Hacker News: saturnite

New comment by saturnite in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

saturnite — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:02:10 +0000

I don't even consider it an option anymore. I just turn to other software that sends the original file to me. It would be great to have Plex transcode my high res movies on the fly and send me smaller copies tailored for my device. I could save space on my mobile devices while having my progress synced back to Plex.

New comment by saturnite in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

saturnite — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:52:55 +0000

An even easier fit would be comic books. They already let you steam libraries of photos. I have never used that feature, but I would definitely stream some comics.

Also, they could handle audiobooks since they already stream music.

Instead, they want to sell me on streaming services when I started using Plex because I pirate my media.

I do see one issue with books that other media doesn't have. That is the ability to interact. When I use my e-reader, I like features like highlighting, taking notes, dictionaries, and other features that are more complicated that just streaming rendered images from a book.

New comment by saturnite in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

saturnite — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:14:19 +0000

If this goes through, I wouldn't be surprised if facial recognition ends up being the "solution" to the problems this creates.

I walked to get a sandwich today and I counted no less than ten cameras along the way.

On an unrelated note, I'm thinking of taking up a laser hobby.

New comment by saturnite in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

saturnite — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:28:02 +0000

All that needed to be conveyed was that there are humans who cannot create new memories. That is enough to pose the philosophical question about these models having intelligence. Anything more is just adding an anecdote that isn't necessary.

New comment by saturnite in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

saturnite — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:41:46 +0000

That reminds me of a vending machine ran into as a little kid. It was in a private place and it had an out of order sign posted. Being hungry and young, I plugged it back in so I could take my chances. Every time I put in a quarter, three or four would fall into the coin return. When it was time to leave, all of the pockets on my cargo shorts were bulging so much that I had to hold my shorts up.

New comment by saturnite in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

saturnite — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:31:49 +0000

Then there's the next level of content creators that only post videos about the original content creators who are behaving badly. They will report on their behavior and any repercussions. Some do it like they are reporting the news. It stokes the fire when these people should be ignored.

New comment by saturnite in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

saturnite — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:01:39 +0000

My story is even simpler. I have a friend who wanted to upgrade to Windows 11 because 10 is losing support. I wrote the Windows 11 installer to my flash drive using Rufus. It worked perfectly. I'm not expecting a man who has no interest in learning Linux to change.

New comment by saturnite in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

saturnite — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:43:21 +0000

I 100% agree. My parents were both disabled. A malpractice lawsuit left us with a little windfall. My parents saw where the future was going and bought me my first computer. Being poor made it so I had a lot of free time as a little kid, so I learned that machine inside and out. I made my own games. I troubleshooted any hardware problem, learning as I went. After getting the internet, things took off from there.

New comment by saturnite in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

saturnite — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:47:54 +0000

If I find myself writing code in a way that has me saying to myself "there has to be a better way," there usually is. That's when I could present AI with that little bit of what I want to write. What I've found to be important is to describe what I want in natural language. That's when AI might introduce me to a better way of doing things. At that point, I stop and learn all that I can about what the AI showed me. I look it up in books and trusted online tutorials to make sure it is the proper way to do it.

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

saturnite — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:30:39 +0000

He has said that wind turbines cause cancer. He also said they make noise that bothers people and drives whales insane. He has also said that they kill birds, as if their spinning draws birds into the blades. But most of all, he thinks they're ugly.

New comment by saturnite in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

saturnite — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:59:50 +0000

I would use "saccharine" or "Pollyanna" based on some of the responses I get.

Early on, ChatGPT could be tricked into being sarcastic and using many swear words. I rewrote the prompt and dialed it back a bit. It made ChatGPT have a sense of humor. It was refreshing when it stopped acting like it was reading a script like a low level technician at Comcast.

New comment by saturnite in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

saturnite — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:23:25 +0000

Yeah, it's two dimensional. One axis goes from good to evil. The other axis, chaotic to lawful.

New comment by saturnite in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

saturnite — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:27:19 +0000

I remember when publishers were suing individuals using nothing more than a list of IP addresses. Those crazy times seem to have come around again.

New comment by saturnite in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

saturnite — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:15:52 +0000

Android also has the feature of warning the user if an update is coming from a different source than what is installed. This will happen even if they have the same key. This reply isn't trying to argue against anything you've said. I am just adding to the list of how Android handles updates.

New comment by saturnite in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

saturnite — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:00:55 +0000

I think you missed the point that judges aren't part of the legislative branch. They're in the judicial branch.

New comment by saturnite in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

saturnite — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:55:59 +0000

Now it's living out the dream of many IT workers, to quit and work on a farm. Unfortunately, as an LLM, it has to hire humans to do the actual work.

New comment by saturnite in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

saturnite — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:55:44 +0000

I looked it up. It was surprising to see that it's written left to right in basically the Latin alphabet with a few changes.

New comment by saturnite in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

saturnite — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:58:06 +0000

Then Microsoft can do the exact opposite sometimes. The drive cleanup option used alright, but then I noticed that it now wants to clear the Downloads library. I don't know about everyone else, but I put more than temporary files there.

New comment by saturnite in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

saturnite — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:19:38 +0000

I'm on Android 14 and I've been pretty happy with an app called Insular on F-Droid or Island on the Play Store. It let's you install as many instances of an app as you'd like and they'll show up in the work profile, ignorant of the others' existence.