Hacker News: russelg

New comment by russelg in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

russelg — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:27:45 +0000

You don't need any of the *arr stack, they just make media management easier for us hoarders with huge libraries. I couldn't imagine maintaining a collection of thousands of TV shows and movies without them. Every single arr program is a progressive enhancement over the "once upon a time" stack you mention.

Not that your old stack doesn't still work exactly how you'd expect it to, nothing's changed there.

New comment by russelg in "What I self-host"

russelg — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:16:09 +0000

The difference between a 4K bluray encode by pirates who care, and a 4K WEB-DL from Netflix and co, is simply staggering.

New comment by russelg in "What I self-host"

russelg — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:11:58 +0000

Simply put, skill issue. Never ran into anything like this when using reputable private trackers and indexers.

New comment by russelg in "What I self-host"

russelg — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:10:19 +0000

If using the TRaSH guides (synced automatically with recyclarr), with all their quality profiles etc, I find that those mostly don't make sense for anime. It's easier for me to keep the anime specific stuff separate, different naming conventions, different episode numbering, etc.

New comment by russelg in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

russelg — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:59:35 +0000

We're talking about people who have gone to great lengths to set up their life in Japan, doing everything correctly. Not tourists.

New comment by russelg in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

russelg — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:10:06 +0000

Trickle charging overnight on standard AC is more than enough for a standard commuter, of course YMMV ;)

New comment by russelg in "F-Droid 2.0"

russelg — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:07:42 +0000

The latest pixels are a complete downgrade from the previous year (worse components). That's one huge reason to buy a last year phone (as opposed to a current one).

New comment by russelg in "My Feed, My Way"

russelg — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:10:01 +0000

>Majority of Australians supported changes in how the resource sector is taxed - the government openly met with industry lobbyists right before the budget and just said lol no.

The government consulted with key stakeholders before the budget? Say it ain't so! The lobbyists in question will be people with a Government Relations role, their whole job is to be the middlemen between the corporation and the government.

The main argument was calling for gas to be taxed more. This completely ignores reality of most gas being under contract until at least 2030, the government could not increase tax on this resource without breaking contracts. Hardly a wise decision. While they could increase it for future contracts, is this really the correct choice? We're trying to transition away from gas and other fossil fuels, why would we instead tie our tax revenue even closer to these resources?

>They went to a local byelection and their candidate was a gas lobbyist they parachuted in from a different electorate.

Yep, pretty tone-deaf. Not really the fault of the federal Labor govt however, this was just a classic WA Labor move, the state most beholden to these interests.

I agree with your other points. Military spending is screwed for either party, we're beholden to the US in this case.

New comment by russelg in "Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host"

russelg — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:53:45 +0000

Any notable differences from wg-easy?

New comment by russelg in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

russelg — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:46:42 +0000

Research chemicals. Typically analogues, and stuff like that.

New comment by russelg in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

russelg — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:48:14 +0000

It could work but that would require NVIDIA to release an arm64 macOS driver. Safe to say this will never happen.

New comment by russelg in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

russelg — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:00:36 +0000

Refers to the baking. These come mostly baked but frozen, then "finished" in store.

New comment by russelg in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

russelg — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:30:18 +0000

This isn't an all-of-a-sudden, the engine has been worked on for over 7 years now https://github.com/fwgs/xash3d-fwgs

New comment by russelg in "Back to Kagi"

russelg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:21:52 +0000

AFAIK using the bangs (e.g. !g) do not consume your search quota, so you can do it via that as well.

New comment by russelg in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

russelg — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:55:40 +0000

USB-PD 3.1 supports 240W, which is 48V. It does seem like there's not many chargers that support this, but they do exist.

New comment by russelg in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

russelg — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:41:18 +0000

Australia, excluding Western Australia as we are on a separate electricity grid.

New comment by russelg in "Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices"

russelg — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:25:19 +0000

Yep, but it's a lot easier for an online retailer to avoid you and give you more hassle (oh you have to post it back to us etc).

New comment by russelg in "Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices"

russelg — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:53:33 +0000

The key in Australia is to buy from a physical retailer. They often cannot give you the runaround as under consumer law, they're responsible for the resolution.

New comment by russelg in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

russelg — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:48:36 +0000

I'm having great success with DS4 Pro as my main model, while using DS4 Flash for subagents.

New comment by russelg in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

russelg — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:56:04 +0000

A fork, yes.