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New comment by universa1 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

universa1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:02:07 +0000

if you count all parts, bottom, keyboard, cover, battery its more like 500 to 600.

New comment by universa1 in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

universa1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:16:20 +0000

The attachment mechanism is usually standardized, so you can just switch between brands.

Nowadays a larger factor might be how close the next dealership/repair shop is. Some things are time critical, and when it breaks in this time, then you don't want to drive hours to have it fixed/get a part/ have a mechanic available.

There are some differences between the brands... And you can always be Clarkson and get a Lamborghini, even when it makes no sense ;-)

New comment by universa1 in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

universa1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:28:43 +0000

i am curious: is the performance gap between x86 cpu inference and apple silicon, or, a imho more apples-to-apples comparison, e.g., amd strixpoint halo vs apple silicon?

i would expect the "pure" cpu inference to be behind, but an approach like strix halo/dgx spark to be much closer?

New comment by universa1 in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

universa1 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:45:49 +0000

I am fully on your side, but tests are not 100%: False positives and false negatives.

The way out is obviously better tests and not less tests :-)

New comment by universa1 in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

universa1 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:57:48 +0000

What one has to keep in mind as well, that even though tractors are really heavy they spread that weight across a large area (using low tire pressures and having massive tires to begin with). So, iirc, the per area impact is even lower then a human. It impacts a lot larger area, though!

Plowing vs tilling is also very much about soil erosion and depends very much of the location you are in.

New comment by universa1 in "Prism"

universa1 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:01:04 +0000

you can use git with overleaf, but from practical experience: getting even "mathematically/technically inclined" people to consistently use git takes a lot of time... which one could spend on other more fun things :-)

New comment by universa1 in "TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB"

universa1 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:12:55 +0000

Not affiliated, but for Germany I'd check https://gh.de ... For technical products you can filter for mostly any relevant detail... At least most German shops are there, and only a few not.

I am always curious why there doesn't seem to be something similar everywhere?

New comment by universa1 in "AMD GPU Debugger"

universa1 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:46:37 +0000

try it with ramalama[1]. worked fine here with a 7840u and a 6900xt.

[1] https://ramalama.ai/

New comment by universa1 in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

universa1 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:00:34 +0000

As payment is very much a "relative" problem, giving everyone else more, means essentially giving train drivers less.

New comment by universa1 in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

universa1 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:58:28 +0000

The fiber installing crews around here go street by street and usually do one street section per day/or two.

New comment by universa1 in "Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11"

universa1 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:25:17 +0000

Hmm, I've a deja-vu... My mind tells me I've read these three comments before on a different topic... If I don't forget, I'll have to check tomorrow on a real PC.

New comment by universa1 in "More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals"

universa1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:30:54 +0000

Hmm this doesn't sound like what I experienced a professor doing... But this probably depends on the location and the discipline... Or well at least here in Germany you can more or less pick what you want to do: more being a people / project manager or more own research, or a mix of that... The uncertainty/low chances of getting a tenured position are not different though... And though it might suck, this is something you know, at the latest, after your PhD.

New comment by universa1 in "Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30"

universa1 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:43:44 +0000

Thunderbird supports the oauth flow for quite a while now :-)

New comment by universa1 in "Cosy Computing"

universa1 — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:29:17 +0000

Hmm... You might be able to build one out of a remarkable [1], as that runs linux, has support for external keyboard and might only be lacking in the battery life department, when actively used.

[1] remarkable.com

New comment by universa1 in "Low Cost Mini PCs"

universa1 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:12:31 +0000

I wanted to recommend Minisforum, as I have a um560, that is powered through usb-c. But that is not available anymore... So those kind of machines exist...

You could get a frame.work laptop in an external case, slightly larger than hand-sized, though.

New comment by universa1 in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

universa1 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:24:38 +0000

No clue about dizqueTV, but ErsatzTV is German for tv replacement/substitute :-) so it has a little more meaning then the Chinese Amazon names ;-)

Dockge – Self-hosted – Docker compose.yaml – Stack-oriented Manager

universa1 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 07:13:09 +0000

Article URL: https://dockge.kuma.pet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41084962

Points: 13

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New comment by universa1 in "Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users"

universa1 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:52:35 +0000

or maybe he just put it on top of the battery? ;-)

New comment by universa1 in "The Cheapest NAS"

universa1 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:58:14 +0000

Regarding the connectivity: tailscale... So far I am happy with them and the free plan hasn't been kneecapped afterwards (so far).

New comment by universa1 in "Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta"

universa1 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:30:06 +0000

But in the end you have to replace at least some of the nitrogen (and other nutrients) you are taking from the field in some way. And without a major shift in consumption patterns (less meat) this will mean fertilizer, as the alternatives usually lead to a much lower yield.