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New comment by stasomatic in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

stasomatic — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:54:59 +0000

It’s a niche box within its own niche (Linux). Perhaps they’ll do a pivot to eco friendly slippers. I admire their manifesto, but can’t see them surviving. You can get a last year’s decent Thinkpad for $400-600 with parts galore. This thing, you buy it on principle only.

New comment by stasomatic in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

stasomatic — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:12:07 +0000

Oh I love ATP and even eventually warmed up to Casey. It’s just that “stick to what you know” (or don’t?) thing. I’m not one of those that hate on Tahoe, it’s a temporary distraction, but Overcast more and more looks like some kind of slapped together non native app. He needs to hire a designer, he can afford it.

New comment by stasomatic in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

stasomatic — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:00:48 +0000

In no particular order:

Silo For All Mankind Tehran Foundation (“meh-ish, but watchable”) Slow Horses Murderbot Shrinking …

New comment by stasomatic in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

stasomatic — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:56:23 +0000

“Good morning. We have moved to Taiwan.”

I like Tim, but I don’t think the Tim we see is the real Tim. He must be an absolute elite sniper ninja cyborg internally, which is also cool.

New comment by stasomatic in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

stasomatic — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:51:19 +0000

Marco should concentrate on fixing the UX abomination that Overcast has become instead of writing breathy sophomoric letters. At this point, I’ll vibe code my own podcast player.

New comment by stasomatic in "North American English Dialects"

stasomatic — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:28:32 +0000

One on my favorite podcasters is Mike Hurley (London) from Relay.fm. He is a very eloquent gent, at least compared to me.

He says “whivf” instead of ”with” “teevf” instead of “teeth”, things like that, and some other idiosyncrasies that I can’t exactly remember but it was like adding to or replacing the last letter of the word with an “r”.

Is that a London thing or a person thing?

New comment by stasomatic in "Claude Opus 4.7"

stasomatic — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:29:35 +0000

I am a neophyte regarding pros and cons of each model. I am learning the ropes, writing shell scripts, a tiny Mac app, things like that.

Reading about all the “rage switching”, isn’t it prudent to use a model broker like GH Copilot with your own harness or something like oh-my-pi? The frontier guys one up each other monthly, it’s really tiring. I get that large corps may have contracts in place, but for an in indie?

New comment by stasomatic in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

stasomatic — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:16:28 +0000

There could be 4x buyers at $10. I’d be one of the now, the dock is a constant annoyance.

The app looks great, downloading the trial now.

To the app’s author I’d say get as many licensees as you can fast before you’re Sherlocked or somebody vibecodes a clone out of “why not”.

I use many free and paid apps, little QoL types, like BetterDisplay, Coctail, etc and for me the included support is of little value. These apps are not mission critical.

There is also Setapp [0], might give you instant access to user base that favors such apps.

[0] - https://setapp.com/

New comment by stasomatic in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

stasomatic — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:12:19 +0000

If the “billionaires” AI us out of our livelihoods will they need to learn how to pour a perfect espresso shot or use a voltage tester when they need to change a light bulb? Who’s gonna run the data centers and unclog toilets? They themselves? The thing is out of the bottle, regulations won’t help. What’s the end game like, some neo-feudalism with benevolent UBI serfdom and everyone on welfare?

New comment by stasomatic in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

stasomatic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:03:58 +0000

My current gen Mini is my Reeder, HN, and Balatro machine. Balatro is intolerable on my 15 Max. $400 well spent and i dont care to share it anyone else.

New comment by stasomatic in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

stasomatic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:58:05 +0000

There are “service providers” on EBay that I’ve used in the past to unlock iPads used by former unresponsive employees. Not sure about exact situation, in my case they defeated the iCloud lock. Was about a $100 a pop. All done remotely.

New comment by stasomatic in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

stasomatic — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:27:13 +0000

Surely you are aware that WhatsApp is a product of a tiny US co. Meta? Funny how the world sans the US is so in love with it. Shouldn’t the EU be out on the streets boycotting it?

New comment by stasomatic in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

stasomatic — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:20:06 +0000

It’s hard to force yourself to eat at all while on Ozempic. Yet, you need the protein, and yogurt, cottage cheese and protein bars go down easier than regular meals.

New comment by stasomatic in "Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density"

stasomatic — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:01:41 +0000

The Verge was discussed at least 2 times, most recently yesterday, on the Wheel Bearings podcast (which I enjoy for the simple motorhead banter). https://overcast.fm/+AA7tJqdxHkE

Robbie from SAE International, who is of the hosts, and an avid motorcyclist, is impressed with the bike and the promise of SSBs. I only ride bicycles, can’t comment on the bike itself, but thought to share and widen their audience. It was kind of a mini shallow yet “deep dive”. It doesn’t seem to be mentioned on their own site for this episode, but the chapter in Overcast is the last one, linking to https://sustainablecareers.sae.org/article/donut-lab-verge-s...

New comment by stasomatic in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

stasomatic — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:40:21 +0000

I don’t know how, but there are BYD city buses in Miami.

New comment by stasomatic in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

stasomatic — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:12:45 +0000

US dealers and manufacturers have no financial incentive in promoting and selling EVs. They can’t survive on fixing window chips, rotating tires and occasional bodywork alone. It’s a huge industry with long tentacles.

And when they do or did have incentives, they were not passed on to the consumers. My 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 had a $57K sticker. That’s not what I paid for it and cheapish leases are aplenty- but - when the federal $7500 credit expired, they simply dropped the MSRP by that much if not more. BMW and others are pursuing the same strategy in the states. The car was never worth near that much to begin with. They were and are jacking up prices and pocketing the change.

BYD is dumping.

New comment by stasomatic in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

stasomatic — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:43:56 +0000

Why a Buick? Which 2005 Buick? You can probably, find a simpler or less expensive doppelgänger if you look at the same car but with a Chevy or an Olds badge. I don’t mean this as a dig, simply curios.

New comment by stasomatic in "Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules"

stasomatic — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:24:52 +0000

That’s assuming a click happened. Premium pubs prefer guaranteed fixed CPMs no matter the amount of real clicks. I’ve worked for a few years at one of the major native ad companies, I’m very familiar with how the sausage is made.