Hacker News: throaway920181

New comment by throaway920181 in "Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5"

throaway920181 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:16:26 +0000

It's sad that Pis are now so overpriced. They used to be fun little tinker boards that were semi-cheap.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps"

throaway920181 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:13:26 +0000

I used GrapheneOS for about half a year as my primary phone OS. It does not scramble your GPS in any way (it has the same course/fine-grained GPS permissions as regular Android), but it does allow you to block a lot more app permissions. It's more likely that they haven't set the correct permission(s) for that information to bubble through to emergency services.

I would also be surprised if there weren't cell phone system-based fallbacks for emergency services. The carriers have a good idea of where you're at based on the towers you're connected to. There are plenty of situations where GPS doesn't work.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps"

throaway920181 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:09:53 +0000

So what phone manufacturer should we go to? Apple, who has always heavily restricted software installation on their devices?

New comment by throaway920181 in "Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps"

throaway920181 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:08:14 +0000

It's frustrating and sad to see the road that Google is headed down with Android and Pixels. The recent AOSP changes were a big red flag, now this.

I've had many Nexus and Pixel devices because I like the freedom that they offer me. I don't use Apple devices because they're so locked down and I can't use the hardware and software in ways that I'd like to use it. Google's about to be added to that shitlist, and there aren't really many alternatives.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2"

throaway920181 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:16:18 +0000

I was running k3s locally for all home infra stuff because I too enjoy containers (and some of the things that Kubernetes provides.) Recently I found NixOS and am greatly enjoying that. The container dance gets tiring after a while and having a declarative system is extremely powerful.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2"

throaway920181 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:13:33 +0000

The worst are forms that don't tell you there are complexity requirements until they're submitted.

New comment by throaway920181 in "PuTTY has a new website"

throaway920181 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:18:34 +0000

I've only used it through RDP on Wayland and it's been fine visually. Downloading it can be a challenge if you don't know where to look (Github, not Microsoft's App Store...)

New comment by throaway920181 in "PuTTY has a new website"

throaway920181 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:16:20 +0000

I haven't used Putty since I stopped using Windows for anything serious (in the early 00s.) It was my favorite quick and dirty SSH and serial client before then though!

New comment by throaway920181 in "PuTTY has a new website"

throaway920181 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:13:58 +0000

Cool, but hachyderm.io also is not a trusted/recognizable domain for me. Trust issues all the way down!

New comment by throaway920181 in "Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev"

throaway920181 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:44:58 +0000

What does "Dey well" and "Yarn me" mean at the bottom of your comments?

New comment by throaway920181 in "Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers"

throaway920181 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:19:29 +0000

This really doesn't seem like something one would want to mess around with if they don't know what they're doing (fire hazards and all...)

New comment by throaway920181 in "Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market"

throaway920181 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:12:40 +0000

If he was a "ski bum" I'm guessing he wasn't commuting to Denver, but to get to the mountains up there he'd have to drive the extra distance sometimes.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom"

throaway920181 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:02:06 +0000

This is ridiculous ignorance and akin to Canada's near ban on the Flipper Zero. We might as well ban cars because they can be used to transport drugs and dead bodies.

I have run Graphene on my phone for some time. I'm not doing anything illegal with my phone or using it for nefarious purposes. I'm just not comfortable with Google (or any entity) having so much data about me.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews"

throaway920181 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:40:13 +0000

Amazon is not the place I'd go to for electronics parts. Mouser and Digikey are my go-tos.

New comment by throaway920181 in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

throaway920181 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:21:03 +0000

I'd say a small (single digit) percentage of people are able to accumulate $1.5 million over "a few" (2-3) years of working, but maybe I'm out of touch.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep"

throaway920181 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:34:14 +0000

Having done plenty of yoga in my life, I can tell you that breathing exercises are not "bunk."

New comment by throaway920181 in "Microsoft Is Deleting Old Drivers from Windows Update and It Might Break Your PC"

throaway920181 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:15:25 +0000

I only use Windows for gaming, and the Intel graphics driver keeps getting downgraded by Windows Update. It's pretty annoying to have a fully updated driver get reverted to one that's a few years old. Good luck changing that behavior as well.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

throaway920181 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:32:00 +0000

I think they were making a dick joke.

New comment by throaway920181 in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

throaway920181 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:28:37 +0000

For anyone else that's curious, it turns out there are a TON of company-specific TLDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

New comment by throaway920181 in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

throaway920181 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:25:02 +0000

Which companies have this capability besides SpaceX and Blue Origin? More competition is always welcome.