Hacker News: stratosmacker

New comment by stratosmacker in "The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey"

stratosmacker — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:06:44 +0000

Wayland had been around for a while, but I feel your pain.

Overall it seems much more performant if that makes it any better

New comment by stratosmacker in "Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed"

stratosmacker — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:40:43 +0000

Do you prefer one to the other? I’m in the market

New comment by stratosmacker in "Bugs Apple loves"

stratosmacker — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Great if you install Graphene!

New comment by stratosmacker in "Bugs Apple loves"

stratosmacker — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:08:18 +0000

You can actually buy MagSafe cases for pixels. And GrapheneOS makes it very nice

New comment by stratosmacker in "Bugs Apple loves"

stratosmacker — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:05:47 +0000

Yep same thing happened to me

New comment by stratosmacker in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

stratosmacker — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:55:45 +0000

Commented elsewhere but you can still get the Union made USA pants; model B01. Avoid pretty much everything else

I will have to try these Baileys though, how do they fit?

New comment by stratosmacker in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

stratosmacker — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:53:46 +0000

I can’t believe I’m chiming in on HN about work pants… The B01 are the only pants still Union made in the USA. AFAIK they still are durable as hell, I’m wearing them now.

The rest (mostly stretchy but some normal ‘washed’ duck) are imported and the quality is traded for fashion/lifestyle

New comment by stratosmacker in "A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system"

stratosmacker — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 05:00:55 +0000

Something I've done to help with this is wrap the bleeder threads with PTFE tape. It will make a one time seal on the non-taper threads, but it's enough for a flush

New comment by stratosmacker in "SonyShell – An effort to “SSH into my Sony DSLR”"

stratosmacker — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:25:54 +0000

Oh shit we're old now?

New comment by stratosmacker in "Reduce, Reuse, Don't Recycle"

stratosmacker — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:05:42 +0000

If you go far enough into the countryside here it come full circle; I had a neighbor try to burn scrap LVP flooring

New comment by stratosmacker in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

stratosmacker — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:45:25 +0000

Hey fyi and for posterity, on SteamDeck I have the same issue and the cause is the same as outlined above (modern standby). I would love to hear more from folks who don't have this out of the box.

The fix is simple but I have to wonder why it's not set by default

https://github.com/nazar256/publications/blob/main/guides/st...

Ideally the Steamdeck would come with hibernation after timeout and FDE enabled by default, but it doesn't. Still love it, and I'm glad/grateful it's open enough to enable these features on my own

New comment by stratosmacker in "SolarWinds to Be Acquired by Turn/River Capital"

stratosmacker — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 05:09:02 +0000

They were private until I believe 2017 or 18. Not that it matters, the whole company only grew by acquisition

New comment by stratosmacker in "The laptop that won't die"

stratosmacker — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:16:59 +0000

I came here to add this, as a x230 user, the other laptop that has Mercedes diesel like longevity is the 2012 Macbook Pro. I've kept numerous alive for friends.

New comment by stratosmacker in "The laptop that won't die"

stratosmacker — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:15:35 +0000

Reading this on an X230! Check out a Kingsener battery (8400mAh) I get about 8 hours of mild use. [link](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832160992805.html)

New comment by stratosmacker in "Reliability: It’s not great"

stratosmacker — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:57:54 +0000

Doesn't Vault self-promote in the case of single node failure?

I noticed you mention Vault lives in the US, I'm sure you've already heard of this pattern, but Vault (Enterprise) supports [multi-region clusters for performance and DR](https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/tutorials/day-one-raft...)

New comment by stratosmacker in "Poste.io – Complete Mail Server"

stratosmacker — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:31:00 +0000

Sorry for naivety, what is HELO in this context? I've been running a mail server with the other aforementioned things set correctly and tested; I've been able to reliably deliver mail to all of the big senders for years now, albeit on a small scale.

Am I missing something not knowing what HELO is ??

New comment by stratosmacker in "Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 licenses in a few days"

stratosmacker — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:37:36 +0000

FWIW I've been using Steam+Proton on Arch for a month now, and it's like fucking magic. Other than the peculiarity of having two AMD graphics drivers to pick from, I'd say it's 90% there. No crashes, glitches, etc after picking the better of the two drivers for a particular game.

New comment by stratosmacker in "KDE beats macOS"

stratosmacker — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:58:28 +0000

The former is true, KDE ships with a clipboard manager with history, macos just has copy/paste. You need something like Maccy to manage history.

New comment by stratosmacker in "Show HN: DivestOS – Long-term support for end-of-life Android devices"

stratosmacker — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:12:27 +0000

Don't bother with the naysayers and dickheads. I appreciate you trying to do something here for old devices, and 80% solutions are ok for most of us.

(I suppose postmarketOS is similar in spirit)

Does building a GSI make sense to cover more devices? Or would that not make sense in this context?

New comment by stratosmacker in "Ask HN: How Do You Navigate Code?"

stratosmacker — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 19:21:02 +0000

Are those keyboard shortcuts part of the LSP server?