaik.

All this to say simply shoehorning touch on a mac is a pretty bad idea simply because the hardware, in its current iteration, is not there. I wonder if they'll release a "macbook touch" thats more akin to a surface for their touch interface.

New comment by rocketvole in "Framework 13 Pro"

rocketvole — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:24:45 +0000

priced at $1,300 for an i5 with no ram, storage or operating system. Macs really are killing it right now

New comment by rocketvole in "List of World Naked Bike Rides"

rocketvole — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:59:52 +0000

...can I ask why?

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

rocketvole — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:31:24 +0000

the fact that I'm into a lot of the topics that you've listed but have never heard of these creators simply underscores the sheer scale of youtube

New comment by rocketvole in "Rockstar hackers set to release GTA 6 data breach as 'demands not met'"

rocketvole — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:04:33 +0000

yes